Erick Fernandez

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The game is rigged.

Nine days after Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate for the Supreme Court, a CEO of a law firm with a robust practice before the high court purchased a property that Gorsuch owned with two other individuals.

Gorsuch did not disclose the identity of the purchaser. That box was left blank.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-property-sale-00093579

Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property

The Supreme Court justice did not report the identity of the purchaser, whose firm has had numerous cases before the court.

POLITICO
Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News after Dominion lawsuit disclosures

Tucker Carlson had been the most-watched prime-time host on Fox News and a powerful force within the network.

The Washington Post

Sorry, but you can't convince me that the test of a reusable rocket system is supposed to involve destroying the launch site—which was reusable on every prior generation of space flight technology—and launching debris thousands of feet away.

#SpaceX is not a serious company, it's a clown show, and it should not have a single dollar in government funding, much less billions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViAb3vYIh_8

The Damage To Stage 0 After Starship’s First Launch

YouTube
How New Yorkers’ Food Scraps Get ‘Digested’ to Provide Gas for Homes

So far, nothing from the city’s curbside composting program has been composted. But gas produced by the scraps is now consistently flowing into pipelines to serve homes.

The New York Times

Over the last two decades, Clarence Thomas has reported on required financial disclosure forms that his family received rental income totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a firm called Ginger, Ltd., Partnership.

But that company — a Nebraska real estate firm launched in the 1980s by his wife and her relatives — has not existed since 2006.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/16/clarence-thomas-ginger-financial-disclosure/

Clarence Thomas has for years claimed income from a defunct real estate firm

The misstatements are part of a pattern that has raised questions about how the justice views his obligation to report details about his finances to the public.

The Washington Post
Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus
Harlan Crow Bought Property from Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.

The transaction is the first known instance of money flowing from Crow to the Supreme Court justice. The sale netted the GOP megadonor two vacant lots and the house where Thomas’ mother was living.

ProPublica
The Nashville Metropolitan Council on Monday voted to reappoint Justin Jones to the Tennessee House of Representatives, sending the ousted lawmaker back to occupy the House District 52 seat as an interim representative.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/10/us/tennessee-democrat-house-representatives-expelled-monday
Lol
"After a Republican lawmaker was accused of sexually assaulting 15- and 16-year-old girls he had taught and coached, he was made chairman of the House education committee." https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/08/tennessee-descent-statehouse-mag-00091090
No One Should Be That Shocked by What’s Happening in Tennessee

I covered the statehouse for years. It’s been heading in this direction for a while.

POLITICO
A majority of members of the Nashville Metropolitan Council will vote to reinstate Justin Jones to the Tennessee state Legislature after he was expelled from the House of Representatives on Thursday over his protests on the chamber floor against gun violence. #TennesseeThree
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/majority-nashville-council-members-say-will-vote-reinstate-expelled-le-rcna78706
Majority of Nashville council members say they will vote to reinstate expelled legislator

A majority of Nashville council members will vote to reinstate Rep. Justin Jones to the Tennessee legislature after he was expelled for protesting gun violence.

NBC News