#alito — Public Fediverse posts
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FOR YEARS, SCotUS would force black & brown people to vote in unfair systems because it was too close to an election.
NOW, SCotUS sees their fav fascists about to lose this election, and they not only HALT AN ELECTION IN PROGRESS but they tell LA, others, go ahead, we won't stop you, hurry (to stop the whites from losing)!
And he has the gall to claim they're not policital?
#RobertsCourt #DredScott #Callais #decision #supreme #kangaroo #court #JohnRoberts #fascist #USA #Alito #flag #DEI -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@army_talk_fascism/116510530082800011
Sometimes though, it actually is easy to identify them.
#Trump #Vance #Hegseth #Graham #Rubio #Stefanik #Musk #Thiel #Bannon #Kushner #Hoekstra #Noem #Homan #Bondi #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts #Alito #Kavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #Gorsuch
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@army_talk_fascism/116510530082800011
Sometimes though, it actually is easy to identify them.
#Trump #Vance #Hegseth #Graham #Rubio #Stefanik #Musk #Thiel #Bannon #Kushner #Hoekstra #Noem #Homan #Bondi #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts #Alito #Kavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #Gorsuch
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@army_talk_fascism/116510530082800011
Sometimes though, it actually is easy to identify them.
#Trump #Vance #Hegseth #Graham #Rubio #Stefanik #Musk #Thiel #Bannon #Kushner #Hoekstra #Noem #Homan #Bondi #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts #Alito #Kavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #Gorsuch
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@army_talk_fascism/116510530082800011
Sometimes though, it actually is easy to identify them.
#Trump #Vance #Hegseth #Graham #Rubio #Stefanik #Musk #Thiel #Bannon #Kushner #Hoekstra #Noem #Homan #Bondi #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts #Alito #Kavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #Gorsuch
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@army_talk_fascism/116510530082800011
Sometimes though, it actually is easy to identify them.
#Trump #Vance #Hegseth #Graham #Rubio #Stefanik #Musk #Thiel #Bannon #Kushner #Hoekstra #Noem #Homan #Bondi #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts #Alito #Kavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #Gorsuch
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https://www.europesays.com/news/23874/ Behind Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling, a Clash Over the Reality of Racism #Alito #BlackPeople #Discrimination #Elena #Headlines #Kagan #Minorities #News #RedistrictingAndReapportionment #SamuelAJr #SouthernStates(US) #StateLegislatures #SupremeCourt(US) #TopStories #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment #VotingRightsAct(1965)
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Graham Platner said: “If we held Supreme Court justices to the exact same standards we hold federal judges, there is a compelling case for the impeachment and removal of at least two. But to make that happen, we need to elect people to the Senate that want to wield power like that, who understand that it’s real and you can use it”:
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-justices-should-face-impeachment-graham-platner-11799664
"Trust in the Supreme Court remains at historic lows."
#politics #GoodIdea #ethics #accountability #Alito #Thomas #corrupt #SCOTUS -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116489299784659411
Today the Roberts Court spits on graves of hundreds of thousands who died for the idea that black people are people.
The Civil War really was a thing.
But Uncle #ClarenceThomas won't be happy until he can't vote.
#JohnRoberts #RobertsCourt #SCOTUS #crowned #King #OurPutin #VotingRightsAct #VRA #GOP #KKK #DEI #fascist #USA #Constitution #Alito #Kavanaugh #ComeyBarrett #Gorsuch #SupremeCourt #voting #civil #rights -
This Hispanic guy gave me a fist-up in solidarity and several people took pictures or complimented. When you finally arrive at the park and you see all the discarded signs leaned up against the fences, it’s tempting to leave yours behind too. But I wanted to keep mine and maybe use it again (although I plan on copying that Canook who made a brilliant Nazi-saluting-Musk sign).
