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@codinghorror
you nail it, its foolishly easy to game the needy as there is no right to food in the constitution because apparently after the natives bailed out the hungry mayflower bunch etal the founders' forgot all about how important it is not to starve. doc desperately needs a re-write so make the wakeup call for six am please, thanks.
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A Really Well Insulated Attic
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
A Really Well Insulated Attic
By Joyce Vance, Sep 04, 2025
“If the entire foundation falls out from under your house, it does no good to have a really well-insulated attic,” the judge said. “It sure would be nice if someone had our backs.” An anonymous federal judge made that comment to NBC News in a remarkable piece that published this morning.
The attic they are referring to is the U.S. Supreme Court. A Court that is increasingly viewed in some corners as having abandoned the role Article III of the Constitution assigns to it, to act as a check and balance on the executive branch. But the concerns the judges expressed were about the process the Supreme Court is using to make decisions. The reporting was not an inquiry into either the substance of the high court’s rulings or the politics behind it all.
It’s all about the shadow docket, a term you’re familiar with if you read Civil Discourse. It’s a slightly snarky term coined by legal academics to refer to the Court’s emergency docket, which is used for time-sensitive issues, like last-minute requests to stay executions in death penalty cases. The Court also hears appeals involving emergency civil relief on this docket. That means that cases where pro-democracy lawyers seek injunctions to block some of the most egregious steps this administration is taking land, with increasing frequency, on the shadow docket, and that’s where they get decided.
But these cases aren’t like the cases on the Supreme Court’s regular docket, the ones that get fully briefed, orally argued, and then decided on the merits in carefully crafted, lengthy opinions that fully set out the decision and the legal basis for it. This kind of shadow docket ruling happens early in a case, and the decision, as in the birthright citizenship cases where the Court rejected the use of nationwide injunctions to obtain relief but didn’t weigh in on whether Trump could erase birthright citizenship from the Constitution, are on procedural issues, not the substantive merits of a case. The decisions are typically unexplained and unsigned. There’s usually no opinion. Maybe you get a couple of paragraphs. Sometimes a stinging dissent. But there is very little basis for understanding why the court ruled the way it did and applying it in the lower courts.
This is frustrating for us. We’ve had this experience in a number of cases. It happened when the Supreme Court signed off on letting the Trump administration deport noncitizens to third countries (countries other than their country of origin), desperately unsafe places like South Sudan. It happened when the Court okayed DOGE’s foray into Americans’ confidential data held by Social Security. The Court let Trump fire members of independent agencies.
Apparently, it’s frustrating for judges in lower courts as well. After all, they are being called upon to apply the Supreme Court’s decisions. Shadow docket rulings are precedent that lower courts must follow. But how do you apply something when there is no explanation for why it happened? That’s the position the lower courts are in and it’s what led 12 federal judges to take the unprecedented step of speaking anonymously to an NBC reporter about what’s going on at the Supreme Court.
The reporting characterized it like this:
“Lower court judges are handed contentious cases involving the Trump administration. They painstakingly research the law to reach their rulings. When they go against Trump, administration officials and allies criticize the judges in harsh terms. The government appeals to the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority.
And then the Supreme Court, in emergency rulings, swiftly rejects the judges’ decisions with little to no explanation.”
The judges had a deeper criticism too. One that is unique to the time of the Trump administration, where the president and his cronies have attacked judges who rule against the president’s policies or against him on personal matters, often placing those judges in the crosshairs of his supporters. As one judge put it, “A short rebuttal from the Supreme Court, they argue, makes it seem like they did shoddy work and are biased against Trump.” Trump cronies like Stephen Miller have accused judges who rule against the administration of engaging in a judicial coup and there have been calls for their impeachment. One judge said that the Supreme Court “is effectively endorsing Miller’s claims that the judiciary is trying to subvert the presidency.”
This unique criticism of the Supreme Court from lower court judges comes as the Court has granted 17 of 23 emergency requests made by the administration, asking it to undo lower court decisions on an emergency basis. The NBC report concluded that five of the 17 cases were decided without any substantive reasoning to back them up and seven of the others had less than three pages of explanation. And we’re talking here about highly important decisions about the scope of presidential power. Supreme Court decisions routinely exceed 100 pages.
