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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1491993
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1491993
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If Sam Alito or Aileen Cannon had been in the Trump jury pool, they would have been dismissed for cause.
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She cut the paragraph because it
risked being prejudicial to Trump
You certainly can’t say things in an indictment that might possibly indicate the accused committed the crime he is charged with. The nerve.
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Wow. I may be first!!! It only took being in France to manage it.
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The flags that should be burned are the ones defaced with a large (orange) turd. It bothers me to see my flag with excrement on it.
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About Those Secret Recordings Of The Alitos
“I’m not a big fan of journalists misrepresenting or disguising who they are and surreptitiously recording people so I was inclined not to focus on yesterday’s disclosure by Lauren Windsor that she had recorded Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, his wife, and Chief Justice John Roberts last week at an event of the Supreme Court Historical Society.”
The issue that makes this ethically fine IMO is that this was not recorded in a one-on-one private conversation whereby Alito might have let his guard down before an ideological soulmate.
It was recorded at a meeting of the Supreme Court Historical Society, which presumes a number of attendees, and also, that there would be attendees of different political stripes (if that were NOT the case, and the historical society has been perverted into an ideological forum for the radical members of the court, then that is a scandal in itself).
In addition, Roberts was asked the same question, and answered it as an ostensibly neutral justice should have. So it was hardly a trick question.
Alito simply revealed himself in his true Christo-fascist colors.
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Cannon working overtly as Trump’s lead attorney.
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I’m not trying to psychoanalyze Cannon here, just make the point that her motives are probably more complicated that wanting to let her patron Trump off the hook or to secure herself a promotion to an appeals court seat.
Let us never underestimate the impact of stupidity upon decision-making processes.
She’s STUPID (and corrupt).
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There is nothing complicated about Justice Aileen Cannon.
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Thrid, nice try though.
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While Martha Alito was complaining about having to look at the Pride flag this month, the aggressively far-right Colorado Republican Party was urging its members to burn it:
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Sam and Martha Ann could be photographed at a Trump rally bedecked in MAGA gear, and he would not recuse - nor be asked to.
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David Kurtz:
"I’m not a big fan of journalists misrepresenting or disguising who they are and surreptitiously recording people so I was inclined not to focus on yesterday’s disclosure by Lauren Windsor that she had recorded Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, his wife, and Chief Justice John Roberts last week at an event of the Supreme Court Historical Society.
But…"
Me: I appreciate the principle behind her tactics.
From Jezebel, “Windsor told Rolling Stone that she went to the Historical Society event and recorded her conversations ‘because the Supreme Court is shrouded in secrecy, and they’re refusing to submit to any accountability in the face of overwhelming evidence of serious ethics breaches.’”
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The debates could be a good opportunity for Joe to beat up on TF. Good article from nbc. Could have gone w out the Frank Luntz quotes…
Sun spot for Buddy the Shi Tzu.
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Or third.
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Okay, now that’s pretty horrible. (the opinion of an arachnophobe)
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Martha-Ann has more ideas on flags she’d like to see, as well as designing her own.
You know what I want?” Mrs. Alito says. “I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag, because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month.”
Referencing her husband, Mrs. Alito says, “He’s like, ‘Oh, please don’t put up a flag.’ I said, ‘I won’t do it because I am deferring to you. But when you are free of this nonsense, I’m putting it up and I’m gonna send them a message every day, maybe every week, I’ll be changing the flags.’ They’ll be all kinds. I made a flag in my head. This is how I satisfy myself. I made a flag. It’s white and has yellow and orange flames around it. And in the middle is the word ‘vergogna.’ ‘Vergogna’ in Italian means shame — vergogna. V-E-R-G-O-G-N-A. Vergogna.”
Also, so much for his claim about not noticing the flag.
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There will be no debates. Hannity is already teeing-up excuses for Donald to cancel.
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