Try, try, try to separate them, It's an illusion

If you want a bribe a politician, and they're married, the easiest way to get the job done might be to lay some sweet money on their spouse. I remember when Hillary Clinton was a senator, from New York supposedly. If you wanted something from her, you just hired her fat husband to give a tired speech, the same one he gave everywhere, for a modest fee like $400,000. It is not a new thing. 

But until today, it never occurred to me that you might try it with a judge's spouse. This article in Politico, casting a shadow over the already-greatly-diminished U.S. Supreme Court, raises that possibility.

Maybe the saddest part of the whole story is that the politicians are talking about subjecting the justices of the Court to same standards that the politicians operate under. The same largely nonexistent standards.

Follow the money. Especially the spouses' money.