#PresidentMusk & #AnotherOrban #SCOTUS #crowned #OurPutin #NoKings #too #late #Thomas & #Alito #captured #Supreme #Court -
#Alito invoked several hypotheticals of what he called “progressive” #schools setting their own #curriculum, including being “an #LGBTQ+ friendly school” w/ #books that present #SameSex couples as “a perfectly legitimate lifestyle,” [#bigot] or teaching #history from the standpoint of #Project1619, which sought to reframe how the #UnitedStates talks about #slavery. [this fuckin guy]
#law #SCOTUS #Constitution #ChurchAndState #NewApostolicReformation #education #FederalistSociety #ActivistCourt
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Amy Klobuchar calls on Supreme Court to hold Trump officials in contempt
Senator Klobuchar warns of US getting ‘closer to a constitutional crisis’
-- as Samuel Alito’s dissent signals deference to TrumpOn Sunday Minnesota senator #Amy #Klobuchar warned that the US is “getting closer and closer to a constitutional crisis”, but the courts, growing Republican disquiet at Trump administration policies, and public protest were holding it off.
“I believe as long as these courts hold,
and the constituents hold,
and the congress starts standing up,
our democracy will hold,”Klobuchar told CNN’s State of the Union, adding
💥“but Donald Trump is trying to pull us down into the sewer of a crisis.”Klobuchar said the US supreme court should 👉hold Trump administration officials in contempt if they continue to ignore a court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Ábrego García from El Salvador,
the Maryland resident the government admitted in court it had deported by mistake.Klobuchar said the court could appoint a 👉special prosecutor, independent of Trump’s Department of Justice,
to uphold the rule of law and charge any officials who are responsible for Ábrego García’s deportation,
or have refused to facilitate his return.The senator’s comments came hours after supreme court released justice #Samuel #Alito’s #dissenting #opinion on the court’s decision to block the Trump administration from deporting more Venezuelans held in north Texas’s Bluebonnet detention center .
In his dissent, Alito criticized the decision of the seven-member majority,
saying the court had acted “literally in the middle of the night” and without sufficient explanation.The “unprecedented” relief was “hastily and prematurely granted”, Alito added.
Alito, whose dissent was joined by fellow conservative justice #Clarence #Thomas, said there was “dubious factual support” for granting the request in an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union
to block deportations of accused gang members that the administration contends are legal under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.The majority did not provide a detailed explanation for the order released early on Saturday,
only that the administration should not to remove Venezuelans held in the “until further order of this court”.The court has said previously that deportations under the 1798 law can only proceed if those scheduled to be removed are offered a chance to argue their case in court and were given “a reasonable time” to contest their pending removals.
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New protest sign #today “Thomas and Alito Have Got to Go - Got to Go!”
Only 7 to 2(!) for Rule of Law?!? These fascists legislate from the bench, go on paid conservative junkets lecturing how liberals need to find God… Maybe Martha-Ann will hang a fascist flag again!
#protest #OurPutin & #PresidentMusk #fascist #banana #republic #ChristoFascist #USA #SCOTUS #crowned #KingTrump #stacked #packed #kangaroo #court #billionaire #playground #impeach #Thomas #Alito #Constitutional #Crisis #crises #now -
New protest sign #today “Thomas and Alito Have Got to Go - Got to Go!”
Only 7 to 2(!) for Rule of Law?!? These fascists legislate from the bench, go on paid conservative junkets lecturing how liberals need to find God… Maybe Martha-Ann will hang a fascist flag again!
#protest #OurPutin & #PresidentMusk #fascist #banana #republic #ChristoFascist #USA #SCOTUS #crowned #KingTrump #stacked #packed #kangaroo #court #billionaire #playground #impeach #Thomas #Alito #Constitutional #Crisis #crises #now -
New protest sign #today “Thomas and Alito Have Got to Go - Got to Go!”
Only 7 to 2(!) for Rule of Law?!? These fascists legislate from the bench, go on paid conservative junkets lecturing how liberals need to find God… Maybe Martha-Ann will hang a fascist flag again!
#protest #OurPutin & #PresidentMusk #fascist #banana #republic #ChristoFascist #USA #SCOTUS #crowned #KingTrump #stacked #packed #kangaroo #court #billionaire #playground #impeach #Thomas #Alito #Constitutional #Crisis #crises #now -
New protest sign #today “Thomas and Alito Have Got to Go - Got to Go!”
Only 7 to 2(!) for Rule of Law?!? These fascists legislate from the bench, go on paid conservative junkets lecturing how liberals need to find God… Maybe Martha-Ann will hang a fascist flag again!
