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The Supreme Court Blocked Trump on the Fed, Mail-In Ballots, and E. Jean Carroll in One Day #DonaldTrump #LisaCook #EJeanCarroll #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #FederalReserve #MailInBallots #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Watson #RNC #Election2026 #VotingRights #SexualAbuse #Defamation #FedIndependence #PresidentialPower #June29 #Hawk #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8MAQ8mkJ_Q
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“At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of #authority that would allow the #military to execute the laws in #Illinois,” the court said in its unsigned order.
And of course, Conservative Justices Samuel #Alito, #ClarenceThomas & Neil #Gorsuch dissented.
#Trump #law #immigration #military #NationalGuard #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
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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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[Paywall] #SupremeCourt #Ethics Bill Blocked In #Senate Amid #SamuelAlito Controversies
by Antonio Pequeño IV Forbes Staff
June 12, 2024"The Senate failed to advance a bill Wednesday designed to introduce ethics reform for the Supreme Court, with Sen. #LindseyGraham, R-S.C., shooting down the effort as Supreme Court #JusticeSamuelAlito faces ethics controversies and rejects calls to recuse himself from cases related to former President #DonaldTrump.
Key Facts
"Graham blocked a Democratic effort to pass the bill by unanimous consent, which requires the support of all senators.
"It was a widely anticipated outcome following #Republican pushback and votes against the bill when it passed the Senate Judiciary Committee in an 11-10 vote last year, while Justice #ClarenceThomas was embroiled in his own ethics controversies reportedly linked to accepting undisclosed financial favors.
"The bill, known as the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal and Transparency Act, sought to enshrine a code of conduct for Supreme Court justices and grant the ability to bring complaints against justices who may have violated the code.
"The legislation also tried to establish rules governing the disclosure of 'gifts, income or reimbursements' for the Supreme Court, which has no binding code of conduct, unlike lower federal courts."
#SCROTUS
#SCOTUS
#ImpeachThomas
#ImpeachAlito
#ScotusIsCorrupt
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#SCOTUS ruled in favor of #Starbucks on Thurs in a challenge against a #labor ruling by a federal judge, making it more difficult for a key #FederalAgency to intervene when a company is accused of illegally suppressing #LaborOrganizing.
8 justices backed the majority opinion, which was written by Justice #ClarenceThomas.
#law #Union
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/economy/supreme-court-starbucks-nlrb.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb -
#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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#SamAlito, upset by #ClarenceThomas's title of "Biggest Piece of Shit on the #SCOTUS", said, "Hold my beer!"
#ImpeachAlito #AlitoIsCORRUPT #AlitoMustRecuse #IllegitimateSCOTUS #SCOTUSisIllegitimate #SCOTUSIsCompromised #SCOTUSEthicsNow #SCOTUSAccountability #SCOTUSInTheTankForTrump #SupremeCourt #VoteBlue #VoteBlue2024 #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy
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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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Parker served as an asst AG under #JeffSessions [#RussianAsset], who went on to become US AG in the #Trump admin. He was an aide to [#rapist] #RoyMoore on the state Supreme Court in 2000 until Moore was dismissed in 2003 for ignoring a #federal #CourtOrder to remove a #TenCommandments monument he had installed in the #judicial bldg.
After Parker was elected to #Alabama’s high court…, he went to DC to take the oath of office. #SCOTUS Justice #ClarenceThomas, one of his role models, presided.
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Supreme Court agrees to rule soon on whether Trump is barred from running for president
The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide on a fast-track basis whether former President Trump can be barred from the 2024 ballot because he “engaged in insurrection” after losing his reelection bid in November 2020.
The justices granted an appeal from Trump and his lawyers that seeks to overturn a Colorado Supreme Court decision that would remove Trump from that state’s ballot.
The court said it would hear arguments on the case on Feb. 8.
The supreme court is dominated 6-3 by rightwingers who have delivered historic rulings including removing the federal right to abortion.
It includes three justices installed when Trump was president.
On Thursday, a Trump lawyer, Alina Habba, caused controversy when she told Fox News one such appointee, Brett Kavanaugh, would now “step up” for the man who put him on the court.
Controversy also surrounds Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving justice whose wife, the rightwing activist Ginni Thomas, was involved in Trump’s election subversion.
On Friday, Christina Harvey, executive director of the progressive advocacy group Stand Up America, said Thomas should not take part in the Colorado case.
“The American people deserve a fair and impartial review … free from any conflicts of interest,” Harvey said.
“Justice Thomas’s continued refusal to recuse himself from this case and others related to the efforts to overthrow the 2020 election … raises questions about the integrity of the judicial process and the influence of political bias.
#kavenaugh
#AlinaHabba #clarencethomas
#recuse
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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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Former #SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #Clerk & Now #Unindicted #Trump #CoConspirator #JohnEastman Is On Side of #PredatoryLenders Against #CFPB #Architect of the #Insurrection Has the Ear of a #SupremeCourtJustice https://accountable.us/update-former-thomas-clerk-now-unindicted-co-conspirator-john-eastman-is-on-side-of-predatory-lenders-against-cfpb/
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The Onion: Justices Expand Supreme Court To 40 Right-Wing Buddies https://www.theonion.com/justices-expand-supreme-court-to-40-right-wing-buddies-1850596173 #termpercuriamopinionsofthesupremecourtoftheunitedstates #blackconservatismintheunitedstates #supremecourtoftheunitedstates #heritagefoundation #amyconeybarrett #clarencethomas #brettkavanaugh #samuelalito #theheritage #johnroberts #neilgorsuch #lawcrime #gullah #biden #ginni
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You don't want to experience his rancor. #ClarenceThomas as envisioned by #KeithKnight.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/16/2169693/-Cartoon-Clarence-Thomas