The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing today on ethics reform for the Supreme Court after a string of news reports documenting various cozy financial entanglements between right-wing justices and powerful figures in the conservative world.
The more people learn about the damage these people can do, the better. Some of this is the fault of people failing to link political candidates to their court nominations and confirmations.
Resulting in catastrophic decisions impacting those too feckless and ill-informed to carefully choose decent candidates.
Yep, the only thing we can really do about the SC right now is highlight its corruption and make Republicans and the Fascist justices uncomfortable.
We need to keep banging on it, so each open corrupt move they make underscores the points we’ve been making…
We want to make '24 about corrupt courts so we can elect a majority that can expand and reform.
If we don’t Republicans will.
Graham Is Scolding Democrats For Not Finding ‘Common Ground’
Well, Harlan Crow didn’t make any cash offers, so…
If they wish to get anything close to a fix here step number one is to let the SCOTUS know they’re not fooling anyone. The high and nightly language and haughty objections they use in their defense do not mask the fact that their unpopular rulings are GOP not Constitutionally inspired. No one should think these guys are i it for America. They didn’t come from the America most of us come from and defer to those from where they came.
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And the Senate needs to have the votes on good nominations right now. Senator Feinstein, anybody home? Will this be part of your legacy?
It seems that those ethically challenged members of the Supreme Court have taken a narrow, self-serving, and strict constructionist interpretation of the word “supreme.”
'Graham Is Scolding Democrats For Not Finding ‘Common Ground’
lindsey continued - we’re perfectly willing to impose and enforce stringent ethics requirements for the three justices who have demonstrated an ability to take a fair and considered approach to deciding cases based on the constitution and established law but we will never accept ethical requirements for our right wing hacks on the court. This is non-negotiable.
Judging from the virtual handjob Nina Totenberg gave John Roberts this morning, the DC conventional wisdom clearly believes this is a nothing burger deserving some smoke and mirrors, after which nothing substantial will happen and the court will carry on with a slightly red wrist.
As our host mentions from time to time the DC press in particular seems hard-wired to accept right-wing framing of issues at face value and that skews critique, blunting it either to the point of nothing burger or, worse yet, imputing onus in the wrong place entirely; e.g., Something’s Very Wrong with the Times - TPM – Talking Points Memo
More GOP Anger About Protests At Justices’ Houses
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is railing against this now too (and mentioned Schumer’s comments for the umpteenth time — take a shot).
Good piece by Steve Vladek -scroll down to read The One First Long Read.
25. Judicial Independence vs. Judicial Accountability (substack.com)
Well we all know the Republicans are big believers in self-regulating, so I’m sure it would work at Supreme Court as well as it does in corporate America. s/
Moscow Mitch is declaring there’s nothing to see here: Thomas was taking, “…vacations with his friends,” and Gorsuch, “… sold his house when he moved …”
It’s reminiscent of Team Donnie defining the classified documents case as, “a documents storage dispute,” or similar drivel: the reactionaries are attempting to truncate the issues so they can be normalized and swept under the rug.
Since their goal is defining the issue out of existence (except, perhaps, as these behaviors are unacceptable for Democratic nominees,) of course there is no middle ground on which to meet them.
Amy Coney Barrett, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Samuel Alito either belong to or are close to members of Opus Dei, a lay movement within the Catholic church, first created in Spain by Father Josemaría Escrivá in the 1920s. Maybe it’s like selling Tupperware or Scientology?
Nina will never do anything to interfere with her access… she used to be a cogent reader of SC tea leaves, but now is just a husk of an “access wraith”.
It’s gratifying that Senator Whitehouse has taken this up as his cause and appears to be giving it his all.
Lights are on, no one’s home…
The whining by alito, freebies to thomas and home sales (?) for gorsuch. Kavs sexual assaults should also be added in but the biggest violation is the tens at millions of dollars channeled thru robert’s wife.
