My favorite Peter Sellars’ moment: “I wasn’t always as you see me now.” (The Wrong Box.)
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I think that I explained why I posted that.
My late sister was a violinist in high school (she was similarly afflicted with arthritis at the end of her life) and had a pretty decent pitch. Under a very sad set of circumstances, she was the concertmaster/mistress of the high school orchestra her senior year (the kid who was really a whole lot better than she was had drowned during the summer prior to her senior year).
Her violin instructor was a superb musician, but his wife was even more so. Her pitch was so perfect that you could literally put a forearm across a piano keyboard and she could tell you every single note that was involved. Both a blessing and a curse.
I have relative pitch, but I know when something is off.
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Exposing the highest court in the land to accountability is heresy - they are beholden to no one, amiright?
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“Over the course of the bank robbery investigation, we did not think to interview the guy with the mask, gun, and blue pack dye on his clothes”
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The staff were required to sign affidavits, and they all cooperated and didn’t produce any credible leads. This was an “investigation “ in name only. Kind of like the FBI investigation of the drunken rapist Justice. In life, when anyone is given a pass from oversight and control, the only questions are when and to what extent they will transgress.
Never “whether” they will. Can’t wait for the next lecture on how SCOTUS deserves our respect. Please.
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I tend to agree with @txlawyer that Ginni is too stupid to do long range planning and them disseminate the leak, but she def talked to people who’d be interested to know they had a win.
Alito himself leaking it as a way to get a leg up on the sitting Chief Justice? Sure, it’s a filthy court, why not.
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The thinking here as I’m posting with people and reading comments is that Alito himself might have leaked it simply to put Roberts in the hot seat.
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Why does this whole thing reminds me if the last time there was in investigation around a Supreme Court Justice (nominee)?
Are we sure Director Wray wasn’t the lead “investigator”?
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I don’t put it past Clarence to share the outcome with Ginni, nor do I put it past Ginni at all to share the outcome with her fellow travelers. But the outcome wasn’t exactly a secret after oral argument. There was some question whether Roberts might still be able to persuade Rapey McBeerface or Justice Handmaid’s Tale to join him in eviscerating Roe and Casey without explicitly overruling them, but that was about it.
But leaking the opinion itself? Ginni is way too stupid to do that without getting caught. And frankly, she’s way too stupid to read her way through the opinion. She has no reason to publish it. All she cares about is women being owned by the patriarchy. The ostensible justification for it is immaterial to her. She’d just be “Woo hoo, abortion is going away!”
There are two key clues about the origin of the leaked opinion, in my view. First, the reporting has been that Kavanaugh was squishy about outright nuking Roe. The WSJ editorial board had that story a week or two before the opinion leaked, That means the obvious motive for the leak was to make it clear that Alito had five votes to nuke Roe and Kavs was the traitor if he didn’t stay in the fold. And second, the opinion got leaked to a Politico Pentagon reporter, not a courts/DOJ reporter. I don’t have any idea who it was who gave it to the Pentagon reporter, but it’s a pretty clear indication that whoever leaked it was using a cutout who had different press contacts than you’d expect for someone at the Supreme Court. That anomaly might be the best way to trace the leak back to its obvious source, which is Sam Alito.
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So someone holding a copy of the draft thought, “I have to get this to Politico.”
Why?
Doubtful they were ignorant of the risk and effect. Doubtful it was done to force the Court to switch and reaffirm Roe. Don’t see where money was involved.
Possibly done to humiliate the minority. “Not only did you lose, but here’s what I think of your precious court.” More likely done by someone in the majority for the advantage of the majority.
So to sway someone on the fence about something in it? Seems silly since the public wouldn’t know what the specific issue was, and clearly the public focus would be on the chaos generally.
Perhaps it was done as a kind of threat, exposing the public vitriol one could expect if it was focused on one person who stepped the wrong way off the fence. That seems too personal, too risky. The threat could be made more discreetly and convincingly without the public confusion.
It seems to me damaging the Court was the point. So why would someone in the majority want to damage the Court?
CAUTION: The thinking above will change in five minutes
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The headline should be “Supreme Court Marshal CLAIMS to Have Spoke With Justices”. I’m not buying it. She only came up with that line when she realized no one was buying her bs.
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Means, Motive & Opportunity
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I think more indifference to the Damage to the court. I think the calculation that damage to the reputation of the court would not damage its authority, and in the end, that’s what is important to the Majority.
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Nor Before…
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Because Sam Alito gave it to a cutout with the intent of getting it published so as to force Kavanaugh to stay in the maximalist fold, and that cutout knew Alex Ward. Ward is a NatSec/defense/foreign policy reporter. That suggests the cutout is somebody with credible ties to both the Court and NatSec. I don’t have any idea who resides in that overlap, but it’s interesting to think about.
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There was never any question they were going to affirm the 15 week ban. The question only became overturning Roe itself after Justice Handmaid’s Tale replaced that nice lady justice who didn’t know when to fucking retire.
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Coincidentally, just posted on Raw Story…
“The leak spurred finger pointing, they [staff] said, with many conservatives convinced that a liberal had engineered the breach and vice versa. Just as the justices have grown more divided, so has their staff, eroding trust. Voices are more hushed now, the employees said, and doors that used to be open are closed.”
–NYT Reporter
Benefitting…?
Besides Putin
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