#protest #OurPutin & #PresidentMusk #fascist #banana #republic #ChristoFascist #USA #SCOTUS #crowned #KingTrump #stacked #packed #kangaroo #court #billionaire #playground #impeach #Thomas #Alito #Constitutional #Crisis #crises #now -
#SCOTUS moved with urgency late last night, intervening in the Alien Enemies Act cases and blocking #deportations. It appears that a majority on the court finally figured out they were being "played" by the govt who seems to have been moving detainees around to avoid court orders and giving the detainees less than full access to due process.
#Thomas and #Alito, the leading sociopaths on the court, dissented ... of course.
#ICE #DOJ #DHS #AlienEnemiesAct #ACLU #AARP
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-supreme-courts-late-night
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#TrumpCoup #TreasuryTakeover #Musk
UPDATE
*#BusinessInsider has procured a list of the (so far) 30 people working for #CoPresident #Musk's #DOGE*
(12/n)
...organization."
"...Other names...include #JacobAltik, #KeenanKmiec, and #StephanieHolmes. #Altik was selected to clerk for Justice #NeilGorsuch for the term starting in October 2025, while #Kmiec clerked for Chief Justice #JohnRoberts, as well as for #SamuelAlito while #Alito was still a federal circuit judge....
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Leonard Leo, an influential conservative lawyer who advised Donald Trump during his first term forcefully pushed back Friday on talk that one or more conservative Supreme Court justices might retire after Trump again takes office in January.
Leo, who helped the president-elect select three Supreme Court picks during his first term, said in a statement that discussions of Justices #Clarence #Thomas, 76, or #Samuel A. #Alito Jr., 74, stepping down are unseemly.
The comment drew a rebuke from #Mike #Davis, a Trump aide who is advising him on potential judicial picks this time around,
while #Leonard #Leo appears to be keeping his distance.
“No one other than Justices Thomas and Alito knows when or if they will retire, and talking about them like meat that has reached its expiration date is unwise, uninformed, and, frankly, just crass,” Leo said in the statement.“Justices Thomas and Alito have given their lives to our country and our Constitution, and should be treated with more dignity and respect than they are getting from some pundits.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/08/trump-supreme-court-leonard-leo-mike-davis/ -
Through his role in securing the nominations of Clarence #Thomas, John #Roberts, and Samuel #Alito to the Supreme Court,
#Leonard #Leo’s political cachet began to grow.An avid networker, he cultivated friendships with other members of the court,
spending a weekend in Colorado hunting with Judge Antonin #Scalia
— himself a devout Catholic and, like the Corkerys, close to #Opus #Dei.Surrounded by such religious zeal, it didn’t take long for their example to reawaken his own Catholic faith, and Leo soon began tapping his network of #darkmoney #backers to support religious causes.
He twice bailed out the #Becket #Fund, a nonprofit named after a twelfth-century English martyr, that officially worked to protect religious freedoms,
especially those that were important to conservative Catholics.He reveled in his reputation as the financial savior of this important community.
Soon afterwards, President Bush picked Leo as his representative to the "United States Commission on International Religious Freedom,"
a federal agency set up to police religious freedom around the world.Despite its lofty aims, the commission had a tiny budget and its commissioners were unpaid.
Within Washington circles, many saw it as nothing more than an office for amateurs who meddled in foreign policy.
Undeterred by the skeptics, Leo made the most of his time at the commission to push his own Catholic agenda
— traveling to places like Iraq, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, and Vietnam to investigate allegations of religious persecution.His own faith seemed to grow during that time,
with Leo occasionally reprimanding his staff for putting him in a hotel too far from a church,
making it difficult for him to attend Mass.Some colleagues began to note a particular bias in the way he carried out a role that conflicted with the commission’s stated aim of championing the freedom of all religions.
He became embroiled in a lawsuit after one former colleague accused him of ❌firing her because she was Muslim.
Several staff members resigned because of the controversy,
and Leo was fired not long after.Despite the scandal, his time at the commission deepened Leo’s faith and helped him cultivate his image as a serious political figure.
By the time of the #Federalist #Society’s twenty-fifth anniversary dinner in November 2007,
his influence was clear.Leo shared the stage with the president and three sitting Supreme Court Justices
— Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito.Chief Justice John Roberts sent a video message.
“Thanks in part to your efforts, a new generation of lawyers is rising,” President Bush told the assembled members.