Continue/Read Original Article: https://joycevance.substack.com/p/a-really-well-insulated-attic
#12Members #2025 #America #AuthoritarianRulings #BadDecisions #BalancedCourt #Books #DonaldTrump #Education #ExpandSCOTUS #History #ImmunityForTRUMP #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Resistance #RightWing #RightWingJustices #Science #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpCourt #UnitedStates
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Yuck.
I create a corrupt-Trump action classification called #MonkeyWrenchTheSystem and then ideas of how to do it bigly start gathering;
#MartialLaw
#ConstitutionalConvention
#ExpandSCOTUSOthers?
Thing is - the #Project2025 folk will have been gathering all these together for years I think. If so they've got a book full of them. And with action pathways attached.
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What It Would Take to Charge Donald Trump with Inciting Insurrection - emptywheel
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Proud Boy Closure or John Roberts' Get Out of Jail Free Card? - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/31/proud-boy-closure-or-john-roberts-get-out-of-jail-free-card/
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Legal attacks are slowing SEC rulemaking in crucial election year | Reuters
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Machine for Fascism: The Two Stephens - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/13/machine-for-fascism-the-two-stephens/
Miller & Bannon argued that Trump had to be permitted to make false claims that stoke violence as part of his campaign
#NoNazis #RememberJan6 #StopFascism #SaveDemocracy #VoteBlue #ExpandSCOTUS
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What It’s Like to Lose Your Classmates to Gun Violence | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-its-like-to-lose-classmates-gun-violence
> Gun violence wasn't something the adults explained.
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Supreme Court to hear landmark case on trans healthcare – what you need to know
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/10/07/supreme-court-transgender-case-us-v-skrmetti/
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Mark Martin floated fringe theories to keep Donald Trump in power. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito taught with Martin — even after January 6.
https://theintercept.com/2024/10/03/supreme-court-samuel-alito-law-mark-martin-trump/
#RememberJan6 #MarkMartinSeditionist #ImpeachAlito #SCOTUSCorruption #ExpandSCOTUS #SaveDemocracy
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FCC Tries To Pre-Empt Telecom Industry Claim That The Supreme Court Neutered Its Authority To Protect Consumers | Techdirt
#RegulateBigTelecom #ReverseChevron #ExpandSCOTUS #SCOTUSCorruption
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John Roberts' Sordid Legacy: 14 Pages of Mean Tweets - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/03/john-roberts-sordid-legacy-14-pages-of-mean-tweets/
#JackSmith #RememberJan6 #ImpeachRoberts #ExpandSCOTUS #SCOTUSCorruption #ConvictTrump
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Samuel Alito and German rightwing aristocrat linked to US anti-abortion activist
#SCOTUSCorruption #ImpeachAlito #ImpeachThomas #ImpeachRoberts #ExpandSCOTUS #ReproductiveFreedom #ProChoice
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Samuel Alito's Role in Jan 6 Ruling Questioned after John Roberts Memo Leak
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-samuel-alito-flag-jan6-justice-roberts-1954479
#SCOTUSCorruption #ExpandSCOTUS #ImpeachRoberts #ImpeachAlito #SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025
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John Roberts’ Secret Trump Memo Revealed in Huge SCOTUS Leak
#SCOTUSCorruption #ExpandSCOTUS #ImpeachRoberts #ScotusTermLimits
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Most Important Supreme Court Rulings of the Past 15 Years Speak to Importance of Elections | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/most-important-supreme-court-rulings-of-past-15-years
#ExpandSCOTUS #SCOTUSCorruption #SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025
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The Courts Are Already Starting to Implement Project 2025, Without Trump
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/scotus-project-2025-trump-plan-supreme-court.html
#ExpandSCOTUS #ScotusTermLimits #SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025
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Big Telecom Asks The Corrupt Supreme Court To Declare All State And Federal Broadband Consumer Protection Illegal. They Might Get Their Wish. | Techdirt
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Senate Democrat uncovers another GOP donor-covered trip for Justice Thomas - UPI
#SCOTUSCorruption #ExpandSCOTUS #ImpeachThomas #ImpeachAlito
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Leonard Leo Rages About Proposed SCOTUS Reforms
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/07/leonard-leo-rages-about-proposed-scotus-reforms/
#JudicialReform #ExpandSCOTUS #TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires #WealthTax #SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025
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How Trump Reshaped Federal Courts and What to Know About the Federal Judiciary | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-trump-reshaped-federal-courts-judiciary
