After the 2020 presidential election, as Trump falsely claimed that President Joe Biden had stolen the election, people displayed a startling symbol outside their homes, on their cars and in online posts: an upside-down American flag. One of the homes flying an inverted flag during that time was the residence of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in Alexandria, Virginia, according to photographs and interviews with neighbors. Alarmed neighbors snapped photographs, some of which were recently obtained by The New York Times. Word of the flag filtered back to the court, people who worked there said in interviews. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbwLFZhawBqK2b9gW08z3g/join Five Minute News with Anthony Davis is an Evergreen Podcast, covering politics, inequality, health and climate - delivering independent, unbiased and essential news for the US and across the world. Visit us online at http://www.fiveminute.news Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/fiveminnews Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/fiveminnews Support us on Patreon http://www.patreon.com/fiveminutenews You can subscribe# to Five Minute News with your preferred podcast app, ask your smart speaker, or enable Five Minute News as your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing skill. Please subscribe HERE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbwLFZhawBqK2b9gW08z3g?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"The mere impression of political opinion can be a problem, the ethics experts said. 'It might be his spouse or someone else living in his home, but he shouldn’t have it in his yard as his message to the world,' said Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia."
"This is 'the equivalent of putting a "Stop the Steal" sign in your yard, which is a problem if you’re deciding election-related cases,' she said."
Au procès Alain Gardère, le préfet, le général et le patron nient toute corruption
Le contrat de sécurisation des locaux de «Charlie Hebdo» en 2015 a occupé les premiers jours du #procès pour #corruption. L’ex-préfet #AlainGardère, le général #BrunoDary et le chef d’entreprises Tibor Vass ont nié tout traitement de faveur ainsi que l’existence de contreparties.
Even in blue states, corporations that promise jobs & economic growth, dictate the rules, which frequently means low pay & few regulations:
Amazon gets $137M in NY State welfare.
In violation of state open records laws, the secretive state Subsidy Board waived rules on hiring & prevailing wages.
@Ziggurat Ça risquerait d’éloigner les citoyen·ne·s de leur institution… ;-)
Amha c’est une question importante, mais transverse… (Et pas évidente à « vendre » dans une campagne électorale.)
Ceci dit, j’espère que les projets de lutte contre la #corruption porteront leurs fruits, et qu’il n’y aura plus d’affaires de cette ampleur avant longtemps.
Argent liquide et soupçons de corruption: un géant belge du BTP et la Société générale empêtrés au Tchad
Les justices française et belge ont été saisies d’une affaire présumée de #corruption et d’abus de biens sociaux visant des cadres français d’un groupe de #BTP belge, en lien avec la construction d’un palace au #Tchad. L’entreprise a retiré des millions d’euros en liquide sur son compte à la #SociétéGénérale.
In the US ordinary people don't really notice how corrupt capitalism (the cancer stage of capitalism) is affecting their day to day life in all kinds of ways. They just notice that goods and services have gotten expensive but don't understand one of the major causes: private equity.
As Chris Geidner notes, Justice Clarence Thomas is mouthing off about what a "hideous place" Washington is. But for 33 years Thomas has willingly sat on the Supreme bench, exercising enormous influence from that place he claims to see as hideous. And:
"Over the next seven weeks, Thomas will be one of nine people releasing decisions in 40 cases at the Supreme Court that will set forth the standard" (cont. in /2)
Cadeaux et «services rendus»: l’ancien préfet Alain Gardère jugé dans un procès à haut risque
Des chefs d’entreprise des secteurs du bâtiment et de la sécurité ainsi que des élus locaux comparaissent à partir du lundi 13 mai aux côtés de l’ancien préfet sarkozyste pour des faits de #corruption.
Pro #WhiteChristianNationalist Samuel Alito, who ripped healthcare away from American Women and Girls, has shown signs of empathy for criminal defendants in recent cases involving gun owners, Jan 6. attackers and criminal defendant Donald.
He refused to discuss the facts of the criminal charges against the biggest criminal in American history during the oral argument in the immunity delay case.
Republicans aka: White male privilege, consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Sammy is a misogynist, too. I'll never forget that he quoted the judge from the Salem Witch Trials in the leaked Dobbes document. I have a very strong gut feeling that truth be known, Alito was the very one who leaked it.
The NBC headline should read: “Right-wing fanatic shows signs of supporting right-wing fanaticism.” The important commonality is that they’re right-wing fanatics, not that they’re “defendants.”
Bought and paid for by White Christian Nationalism.
Republicans hate Girls and Women - they have already bent the laws to be able to murder us and disappear us. They are now making it legal to humiliate and torture us. There is no love - and there is nothing redeemable - in a man who would be ok with this assault, subjugation, and physical abuse of Girls and Women. Girls and Women aren't vessels to club and claim caveman style. We aren't vessels to impregnate and imprison. We are autonomous beings with fundamental human rights to self determine. And: whether raped or not--> Abortion is healthcare! Ps.Men speak up for us.
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They scammed the country. Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch says that abortion isn’t a “states rights” issue after all. Nope. They plan to use the 14th Amendment to overturn state constitutional amendments protecting abortion rights. He also calls SCOTUS the “Leo court.”
Le Qatargate à un tournant : toute l’enquête passée au tamis (www.rtbf.be) French