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John Roberts Wants You To Stop Believing Your Own Eyes
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Samuel Alito 'not suggesting' marriage equality should be overturned
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/samuel-alito-overturn-marriage-equality
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Samuel Alito 'not suggesting' marriage equality should be overturned
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/samuel-alito-overturn-marriage-equality
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Samuel Alito 'not suggesting' marriage equality should be overturned
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/samuel-alito-overturn-marriage-equality
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Samuel Alito 'not suggesting' marriage equality should be overturned
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/samuel-alito-overturn-marriage-equality
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Samuel Alito 'not suggesting' marriage equality should be overturned
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/samuel-alito-overturn-marriage-equality
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"#Ethics experts said #ClarenceThomas’ undisclosed ties to the #Koch network could call his impartiality in the case into doubt. This sort of potential conflict is why the judiciary has rules against both political activity and fundraising, they said. 'Parties litigating in the court before #JusticeThomas don’t know the extent of Thomas’ relationship with the parties on the other side,' said James Sample, a Hofstra University law professor who studies judicial ethics. 'You have to be pretty cynical to not think that’s a problem.' "
#OligarchCamp
#BohemianGrove
#SCOTUS
#ImpeachClarenceThomas
#ChevronDoctrine
#NDRC
#KochIndustries
#Oligarchy
#CorruptSCOTUS
#SCOTUSIsCompromised
#Corporatocracy
#Oiligarchy
#EnvironmentalProtections
#BigOilAndGas
#CorporatePolluters
#HeritageFoundation
#ClimateDeniers
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#ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochBrothers Network Donor Events
by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
Sept. 22, 2023, 5 a.m. EDTExcerpt: "Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.
" 'In the 15 years since, the Koch network has left a deep imprint on American society. Its advocacy is credited with helping stamp out Republican Party support for combating #ClimateChange, once an issue that drew bipartisan concern. The “full weight of the network” was thrown behind passing the 2017 #TrumpTaxCut, securing a windfall for the Kochs and their donors. And the upcoming Supreme Court term could bring the network a victory it has pursued for years: overturning a major legal precedent known as #Chevron.
"While most Americans aren’t familiar with the 1984 case Chevron v. #NRDC, it’s one of the Supreme Court’s most-cited decisions. Legal scholars sometimes mention it in the same breath as Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. In essence, Chevron is about government agencies’ ability to issue regulations. After a law is enacted, it’s generally up to agencies across the government to make detailed rules putting it into effect. The Chevron decision said courts should be hesitant to second-guess the agencies’ determinations. In the years that followed, judges cited Chevron in upholding rules that protect endangered species, speed up the approval process for new cellphone towers and grant benefits to coal miners suffering from black lung.
"The Koch network has challenged Chevron in the courts and its lobbyists have pushed Congress to pass a law nullifying the decision. It has also provided millions of dollars in grants to law professors making the case to overturn it.
"The network’s position has become increasingly popular in recent years. Once broadly supported by academics and judges on the right, Chevron is now anathema to many in the conservative legal movement. And there’s no more prominent convert than Thomas.
"In 2005, Thomas wrote the majority opinion in a case that expanded Chevron’s protections for government agencies. Ten years later, he was openly questioning the doctrine. Then in 2020, Thomas renounced his own earlier decision, writing that he’d determined the doctrine is unconstitutional after all — a rare reversal for a justice with a reputation for being unmovable in his views.
"By last year, Koch network strategists sensed that victory could be at hand. During an internal briefing for network staff, Jorge Lima, a senior vice president at Americans for Prosperity, said the Supreme Court seemed primed to radically change its approach to the issue. The network was trying to find cases that could bring about major changes in the law, according to a video of the meeting obtained by the watchdog group Documented. “We’re doubling down on this strategy,” Lima told the crowd.
"Several months later, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which Koch network staff attorneys represent the plaintiffs. If Thomas and his colleagues side with them this coming term, Chevron will be overturned once and for all."
#OligarchCamp #BohemianGrove #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas #Chevron #ChevronDoctrine #NDRC #KochIndustries #Oligarchy #CorruptSCOTUS #SCOTUSIsCompromised #Corporatocracy #Oiligarchy #EnvironmentalProtections #BigOilAndGas #CorporatePolluters #HeritageFoundation #ClimateDeniers #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife
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The Little-Known History Of #BohemianGrove, The Summer Camp For The ‘Masters Of The Universe’
By Katie Serena | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis
Published November 28, 2021
Updated February 6, 2022A private campground in Monte Rio, California, Bohemian Grove hosts an all-male social club of rich and powerful members who want to "misbehave."
