Lawyers look at everything in trying to defame Supreme Court justices nominees

Obama seeks to get justice
through Republicans

The White House lawyers are searching high and low, under the mattress even, to defame President Barack Obama’s nominees for the open Supreme Court justice seat.

Did you ever buy porn, sniff glue, have sex in junior high? Exactly how many times? Those are just a few examples of the mundane to intensely personal things they are looking into.

In trying to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the president could alter the balance of the court for decades but only if he can get his nominee through Republicans in the Senate.

Prospective Supreme Court jurists are put through the nation’s most thorough background check, an invasive process in which nothing is off-limits.

After all, a surprise dredged up later could scuttle confirmation. So candidates’ taxes, writings, childhoods, business dealings, medical histories and, yes, love lives, are all scrutinized for potential red flags.