"Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas changed his position on one of America’s most significant regulatory doctrines after his wife reportedly accepted secret payments from a shadowy conservative network pushing for the change."
Yup. Thomas's rulings are nowhere near as consistent as his defenders claim. E.g., his arbitration rulings bear no resemblance to his stated jurisprudence.
https://www.levernews.com/clarence-thomas-reversed-position-after-gifts-and-family-payments/
Unsurprisingly money from currying billionaire altered the opinions and decisions by the bribed corrupt Justice.
As far as I can tell, all the GOP-nominated SCOTUS justices have lied to the Senate during confirmation hearings since Justice O'Connor.
Sleaze bags.
@maxkennerly I think we are now about a week or so off finding out that Clarence Thomas accepted a comically large sack with a dollar sign on it while announcing on camera that this is a big bag of bribe money that he has accepted in exchange for favorable rulings. It will change nothing.
Abolish the illegitimate mockery of justice that is the Supreme Court.
When #KochNetwork buys a Supreme Court, they are buying fealty to the Koch agenda.
1. No public education
2. No middle class & no social mobility for the poor
3. Frying the planet
4. No oversight or regulations
5. Court Capture
6. The US broken into weak balkanized states & weak federal government
7. White supremacy
8. Evangelical Christianity imposed on others by the federal government
9. Civil rights erosions
10. Tax cuts for the rich
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/23/koch-brothers-agenda-key-donations-promotions
America won the last Civil War, they'll win this one too.
Republican billionaire donors are dancing with foreign dictators to end American democracy.
That doesn't end well.
#KochNetwork thwarts progress in America.
GOP billionaire donors are buying an America with an illiterate peasantry, non-existent middle class, & permanent kleptocratic rule.
It's why the GOP fights health care reform. Medical debt erases intergenerational wealth.
A figurehead like Trump can rubber stamp their entire agenda in one fell swoop.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/02/opinion/woodhouse-koch-brothers/index.html
Damn Kochs had their Google scrubbing, so the truth of their agenda has been lost. Don't understand why Bernie Sanders removed the entire list of the Koch plot against Americans (as outlined in David Koch's goals when he ran for VP) but it needs to shared and embedded in every Democrats' mind because it is being implemented throughout this country. They want an endentured servants class and a free for all for wealthy business owners to rule America. The terrifying future is here.
I check as well!
They use them, until they find out who owns these brands.
I make a studied effort to reduce or eliminate spending with any Republican billionaire donors company as much as possible.
Home Depot. Hobby Lobby. Gas & Oil. Paper products. AT&T.
Haven't watched a CNN show since July 2022. The only attack I've ever seen by CNN on Republican billionaire donors grip on Texas politics.
Oil billionaires Tim Dunn, Dan Wilks, Farris Wilks belong to fundamentalist Christian sects that hate women with a public life, hate POC, and hate democracy.
https://wbd.com/cnn-special-report-deep-in-the-pockets-of-texas/
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This was the agenda for David Koch when he ran for public office.
Republican billionaires have been funding this agenda since the 1980's
@Npars01 Senator Kennedy flew to Oklahoma and the next day Harold Hamm announced his mega-money is going to Nikki Haley. Coincidence?
The fossil fuel energy sector appears poised to back Haley.
Haley is being prepped to be vice president to Glenn Youngkin.
Peterffy has switched his funding from DeSantis to Glenn Youngkin.
Republican billionaire donors want milquetoast fascist not scary fascist.
Youngkin has a track record successfully conning Asian & Hispanic voters about the "dangers" of public education, a favorite target of #KochNetwork.
The GOP hate women, they will never have a woman as the nominee. Women are props to a male lead character in their worldview.
Youngkin's coy denials & WSJ coverage...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/glenn-youngkin-isnt-running-but-he-could-change-his-mind-virginia-2024-moderate-culture-df42e186
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/21/ex-desantis-donor-cuts-big-check-for-youngkin-00093296
Youngkin knows the base, white supremacists who fear a multiracial pluralistic democracy where women & POC are equal citizens under the law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/04/29/martin-brown-resignation-calls-dei-virginia/
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/01/glenn-youngkin-running-president-00094806
Nikki Haley has skeletons in her closet that remain uninvestigated. She also hates women, especially PoC women.
She resigned her board seat at Boeing the same day as Kelly Loeffler was found to be using national security briefings for insider trading.
Nikki Haley acted as a patron to a politically corrupt Senator.
https://www.outsports.com/2020/7/9/21318558/nikki-haley-kelly-loeffler-tweet-wnba-players
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/07/republican-nikki-haley-raphael-warnock-deported
It depends on the budgets of cash strapped news organizations.
I'd reconmend putting donations towards any independent journalistic effort willing to do a deep dive on the candidates being auditioned for an alternative to Trump.
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