gehringer_2 Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 10 minutes ago, pfife said: It was real bad, I was listening to that on cspan. The details of the case make it so much worse. Recommend latest episode of Amicus podcast for more discussion on it. You can only hope that someone like Kagan give him an earful in Chambers afterward. It's seem pretty clear there hasn't been much comity on this court for a while so I wouldn't doubt it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 15 minutes ago, pfife said: It was real bad, I was listening to that on cspan. The details of the case make it so much worse. Recommend latest episode of Amicus podcast for more discussion on it. Quoting from one of the comments in the thread.. "But it's ok if we get stalked, but not ok if we protest at Mortons when Brett is eating" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 If people don’t recognize the out and out war against women, they’re being purposefully obtuse. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 Thomas has GOT to go https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-megadonor-harlan-crow-clarence-thomas-business-supreme-court_n_64483712e4b03c1b88c9cdbe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edman85 Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 5 hours ago, gehringer_2 said: You can only hope that someone like Kagan give him an earful in Chambers afterward. It's seem pretty clear there hasn't been much comity on this court for a while so I wouldn't doubt it. If it came from anybody, my guess is Sonya. She definitely is the firebrand of the three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 2 minutes ago, Edman85 said: If it came from anybody, my guess is Sonya. She definitely is the firebrand of the three. (She went to the same h.s. In the Bronx that I did before my move to NJ - Cardinal Spellman. Of course, it would have been after I was there, because I’m older than dirt.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfife Posted April 26, 2023 Author Share Posted April 26, 2023 Sadly none of them stood up to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ronz Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 1 hour ago, smr-nj said: ....because I’m older than dirt. I knew it! 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 On 4/25/2023 at 9:53 PM, pfife said: Sadly none of them stood up to it. Which I think demonstrates the sheer power of being outnumbered. I don't believe that goes unchallenged on a 5-4 court, in either direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Cat Gentleman Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 pretends to be shocked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 More stuff coming out. Crow paid private school tuition for a grand nephew that Thomas was raising. No disclosures. Even worse.... someone else did provide a gift worth $5000 for that person and Thomas DID disclose it. So he knew the rules enough to disclose that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 29 minutes ago, oblong said: More stuff coming out. Crow paid private school tuition for a grand nephew that Thomas was raising. No disclosures. Even worse.... someone else did provide a gift worth $5000 for that person and Thomas DID disclose it. So he knew the rules enough to disclose that one. The entire affair stinks. Thomas has to resign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 Unfortunately he won't. The lines are drawn and he's got his typical defenders in the Senate. We're stuck with him. Resignation is weakness to them. This is the new world we live in. Gary Hart and Ted Kennedy could have been President under these rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalpigsmuggler Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 People are so worried about SCOTUS, when they should be more worries about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 (edited) 51 minutes ago, digitalpigsmuggler said: People are so worried about SCOTUS, when they should be more worries about this. Translation: "Corruption from my side is inconvenient to my arguments, so here's some unrelated stuff I'd rather you talk about instead" Rinse, repeat Edited May 4, 2023 by mtutiger 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerbomb13 Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 That’s definitely some type of whataboutism lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 1 hour ago, mtutiger said: Translation: "Corruption from my side is inconvenient to my arguments, so here's some unrelated stuff I'd rather you talk about instead" Rinse, repeat Bonus points when it’s a black guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 4 hours ago, oblong said: More stuff coming out. Crow paid private school tuition for a grand nephew that Thomas was raising. No disclosures. Even worse.... someone else did provide a gift worth $5000 for that person and Thomas DID disclose it. So he knew the rules enough to disclose that one. Inconvenient to send him to a public school. They had to send him to a JR Military Academy. In my day that's where rich(er) boys went when they were considered too incorrigible to remain in public school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalpigsmuggler Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 