Max KennerlyMay 10, 2023

"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/

Clarence Thomas Reversed Position After Gifts And Family Payments

The Supreme Court justice switched sides on a landmark legal doctrine, satisfying his benefactors’ conservative advocacy machine.

The Lever
Show threadNicole ParsonsMay 10, 2023

@maxkennerly

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

Five key ways the Koch brothers pushed their rightwing agenda

Charles and David Koch spent millions to promote conservative candidates and causes, provoking anger – and devotion

The Guardian
Show threadThreadbane
@Npars01 @maxkennerly
Agree on it all, but would add that even the upper class has been overwhelmed by the nouveau riche. When I took sociology in college there were three divisions of the standard lower/middle/upper class trichotomy, each divided into lower/middle/upper, such that there were upper, middle and lower class lower class, for example, an upper lower class would be a poor professor and a lower upper class would be Ivanka. Almost no upper/upper left - or even upper middle.
May 14, 2023 at 4:56pmWeb