Originally published at: SCOTUS Launches Itself Into The Worst Of The Trump Cases
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Where Does This Leave Us? A rapid-fire series of Supreme Court interventions in two of the most pressing early Trump II cases has slowed down for now the prospect of a direct confrontation between President…
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Ah, Michael Gableman.
The state Office of Lawyer Regulation filed a 10-count complaint in November against Michael Gableman, accusing him of misconduct during the probe. The state Supreme Court ultimately could revoke Gableman’s law license, although the court rarely administers such a harsh punishment against wayward attorneys.
The OLR and Gableman filed a stipulation with the Supreme Court on Monday in which they agreed an appropriate sanction would be suspending Gableman’s license for three years. A referee overseeing the case and the Supreme Court must approve the agreement before it can take effect.
Gableman acknowledged in the filing that the complaint provides “an adequate factual basis” and that he couldn’t successfully defend himself against the allegations.
Too bad it’s only for three years.
The OLR complaint accuses Gableman of making false statements, disrupting a court hearing, questioning a judge’s integrity, making derogatory remarks about opposing counsel, violating open records law and revealing information about representing Vos during the investigation while Gableman was promoting a failed effort to recall Vos from office.
He also practiced law while working on the investigation despite his claim to the contrary and destroyed public records that liberal group American Oversight had requested, the complaint says.
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with Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the three liberal justices
Who shall remain nameless… again.
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“Citing “drastic” government funding cuts, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services, the largest refugee resettlement agency in the world, is ending its century-old program of resettling refugees fleeing war or persecution”.
They won’t be resettling Nazi war criminals as they did after WWII.
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What could be more American than having a five time draft dodger order a military parade for his 79th birthday! The same ass who called my dead son…“a sucker and loser”…
And this is just the harbinger of what is to come when next year will be the 250th birthday of the US but King Trump will demand that the celebration be all about him as the Greatest American Who Ever Lived.
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We are the guardrails. We hit about 1% last Saturday. We need another 2.5% to jump in. The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
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I know treaties and agreements are “trust, but verify,” but I can’t see any good reason for other countries to enter into an agreement with us right now, since tcf is a lying, conniving sack of idiocy.
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This originalist SC wants to return the country to the days of the writing of the Constitution. You know, back when only propertied white men had rights and could vote.
ETA. Oops, need to add, also before the Bill of Rights were approved.
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Lee Kovarsky professor of Constitutional Law
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Coming from the same Catholic Bishops who march lockstep with the Nazi Republican Party because King Trump killed Roe.
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Sad thing is that, as the 250th anniversary of the Army, that should be something that the nation gets together and celebrates.
Instead, he’ll make it all about him, it will likely be the focal point of mass protests as a result, and yet another symbol of the decline of the country.
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From the MM
Later in the day, the Supreme Court issued a very muddled and confusing decision in the adjacent Alien Enemies Act case – the other case that seems most likely to provoke Trump into an extra-constitutional showdown with the courts. By a 5-4 margin, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the three liberal justices, the court threw U.S. District Judge James Boasberg under the bus with a hasty, procedurally irregular decision that brought withering retorts from the dissenters.
Jackson criticized the majority for addressing these issues on their emergency docket and reaching a “rushed conclusion.” Normally, she said, when the justices weigh in on “complex and monumental issues,” they give the lower courts an opportunity to “address those matters first.” Then, she continued, the court “receives full briefing, hears oral argument, deliberates internally, and, finally, issues a reasoned opinion.” When the court departs from that normal practice, she said, “the risk of error always substantially increases” and it does so without “a record so posterity [may] see how it went wrong.”
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Cadwalader? Really? Does anyone have any clue as to why Trump is targeting specific law firms? I’m a NY lawyer, and I haven’t heard Cadwalader’s name mentioned in years, and I’ve been following all the legal issues hounding Trump. It looks like he has some sort of list and he’s just going down from top to bottom, trying to pick the firms off one-by-one, which is probably a strategy to keep them isolated and to minimize the chance of their banding together to defend themselves.
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Wait till next year when the 250th birthday of the US will be all about Trump and nothing else.
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This is why a very strict ethics code is needed for for the SCOTUS, because once they start accepting gifts and junkets and who knows what else it makes them susceptible to blackmail.
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