Menendez indictment looks bad, but there are defenses he can make

The indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez is full of lurid details – hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash stuffed into clothes among them. Will they tank Sen. Menendez’ career?

The Conversation
Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel

The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.

ProPublica

No wonder Clarence once ("jokingly") called Leonard "Richelieu" Leo the *third-most important man in the U.S.*.
The man most harmful to the American judiciary & Americans' human & civil rights.

"From those early discussions among Leo, Thomas and Crow would spring a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the judiciary and overturn longstanding legal precedents on abortion, affirmative action and many other issues. It funded legal scholars to devise theories to challenge liberal precedents, helped to elect state attorneys general willing to apply those theories and launched lavish campaigns for conservative judicial nominees who would cite those theories in their rulings from the bench."

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082?fbclid=IwAR0EX1zwNqF_CJwQ-HqIrV1yxRxw3aSzgHg4155BNxpoIeQMV97X9a5BJKw

#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #GinniThomas #ClarenceThomas #LeonardLeo #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateGinniThomas #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #TaxEvasion #OrganizedCrime #RICO #InvestigateTheSix #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS #JudicialIndependence #JudicialInsurrection

What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement

Thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, a trove of so-called "dark money" was about to be unleashed. Two activists prepared to seize the moment.

POLITICO

A dark web of dark-money jugglers, benefitting from the Citizens United ruling they had their sticky fingers in to legalize their covert shady financial & manipulative operations.

[Ginni] "Thomas, wife of a sitting justice, in concert with [Leonard] Leo, was secretly building the sort of dark-money front group that would soon be greenlit by the court’s decision. That group would be funded by Harlan Crow, the billionaire who spent decades secretly enriching the same justice who would sit on the case and the same spouse who would benefit from the outcome of the case. And the dark-money group founded by Ginni Thomas would go on to advocate for cases argued before the court as her husband heard those cases."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/ginni-thomas-ethics-supreme-court-hats.html
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #GinniThomas #ClarenceThomas #LeonardLeo #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateGinniThomas #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #TaxEvasion #OrganizedCrime #RICO #InvestigateTheSix #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS #JudicialIndependence #JudicialInsurrection

Ginni Thomas Has Already Perfectly Explained How the Supreme Court Can Be Like This

It’s a case of too many hats.

Slate

@Mary625 @Pomegracias @tdwllms1 @curtisysmith No one can blame Joe for Clarence Thomas's corrupt assholism.
And no one can blame Joe for seeking fairness & multipartisanship.
Just as no one can blame Joe for Ginni Thomas's support for overturning the 2020 election.

#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #InvestigateClarenceThomas #AmericaWon #PresidentBiden

@Pomegracias @tdwllms1 @curtisysmith @Mary625 Joe Biden didn't produce Clarence Thomas's corrupt & rotten character.

That's a product of Clarence Thomas himself & his billionaire Santa Clarence bribers.

#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #CodeOfConduct #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #

Clarence Thomas: Top House Democrats Call For DOJ Investigation Over Gifts

A group of five top Democrats accused Thomas of violating the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, noting violations of the act “can carry both civil and criminal legal penalties.”

Forbes

As desirable as it may be, to have insurrection inciter & national security threat Trump already disqualified under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment from running for & holding any public office in the United States:
Section 3 is NOT "self-executing" disqualifications, as Federalist-Society members Baude & Paulsen for whatever reasons misleadingly argue in their paper.
In fact Section 5 of the 14th Amendment establishes:
"The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

What would legally implement the disqualification of the conspirators of the Jan 6 insurrection is the application of 18 U.S.C. §2383, the codified spinoff of the 14th Amendment's Section 3 by federal prosecutors.

https://www.alternet.org/conservative-legal-scholars-argue-trump-is-disqualified-for-office-under-14th-amendment/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #Jan6 #Insurrection #Overthrow #14thAmendmentSection3 #18USCSection2383 #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels #NationalSecurityThreat #IncitementToInsurrection #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateClarenceThomas

Conservative legal scholars argue Trump is disqualified for office under 14th Amendment

A pair of conservative legal scholars argue in a newly released paper that, under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, former President Donald Trump is disqualified to hold office again, echoing a case long made by progressive experts and watchdogs. In an in-depth analysis of Section 3, William Baude ...

Alternet.org

@LisaToddSutton That opinion coming from two Federalist Society members is indeed a bit of a surprise.

Their article's conclusion:
“Donald Trump cannot be president — cannot run for president, cannot become president, cannot hold office — unless two-thirds of Congress decides to grant him amnesty for his conduct on Jan. 6.”

Then put it into practice, folks!

#RuleOfLaw #Trump #Jan6 #Insurrection #Rebellion #14thAmendmentSection3 #18USCSection2383 #CleanSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUSInspectorGeneral #ExpandSCOTUS #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety

Ginni and Clarence Thomas's Plausible Deniability on Jan. 6 Denies Plausibility

The plotters were counting on Clarence to give legal cover to the coup that his wife just happened to be agitating for?

Esquire