The High-Ranking Bohemian Grove Members
"Today, the Bohemian Grove serves as a getaway for members to reconnect with each other and to let loose. The club’s motto is “weaving spiders, come not here,” a line from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It means that members aren’t supposed to work while at Bohemian Grove.
"However, there have been notable exceptions, including planning for the #ManhattanProject in 1942, which led to the creation of the atomic bomb. But considering how many well-known policymakers have been members of the Bohemian Grove club, this isn’t entirely surprising.
"Past members and guests have included #RonaldReagan, #RichardNixon, Karl Rove, Theodore Roosevelt, Walter Cronkite, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Colin Powell, and Nelson #Rockefeller."
Read more:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/bohemian-grove#OligarchCamp #ErikPrince #ClarenceThomas #SkullAndBonesSociety #Oligarchy
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New #SCOTUS Disclosures Show 2023 Was a Good Year for Several Justice-Authors' Bank Accounts
June 7, 2024Is SCOTUS internalizing the lessons on #ethics? Maybe.
"Four Supreme Court justices supplemented their income with payments from their book deals, three accepted money for teaching, and only two accepted any reportable gifts in 2023, according to financial disclosures released Friday. Justice Alito was the only sitting justice to request an extension.
"These disclosures are the first to be released since the Court announced its adoption of a Code of Conduct (Nov. 2023) and the first since the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation from ProPublica was published (Apr. 2023&ff). Given the wide array of data in the reports, it’s difficult to ascertain whether recent ethics scandals have changed the justices’ behavior. In fact, there are some conflicting signs.
"According to #ClarenceThomas’ disclosure, he did not accept any gifts of private plane travel or resort stays from #HarlanCrow or any of his other prior benefactors in 2023. The only gift he accepted was $2,000 in 'photo albums' from the outgoing executive director of the Horatio Alger Association, Terry Giroux, and Giroux’s wife, Barbara. (Justice Jackson’s gifts are noted later in the release.)
"What’s more, Thomas wrote at the end of his report that his 2019 FDR “is hereby amended to include the following entries under the reimbursement section, which was inadvertently omitted at the time of filing,” and he lists a one-night stay at a hotel, with free food, in Bali and a four-day, three-night stay at #BohemianGrove (though he doesn’t write “Bohemian Grove”).
"On the one hand, amendments like these show growth and are appreciated. On the other hand, ProPublica reported that Thomas flew to Indonesia on a private plane for his summer jaunt, and from this omission in the appendix, it appears that either Thomas made another error or he believes neither travel on a private plane owned by a friend (though it’s really owned by his friend’s company, #HRZNARLLC) nor overnight stays on a yacht owned by a friend (really Crow Holdings, LLC) to be reportable."
#OligarchCamp #SCOTUSIsCompromised #ImpeachJusticeThomas
#ScotusIsCorrupt #ImpeachClarenceThomas #ErikPrince #Oligarchy #USPol -
As Chris Geidner says, Supreme justice Gorsuch dares to lecture the rest of us on how we deal with ethical issues when it comes out that his colleague Clarence Thomas has taken more expensive trips on Sugar Daddy Harlan Crow's tab, which he never disclosed, though he's required by law to do so.
Some ethics.
