Three men walk into a courtroom, as August heats up.
For a quiet summer Friday, there was quite a cacophony. Trump crashing around. Clarence Thomas cashing in. Hunter Biden spinning out.
News about these men rocked the capital. Yet there is something inevitable, even ancient, about the chaos enveloping them. Fatal flaws. Mythic obsessions. Greed. Revenge. Daddy issues. Maybe a touch of Cain and Abel.
AOC Leads Call for DOJ Probe of Clarence Thomas Over 'Blatant Disregard for Judicial Ethics'
"No one is above the law," the New York Democrat asserted. "For two decades, Justice Thomas failed to report millions in gifts."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday led a letter calling on the Department of Justice to investigate the right-wing judge's failure to report "significant gifts" from billionaires "in defiance of his duty under federal law."
I'm absolutely certain that no Republican would have any problem with a liberal SCOTUS Justice accepting dozens of trips, private flights and other benefits from wealthy people who bring cases before SCOTUS. Right?
Some of the many methods Trump and his co-conspirators used to try to overturn the election were false witness statements, seizing election machines, and using January 6 as a delaying tactic.
Trump and his co-conspirators needed and schemed to block the planned certification events of January 6 to be canceled so that he and they would have more time to steal the White House by other means. Those other means included martial law.
Trumpist conspiracy we’re speaking of was not intended to occur only on January 6 but soon thereafter.
Donald and his advisors were preparing to use the military to quash protests against his planned coup should be bigger news.
That is why the effort did not end on January 6. The coup is slow rolling. The cover-up crime is on going.
The indictment itemizes all the people who told him the truth and who he ignored. It then compiles statements that he made in contravention of everything he had been told by his top experts and advisors.
Other crimes will be charged trump led a secret, significantly advanced plot to manufacture foreign disinformation for the purposes of ending American democracy and replacing it with a dictatorship
It’s the Waldron Plot that would really scare jurors, and rightly so: the idea that Trump and his co-conspirators may have been forcing witnesses to sign false affidavits alleging foreign election interference with the exclusive aim of using this false testimony to justify the imposition of martial law, the disbanding of Congress the postponement of Inauguration Day and the end of our nation.
Co-conspirator 5 is Kenneth Chesebro he’s the one with the closest ties to Ginni Thomas and her various far-right organizations. If he were ever to flip—which I’m not saying he would, as all of these defendants are radicals/zealots generally speaking unlikely to become cooperators—the person he would possibly have a lot to offer on is Clarence Thomas’ wife. So there will be a lot of talk about him.
Leo is well-known for shepherding conservative judicial nominees, but the public relations campaign shows how he has continued to exert influence in support of right-leaning justices after helping them secure lifetime appointments....
Alito and Thomas rule from the bench like they’re still trying to get back at everyone for getting picked on during third-grade recess. #scotus#alito#thomas#corruption
Three #SupremeCourt justices the other day went on record in support of a wiggy Q-Anon-adjacent legal theory that would end constitutional democracy in America in favor of making it a loose confederation of feudal tracts reigned over by superstitious hillbillies with zero interest in or motive to represent the concerns of their citizens so I tend to think anyone who ever votes WITH those three overtly neo-Nazi jurists in any other case is a rotting piece of dogshit whose opinions are, de facto, bad and whose arbitrary death from dysentery tomorrow would make the world a measurably better place for a grand majority of people currently living upon it.
We sit perpetually a day away from the filing of the case that will allow #Alito and #Thomas and perhaps a #SCOTUS majority to rule that any dickhead GOP-run state legalizing pogroms is #STatEsRiGhTS.
The #Supreme Court on Thursday struck down admissions programs at Harvard & the University of North Carolina that relied in part on racial considerations, saying they violate the Constitution. The votes split along ideological grounds, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts writing for the conservative members in the majority, & the liberals dissenting.
#Justice#ClarenceThomas, a longtime opponent of #AffirmativeAction who for decades was in the minority on the issue, took the unusual step of reading from his concurring opinion immediately after Roberts read the majority’s decision.
In his concurring opinion, he directly engaged w/ Justice Jackson, one of the court’s most liberal members, & the only other Black justice. In Jackson’s view, “almost all of life’s outcomes may be unhesitatingly ascribed to race,” #Thomas wrote.
Justice Jackson’s dissent responds to what she called #Thomas’s “prolonged attack."
”With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord & announces “colorblindness for all” by legal fiat," #Jackson wrote. “But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”
AND ALITO DID NOT REPORT ANY OF IT — HIDING is his consciousness his wrongdoing writ large!
In answer to the question— Yes, yes I DO think he would be influenced by the fancy ride and lavish surroundings, food & drink that he believes is his by right. Same goes for Thomas who repeatedly HID his similarly opulent vacays.
"Leo and others in dark-money groups filed amicus briefs to advance their agenda. And then Leo set up cozy connections between the billionaire donors and the justices for “hospitality” from their “friends.” Leo arranged Alito’s fishing jaunt and helped set up Thomas with billionaire Harlan Crow. If you put together billionaires, dark money and “phony front groups,” you wind up in a “whole new world,” he argued." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/25/whitehouse-alito-ethics/
The Dishonorable, InJustices #Alito and #Thomas prove that they are unqualified for any legal office by their childish, selfish, unethical, grifter, illogical, against the law, defenses of their criminal behavior. They cannot be trusted to properly apply the law to ANY decision before the court! They must resign or be removed! #Politics
Harlan Crow didn’t only give hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Supreme Court Justice… he also gave over $450,000 to Republicans sitting on the Judiciary Committee that oversees the courts.
Of course they don’t want to subpoena Harlan Crow.
'Broken moral compass':Twitter slams #Pence for #Thomas praise
The former VP continued, "Ever since his nomination to the SCOTUS in 1991 Justice Thomas has been maliciously attacked by the Left, including by then Sen. Biden," adding, "The attacks on his character are continuing today, and it’s appalling."
Further praising the justice, Pence wrote, "I stand with Justice Thomas."
"That confirms what I already knew. Pence is on the take too and a Federalist."
just sayin
Who is conservative activist Leonard Leo? A friend of Clarence Thomas.
After the Senate confirmed Thomas to the Supreme Court in a 52-to-45 vote that was at the time the narrowest margin in a century, Leo started at the #FederalistSociety.
He also addressed why he left Ginni Thomas’s name off the documents: “Knowing how disrespectful, malicious and gossipy people can be, I have always tried to protect the privacy of Justice Thomas and Ginni,” he wrote.
Dark Money - Clarence Thomas got a personal media campaign worth at least $1.8 million from conservative nonprofit groups led by lobbyist Leonard Leo, part of $1.6 billion in donated by Barre Seid to Leo. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Leo is well-known for shepherding conservative judicial nominees, but the public relations campaign shows how he has continued to exert influence in support of right-leaning justices after helping them secure lifetime appointments....