As of Jan, Chief Justice #JohnRoberts earns an annual salary of $312,200, while associate justices each earn $298,500. The judiciary’s rules limit justices to “outside earned income” of no more than about $32k per year, which many collect through teaching positions.
Book-writing payments do not count as outside income…. ≥4 #SCOTUS justices have forthcoming #books about their lives & the #law. Reports released Fri show #Kavanaugh is at work on a book, for which he has so far received $340k.
"'It’s a girl,' the nurse said, softly. My mother smiled big, then nodded in silence. That was the first sentence of a book that describes my undoing. That was the first story someone else told for me."
'because #pregnancy is the result of "voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse," students should not be allowed time off to get abortions. If the students disobey and miss class for #abortion care, the filing continues, the professors should be allowed to flunk students. Additionally, Bonevac asserts that he has a right to refuse to employ a teaching assistant who has had an abortion, calling such women "criminals."'
"Then there is this audaciously #undemocratic provision: To be elected to #state office, a candidate must win not only a majority of votes, but also more than half of Texas’s 254 counties...
"Lest rank-and-file GOP voters ever again be allowed to override the activists who run the party machinery, the convention approved a new rule preventing any candidate who is censured from appearing on the ballot for two years.
“There’s a saying that ‘everything is bigger in Texas.’ I have come to realize that this holds true when it comes to the scale of torture carried out in Texas prisons.“
"The proposal, akin to the federal Electoral College, would give voters in Loving County, population 64, more power than those in Harris County, where 4.7 million people live. King County, with 265 people, would wield a vote equivalent to Bexar, with 2 million.
Does this sound like a political party that has won every statewide election for 26 years? Or a party that has confidence in its electoral future?"
"The case started with 5 women the state’s #abortion ban stopped from getting medical care for their complicated pregnancies. The case has since grown to include 20 women and two doctors.
In August, a judge issued an injunction allowing Texans with complicated pregnancies to get an abortion if their doctor made a 'good faith judgment' that it was necessary.
The #Texas Supreme Court overturned that ruling today." #legal
“The water is coming up, up and up. ... You can see the little fish in my yard. It was like a river.”
From the archives, 2019: An Observer investigation found that unregulated dams across #Texas are increasingly failing—putting people and property in jeopardy. https://www.texasobserver.org/dammed-to-fail/
#Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue #Political Targets
Paxton has repeatedly used #laws that are supposed to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including #hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and #LGBTQ+ groups.
NEW: Nearly 40 pups from #Texas are recovering from their long journey to #Massachusetts as we get set for our next fee-waived adoptathon! The dogs arrived in #Bedford last weekend and were immediately brought to the Northeast Animal Shelter to serve out their quarantine and get checked out 1/
This is our first transport with Operation Kindness, a shelter in Carrolton, Texas that takes in and rehomes #pets surrendered by their owners while also acting as a so-called way-station for more than 100 partners in #Texas, #Oklahoma, and #Louisiana 2/
Beginning Monday in #Salem and Tuesday in our #Boston, #Methuen, and #Cape shelters, adoption fees will be waived for all dogs aged 1 and up that weigh at least 40 pounds, because everything is bigger in Texas! The event runs through June 9th.
It’s the first of three special summer adoption events we’re holding in the coming months. Head to http://www.mspca.org/dogs for more info!
And yet the Dallas Morning News saw fit to endorse Gov. Abbott for reelection
The real cost of Texas Republicans’ absolutism
"The state party’s proposed platform, presented at a convention last week, includes language that declares abortion is “homicide,” that calls for military bases to restore the names of Confederate “heroes” and that demands the right to use gold and silver as legal tender."
@kegill Americal will use literally anything to avoid the metric system
(even better, I'm a weather spotter. We actually have a standardized list of objects, most of which are sports balls of some kind, to describe hail sizes. Because something that is a uniform 2D cross section from all angles, and a regulation size, is very handy to reference)
