Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has vowed that if elected president he'll defend conservative members of the Supreme Court from “scurrilous” assaults from their ideological critics.

Mr. DeSantis, a 2024 presidential contender, mentioned he'll nominate justices to the excessive court docket which can be minimize from the identical fabric as Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

“We will also stand and defend them against scurrilous attacks that you are seeing in the media and by leftwing groups,” Mr. DeSantis mentioned Friday on the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” convention in Washington. “The left knows they have lost control of the court and they don’t like it.”

Mr. DeSantis mentioned if Democrats outperform Republicans within the 2024 election they'll search to pack the Supreme Court with liberal-leaning justices.

“You may have 13 people on the Supreme Court when they get done with it, and they will install a liberal majority,” he mentioned. “So they are hard at this effort of trying to lay the groundwork for that by delegitimizing our great conservative justices, and let me just say, I stand with Justice Thomas, I stand with Justice Alito in the face of these attacks. They are wrong.”

Mr. Thomas and Mr. Alito have confronted questions over their failure to report presents and recuse themselves from circumstances.

ProPublica reported that Harlan Crow, a GOP megadonor, paid greater than $150,000 in personal faculty tuition at Hidden Lake Academy and Randolph-Macon Academy for Justice Thomas’ great-nephew, whom the justice took in to lift on the age of 6.

Justice Thomas didn't disclose the funds in his monetary disclosure varieties, and the information outlet instructed that runs afoul of moral requirements required of a federal decide.

ProPublica additionally reported Justice Thomas didn't disclose that he had taken a number of luxurious holidays with Mr. Crow or that Mr. Crow had bought his mom’s residence despite the fact that she continued to reside there.

Justice Alito wrote in an op-ed this week in The Wall Street Journal that served as a prebuttal to a pending ProPublica article accusing him of ethics violations and highlighting his ties to billionaire Paul Singer.

• Alex Swoyer contributed to this report.

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