@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/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #14thAmendment #AbortionRights #ContraceptionRights #Contraception #Freedom #DueProcessClause #EqualProtectionClause #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Overthrow #CleanSCOTUS #JudicialInsurrection #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateOpusDei #DarkMoney #Bribery #MoneyLaundering

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 The judgeship of Aileen Cannon being a compromised product of Leonard Leo should say it all about Cannon's highly questionable judicial independence.
She should be recused in that case.

"It wasn’t just that Trump had appointed Cannon, who has since made rulings which would appear to help his defense. It was that Cannon was from an emerging rightwing cadre of the judiciary – a cabal of conservative judges created by Leonard Leo, the ultimate Republican kingmaker and a close Trump ally.

Those links between Cannon and a network of figures and groups on the right and far-right of US politics are coming under increasing scrutiny as the Trump case moves forwards but also because they show the very real impact of Leo and his actions on the US judiciary."

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/11/leonard-leo-aileen-cannon-trump-conservative-judges
#RuleOfLaw #CleanTheCourts #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #LeosAgentsOnTheBench #JudicialInsurrection #ObstructionOfJustice #Corruption #Bribery #PoliticalBias #JudicialIndependence

The kingmaking Trump ally behind a cadre of rightwing judges

Aileen Cannon, the judge assigned to the documents case, is under increasing scrutiny – reflecting Leonard Leo’s impact on the US judiciary

The Guardian

@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.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #CleanSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #ExpandSCOTUS #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #DarkMoney #Corruption #Bribery #JudicialInsurrection #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState

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

@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.

#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateOpusDei #InvestigateTheSix #WomensRights #HumanRights #CivilRights #JudicialInsurrection

@skydog @marcelias It's utterly corrupt intent with a fat touch of totalitarianism jumping into everyone's face.

A clear sign of broken Separation of Powers. It needs to be fixed!

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #SeparationOfPowers #JudicialInsurrection #CompromisedCourts #SubversiveConservatives #Impeachment

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

@dschmidthawk 👏👏👏 Every single American needs to know, what Federalist-Society's & Catholic Opus Dei's Leonard Leo is inflicting on United States' system of justice & the Rule of Law, placing his subversive FedSoc agents Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh & Coney Barrett on SCOTUS bench, while being longtime friends with America's most corrupt & ethics-resistant SCOTUS justice & husband of Jan 6 insurrection supporter Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, Clarence Thomas.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendAmerica #DefendTheConstitution #DefendAmerica #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #CleanSCOTUS #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateTheSix #LeosAgents #JudicialInsurrection

@marcelias Organizations, which can't win in free & fair elections take to criminal acts like voter suppression & election subversion.
If they're serially committing such fraudulent acts, they should be banned from the ballots on ground of conspiracy against rights.
State legislatures codifying injustice are providing hostile public disservice to the people, justice, the United States & their Constitution.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #VotingRights #HumanRights #CleanSCOTUS #InvestigateLeonardLeo #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #Insurrection #Overthrow #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateTheSix #JudicialInsurrection #ElectionSubversion #Corruption #Bribery

What do Clarence Thomas & Donald Trump have in common?

Not only the sympathy of insurrection supporter Ginni Thomas, but above that
they share the very same sociopathic disregard for right & wrong.

"…
A former fundraising staffer for the Koch network said the organization’s relationship with Thomas was considered a valuable asset: “Offering a high-level donor the experience of meeting with someone like that [i.e. an ideological relative on SCOTUS]— that’s huge.”
…"

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a45264016/clarence-thomas-koch-network-donors/
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #Bias #Corruption #Bribery #ObstructionOfJustice #ImpeachClarenceThomas #SCOTUSsMostCorrupt #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #CatholicKnightOfMaltaLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #JudicialInsurrection #JudicialIndependence #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState #ExpandSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG

Of Course Clarence Thomas Was Getting Cozy With Koch Donors

And there's a case coming up where that coziness could be quite relevant.

Esquire