Scoreboard: “my judges”

cannabineer said:

Loose setting up a get-out-of-jail-free card for Darth Evader.

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Trump stacked the deck pretty good in those 4 years that is for sure.

Fires the SDNY guy, and a few years later someone in that office plays hide the pickle with documents to get him some delays when he subpoenas and gets a document dump of them after the DA asked for them a year ago.

Has bullshit tossed against the wall about the Georgia DA having a relationship with a private contractor, which wouldn't even be illegal under Georgia law if they were both actual employees of the state.

Has the SCOTUS running delays in his DC case by slow rolling his stupid as shit immunity claims.

And then his appointed troll judge in Florida dong everything she can try to get away with to help him avoid his trial there.

This could go in other threads as well. Fifth circuit gives a leg up to the neoliberal death cult.

A possible path to getting the Jammed Cannon out of the way of a proper trial.

I cannot say I’m surprised.

Altio won't recuse

Scotus unanimously frees NRA to sue New York (perhaps to lose.)

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The only real reason that Trump has not already stood trial for allegedly trying to steal the 2020 election is because the Supreme Court is controlled by a 6-3 conservative majority that has adopted completely unnecessary stalling tactics to delay the prosecution — now potentially until after the 2024 election. It should also be noted that this majority includes three of Trump’s appointees, three people who literally worked to deliver the presidency to the Republican Party in 2000, and some of the most political and ethically compromised justices in the history of the court.

Over the long haul, it is possible that the appellate courts could come to Trump’s rescue in the Manhattan case too, but he is clearly in no mood to pin his hopes on them. As a matter of brute political calculus, it’s hard to blame him.

I coulda sworn we had a recently active thread about racism and Republicans. Maybe I missed it. This goes here then: a petty and cruel attack on Black women entrepreneurs. In the name of equality, no less. I strongly doubt that the real motive behind this regressive action is any principle higher than race/sex spite by the conspicuously white and male architect of this litigation.

Though Thomas is not a convict appointee, he is effectively the prototype Dirty Justice. Vetted by the Federalist Society and nominated by George Warcrime Bush, he lied to Congress about judicial activism.

Each and every justice who lied to Congress, notably about reproductive law, should be subject to expulsion by a more realistic process than the quixotic one now prescribed by Federal law.

Barring that — should Biden survive November (and should the balance of legislative power leave Democrats carrying the proverbial big stick), it might be time to ramrod the appointment of a few progressive justices. A bear can dream.

Dirty, dirty

Mister John Roberts of the Supreme Court says "I was there in Vietnam" That's a fucking lie @4:57

OK, so this guy isn't necessarily a Trump judge. He was first appointed by a panel of circuit court judges to the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in 2015, where he's become a popular judge with corporations whose bankruptcies are a major cause of the increasing wealth disparity in the US. Corporations around the country and even the globe seek out judges like Jones to oversee their lawsuits. In this scandal, one of the people left holding the bag got a tip that eventually brought this judge down but its just the tip of the iceberg.


In this one instance of rotten corruption, the law firm that employed the girlfriend of Judge Jones received over $160 million in legal fees from cases they brought before Jones. In the hearing that was covered in the report (see link above) the district judge overseeing the hearing said point blank that Judge Jones was obligated to recuse himself. She said it gave her heartburn just thinking about what he did not do.

A dirty rat can contaminate tons of food. How much corruption can a dirty judge do? According to this article, Judge Jones has overseen 17% of all bankruptcy cases brought before a US district court since 2020 representing the settlement of hundreds of billions of dollars of debt and equity.

If you want to wallow in the mire, the article below covers more on the subject than I have the stuff to read. But pick a few random paragraphs and if you are just a mouse like me, prepare to get your mouse rage on.


