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Elon Musk just announced that he has accepted the outcome of his online poll and decided to reinstate Donald Trump’s Twitter account.
Participating on the birdsite is now wholly the equivalent of participating on truth dot social.
Twitter is circling the bowl, just waiting for the big orange turd.

@waldoj It seems like a good reason for Senators Schumer and Durbin to bring the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal and Transparency Act (S. 4188, HR 7647) to the floor.

It would make judicial recusal, travel, gift and amicus filing rules more exacting; require real adjudication of recusal motions; and require a Supreme Court ethics code.

The real story on Hobby Lobby is the Christian Right Lobbying SCOTUS, as @[email protected] observed.
Campaign finance loopholes of influence peddling through donations to the Supreme Court Historical Society & other improper contacts.
From NY Times Jodi Kantor & Jo Becker:
OK, that's at least 2 sitting U.S. House members who have launched a Mastodon account. Who's next?
Sam Alito is fundamentally illegitimate as a U.S. judge. He eschews American rule of law, instead pursuing his personal ends (the enshrinement of Catholic principles (as he understands them)) through means inconsistent with law and legal values. I’m not talking about wooden formalism, I’m talking about a commitment to secular legal practices that exist to ensure the kind of judicial impartiality necessary to a pluralist democracy.

If all the GOP Members of Congress who were on the pardon list are under investigation (with Perry and Jordan, Biggs, Gosar, Gaetz, Marge), that gets you to 6 of a likely 7 seat majority.

Then there are two freshmen MoCs who were at Jan6, Van Orden and Santos.

The MoC exposure BY ITSELF justifies a Special Counsel.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/15/derrick-van-orden-jan-6-congress/

They rallied in D.C. on Jan. 6. Now they’ll join Congress.

Derrick Van Orden attended the Jan. 6 « Save America » rally and marched to the Capitol, though he says he never entered. Now he's headed to Congress.

The Washington Post
And that would make Jack Smith's experience prosecuting Congressman Rick Renzi directly on point.