@realTuckFrumper Mike Johnson no longer has his Confederacy (has been defeated), but is still on his own crusade against the Fourteenth (Reconstruction) Amendment, which Louisiana & the other ex-Confederate states had to ratify to regain representation in Congress.
SCOTUS's 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (use of contraceptives) was based on the Fourteenth Amendment.

P.S.: Leonard Leo's protégé Johnson is either intellectually unable or unwilling to tell contraception from abortion.

https://www.concordlawschool.edu/blog/constitutional-law/contraception-and-the-14th-amendment/
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Contraception, the Right to Privacy, and the 14th Amendment

No discussion of the 14th amendment would be complete without discussing Griswold v. Connecticut, which challenged a law prohibiting the use of contraceptives.

Concord Law School

@trainman Citizens United is certainly not only proof of utterly fucked-up judicial independence, but also a compromised Separation of State & Corporations' power.

Every justice, who approved Citizens United & still overpopulates the Supreme Court, that is John Roberts, Samuel Alito & Clarence Thomas, deserves to be thoroughly investigated, prosecuted & tried, to be brought to justice.

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Senate Democrats Plan To Subpoena GOP Megadonors—Including Harlan Crow—Over Reported Gifts To Supreme Court Justices

Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee say they intend to understand the full extent of “people with interests before the Court” gaining access to the judges in return for undisclosed gifts.

Forbes

@marcelias American Bar Association: Founded in 1878.

Federalist Society: Founded in 1982.

Federalist Society's ex-(vice) president Leonard Leo put 5 of 6 biased con-servative/illiberal majority justices on the bench.
Time to regulate & contain the partisan influence of Leonard Leo & the Federalist Society, for the sake of Americans' democracy, human & civil rights.

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Kagan has a message for Roberts about what’s really the legitimacy problem for the Court

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan gave a veiled, but sharp, rebuke to Chief Justice John Roberts, seemingly answering Roberts’ assertion that the Supreme Court is perfectly legitimate and the problem is all the people who disagree with their decisions...

Daily Kos

Supreme Court justices are humans, not saints or a club of messiahs.

They deserve to be treated accordingly - because no one is above the law, and equal justice mustn't be a hollow phrase.

Keep demanding an ethics code for SCOTUS in public discourse! Keep up the pressure!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/10/16/amy-coney-barrett-reportedly-signals-support-for-supreme-court-ethics-code-a-good-idea/
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Amy Coney Barrett Reportedly Signals Support For Supreme Court Ethics Code: ‘A Good Idea’

She also said "there is no lack of consensus among the justices” when it comes to a potential code of conduct.

Forbes

@BrennanCenter Leonard Leo & his Federalist Society have turned the Supreme Court into an anti-liberal, corrupt & subversive court, tp the disadvantage of the thought of
"We the People", perverting "certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

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@Catawu Time the "third-most important man in America" (quote Clarence Thomas), a private, Federalist-Society leading & directing individual is vastly getting talked about & officially investigated for subverting U.S. judiciary, juggling $billions of dark money from reactionary donors, interest groups & clerical agents eager to turn back time & people's liberties.

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@opethminded My preference would be ABA, to kind of preserve the separation of powers.
And creating an oversight institution to oversee the oversight office would create an endless bureaucratic monster.

Independently choose the appropriate independent overseers & Thomas-like excessive corruption should soon be history — after bringing corrupt justices to justice.😉

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@opethminded 😎 To be instituted #SCOTUS_OIG #SCOTUSInspectorGeneral, following the long-established example of other government agencies/ departments / authorities.
We'll certainly agree, that an ethics-monitoring & -enforcing authority is needed to put an end to potentially corrupt activities like those reported on concerning Thomas, Roberts, Alito et al.

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