At the time of this dinner, Leo was still recovering from the sudden death of his daughter Margaret just a few weeks before her fifteenth birthday
— an event that had a profound impact on him.Margaret had been born with spina bifida and used a wheelchair.
Events around her death had reinforced Leo’s faith.
The previous summer, during a family vacation, Leo had promised Margaret that he would try to go to Mass more regularly.
Over the years, Margaret had developed an obsession with anything religious, and would nag her parents to take her to Mass.
She especially loved angels
— and priests, insisting on a hug every time she saw one.The day after they returned from vacation, Leo got up early to go to Mass
— as promised — and looked in on Margaret.As he was walking down the hall, she started gasping for breath and died shortly afterward.
“I will always think that she did her job,” he later said. “She did her job.”
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Samuel Alito accepted concert tickets from conservative German aristocrat
#Samuel #Alito, the US supreme court justice, accepted $900 concert tickets from a Catholic German aristocrat known for her unabashed conservative views and ties to rightwing activists, his latest financial disclosure form reveals.
#Princess #Gloria #von #Thurn #und #Taxis reportedly gifted the tickets to Alito and his wife to allow them to attend the Regensburg castle festival,
an annual summer music extravaganza hosted at her 500-room castle in Bavaria.The princess, a descendant of princes of the Holy Roman empire, is noted for ties with #Steve #Bannon, a key supporter and former aide of #Donald #Trump, and connections to figures in the Catholic hierarchy opposed to Pope Francis.
Her donation to Alito is set out in the justice’s annual financial disclosure report, which he filed late after requesting an extension.
The declaration follows a series of controversies over the ethics of supreme court justices amid revelations that some, including Alito himself and Justice #Clarence #Thomas, have accepted gifts from wealthy benefactors without disclosing on mandatory forms.
Alito has been at the centre of reports that he accepted a private jet free travel gift for a luxury salmon fishing trip from a conservative billionaire who had cases pending before the supreme court.
He previously met von Thurn und Taxis along with fellow justice #Brett #Kavanaugh when she visited the supreme court in 2019 along with #Cardinal #Gerhard #Ludwig #Müller, who was dismissed from his position as head of the Catholic’s church’s doctrinal body by Pope Francis, and #Brian #Brown, a leading anti-LGBTQ+ activist.
Von Thurn und Taxis’s palatial castle in Regensburg – the venue for the concert attended by Alito and his wife – has been mooted by Bannon as a potential venue for a 🔸European network of finishing schools for rightwing conservatives.
After her reinvention as a conservative Catholic activist, she drew criticism in 2001 after saying on a television talkshow that the high rate of Aids in Africa was due, not to a lack of safe sex, but because
“the Blacks like to copulate a lot”.
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HERE IT IS, w FOOTNOTES! (link is to their PDF) Citizens for Ethics (CREW; Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington), who has argued before SCOTUS,
today asks for Supreme Court Justice *Samuel Alito's resignation*, huzzah.
#compromised #SCOTUS #kangaroo #SupremeCourt #purchased #packed #stacked #millionaire #folly #Alito #Thomas #impeach #remove #recuse #Jan6 #cases #court #traitor #Ginny #ClearanceThomas #Clarence #Harlan #Crow #HarlanCrow #owns a #justice https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CREW-Alito-Resignation-Letter.pdf -
HERE IT IS, w FOOTNOTES! (link is to their PDF) Citizens for Ethics (CREW; Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington), who has argued before SCOTUS,
today asks for Supreme Court Justice *Samuel Alito's resignation*, huzzah.
#compromised #SCOTUS #kangaroo #SupremeCourt #purchased #packed #stacked #millionaire #folly #Alito #Thomas #impeach #remove #recuse #Jan6 #cases #court #traitor #Ginny #ClearanceThomas #Clarence #Harlan #Crow #HarlanCrow #owns a #justice https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CREW-Alito-Resignation-Letter.pdf -
HERE IT IS, w FOOTNOTES! (link is to their PDF) Citizens for Ethics (CREW; Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington), who has argued before SCOTUS,
today asks for Supreme Court Justice *Samuel Alito's resignation*, huzzah.
