#clarence and alito

[mudwerks]

the picture of unethical conduct - right there

[nodynasty4us]

From the December 21, 2023 opinion piece:

Lavish world cruises, secret deals with moneyed donors, threats to step down unless someone ponied up with a pay raise, fishing trips with parties who have business before the court, an amicus brief industrial complex wholly bought and paid for by billionaire donations, leaked drafts, and secret speeches are not the stuff of constitutional democracy, or infallibility, or finality. When the hyperpolitical supercharged Trump cases catch up with the court—and that is beginning to happen, right now, this week—all that stench will run headlong into the questions about why the husband of the woman who went to the pep rally for the insurrection and the folks who lied to us all about Dobbs are objective enough to decide the outcome of an election. The same people entrusted with the protecting the reputation of the court have blundered into being wholly responsible for protecting democracy. Not one thing suggests they will take the latter any more seriously than they took the former.

[odinsblog]

This is an illegitimate and deeply corrupt Supreme Court

[liberalsarecool]

The principle conservative value is abuse.

Alito and Thomas abuse ethics like Trump abuses children. The misconduct is manifest.

[wardsutton]

My latest for today's Boston Globe.

[porterdavis]

Let me guess.... Alito and Thomas dirty?

[justinspoliticalcorner]

This afternoon, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced articles of impeachment against two corrupt far-right judicial activists sitting on the Supreme Court: Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. The articles of impeachment against SCOTUS Justices Thomas and Alito have no chance of passage in the GOP-controlled House.

Summary of the impeachment charges against Alito and Thomas, via Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s Congressional website:

The first impeachment resolution includes the following impeachment articles against Justice Thomas:

Failure to disclose financial income, gifts and reimbursements, property interests, liabilities, and transactions, among other information.

Refusal to recuse from matters concerning his spouse’s legal interest in cases before the court.

Refusal to recuse from matters involving his spouse’s financial interest in cases before the court.

The second impeachment resolution includes the following impeachment articles against Justice Alito:

Refusal to recuse from cases in which he had a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party in cases before the court.

Failure to disclose financial income, gifts and reimbursements, property interests, liabilities, and transactions, among other information.

This afternoon, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced articles of impeachment against corrupt and unethical far-right judicial activists Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas that currently sit on the nation's highest court.

AOC is correct: these two corrupt far-right judicial activists deserve to be impeached and removed from the court for their unethical conduct on the bench.

Read the full story at Daily Kos.

[cyarsk52-20]

I'll keep saying it because it's true: the goal of the Roberts Court is to eradicate equal rights and delegitimize the courts. Expand/ change/ get rid of the corrupt judges of the supreme courts

[tomorrowusa]

If you really like the current direction of the US Supreme Court, then vote for a third-party presidential candidate who has ZERO chance of winning and therefore no chance of ever nominating a SCOTUS justice.

[mudwerks]

it’s about damn time

[nodynasty4us]

From the June 26, 2024 analysis:

On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court handed down another entry in a long series of cases that make it easier for public officials to grift off their political office. In Snyder v. United States the court determined, in a 6-3 split, that a federal anti-bribery law does not prohibit state and local officials from accepting “gratuities” from pleased parties as a reward for favored treatment. In an opinion authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the conservative supermajority distinguished between bribes you can agree to before you do someone a favor (illegal) and gifts you accept quietly after (just fine).

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And this is how Thomas and Alito have justified their own corruption! They argue that they didn’t do anything in exchange for lavish gifts. They just happened to be handed amazing gifts after ruling for billionaires over and over again. All-expenses paid vacations? Exotic getaways on a super yacht? They fell into these guys’ laps after they gave billionaires the right to buy elections, or tried to shield them from a heavier tax burden. Isn’t it funny how that works! So yes, I think Jackson is blowing off some steam that’s maybe been gathering since the exposés of their corruption first dropped. She is using her dissent as an opportunity to tell the public that we should not buy into this naive and narrow vision of corruption that the majority blesses here. It’s bad whether some mayor in Indiana is doing it, and it’s bad when Supreme Court justices do it.

[lenbryant]

Corrupt Supreme Court in their boss's shoes.

[randyite]

Supreme Court corruption

[porterdavis]

There is powerful precedent

[eyes-stiched-open]

Abortion bans brutally triple maternal deaths it’s a betrayal of their right to live.

Republicans want women dead.