Our political 'ethics' problem is primarily from Rs/#TFG, but at #SCOTUS it's🚨
Smith wrote: Post's “cautious & deferential” approach toward the Alitos reflected “a pre-Dobbs world.” He meant: the 2022 Dobbs decision caused fewer journalists to treat the SCJs as if they were above politics. The SC's key rulings in recent decades -handed Rs:
Bush v Gore, Citizens United,
2019 pro-gerrymandering ruling...
An important article here. [Gifted, no paywall. NYTimes]: The Untold Story of the Network That Took Down Roe v. Wade
A conservative Christian coalition’s plan to end the federal right to abortion began just days after Trump’s 2016 election. By Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer
As an Opus Dei member & adherent to #TFG's #J6 seditious coup attempt, Alito's confident -he'll remain above the law. Unless Dems win a trifecta with 60 Sen. seats, he'll have impunity & the power to further compromise the SC.
"Some of Leo’s neighbors send pics from his house today -he's back to flying this flag."
-A Perez
The pine tree "Appeal to Heaven" flag is now a symbol of Christian nationalism & RW extremism.
If Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson flew a BLM flag over her home would Congress hold hearings about her impartiality?
If the Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff, flew an upside down flag over the VP's home, would Congress hold hearings?
How do you suppose the right wing media sphere would handle such events?
#SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito has used flags to openly proclaim his support for a white supremacist theocratic takeover of the U.S. and it's pretty much guaranteed nothing will come of it.
It's often said that America became a full democracy after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Yes, Chad, I know the word "republic," if you come at me with juvenile bullshit you'll be blocked).
I was born before the U.S. became a modern democracy, and I want to live the rest of my life without the U.S. going further backward. But that's the road we're on. #SCOTUS is working hard on taking rights away. Even if they're not your favorite in all respects, please #vote for all Dems in November.
Excellent read, as always, by Steve Vladeck, on the potential of creating a Supreme Court Inspector General:
Could the Legislature“rest the creation of a fifth Supreme Court office, an Article III Inspector General[?] It seems to me that the answer, at least as a matter of constitutional law, is clearly ‘yes.’”
An absolute collapse of the legitimacy of the supreme court. Now the rule of law is what fascist (theocrat aka religious autocrats aka nazis) say it is.
Americans know there is no immunity from prosecution for crimes of former #potus.
Americans know it is wrong to deny women healthcare by order of the state.
Americans know that an insurrectionist can not hold office.
First, they turned the flag upside down, and then they turned the rule of law upside down. -SkyKiss
Rep. Raskin explains that the scotus is lawless after Alito 's insurrection flags revelations. There is an absolute collapse of the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Representative Jamie Raskin. #insurrection
“ 'Today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision…is further affirmation that this Court has chosen to disenfranchise Black voters and rob us of our fundamental access to the ballot box. Equitable representation is the hallmark of a healthy democracy and in this case, the Supreme Court is attempting to steer the country back to a dark place in our history.'
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion." https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-23-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #SCOTUS#Fascism#Trump
"Alito’s misconduct also brings Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who heads an entire branch of government, to an inflection point. If he does nothing, Roberts is complicit in the destruction of the court’s reputation. Such spinelessness might even snatch from Roger B. Taney, the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott, the title of “worst chief justice ever.”" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/26/alito-durbin-supreme-court/
During Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings in 2018, the FBI received over 4,500 tips related to him. These tips included phone calls and electronic submissions. However, the FBI took little action on these tips and referred only the most "relevant" ones back to the Trump administration's White House counsel.