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In a Second Trump Term, the Supreme Court Could Get Even More Radical | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/second-trump-term-supreme-court
#SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #ExpandSCOTUS #ImpeachAlito #ImpeachThomas
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Judicial Reckoning: Ocasio-Cortez Takes on Thomas and Alito
#ExpandSCOTUS #SCOTUSCorruption #AOC2028 #ImpeachThomas #ImpeachAlito
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Unpacking the Court - by Kevin M. Kruse - Campaign Trails
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The Supreme Court’s Contempt for Facts Is a Betrayal of Justice | Scientific American
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Justice Alito’s Views On Social Media And The First Amendment Seem To Shift Depending On Who He Wants To Win | Techdirt
#SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #ExpandSCOTUS #ImpeachAlito #ImpeachThomas
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@marcelias American Bar Association: Founded in 1878.
Federalist Society: Founded in 1982.
Federalist Society's ex-(vice) president Leonard Leo put 5 of 6 biased con-servative/illiberal majority justices on the bench.
Time to regulate & contain the partisan influence of Leonard Leo & the Federalist Society, for the sake of Americans' democracy, human & civil rights.#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #CleanSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #ExpandSCOTUS #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #DarkMoney #Corruption #Bribery #JudicialInsurrection #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState
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@marcelias American Bar Association: Founded in 1878.
Federalist Society: Founded in 1982.
Federalist Society's ex-(vice) president Leonard Leo put 5 of 6 biased con-servative/illiberal majority justices on the bench.
Time to regulate & contain the partisan influence of Leonard Leo & the Federalist Society, for the sake of Americans' democracy, human & civil rights.#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #CleanSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #ExpandSCOTUS #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #DarkMoney #Corruption #Bribery #JudicialInsurrection #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState
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@marcelias American Bar Association: Founded in 1878.
Federalist Society: Founded in 1982.
Federalist Society's ex-(vice) president Leonard Leo put 5 of 6 biased con-servative/illiberal majority justices on the bench.
Time to regulate & contain the partisan influence of Leonard Leo & the Federalist Society, for the sake of Americans' democracy, human & civil rights.#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #CleanSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #ExpandSCOTUS #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #DarkMoney #Corruption #Bribery #JudicialInsurrection #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState
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@marcelias American Bar Association: Founded in 1878.
Federalist Society: Founded in 1982.
Federalist Society's ex-(vice) president Leonard Leo put 5 of 6 biased con-servative/illiberal majority justices on the bench.
Time to regulate & contain the partisan influence of Leonard Leo & the Federalist Society, for the sake of Americans' democracy, human & civil rights.#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #CleanSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #ExpandSCOTUS #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #DarkMoney #Corruption #Bribery #JudicialInsurrection #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState
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SCOTUS justices without corporate interests could easily feel relieved from conflicts of interest.
Time to institute a code of conduct for the Supreme Court.
"Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito together own shares in 19 companies that could see combined tax relief of more than $30 billion if the court issues a broad ruling in the Moore v. United States tax case and strikes down a one-time corporate tax imposed in 2017."
https://www.levernews.com/justices-have-financial-interest-in-major-tax-case/
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #Corruption #Bribery #DarkMoney #ConflictsOfInterest #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateTheSix #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUSInspectorGeneral #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS -
@Itchy Damn right: Leonard Leo, Knight of Malta isn't talked about & investigated enough for his subversive activities undermining & obstructing prior SCOTUS decisions relating to Americans' civil & human rights & in the long run plotting to establish a different kind of government, being closer to an autocratic/theocratic regime.
https://jezebel.com/judge-matthew-kacsmaryk-federalist-society-leonard-leo-1850170444
#RuleOfLaw #InvestigateLeonardLeo #DarkMoney #Bribery #Corruption #MoneyLaundering #InvestigateOpusDei #InvestigateFederalistSociety #CleanSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #ExpandSCOTUS #InvestigateTheSix #SeparationOfChurchAndState #OpusDei #SeparationOfPowers -
What do Clarence Thomas & Donald Trump have in common?
