Just got one of those spammy e-mails you often get in #academia, this time about "quiet leadership" (i.e. for introverts). Given I am not willing to pay for it, and can find enough resources on topic on my own (probably better), I will quietly mark it as spam and move along.

#HigherEd #junkets

' The staggering number of junkets indicate that ... right-wing legal interests funded by the mega-wealthy are routinely feting lower-court judges and treating them to all-expenses-paid trips to far-flung locales. As with [similar] gifts to Supreme Court justices, the trips effectively function as a reward system for judges who espouse and maintain hardline conservative legal views. '

#FederalCourts #RightWingJudges #junkets #PaidVacations #FederalistSociety

https://www.levernews.com/billionaires-are-bankrolling-judges-luxury-travel/

Does #DueProcess matter? By Sherrilyn Ifill and Stephen Vladeck. Yes, so pay attention locally. Justin #Jones and #Pearson went into the #Tennessee rabbit hole without a lawyer to expose the latest #WhiteSupremacist front founded on #SuperMajority #immunity from #HumanRights #violations and shame; and constructed with #gerrymandering, #votersuppression and the #ShadowDocket- which resulted from the #InditedInsurector creating an opaque process, from how they killed in the #DarkOfNight, to not challenging mundane but consequential items like… #TheWall and justice #junkets with #megadonors.

https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus/2023/04/the-tennessee-three-and-the-republican-strategy-to-make-voting-irrelevant

In semi-amusing emails I get: advertising for some academic junket across the pond. I have no idea how I got on that mailing list LOL. Like I can afford that ha ha!

#ItinerantLibrarian #LibrarianProblems #emails #humor #junkets