“A billionaire flew Justice Samuel Alito to Alaska on a private jet for a luxury fishing vacation. In the years that followed, the billionaire regularly had business before the court. Alito never recused.”@js_kaplan @propublica#AlitoIsCORRUPT #SCOTUSpic.twitter.com/z0HCH5ciMR https://t.co/ar2Wq4YJB7
— Adam Rifkin 🐼🌻 (@ifindkarma) June 21, 2023
Category: Blind Justice
Don’t let them pass it by
Waiting to exhale
I felt like I’d been holding my breath since 2016, and it felt so good to breathe again.
GUILTY, MOTHERFUCKERS
A New York jury has found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, marking the first time a former U.S. president has ever been convicted of a crime.
The verdict was read in the Manhattan courtroom where Trump has been on trial since April 15. He pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment made by his former lawyer Michael Cohen to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election.
The jury reached its verdict after 9.5 hours of deliberations, which began Wednesday.
SCOTUS doesn’t even pretend anymore
BFD
Law as a weapon
The Stigma of Felon Disenfranchisement: In an excerpt from @JoshuaADouglas's new book on the Supreme Court, the legal scholar shows how it undermines voting rights by using an obscure phrase to bless the disenfranchisement of millions.https://t.co/XPqmnovXdj
— Washington Monthly (@monthly) May 14, 2024
Is is really, though?
Alito is a right-wing contrarian who was always willing to twist the law to fit his own opinions:
“It’s really quite puzzling that the most pro-government, anti-criminal-defendant justice is the one who when it comes to President Trump being a criminal defendant is willing to slander the career attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice.” https://t.co/KVn9wFP783
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 12, 2024
Doing her best to help Trump
Oh Look, Aileen Cannon Has Delayed The MAL Case Yet Again->I’ve lost track of how many Morning Memos have led with the latest delay allowed, imposed, or facilitated by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in the MAL documents case. But it’s a lot!https://t.co/yC409LLiXK via @TPM
— David Kurtz (@TPM_dk) May 7, 2024
Oops
A critical piece of evidence was introduced this morning in Trump’s trial from the former Trump Org comptroller, proving that the payments to Cohen from Trump were specifically to reimburse him for the hush money payment to Stormy. Story …https://t.co/GzcXnIre1l
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 6, 2024