Not only the sympathy of insurrection supporter Ginni Thomas, but above that
they share the very same sociopathic disregard for right & wrong."…
A former fundraising staffer for the Koch network said the organization’s relationship with Thomas was considered a valuable asset: “Offering a high-level donor the experience of meeting with someone like that [i.e. an ideological relative on SCOTUS]— that’s huge.”
…"https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a45264016/clarence-thomas-koch-network-donors/
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #Bias #Corruption #Bribery #ObstructionOfJustice #ImpeachClarenceThomas #SCOTUSsMostCorrupt #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #CatholicKnightOfMaltaLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #JudicialInsurrection #JudicialIndependence #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState #ExpandSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG -
What do Clarence Thomas & Donald Trump have in common?
Not only the sympathy of insurrection supporter Ginni Thomas, but above that
they share the very same sociopathic disregard for right & wrong."…
A former fundraising staffer for the Koch network said the organization’s relationship with Thomas was considered a valuable asset: “Offering a high-level donor the experience of meeting with someone like that [i.e. an ideological relative on SCOTUS]— that’s huge.”
…"https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a45264016/clarence-thomas-koch-network-donors/
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #Bias #Corruption #Bribery #ObstructionOfJustice #ImpeachClarenceThomas #SCOTUSsMostCorrupt #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #CatholicKnightOfMaltaLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #JudicialInsurrection #JudicialIndependence #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState #ExpandSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG -
What do Clarence Thomas & Donald Trump have in common?
Not only the sympathy of insurrection supporter Ginni Thomas, but above that
they share the very same sociopathic disregard for right & wrong."…
A former fundraising staffer for the Koch network said the organization’s relationship with Thomas was considered a valuable asset: “Offering a high-level donor the experience of meeting with someone like that [i.e. an ideological relative on SCOTUS]— that’s huge.”
…"https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a45264016/clarence-thomas-koch-network-donors/
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #Bias #Corruption #Bribery #ObstructionOfJustice #ImpeachClarenceThomas #SCOTUSsMostCorrupt #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #CatholicKnightOfMaltaLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #JudicialInsurrection #JudicialIndependence #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState #ExpandSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG -
What do Clarence Thomas & Donald Trump have in common?
Not only the sympathy of insurrection supporter Ginni Thomas, but above that
they share the very same sociopathic disregard for right & wrong."…
A former fundraising staffer for the Koch network said the organization’s relationship with Thomas was considered a valuable asset: “Offering a high-level donor the experience of meeting with someone like that [i.e. an ideological relative on SCOTUS]— that’s huge.”
…"https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a45264016/clarence-thomas-koch-network-donors/
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #Bias #Corruption #Bribery #ObstructionOfJustice #ImpeachClarenceThomas #SCOTUSsMostCorrupt #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #CatholicKnightOfMaltaLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #JudicialInsurrection #JudicialIndependence #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState #ExpandSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG -
No wonder Clarence once ("jokingly") called Leonard "Richelieu" Leo the *third-most important man in the U.S.*.
The man most harmful to the American judiciary & Americans' human & civil rights."From those early discussions among Leo, Thomas and Crow would spring a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the judiciary and overturn longstanding legal precedents on abortion, affirmative action and many other issues. It funded legal scholars to devise theories to challenge liberal precedents, helped to elect state attorneys general willing to apply those theories and launched lavish campaigns for conservative judicial nominees who would cite those theories in their rulings from the bench."
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #GinniThomas #ClarenceThomas #LeonardLeo #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateGinniThomas #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #TaxEvasion #OrganizedCrime #RICO #InvestigateTheSix #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS #JudicialIndependence #JudicialInsurrection
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No wonder Clarence once ("jokingly") called Leonard "Richelieu" Leo the *third-most important man in the U.S.*.
