“When you bribed Robert #Menendez, did you do that alone or w/other people?” a prosecutor asked Uribe.
“With other people,” he responded, & then named Wael Hana, an Egyptian American businessman who founded a NJ halal meat co that prosecutors say was used to funnel #bribes to the senator & his wife.
Menendez & his wife are charged w/conspiring to accept cash, gold bullion & other bribes for Menendez to direct aid to #Egypt & to meddle in #criminal cases in NJ. One of those cases involved Uribe
Democracy can't survive when a minority is imposing their will on the majority. Of course, republicans don't want democracy, they want rule by oligarchy (which means only rich white christian men), not representation for everyone.
The vote on the #RightToContraceptionAct was 51-39, falling short of the 60 votes needed to defeat a #filibuster & move forward. Republicans said the bill is unnecessary as the use of #BirthControl is protected under #SCOTUS precedent as if [#SupremeCourt precedent means anything anymore].
#Republicans Lisa #Murkowski of Alaska & #SusanCollins of Maine voted w/ #Democrats in support of the bill. #Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, switched his vote to “no” for procedural reasons so he could bring up the bill again at a later date.
#ClarenceThomas’s concurring opinion begins on page 117. On page 119 Thomas specifically states “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process #precedents, including #Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell.”