#SupremeCourt #ethics #corruption #ClarenceThomas #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy #Gorsuch
https://www.lawdork.com/p/gorsuch-be-careful-thomas-more-trips
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This is well worth taking a few minutes to read, especially if you haven’t yet read (or have only read snippets of) Justice Sotomayor’s “With fear for our democracy, I dissent” response (an all-hands-on-deck warning) to the fascist nightmare that was thrust upon our nation & its citizens with such cynical, corrupt, & arrogant contempt by the #SCOTUS Deplorable Six on Monday…
#CorruptSCOTUS #Clarencethomas #authoritarianism #PresidentialImmunity #Sotomayor #IDissent
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This is well worth taking a few minutes to read, especially if you haven’t yet read (or have only read snippets of) Justice Sotomayor’s “With fear for our democracy, I dissent” response (an all-hands-on-deck warning) to the fascist nightmare that was thrust upon our nation & its citizens with such cynical, corrupt, & arrogant contempt by the #SCOTUS Deplorable Six on Monday…
#CorruptSCOTUS #Clarencethomas #authoritarianism #PresidentialImmunity #Sotomayor #IDissent
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This is well worth taking a few minutes to read, especially if you haven’t yet read (or have only read snippets of) Justice Sotomayor’s “With fear for our democracy, I dissent” response (an all-hands-on-deck warning) to the fascist nightmare that was thrust upon our nation & its citizens with such cynical, corrupt, & arrogant contempt by the #SCOTUS Deplorable Six on Monday…
#CorruptSCOTUS #Clarencethomas #authoritarianism #PresidentialImmunity #Sotomayor #IDissent
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This is well worth taking a few minutes to read, especially if you haven’t yet read (or have only read snippets of) Justice Sotomayor’s “With fear for our democracy, I dissent” response (an all-hands-on-deck warning) to the fascist nightmare that was thrust upon our nation & its citizens with such cynical, corrupt, & arrogant contempt by the #SCOTUS Deplorable Six on Monday…
#CorruptSCOTUS #Clarencethomas #authoritarianism #PresidentialImmunity #Sotomayor #IDissent
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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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#ClarenceThomas's #Corruption Finally Has A #PriceTag - he got just under $6M in gifts while on #SCOTUS. It’s easy to miss the details of the lavish gifts and splashy #luxe travel accommodations and not grasp the scope of the gifts #SCOTUS has been getting. Well, the good folks at Fix the Court (FTC) have compiled the gifts bestowed upon the justices over the last 20 years https://abovethelaw.com/2024/06/clarence-thomas-corruption-finally-has-a-price-tag/ #democracy #courts #SupremeCourt #financialdisclosures #ethics #legalresearch
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The 2019 trips, one to Bali & the other to the #BohemianGrove, a rich men only retreat, were first revealed by @ProPublica. Last year, #ClarenceThomas argued that he did not need to disclose the gifts.
In the new filing, however, Thomas amended his 2019 #FinancialDisclosure, writing he “inadvertently omitted” the trips on previous reports.
#ProPublica documented the undisclosed luxury vacations & gifts Thomas has received over the yrs from several #billionaires, incl #HarlanCrow.
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#USpol #SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas
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Good point here's the complete quote:
"👉Revanchist politics👈 and a list of enemies to rival #AryaStark’s: These things do not pair naturally with bonhomie at the office. Yet such are the contradictions of #ClarenceThomas."
Here's a link w/o PW:
There is a German saying: A lot of enemies, a lot of honor."
The catch is, however, that you cannot be devoid of honor, like #DirtyClarence...
I can see...
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The #case of #ClarenceThomas’s new #Lawclerk #taints the entire #judiciary.
In 2015, when #CrystalClanton was 20 and working for a #conservative #group allied with the #justice’s #wife, #GinniThomas, Clanton apparently sent #racist #texts to a fellow #employee “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE,” one text read. “Like f--- them all … I hate blacks. End of story.” (In Clanton’s text, the expletive was spelled out.)
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#ClarenceThomas' new #lawclerk brings a #history of #racism #accusations.
While working at #TurningPointUSA in 2015, the new #clerk apparently texted another #employee, "I #hate #Black #people"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #BlackMastodon
https://www.salon.com/2024/02/25/clarence-thomas-new-law-clerk-brings-a-history-of-accusations/
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Well, well, well... It seems we've come full circle, eh?
#ClarenceThomas secretly participated in #Koch network donor events
Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, helping a political network that has brought cases to #SCOTUS
By Joshua Kaplan - Justin Elliott - Alex Mierjeski
Published September 22, 2023"Thomas' involvement in the events is part of a yearslong, personal relationship with the Koch brothers that has remained almost entirely out of public view. It developed over years of trips to the #BohemianGrove, a secretive all-men's retreat in Northern California. Thomas has been a regular at the Grove for two decades, where he stayed in a small camp with real estate billionaire #HarlanCrow and the Kochs, according to records and people who've spent time with him there.
