Iohannes99Supreme Court Ethics Bill Passes Committee over 100% Republican Opposition
It’s too bad we can’t dig up any dirt on the liberal justices so that this could be a bi-partisan bill. Either the liberal justices are excellent at hiding their corruption or it’s just the conservative judges who are taking these bribes. My money is on the latter.
The GOP tried to “both sides” by pointing out the liberal justices took small, nomial fees and hotel stays when giving speeches to law students at colleges. Somehow it didnt line up to “a taking expensive vacation’s with a billionaire donor in your party on their private jets when they have cases before the court (alito)” or “taking expensives vacations with a gop billionaree that also bought your moms home and has let her live in it rent free for decades (thomas)” or " your wife making millions from “consulting” at GOP think tanks (thomas/roberts)."
So they shifted to “whatever. Its cool when our guys do it.”
Comparisons need not be fair. They just need to get it out there and it works. I don’t know how many times I’ve been discussion politics IRL when someone says, “Yeah, but the liberals do it to! Look at this!”
My favorite:
“Are you seriously conflating protests over racial discrimination with a takeover of our nation’s Capital in an attempt to overthrow the government?!”
“They’re the same.”
“Our side may have tried to violently overturn a fair election and install a fascist dictator in an insurrection that killed five people, but your side holds protests against racially-motivated police violence and some of those protests led to property damage, and that’s where I draw the line!”
SoleInvictusDamn, you got that one right in the bullseye.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Scalia died of a heart attack banging a hooker on that billionaire’s ranch.
The most serious thing I heard of was Sotomayor’s staff intimating to universities bringing the Justice in to speak hadn’t purchased enough copies of her book.
Can’t wait for the calls of “But her books!”
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books
For colleges and libraries seeking a big name for a guest lecturer, few come bigger than Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice who rose from poverty in the Bronx to the nation’s highest court. But emails show officials frequently found that an appearance by Sotomayor came with an additional benefit — namely the purchase of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of copies of her books. Sotomayor’s staff has repeatedly prodded public institutions to buy her memoir or children’s literature. Details about such events were obtained by The Associated Press through open records requests to public institutions. The documents handed over offer a rare look at the behavior of Sotomayor and fellow justices beyond their official duties.
“It’s too bad” everyone is not corrupt?
Also, the Republicans spent decades buying this court, and nothing - not even what you suggest - would make them put any constraints on it.
i feel like their comment was largely tongue-in-cheek