WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 30, 2025

A quotation from Gordon Hewart

Nothing is to be done which creates even a suspicion that there has been an improper interference with the course of justice.

Gordon Hewart (1870-1943) British politician and jurist; Lord Chief Justice of England (1922-1940)
Rex v Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy, [1924] 1 KB 256, [1923] EWHC KB 1, [1924] KB 256 (1923-11-09) [unanimous decision]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 19, 2025

A quotation from Gordon Hewart

It is not merely of some importance but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.

Gordon Hewart (1870-1943) British politician and jurist; Lord Chief Justice of England (1922-1940)
Rex v Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy, [1924] 1 KB 256, [1923] EWHC KB 1, [1924] KB 256 (1923-11-09) [unanimous decision]

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2flowerOct 21, 2024

Word of the day is "ethics." -- used to be something we expected leaders to at least *say* they valued.

See also, impropriety (appearance of) -- something to be avoided in public life.

Also 'illegal lottery' ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg78ljxn8g7o

Would someone please take this pr!€( in front of a grand jury and seek an indictment? Whether election fraud or illegal lottery, there's a prima facie case here, surely. Enough is enough.

#musk #electionfraud #impropriety #ethics #equalitybeforethelaw

Elon Musk pledges to give away $1m per day to Pennsylvania voters

The winner will be chosen from those who sign a petition by the tech billionaire's Trump-supporting campaign group.

BBC News
sharkspezJun 28, 2024

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💍 Marrying Ivana Zelníčková in 1977 🇨🇿, Trump seemed to have it all. But his 🌎 world would soon come 📉 crashing down when a scandalous affair came to 🔦 light.

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Show threadChuck DarwinMar 22, 2024

Trump Media & Technology Group and its merger partner, Digital World Acquisition,
have both been rocked by legal warfare.

Their leaders, past and present, have traded heated accusations of #deception and #impropriety across
💥four lawsuits in three states. 💥

After Trump was booted from Twitter following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection,
👉three men played pivotal roles in building and promoting Trump Media as an online challenger against the “cancel culture” of Big Tech:

🔸#Andy #Litinsky and 🔸#Wes #Moss, former “Apprentice” contestants who co-founded and launched Truth Social;
and 🔸#Patrick #Orlando, who as chief executive of Digital World, a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, offered Trump’s company a path to investor cash.

🔥But all three are now leading a rebellion of their own, confronting and potentially imperiling a trophy of Trump’s post-presidential ambitions.

Their lawsuits call into question how Trump Media’s shares will be distributed, and a legal victory could chip away at Trump’s equity during a time when he is facing a cash crunch.

And the cases threaten to erode Trump’s grasp on a stake in the post-merger company potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars
— a possible financial lifeline, given that he owes more than $500 million in legal fines.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/21/truth-social-trump-merger-lawsuits/

#Devin #Nunes #Trump #Jr #Robert #Lighthizer #Linda #McMahon #DJT

Trump Media, launched after an insurrection, faces rebellion of its own

Three men with pivotal roles in founding Donald Trump’s firm and its proposed merger partner, Digital World Acquisition, are in court battles with the companies.

The Washington Post
Adam JonesAug 10, 2023
“Like clockwork, Thomas’ leisure activities have been underwritten by benefactors who share the ideology that drives his jurisprudence.”
#supremecourt #thomas #ethics #impropriety
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court
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
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈May 9, 2023

Why #LaurenBoebert & her #ilk are so #obsessed wtih #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQ

Her words are #emblematic of how #Republicans have decided that calling #LGBTQ+ people “#groomers” and “#pedophiles” should #deflect attention from the #sexual #impropriety committed by people they like.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #RepublicanParty #Colorado #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/why-lauren-boebert-her-ilk-are-so-obsessed-wtih-lgbtq-people/

Why Lauren Boebert & her ilk are so obsessed wtih LGBTQ+ people - LGBTQ Nation

Boebert brought up trans women to deflect attention from Tucker Carlson's misdeeds.

LGBTQ Nation
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Apr 19, 2023

Second #request for #anonymity in #UW #sorority #lawsuit #rejected

"#Plaintiffs have chosen to level #accusations of #impropriety against #Defendants,” the judge concluded. “They must now shoulder the burden of those accusations and walk in the public eye. Balancing the #publicinterest against Plaintiffs’ showings of personal physical harm, I arrive where I landed last week: this is not one of those few exceptional cases involving a real #danger of #physicalharm.”

https://www.thesheridanpress.com/news/regional-news/second-request-for-anonymity-in-uw-sorority-lawsuit-rejected/article_9e1ecb2c-de0a-11ed-a1fd-57e0b6dae5ee.html

Second request for anonymity in UW sorority lawsuit rejected

Seven sorority members at the University of Wyoming seeking legal recourse for the acceptance of the first transgender woman into Kappa Kappa Gamma have until Thursday to identify themselves.

The Sheridan Press
Leftist LawyerApr 6, 2023

What troubles me even more than the #impropriety of the #influence peddling #Justice #Thomas accepts, is that the rest of the justices have never, ever, to my knowledge made a stink about it. Zip. Zero. Nada.

This impresses me as a #systemic problem. A #cabal of #elite enthusiastically turning their heads to the improprieties of their fellows, to preserve the #privilege they are all benefitting from.

If the one is implicated, all must be implicated, if we are to see any chance at #reform. Because, as concerns the #SupremeCourt, change can only come from the top.

So, please. Don’t look down your nose at Clarence Thomas, while ignoring the fact that the other justices are not only enabling his behavior, but most likely partaking in it to varying degrees as well.

Be loud. Hold them all to account.
#FightBack
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.

ProPublica
PrinceOfDenmarkApr 6, 2023
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow Wow. These all seem like such nice undeclared #gifts. I’m sure it was all harmless and that over the past 20 years it influenced no decisions whatsoever and that any appearance of #impropriety is purely in the eye of the beholder, right?
#SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #ProPublica
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.

ProPublica