"The Grove is an exclusive, two-week party held in the Sonoma County redwoods every July. A member or his guest can wander from the Grove's shooting range to a lecture by #Blackwater founder #ErikPrince, or from a mint julep party to a performance by the Grove's symphony orchestra. Wine, sometimes at $500 a bottle, flows freely, and late at night, members consume clam chowder and chili by the gallon. More than one attendee recalled walking outside in the morning to find a former cabinet secretary who fell asleep drunk in the grass.
"There's a saying among the Bohemians, as the club's members call themselves: The only place you should be publicly associated with the Grove is in your obituary. That privacy is paramount, members said, in part to allow the powerful to speak freely — and party — without worrying about showing up in the press. Only designated photographers are allowed to take pictures. Cellphones are strictly forbidden.
"Members typically must pay thousands of dollars to bring a guest. Several people ProPublica spoke to said that before the pandemic, they saw Thomas there just about every year. ProPublica was able to confirm six trips Thomas took to the retreat that he didn't disclose. Flight records suggest Crow has repeatedly dispatched his private jet to Virginia to pick up Thomas and ferry him to the Sonoma County airport and back, usually for a long weekend in the middle of the Grove festival."
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Charles & David #Koch’s access to #ClarenceThomas has gone well beyond his participation in their #donor events. For years, the #KochBrothers had opportunities to meet privately w/ #Thomas thanks to the justice’s regular trips to the #BohemianGrove, an all-male retreat that attracts some of the nation’s most #influential #corporate & #political figures. Thomas has been a regular… for 25 yrs as #HarlanCrow’s guest, acc/to internal docs & interviews w/dozens of members, other guests & workers….
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Did you see that recent Clarence Thomas slash Koch Brother photo making the rounds?
Did you, like me, ask yourself "Who's that scrawny little guy in the middle? Is that Ken freakin' Burns?"
I did a quick search and found this pretty hilarious set of results.
#ClarenceThomas #ethicswhatethics #davidkoch #bohemiangrove #oligarchs #kenburns #whome #funnysearchresults
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Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events
==Thomas has attended at least two #Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the #SupremeCourt.
#ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS #KochBrothers #BohemianGrove #Courts #News
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In his required annual #FinancialReport, #ClarenceThomas said he opted to fly on the #PrivateJet of his friend & #benefactor, #HarlanCrow, for ONE of the trips on the advice of his security detail. The justices faced heightened security risks, #Thomas noted, after the May, 2022 #leak of the court’s majority opinion to eliminate the nationwide right to #abortion & overturn #RoeVWade.
(except he took a number of similar travel gifts prior to the #Dobbs leak & decision)
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Trump's lawyers wanted Clarence Thomas to review their 2020 election lies, saying he was their 'only chance' of stopping Biden's victory
#BusinessInsider #TrumpLawyers #ClarenceThomas #2020ElectionLies #StoppingBiden #Victory #Politics #News
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Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Today's Abortion Pill Hearing Went Fully off the Rails https://jezebel.com/todays-abortion-pill-hearing-went-fully-off-the-rails-1850447303 #Jezebel #chemicalcompounds #jessicaellsworth #matthewkacsmaryk #antiprogestogens #medicalabortion #abortifacients #clarencethomas #jenniferelrod #mifepristone #donaldtrump #georgewbush #law2ccrime #abortion #hormones #jamesho #drugs #roe #rtt
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@GottaLaff 🥥 Long Dong Silver fan and #SupremeCourt Justice #ClarenceThomas and his lovely wife #Ginni are on track to have more scandals than #Beyonce has #Grammies. 🥥
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#SenateJudiciary Cmte Held Hearing 3/2/23 On #EthicsCode For #SupremeCourt Amidst #ClarenceThomas #scandal #SCOTUS #EthicsReforms #ethics #testimony #checksandbalances #corruption #recusal #statusquo #HarlanCrow #publicservice #judicialpower #federaljudiciary Enforce the #CodeofConduct #crisis #public #confidence #JudicialActivism #PartisanJudiciary #OathofOffice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4kKO73q1w
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#ClarenceThomas and #BohemianGrove: What goes on at the 150-year-old all-male club?
Bohemian Grove, a club for the rich and powerful, is in the news after it was reported that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas visited the retreat with a billionaire friend #HarlanCrow.
Located in remote #SonomaCounty, north of #SanFrancisco, Bohemian Grove's exclusivity and secrecy has inspired both protests and conspiracy theories.