This all goes back to the turn of the 20th century, a time in which corrupt democrat machines had achieved full control of the major cities and much of Washington. The icing on the cake was the arrival of the Sicilian Mafia and the administrations of FDR, who thoroughly and brazen politicized the judicial. When was the last time we heard of judicial misconduct, bribery, or conflict of interest? Those cases go nowhere, today.