"To basically offer me hush money or threaten me into silence, it just shows that they really do not care about their people, which is really sad," Crenshaw told 60 Minutes.
"This has never been about money for me. It was about justice and accountability and a hope that no one else would be treated the way I was treated."
Crenshaw first told 60 Minutes about her Hillsong hell in 2021.
The Supreme Court Case Designed To Legalize Bribery
In the case of 🔸Snyder v United States,🔸 which the Supreme Court will hear on April 15th, James E. #Snyder is claiming that when a public official accepts a “#gift” from a person or corporation who has benefited from that public official’s actions, that should not be legally considered a #bribe.
Think of it instead as a “#tip,” like you’d leave for good service in a restaurant.🤔
Snyder is the former mayor of Portage, Indiana, who, federal prosecutors successfully argued in court, rigged a city bidding process for $1.125 million worth of new dump trucks to help out a friend who sold such trucks.
After the contract was awarded to his buddy, his friend’s company gave a “tip” to Snyder of $13,000.
Snyder is appealing his bribery conviction before the Supreme Court next month, and his main argument is that the federal #definition of #bribery must include an explicit advance agreement, a spoken or written #QuidProQuo, to exchange money or gifts for official actions.
And that all this explicit agreement stuff must happen #before the official acts are taken.
If five for all of the six Republicans on the Court agree with Snyder, it will end almost all federal bribery prosecutions of #corrupt elected officials and we’ll see an explosion of politicians anxious to fall all over themselves to “earn a tip” after they bow to their “friends” wishes.
(Katya Schwenk has written a great summary of the case and its implications for The Lever.)
my biggest complaint about AI is we didn’t ask for it. zero popular movements took to the streets to demand AI. no one sat around kitchen tables lamenting how hard life is without AI.
what people want is health care, housing, climate change solutions, etc We sit around kitchen tables wondering how to pay for college, get loved ones the psych and addiction support they need, or help the people on our streets who need homes
@cairobraga@mike805@seachanger However, U.S. tax law is so intentionally esoteric (specifically so that rich people don't have to pay taxes) that many people don't feel confident enough to fill out and submit Form 1040 themselves.
It also doesn't help that tax-preparation services, such as #TurboTax and #HRBlock, spend significant amounts of money to openly #bribe politicians and civil servants in order to keep the tax code complicated.
#FaniWillis walked unaccompanied through the front door of a #FultonCounty courtroom on Thurs afternoon in a bright magenta dress & announced she was ready to testify. She was interrupting her lawyer, who at that very moment was trying to convince a judge that she should not have to testify at all.
A friendly reminder: Personal gift-giving is strictly prohibited.
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Recording shows #RNC chair & #PresidentTrump personally pressuring #Michigan#election canvassers not to certify 2020 vote and offering them something " of value" in exchange for withholding signatures, which is a clear #bribe in violation of #ElectionLaws...
The Supreme Court has denied Alabama’s Hail Mary pass after that state defied a three-panel judge order to draw a second majority Black opportunity district. AL tried to pick up a vote by getting Justice Kavanaugh to change his position after ruling for the plaintiffs. It was a no-go. Alabama will get new maps.
I noted in another thread that I suspected #Meta / #Facebook would be trying to #bribe#fediverse instances into federating with them, at least at first, until #network#effects could kick in.
For those #admins who have actually been on the receiving end of Meta's inquiries, can you say whether they offered or implied any sort of #payment or other #compensation?
If it happens I'm going to need a second fediverse identity—one on an instance that is explicitly defederated from Zuckerberg's empire, to use for socializing with friends, and one that I will use only to broadcast ads for my work into Facebook-controlled territory.
(Because I need to market my work, but I don't shit where I eat.)
Frankly, I can't see a whole lot of the private instance admins wanting to #federate with #Facebook. Maybe whats-his-name's big one (mastodon.social?).
So I'm guessing Meta would start offering to #pay instances to federate with them, at least at first, until they can get the network effects going.
It'll be interesting to see if it happens, and which admins are susceptible to the #bribe.