Justice Sotomayor Amends Financial Disclosure to Include SIX Trips She Had Previously Omitted , via public records request, we discovered that Sotomayor’s trip to Rhode Island to give the URI commencement address included a free flight and hotel, which under federal law must be reported in an annual disclosure report. It wasn’t. Today we learned that her 2016 trips to universities in Illinois, New Jersey, Alaska, Wisconsin and Minnesota were also omitted. https://fixthecourt.com/2022/06/justice-sotomayor-amends-financial-disclosure-include-six-free-trips-previously-omitted/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalpigsmuggler Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 Sonia Sotomayor failed to recuse herself from cases involving her largest (by far) benefactor Quote Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to recuse herself from multiple copyright infringement cases involving book publisher Penguin Random House despite having been paid millions by the firm for her books, making it by far her largest source of income, records show. Quote So how much money are we talking? Well, right around $3.6 million, an amount which “dwarfed” her salary as a justice on the highest court. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/sonia_sotomayor_failed_to_recuse_herself_from_cases_involving_her_largest_by_far_benefactor.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 11 minutes ago, digitalpigsmuggler said: Justice Sotomayor Amends Financial Disclosure to Include SIX Trips She Had Previously Omitted , via public records request, we discovered that Sotomayor’s trip to Rhode Island to give the URI commencement address included a free flight and hotel, which under federal law must be reported in an annual disclosure report. It wasn’t. Today we learned that her 2016 trips to universities in Illinois, New Jersey, Alaska, Wisconsin and Minnesota were also omitted. https://fixthecourt.com/2022/06/justice-sotomayor-amends-financial-disclosure-include-six-free-trips-previously-omitted/ 3 minutes ago, digitalpigsmuggler said: Sonia Sotomayor failed to recuse herself from cases involving her largest (by far) benefactor https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/sonia_sotomayor_failed_to_recuse_herself_from_cases_involving_her_largest_by_far_benefactor.html Translation: "Swampy behavior is good when my guy does it, bad when the other guys do it. Whaddabout Sotomayor?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 When a couple makes somewhere in the neighborhood of $800K a year I find it curious to understand why they need "help" from a billionaire friend. Where there's smoke there must be fire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 I'm pretty sure the right wingers on the Court couldn't give less of a ****. Clarence Thomas will get away with it and that will give permission to every other Justice to engage in it if they so choose. Sure, it will destroy whatever is left of the public's confidence in the Court, but outside of the D-appointed justices and CJ Roberts, who cares? They have a mission, they are accomplishing it, they're getting paid, and that's all that matters, isn't it? Legacies are for suckers to worry about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 52 minutes ago, chasfh said: I'm pretty sure the right wingers on the Court couldn't give less of a ****. Clarence Thomas will get away with it and that will give permission to every other Justice to engage in it if they so choose. Sure, it will destroy whatever is left of the public's confidence in the Court, but outside of the D-appointed justices and CJ Roberts, who cares? They have a mission, they are accomplishing it, they're getting paid, and that's all that matters, isn't it? Legacies are for suckers to worry about. I was never under any illusions that Roberts was a conservative, but I did think that he did have some concern for the legitimacy and integrity of the court as an institution, but as this all emerges it sadly evident that he has been MIA as an honest adminstrator of this court and at this point has retreated to full scale CYA. I suppose that constitutionally he may not have any explicit power over other justices, but if had been at all interested he could have done a lot to institutionalize a higher ethics standard - esp in the early years when the court was more balanced. Disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 18 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: I was never under any illusions that Roberts was a conservative, but I did think that he did have some concern for the legitimacy and integrity of the court as an institution, but as this all emerges it sadly evident that he has been MIA as an honest adminstrator of this court and at this point has retreated to full scale CYA. I suppose that constitutionally he may not have any explicit power over other justices, but if had been at all interested he could have done a lot to institutionalize a higher ethics standard - esp in the early years when the court was more balanced. Disappointing. I was giving him the benefit of the doubt, but you’re probably spot on about Roberts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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