#compromised #SCOTUS #kangaroo #SupremeCourt #purchased #packed #stacked #millionaire #folly #Alito #Thomas #impeach #remove #recuse #Jan6 #cases #court #traitor #Ginny #ClearanceThomas #Clarence #Harlan #Crow #HarlanCrow #owns a #justice https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CREW-Alito-Resignation-Letter.pdf -
HERE IT IS, w FOOTNOTES! (link is to their PDF) Citizens for Ethics (CREW; Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington), who has argued before SCOTUS,
today asks for Supreme Court Justice *Samuel Alito's resignation*, huzzah.
#compromised #SCOTUS #kangaroo #SupremeCourt #purchased #packed #stacked #millionaire #folly #Alito #Thomas #impeach #remove #recuse #Jan6 #cases #court #traitor #Ginny #ClearanceThomas #Clarence #Harlan #Crow #HarlanCrow #owns a #justice https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CREW-Alito-Resignation-Letter.pdf -
In the wake of the sustained crisis of institutional legitimacy facing #SCOTUS, #SamuelAlito must resign, acc/to a letter sent today by @CREW to Alito. The letter outlines Alito’s failures to avoid the appearance of #bias, & his failure to #recuse from cases where his impartiality would reasonably be questioned, in violation of the #law & the #SupremeCourt Code of Conduct.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/letters/justice-alito-must-resign/
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"It’s also notable that neither Justice Clarence Thomas nor Justice Samuel Alito, both of whom have accepted expensive gifts from politically active Republican billionaires, recused themselves from the case. Thomas and Alito both joined Kavanaugh’s opinion reading the anti-corruption statute narrowly."
~ Ian Milhiser
#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/5https://www.vox.com/scotus/357170/supreme-court-snyder-united-states-corruption
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"Bow wow wow and yippie-yo-yippie-yay, whip open those checkbooks, boys! If you billionaires liked the way your Justices ruled this year, or appreciate how your governor or mayor steered contracts your way, it sure would be nice if you left them an appreciative tip so they can buy extra beer this summer, just saying!
Disgusting."
~ Marcie Jones
#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
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"As long as the justices accept obscene 'gratuities' after they issue decisions that overturn decades of settled precedent, it is not a bribe, according to the majority. …
The opinion in Snyder v. US was made possible by the support of two justices implicated in bribery. The opinion stinks of corruption!"
#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/3https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-bizarre-day-in-the-supreme-court
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"This decision that officials can accept 'gifts' so long as they are not 'bribes' might have something to do with the fact that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have accepted significant gifts from donors—Thomas’s count is upward of $4 million—and it doesn’t relieve the sense that this Supreme Court, with its three right-wing Trump-appointed justices, is untrustworthy."
#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
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Democratic Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamie Raskin
are introducing a new piece of legislation aimed at 🔸putting a cap on the number and value of gifts U.S. Supreme Court justices can receive.🔸The "High Court Gift Ban Act", unveiled Tuesday, would prohibit justices from receiving gifts valued at more than $50 at a time, or more than $100 total per year.
The bill would also put an $18,000 cap on gifts of personal hospitality, which are currently unregulated.Justice #Clarence #Thomas has been under intense scrutiny after an investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee found that he failed to include luxury vacations paid for by Republican megadonor #Harlan #Crow on his financial disclosure forms.
Thomas has been subject to several other complaints, including that he never paid back a loan on his R.V. and that he cavorted with the #Koch brothers while ruling on cases they’d brought to the Supreme Court.
Earlier this month, a report from a judicial watchdog found that Supreme Court justices had received close to a total of
⭐️$3 million in gifts⭐️ over the last 20 years
—with 🌟more than $2.4 million of those gifts being directed solely to Thomas. 🌟
Through gifts, Thomas has roughly doubled his official published income from the last 20 years.
Justice #Samuel #Alito has similarly come under fire for accepting lavish gifts from Republican billionaires, including over-the-top, all-expenses-paid vacations.It seems, however, that little can be done to rein in the court’s high-ranking members over mounting concerns about their ethics.
Raskin and Ocasio-Cortez wrote to Chief Justice #John #Roberts late last week, seeking answers on
what he planned to do about Thomas, as well as Alito, whose recent flag scandal has also called into question whether he has conflicts of interest in cases before the court.
Roberts has not yet responded.