Again, Judge Jones is not a Trump guy. But he's doing what Trump seems to think every judge does when he complains about his own case. He is overstating his case by equating what happened to him with shitty behavior like Jones's. Which goes to the larger point I'd like to make. Jones did that which Trump sought when he went through seven major bankruptcies and came out of the process a debt free rich guy. Trump is a product of corruption in our courts and political system. To truly end his kind of fuckery, we need to squeeze out not just known bad actors like Trump and Judge Jones. We need to address the larger issues of corruption that are covered in the prospect.org article.

Oh, and one last point. The district in which Judge Jones did his dirty work is overseen by SCOTUS Judge Roberts.

Wow! Alito's wife on tape

The first 6:30
edit: she uses the old Rush Limbaugh term "feminazis".

topcat said:

Wow! Alito's wife on tape

The first 6:30
edit: she uses the old Rush Limbaugh term "feminazis".

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yeah Lauren Windsor got her, she also got Judge Altio and Roberts too on tape as well......kind of explosive stuff to hear imo....

BudmanTX said:

yeah Lauren Windsor got her, she also got Judge Altio and Roberts too on tape as well......kind of explosive stuff to hear imo....

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1800201783945683120

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I expect to hear "but wait, there's more."

curious2garden said:

Jury Finds Hunter Biden Guilty of 3 Felonies

President Biden’s son, who has struggled with drug addiction, was convicted in Delaware federal court on all three counts tied to a handgun purchase in 2018. His sentencing date has not been set.

www.nytimes.com

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Convicted of a law that is often broken and rarely enforced.

But, yeah, he's guilty. I don't think that was ever in doubt.

He could face up to 25 years in prison, but first-time offenders who did not use their weapons to commit a violent crime typically receive no jail time.

This is where false equivalence will be drawn when Hunter receives a relatively light sentence compared to the maximum penalty and a certain GOP candidate for president gets worse.

“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the Democrats’ top Oversight and Accountability Committee member, in a brief interview. “I feel like the Department of Justice has within its arsenal the right to ask to petition the court for a writ of mandamus, to force recusal of two justices whose impartiality is reasonably questioned.”

Raskin and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hosted a Tuesday roundtable with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) — a chief backer of the Supreme Court ethics bill — designed to spotlight what many progressives view as a conflict of interest crisis on the court.

Whitehouse used the moment to cool House Democrats’ interest in subpoenas given divided government, warning that Republican senators would be likely to get in the way of enforcing any summons to a justice.

Durbin, who declined to endorse Raskin’s proposal, described it as “kind of a reach” but said he would keep discussing it with him out of “respect” for the constitutional law professor’s expertise. He added a subtle hope that further reporting on the high court might change the political dynamics that have prevented Senate Democrats from moving forward with their 51-vote majority.

“Maybe some new evidence comes out,” Durbin said.

Previous reports in The New York Times and ProPublica have already trained harsh scrutiny on Alito and Thomas. Alito declined to recuse himself from cases related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot after reports on an upside-down American flag displayed at a family residence, as well as another flag that some associate with Christian Nationalism.

In addition, reports on Alito and Thomas’ ties to wealthy GOP donors have sparked fury on the left. This week, attention returned to the high court after the release of tapes of Alito and his wife, who were recorded by a liberal activist and documentary filmmaker posing as a conservative in order to prod them into addressing sensitive topics.

Senate Democrats’ high court ethics bill would establish more stringent rules for gift and travel disclosure, clarify recusal rules and allow lower court judges to review ethics complaints submitted by the public. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not committed to floor time to the measure, likely because it could not overcome a GOP filibuster, so Durbin’s plans to seek unanimous consent are largely symbolic.

With pivotal cases related to former President Donald Trump and Jan. 6 potentially going before the Supreme Court soon, at least one prominent progressive activist said Senate Democrats need to do more — including subpoenas.

"There’s a dangerous strain of defeatism," Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said in an interview. "We are baffled. This is both good policy, good government and good politics. Why not do it?”

ya think!?

“It’s not deadly — it’s only a small bite from the Orange Recuse Spider.”