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The Judicial Conference, a secretive, century-old council of federal judges led by the chief justice of the Supreme Court, oversees the ethics and financial disclosures for more than 1,700 federal judges, including the nine justices of the high court.
We got the be$t $upreme ¢ourt that money ¢an buy!
The notion of their being “supreme” has gone to their heads. We all must be accountable to others.
I am not surpised. The report shows that all human beings are flawed and they all want their perks that prove they are better than others.
Note Republican appointed Supreme Court judges aren’t the only ones who take advantage of the lax system. It looks like many of them do both Republican and Democrat.
Apparently, the Judicial Conference is a public relations shield working to protect Judges. Apparently Thomas is to pig headed to know how to effectively use it.
Ethics in the SCOTUS…
(covers mouth)
(((snicker)))
I will always love Obama but this missed opportunity to make the Thomas scandal a national issue in 2011, on top of his deference to RBG, was a political tragedy with an impact that will last multiple generations. I get why he didn’t take this up: 2011 was the nadir of his power, but imagine if he had been aggressive like Trump was with Kennedy and Kavanaugh.
That face - like a nursing home angel of death.
Weeping for themselves as they suffocate your grandma ‘for her own good’.
The Judicial Conference, a secretive, century-old council of federal judges led by the chief justice of the Supreme Court
Are we sure about this? Seems to me that Leonard Leo runs most of the other federal judicial actions, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he runs this too.
The judicial Conference meets only twice a year.
So much for actual oversight.
These right-wing sons of bitches have been going on for decades about liberal immorality and depraved selfish liberals and their disrespect for traditional moral rigor, and on and on and on. Now they’ve made Donald f-ing Trump into a god king, and their judges only stop stuffing their pockets with money to scold us for having the temerity to criticize them.
Shoot man if I had a revolver I would reach for it every time I heard the world “morals” coming from a so-called conservative man.
Despite all of there bullsh-t weasel words Congress does have the power to reign in bought and paid for Justices Operatives like Johnny the Robber Baron, Strip search Sammy and Clarence the crook.
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish…the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction…In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
It is unfortunate that the MAGA Republicans have decided that allowing legal bribery is an acceptable price to pay as log as these Operatives rubber stamp their legislative priorities (reinstituting Plessy v Ferguson and the Lochner Era).
In the wake of these decisions — as before — Jim Crow laws are reemerging. By declining to enforce federal laws because it disagrees with Congress about whether they’re constitutionally appropriate, the Supreme Court has functioned as an antidemocratic institution that produces antidemocratic results
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/16/supreme-court-anti-democracy/
Keep moving. Nothing to see here folks. Everything is just fine.
There is absolutely nothing supreme about the supreme court…
OT, but what is going on with the comments for the lead article? And can I say that I really hate bunching so many topics under one heading? It gets all the comments all garbled up together.
“You don’t have an inspector general for kings or judges because then you’d no longer have a king or a judge.”
Wait, wut? I don’t see any logical connection between a judge and a king.
It seems like a properly funded and administered independent IG office would be perfectly acceptable, especially given the ample evidence gathered here that the current system is a complete joke that does more CYA than accountability.
the powers that be.
it seems as though a divided congress allows much mischief to go unchecked.
for over 70 yrs. the corporate capitalists’ have begrudgingly clawed back every
progressive idea or action to allow the people to obtain constitutional legitimacy.
we only have one thing on our to do list, win in 2024. we can do that by strength-
ening and expanding our coalition. thru education and good leadership we can and
will regain a majority in both house and senate.
This is OT because I just read Josh’s piece on Politics in the era of Trumpism in which he concludes, " Speaking of which, it’s time to pledge to pass a Roe Law in 2025 if Biden wins and Dems hold Congress. Because there’s going to be a national abortion law. It’s just a question of what kind."
I couldn’t agree more and think it should go further and resurrect the ERA. The Rs’ misogynistic cruelty is so obvious and needs to be quashed before they get anywhere near majority control of the government. I’d throw in Right to Vote issues, too, but whatever it is you gotta pick something big to be first that you know you can get done.
I would love to see the evidence to bakc up that statement.
Federal Judges, of the ones I know, are methodical about accepting any gift, free ride, free meal, and even a drink from anyone except their close family. It’s not that hard. But some of the people choosing judge candidates want corruptible judges, judging by the people they have proposed. They have been burned by incorruptible judges in the past, so decided to go the other way.