SCOTUS hearing, Day 2

March 23, 2022March 22, 2022 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

https://twitter.com/GaryLegum/status/1506373056830357509

Chairman Durbin notes that there's just one living member of the Senate who has changed the size of the Supreme Court: Mitch McConnell, when he kept a seat vacant for a year in 2016.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 22, 2022

As @JohnCornyn complains about the Supreme Court's gay marriage decision being "court-made law" that went against the will of local people, just remember that's the *exact* same argument segregationists made about Brown v. Board of Education.

(Alabama Journal, 6/1/1954) pic.twitter.com/YJ6M09uLeY

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 22, 2022

“McConnell complaining about dark money is like Russian President Vladimir Putin complaining about cruise missiles” https://t.co/eEHktoCkFJ

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 22, 2022

Cruz tried to attack Judge Jackson about her sitting on the Board of Georgetown Day School &the commitment to progressive education

But she spoke beautifully about the Black-Jewish solidarity that gave rise to creating the Georgetown Day School during and in spite of segregation

— Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@AudreLawdAMercy) March 22, 2022

https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1506355204744265734

Unchained

March 15, 2022March 14, 2022 ~ susie

A court ruled Trump's NDA that he made a staffer sign is invalid. Soon, everyone who worked for him may be able to speak out without fear.

In her first interview, we interview @JessicaDenson07 about defeating Trump in court and more.

Watch at 8:30 ET: https://t.co/LRvEo5s71L pic.twitter.com/0kNiHWqE49

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) March 14, 2022

No excuses

March 8, 2022March 7, 2022 ~ susie

I don’t think it’s this simple. I think it’s more likely that they feel the pressure of nailing down a case involving a corrupt ex-president’s case tight enough that it won’t give him grounds for an appeal:

It is past time for the Department of Justice to stop worrying about the possibility they might lose a case, and about the political fallout whether they win or lose. https://t.co/hZ9rAog9dH

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 7, 2022

Woo hoo

March 8, 2022March 7, 2022 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

Just In: SCOTUS has just REJECTED the efforts of Republicans in North Carolina & in Pennsylvania to block congressional redistricting plans that were ordered by their state courts. (Needless to say, the redistricting was made more favorable by and for Democrats.)

— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) March 7, 2022

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1500959727865507848

Remarkable

March 4, 2022March 3, 2022 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

“We should not let shame obscure our vision”: a bipartisan majority continues to deny accountability to victims of the 9/11 torture regime, over a furious dissent https://t.co/JFM3cyUdsC

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) March 3, 2022

Drowning government in a bathtub

March 1, 2022February 28, 2022 ~ susie

Oh, here’s a fun one. The lawless and ethically compromised conservative majority on SCOTUS will rule that government agencies … don’t have the right to regulate. Whee!

An emboldened supermajority prepares to gut the Clean Air Act's restrictions on greenhouse gasses. https://t.co/qyfkRADwWY

— Slate (@Slate) February 28, 2022

Time to make them hurt

February 22, 2022February 21, 2022 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

Rick Wilson on Twitter:

1/ Putin’s show today — all the dog and pony, dog-whistle, golden-oldies from K-Tel’s Greatest Hits of the Soviet Era — is an invitation to the West to stand up, take action, and crush his global klept in a sweeping asymmetric tide of lawfare and financial actions.

2/ Putin and his cronies care about hard power and hard cash. Chaos and division here at home (looking at the vast right-wing media apparatus) are Putin strengths.

The same instinct that led the Russian klept to move their assets overseas…

3/ …to nations with the rule of law, economic stability, and better schools, shopping, restaurants, housing, and quality of life is also a massive strategic weakness for Putin now.

The West can and should make this hurt.

4/ I’m not kidding about seizing Russian yachts and private jets. I’m not kidding about tossing their kids out of U.S. universities. I’m not kidding when I say it’s time to turn Immigration on the Oligarch Girlriend-Industrial complex in Miami.

5/ Do all the grown-ass adult FINCEN stuff and deal with SWIFT etc. Fine.

But spectacular, showy, visceral pain for the the oligarch class financial diaspora is a front in this war we can fight with low risk and low cost.

Every penny he has left will go to lawyers

February 21, 2022February 19, 2022 ~ susie

https://twitter.com/DarbysCastle/status/1495019306521927683

It’s a family affair

February 18, 2022February 17, 2022 ~ susie

BREAKING: A judge in New York ruled that Donald Trump and two of his children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, can be deposed as part of a civil fraud investigation conducted by the New York Attorney General's office. https://t.co/GfnUbFfR5k

— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 17, 2022

You may think "So what? Donald, ivanka, & jr. will just take the 5th 500 times" in their now required depositions in NY, but keep this in mind: in a civil case, which this is, taking the 5th CAN be "used against you" (adverse inference). This is a HUGE win. Act like a winner.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) February 17, 2022

If you’re wondering why Trump hasn’t been indicted on Mueller’s work…

February 11, 2022February 10, 2022 ~ susie

Marcy Wheeler explains it all. Pay attention to how Bill Barr made some of the charges impossible to prosecute:

On Unrealistic Expectations for Mueller Report Obstruction Charges https://t.co/cDWvmFMpwZ

— Suburban Guerrilla 💙 (@SusieMadrak) February 10, 2022