♦️“The Supreme Court is the highest court in the land but has the lowest ethical standards, which means pay-to-play billionaires, right-wing dark money groups and carbon-emitting special interests have freedom to purchase the best justice money can buy,” ♦️said Raskin in a statement Tuesday.Ocasio-Cortez called their bill “a commonsense solution to address the deeply troubling and unethical influence dark money is having on our nation’s highest judicial body.”
“This is not about politics
—it’s about safeguarding the strength and integrity of our democracy,” she said.
It’s unlikely, though, that such a bill would pass in a brutally indifferent Republican-led House.https://newrepublic.com/post/183099/aoc-raskin-rein-alito-thomas-gifts
https://raskin.house.gov/press-releases?id=243B1819-3D3A-4D6F-B104-C2B5513545F1
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"All of this comes amid the worst #scandals in the court’s #history, which raise serious doubt about the justices’ independence & #integrity (e.g. Samuel #Alito 's #insurrectionist flag flying, #ClarenceThomas' refusal to #recuse himself despite his wife’s participation in the #coup attempt, Thomas’s multiple #financial disclosure violations & receipts of millions of dollars in #gifts). These, coupled with obvious gamesmanship to benefit “their side,” will permanently besmirch this court."
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[Video] #Justice #SamuelAlito’s #wife #denounces #Prideflag in #secret #audio #recording.
Secret audio recordings, taken during a #SupremeCourt #gala, are now being made #public of Justices #JohnRoberts and #SamuelAlito speaking on the #political #division of the #court
#Alito’s #wife, #MarthaAnn, was also #recorded #discussing the #controversial #flags flown at their #home.
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…The letters include a much more specific explanation of why #MarthaAnnAlito flew the “#AppealToHeaven” flag at the couple’s vacation home….
#Alito said he “assumed” his wife was flying it for #religious & patriotic reasons. He definitively said neither he or his wife knew the flag was associated w/the “Stop the Steal” & it was not flown in solidarity w/that movement.
#law #SCOTUS #ChristianNationalism #ethics #judiciary #recuse #QuestionableJudgment
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The most pivotal question about the #UpsideDown American #flag has yet to be fully answered: #MarthaAnnAlito’s motivation for flying it.
…The Alitos have not explicitly addressed whether the upside-down flag had a connection to #Jan6 or “Stop the Steal,” & Justice #Alito’s comments about his wife’s motivation for flying it have shifted.
#law #SCOTUS #ethics #judiciary #recuse #QuestionableJudgment
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…#Alito told Fox News …the neighborhood dispute began when his wife went to speak w/their neighbor Emily Baden in Jan 2021. #MarthaAnnAlito was upset the woman was displaying an anti #Trump sign, w/an expletive, “within 50 feet of where children await the school bus,” as Bream put it on…[social media].
But Fairfax County schools were shuttered at the time because of the coronavirus pandemic & had been since March 2020.#law #SCOTUS #ethics #judiciary #recuse #QuestionableJudgment
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#SusanSullivan is a professor of #Law at Temple University. She is also a former #SCOTUS clerk for #SamuelAlito. She was ‘aghast’ seeing #insurrection flags being flown at the #Alito home, and says he must #recuse himself from *any* case involving #DonaldTrump. ✅ 👉 https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/justice-alito-upside-down-flag-trump-immunity-recusal-20240602.html
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“Wemple points his finger at the real reason for keeping the flag story dark: deference to power:
The Alitos received deference to which they were not entitled. Though Justice Alito’s claim that the upside-down flag was flown “in response” to yard signs might be genuine, it’s a stretch. For one, [neighbor Emily] Baden told me in an interview that she never even saw this alleged “response.” Plus — inverting the flag commonly expresses concerns more global than some handmade, glitter-sprayed, cursive sign down the street. “My involvement begins and ends with putting a sign in my yard that says, ‘F--- Trump’ that they used as a scapegoat” for their display. “I just want to say that’s absolutely ridiculous and everybody knows it,” said Baden.
No one from The Post contacted Baden, she says, until after the Times’s May 16 story was published. All signs point to a failure of The Post to publish something about this fracas, whatever its focus or takeaway.”