The man most harmful to the American judiciary & Americans' human & civil rights."From those early discussions among Leo, Thomas and Crow would spring a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the judiciary and overturn longstanding legal precedents on abortion, affirmative action and many other issues. It funded legal scholars to devise theories to challenge liberal precedents, helped to elect state attorneys general willing to apply those theories and launched lavish campaigns for conservative judicial nominees who would cite those theories in their rulings from the bench."
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #GinniThomas #ClarenceThomas #LeonardLeo #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateGinniThomas #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #TaxEvasion #OrganizedCrime #RICO #InvestigateTheSix #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS #JudicialIndependence #JudicialInsurrection
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No wonder Clarence once ("jokingly") called Leonard "Richelieu" Leo the *third-most important man in the U.S.*.
The man most harmful to the American judiciary & Americans' human & civil rights."From those early discussions among Leo, Thomas and Crow would spring a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the judiciary and overturn longstanding legal precedents on abortion, affirmative action and many other issues. It funded legal scholars to devise theories to challenge liberal precedents, helped to elect state attorneys general willing to apply those theories and launched lavish campaigns for conservative judicial nominees who would cite those theories in their rulings from the bench."
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #GinniThomas #ClarenceThomas #LeonardLeo #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateGinniThomas #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #TaxEvasion #OrganizedCrime #RICO #InvestigateTheSix #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS #JudicialIndependence #JudicialInsurrection
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No wonder Clarence once ("jokingly") called Leonard "Richelieu" Leo the *third-most important man in the U.S.*.
The man most harmful to the American judiciary & Americans' human & civil rights."From those early discussions among Leo, Thomas and Crow would spring a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the judiciary and overturn longstanding legal precedents on abortion, affirmative action and many other issues. It funded legal scholars to devise theories to challenge liberal precedents, helped to elect state attorneys general willing to apply those theories and launched lavish campaigns for conservative judicial nominees who would cite those theories in their rulings from the bench."
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #GinniThomas #ClarenceThomas #LeonardLeo #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateGinniThomas #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #TaxEvasion #OrganizedCrime #RICO #InvestigateTheSix #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS #JudicialIndependence #JudicialInsurrection
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A dark web of dark-money jugglers, benefitting from the Citizens United ruling they had their sticky fingers in to legalize their covert shady financial & manipulative operations.
[Ginni] "Thomas, wife of a sitting justice, in concert with [Leonard] Leo, was secretly building the sort of dark-money front group that would soon be greenlit by the court’s decision. That group would be funded by Harlan Crow, the billionaire who spent decades secretly enriching the same justice who would sit on the case and the same spouse who would benefit from the outcome of the case. And the dark-money group founded by Ginni Thomas would go on to advocate for cases argued before the court as her husband heard those cases."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/ginni-thomas-ethics-supreme-court-hats.html
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #GinniThomas #ClarenceThomas #LeonardLeo #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateGinniThomas #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #TaxEvasion #OrganizedCrime #RICO #InvestigateTheSix #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS #JudicialIndependence #JudicialInsurrection -
A dark web of dark-money jugglers, benefitting from the Citizens United ruling they had their sticky fingers in to legalize their covert shady financial & manipulative operations.
[Ginni] "Thomas, wife of a sitting justice, in concert with [Leonard] Leo, was secretly building the sort of dark-money front group that would soon be greenlit by the court’s decision. That group would be funded by Harlan Crow, the billionaire who spent decades secretly enriching the same justice who would sit on the case and the same spouse who would benefit from the outcome of the case. And the dark-money group founded by Ginni Thomas would go on to advocate for cases argued before the court as her husband heard those cases."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/ginni-thomas-ethics-supreme-court-hats.html
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #GinniThomas #ClarenceThomas #LeonardLeo #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateGinniThomas #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #TaxEvasion #OrganizedCrime #RICO #InvestigateTheSix #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS #JudicialIndependence #JudicialInsurrection -
A dark web of dark-money jugglers, benefitting from the Citizens United ruling they had their sticky fingers in to legalize their covert shady financial & manipulative operations.
