This is utterly bizarre. The lone request for a gay wedding website in 303 Design, one of the cases SCOTUS has yet to decide this term, appears to be fabricated. https://t.co/vqJFdikOnE
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 29, 2023
Category: Blind Justice
Bad news roundup
SCOTUS has ruled that web designers can treat gay people like they have cooties, and that Joe Biden doesn’t have the authority to forgive student loans.
You gotta admit, once these justices are bought, they stay bought!
Good news from SCOTUS
If you haven’t been following this, take my word for it: It’s a big fucking deal.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1673697019326504970
No biggie
Oh cool. Alito's wife leased land to an oil and gas company while the Justice ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency. https://t.co/meWKyzEdTM
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) June 26, 2023
Now read this!
This is just devastating, for Alito, the Court spokesperson, Paul Gigot, Murdochs. Breathtaking violations of every ethical standard. Flat out lies by Alito.
Behind the Scenes of Justice Alito’s Unprecedented Wall Street Journal Pre-buttal — ProPublica https://t.co/ygrFBOXipI
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) June 25, 2023
What’s Sam’s excuse this time?
Has this man ever paid for anything with his own money?
🚨CNN reports Justice Alito’s Rome trip, following his decision overturning Roe v. Wade, was funded by Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Initiative – a group that supported the Roe overturn. @RawStory https://t.co/gn9wLt7SPj
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) June 24, 2023
Boom!
The ProPublica story on Alito and Paul Singer has dropped and you KNOW Leonard Leo plays a starring role https://t.co/P7qbSIoiWl pic.twitter.com/G9o54h0stw
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 21, 2023
Leonard Leo says there's nothing wrong with a conservative billionaire lavishing expensive gifts on the court's conservative justices, but then warns that the reporting on these expensive gifts *might* lead to a "woke billionaire" exerting some influence too, which would be *bad* https://t.co/4LTiT49ChF
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 21, 2023
JUST IN: In the wake of ProPublica's latest, Judiciary Chair Durbin & Sen. Whitehouse announce that "when the Senate returns after the July 4th recess, the Senate Judiciary Committee will mark up Supreme Court ethics legislation. … [I]f the Court won’t act, then Congress must." pic.twitter.com/B5P0uTVqfV
— Chris “Law Dork” Geidner (@chrisgeidner) June 21, 2023
Missing piece
One thing that WaPo story was silent about was the damage J6C did by withholding transcripts from DOJ (interestingly, until after Steve D'Antuono left FBI).
Here's just one of the ways that damaged the Proud Boys prosecution. https://t.co/YWMBu5Bdlh
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 20, 2023
Woo hoo
County at center of 2020 election controversy avoids takeover by Georgia's GOP legislature https://t.co/DYmZRusOaJ
— Travis Gettys (@wirecan) June 20, 2023
Hunter Biden pleads guilty, MAGAts go crazy
Hunter Biden note: 3 factors why this is on the up and up:
1. to go forward with the tax deal, the DOJ Tax Division had to sign off on this deal;
2. the USAttorney is a Trump appointee, held over by Garland;
3. 1st time tax offense like this rarely get prosecuted/jail time. https://t.co/UfcaBFg9xZ— Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) June 20, 2023
Roger Stone and his wife settled with DOJ last year agreeing to pay $2 million in unpaid taxes as part of a civil complaint against them. Hunter Biden was investigated criminally for 5 years over $30,000 in improper deductions & filing his taxes late. pic.twitter.com/uvJvrnN9Xi
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) June 20, 2023
I hope these Republican members of Congress take their complaints to Donald Trump, who appointed the US Attorney who negotiated this "corrupt" plea deal with Hunter Biden pic.twitter.com/N1JSVRyP61
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 20, 2023
The setup
NEW: This all but confirms that MOHELA was being used, against its will, as a pretext for conservative politicians to nullify student debt relief.https://t.co/nYqrVX0PCx
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) June 19, 2023