Shame on @washingtonpost
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A treat of a read from @chrisgeidner #LawDork #Alito #Recuse #Resign #MarthAnnAlito #SCOTUS
"Here’s a list of demeaning quotes from Alito’s letter responding to Sens. Dick Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse’s letter from last week calling on his recusal:
“As I have stated publicly, I had nothing whatsoever to do with the flying of that flag. I was not even aware of the upside-down flag until it was called to my attention.” Alito, who served in the military, wants you to believe that he did not notice an upside-down flag flying in front of his home.
“As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused.” Come off it.
“My wife and I own our Virginia home jointly. She therefore has the legal right to use the property as she sees fit, and there were no additional steps that I could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly.” Is he describing a landlord-tenant relationship, or his family? Beyond that, this was a Supreme Court justice in January 2021, as the Twenty-Fifth Amendment was being discussed, impeachment was being pursued, and fences were being erected, but this man decided not to push whether there was an upside-down flag flying in front of his home? This honestly is as distressing an admission to me as anything Alito has said throughout this scandal. (Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern dig down on an aspect of this, Alito’s one-woman feminism.)"
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Some great #SCOTUS editorial cartoons by Mike Luckovich
#Alito #SCOTUSstench #law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #JudicialEthics #Recuse #TermLimits #ChristianNationalism #Jan6 #insurrection
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#Alito rejected demands that he #recuse himself from #SupremeCourt cases tied to #Jan6 attack. Calls for Justice Alito's recusal from 2 cases have followed reports that flags appearing to support the #StoptheSteal movement had flown outside his 2 homes. #democracy #SCOTUS #corruption #GOP #MAGA #votingrights #constitution and Rep. Raskin on Congress’s #recusal #statute provides objective framework of analysis and remedy for cases of clear and open judicial bias https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/alito-thomas-recuse-trump-jan-6.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk0.ZD-U.Eb1zOFXzuNO-&smid=url-share
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Justice #Alito tells #Congress he will NOT #recuse from #Jan6 related cases
Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. announced Wed that he will not recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases at #SCOTUS after Democratic lawmakers questioned whether he could be impartial following reports that an upside-down #flag flew at his home in the weeks after the… [ #insurrection].
#law #PartisanCourt #JudicialEthics #AppealToHeaven #ChristianNationalists
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From Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
Alert: Justice Sam Alito will not recuse himself from cases involving Jan 6 and Trump.He responds by letter to inquiry from Senate Democrats saying (in part): “I had nothing whatsoever to do with the flying of that flag. I was not even aware of the upside-
down flag until it was called to my attention. As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused.”
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“Mrs. Alito ran toward their car and yelled something they did not understand. The couple continued driving, they said, and as they passed the Alito home again to exit the cul-de-sac, Mrs. Alito appeared to spit toward the vehicle.”
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“Matters deteriorated from there, as Martha-Ann Alito allegedly spit at Baden’s vehicle during another encounter”
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Senate Democrats demand that
Supreme Court Justice Samuel #Alito
🔸#recuse himself from certain cases
🔸and have called for a meeting with Chief Justice John #Roberts
to discuss #ethics in the court
after news broke that Mr Alito had flown flags used by Capitol riot participants.
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin requested a meeting with Mr Roberts
to discuss their concerns about Mr Alito’s #impartialityIn 2021, shortly after Joe Biden took office, Mr Alito flew an
upside down American flag at his home in Virginia.
Under US flag code, a flag is never to be flown inverted “except as a signal of dire distress in instance of extreme danger to life or property.”
The New York Times and other outlets revealed that Mr Alito had previously flown an
"Appeal to Heaven" flag outside his New Jersey vacation home in the summer of 2023.
Individuals participating in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in 2021 carried both inverted American flags and "Appeal to Heaven" flags
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“The same goes for the flying of an #AppealToHeaven flag at Justice #Alito’s vacation house along the NJ shore. Like the #UpsideDown flag, this #flag is viewed by a great many people as a banner of allegiance on #partisan issues that are or could be before #SCOTUS.
#UnitedStates #law #PartisanCourt #JudicialEthics #Judiciary #TermLimits #Recuse #ChristianNationalists #Jan6 #insurrection
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#Alito blamed his #wife for the upside-down #flag at his house.
#Gini Thomas was involved in the #Jan6 #Insurrection.
T**** was having an affair with a Playmate while his (third) wife was pregnant with his 5th child, then cheated on both with a porn star.
Is it just me, or do Trumpsters seem to have a problem with "#wives"? #FamilyValues