[Ginni] "Thomas, wife of a sitting justice, in concert with [Leonard] Leo, was secretly building the sort of dark-money front group that would soon be greenlit by the court’s decision. That group would be funded by Harlan Crow, the billionaire who spent decades secretly enriching the same justice who would sit on the case and the same spouse who would benefit from the outcome of the case. And the dark-money group founded by Ginni Thomas would go on to advocate for cases argued before the court as her husband heard those cases."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/ginni-thomas-ethics-supreme-court-hats.html
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #GinniThomas #ClarenceThomas #LeonardLeo #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateGinniThomas #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #TaxEvasion #OrganizedCrime #RICO #InvestigateTheSix #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS #JudicialIndependence #JudicialInsurrection -
A dark web of dark-money jugglers, benefitting from the Citizens United ruling they had their sticky fingers in to legalize their covert shady financial & manipulative operations.
[Ginni] "Thomas, wife of a sitting justice, in concert with [Leonard] Leo, was secretly building the sort of dark-money front group that would soon be greenlit by the court’s decision. That group would be funded by Harlan Crow, the billionaire who spent decades secretly enriching the same justice who would sit on the case and the same spouse who would benefit from the outcome of the case. And the dark-money group founded by Ginni Thomas would go on to advocate for cases argued before the court as her husband heard those cases."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/ginni-thomas-ethics-supreme-court-hats.html
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #GinniThomas #ClarenceThomas #LeonardLeo #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateGinniThomas #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #TaxEvasion #OrganizedCrime #RICO #InvestigateTheSix #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS #JudicialIndependence #JudicialInsurrection -
@SeanCasten Yes, it is!
Norman Ornstein is right, when he concludes:
"Wrong on the facts, wrong on the history, on the wrong side of honesty and ethical standards, Justice Alito and his colleagues need to be reined in. Since Chief Justice Roberts won’t do it, it is time for Congress to step up and save the court from itself."
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #CodeOfConduct #Ethics #ExpandSCOTUS #TermLimits #SCOTUS_OIG #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState
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@SeanCasten Yes, it is!
Norman Ornstein is right, when he concludes:
"Wrong on the facts, wrong on the history, on the wrong side of honesty and ethical standards, Justice Alito and his colleagues need to be reined in. Since Chief Justice Roberts won’t do it, it is time for Congress to step up and save the court from itself."
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #CodeOfConduct #Ethics #ExpandSCOTUS #TermLimits #SCOTUS_OIG #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState
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@SeanCasten Yes, it is!
Norman Ornstein is right, when he concludes:
"Wrong on the facts, wrong on the history, on the wrong side of honesty and ethical standards, Justice Alito and his colleagues need to be reined in. Since Chief Justice Roberts won’t do it, it is time for Congress to step up and save the court from itself."
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #CodeOfConduct #Ethics #ExpandSCOTUS #TermLimits #SCOTUS_OIG #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState
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@SeanCasten Yes, it is!
Norman Ornstein is right, when he concludes:
"Wrong on the facts, wrong on the history, on the wrong side of honesty and ethical standards, Justice Alito and his colleagues need to be reined in. Since Chief Justice Roberts won’t do it, it is time for Congress to step up and save the court from itself."
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #CodeOfConduct #Ethics #ExpandSCOTUS #TermLimits #SCOTUS_OIG #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState
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@Yoshi @DiverDoc Each of the six may have a pair, including Amy Coney Barrett — with the signatures of Leonard Leo & his fucking rich subversive donors all over them.
No reason to give a damn about their fake resistance to dismantling essential parts of the Constitution like the 14th Amendment (=> Roe v Wade/ abortion...) & related prior SCOTUS rulings.Leonard Leo & the Federalist Society he controlled/ controls installed (corrupt) enemies of the Constitution & the United States on the bench, not only SCOTUS's.
Anyone want to prove the opposite?#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #CleanSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUSInspectorGeneral #ExpandSCOTUS