Kim PeralesCalifornia lawmakers successfully approved legislation on Tuesday to limit who can carry firearms in public. It would be great news for Californians if it weren't likely to go to the SC, where given GOP SCJs' interpretation of the #2A...🚨💔 #GunReform #CorruptSC #ExpandTheCourt https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-12/california-democrats-concealed-carry-senate-bill-2-anthony-portantino-gavin-newsom-bruen-supreme-court-guns
GOP SCJs truly believe they're above the law, & possibly 'chosen by God': Justice Alito tells the WSJ that Congress has no business policing SCOTUS. "I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it... No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period." #LawlessGOP #CorruptGOP #CorruptSC #GOPSabotage https://www.wsj.com/articles/samuel-alito-the-supreme-courts-plain-spoken-defender-precedent-ethics-originalism-5e3e9a7
For SCJ Justice Thomas' 25th anniversary of his confirmation in 2016: flurry of positive PR, opinion articles... defending him & railing against a film recounting Hill's harassment appeared in news outlets -penned by a DC lawyer who'd worked in the GHW Bush WH +Websites celebrating his career +attacking his onetime accuser -popped up *of course - financed with at least $1.8M from conservative nonprofit groups steered by the judicial activist L Leo. #CorruptSC #GOPSabotage https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/07/20/leonard-leo-clarence-thomas-paoletta/
Influential activist Leonard Leo helped fund media campaign lionizing Clarence Thomas
Leo is well-known for shepherding conservative judicial nominees, but the public relations campaign shows how he has continued to exert influence in support of right-leaning justices after helping them secure lifetime appointments.
Will any Republican Senators vote for the bill? It's about ethics & the integrity of the SC. Ethics & integrity are not words generally associated with the Republican Party: Democrats Set Up Vote on Bill to Rein In Supreme Court Corruption. “Since the Court won’t act, Congress will,” Senators Dick Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse said in a statement. #CorruptSC #CorruptGOP #ExpandTheCourt https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-set-up-vote-on-bill-to-rein-in-supreme-court-corruption/
Now there's confirmation that SCJ Thomas was gifted a SUPERBOWL💍, his visions of grandeur & quest for wealth & influence have been achieved (through unabashed bribes): According to the Times, has flown on Jones’s private jet, attended training camp practices, & when the team played in Washington sat in Jones’s private suite. The article also states bluntly and matter-of-factly that Jones gave Thomas a Super Bowl ring. #CorruptSC #CorruptGOP #ExpandTheCourt https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/clarence-thomas-received-a-super-bowl-ring-from-jerry-jones
#CorruptSC: Public universities have seen visits by justices as opps. to generate donations -putting justices in the room with influential donors, incl. some whose IDUs: had interests before the SC. SCJs from both parties have lent: prestige of their positions to partisan activity, headlining speaking events with prominent politicians, or advanced their own personal interests...🚨 *GOP SCJs, esp. Thomas, were involved in more "high stakes/high$" events -peddling influence: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ethics-donors-politics-4b6dc4ae23aac75d4fccb1bcff0b7e0b
Supreme Court justices and donors mingle at campus visits. These documents show the ethical dilemmas
Records obtained by The Associated Press show that Supreme Court justices have attended publicly funded events at colleges and universities that allowed the schools to put the justices in the room with influential donors, including some whose industries have had interests before the court. The AP's investigation also finds that justices lent the prestige of their position to partisan activity and advanced personal interests such as book sales. The records show schools used the justices as inducements for donations, even while expressly saying the events were not fundraisers. Supreme Court justices provide only a limited accounting of expenses-paid travel and sometimes fail to disclose events altogether.
Merely criticizing the SC’s result is misguided & unproductive-the task is to expose the SC’s disintegration as a legit. judicial body -note its emergence as a supreme RW policymaker *operates on an ends-justify-the-means basis, shreds legal doctrine & dishonestly presents the fact. Term limits, jurisdiction stripping, court expansion & ethics reform should be on the table -we must dedicate ourselves to robust & authentic democracy. #IllegitimateSC #CorruptSC #GOPSabotage https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/04/supreme-court-illegitimate-self-government/
Good: Activists spurred by affirmative action ruling challenge legacy admissions at Harvard. Lawyers for Civil Rights, a nonprofit based in Boston, is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni.#EqualRights #IllegitimateSC #CorruptSC #CorruptGOP #GOPSabotage https://apnews.com/article/legacy-admissions-affirmative-action-colleges-4a4e1191274e91e695e0631ff5156875
Activists spurred by affirmative action ruling challenge legacy admissions at Harvard
A civil rights legal group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni. Lawyers for Civil Rights, a nonprofit based in Boston, is filing the civil rights complaint on behalf of Black and Latino community groups in New England, alleging that Harvard’s admissions system violates the Civil Rights Act. It’s the latest effort in a growing push against legacy admissions. Backlash against the practice has been building in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court’s decision ending affirmative action in college admissions.
They're coming for YOU: America’s civil rights progress is taking in a lot of water at the moment. It will continue to do so as long as anti-Blackness remains a part of this country’s DNA. The White men in charge of this country can and will come for White women, too. They’ve already begun with the fall of R v W. Hope y’all are learning to swim, bc you’re making it hard for the rest of us to come save y’all-. #EqualRights #CorruptSC #AbortionIsHC #RepublicanRacism https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/30/affirmative-action-supreme-court-white-women/
SCJ Alito joins Thomas, who's also been compromised by a wealthy donor. Years of tainted decisions have harmed Americans: "Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court." #ExpandTheCourt #CorruptSC #GOPCorruption #RepublicanLies #GOPHypocrisy https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.