Thread: For 20 years, prosecutor Ralph Petty secretly worked for the judges who decided his cases. At night, he'd write rulings in favor of…himself.
He even sent someone to death row. And now, someone is finally trying to hold him to account. My latest: https://t.co/wPEbXU1TFB
— Billy Binion (@billybinion) April 12, 2022
Category: Blind Justice
Fix it
Marcus’s wise analysis omits one component: the vast right-wing apparatus out to “capture” the court. (See “agency capture” or “regulatory capture.”)https://t.co/1fDwyjFP7J
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) April 10, 2022
CMD puts the secret funding behind this operation at $580 million. Massive funding implies massive motive. Single donations ran as high as $17 million dollars.
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) April 10, 2022
Happy tears
Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the Senate as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court in a milestone for the United States and a victory for President Joe Biden https://t.co/lZJMdzap56
— Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) April 7, 2022
President Joe Biden hugs Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as they watch the historic vote from the White House. pic.twitter.com/w4gWHZWvjP
— Beatrice Peterson (@missbeae on all platforms) (@MissBeaE) April 7, 2022
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is the sole Republican clapping for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's SCOTUS confirmation.
Most Republicans left the chamber immediately following the vote. pic.twitter.com/BtuQPsPTTf
— The Recount (@therecount) April 7, 2022
“This nomination is confirmed.” Vice President Kamala Harris announces the final vote confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court https://t.co/h4ERu1vh6o pic.twitter.com/15G5PNRkJb
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 7, 2022
I’ll just sit here and hold my breath
Recent ethical lapses show that the status quo is woefully insufficient for fostering a judiciary deserving of public confidence
Congress has an obligation to take the necessary steps to establish a court ethically fit for duty@BrennanCenter @johnastoehrhttps://t.co/7FEtORvHx0
— Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@AudreLawdAMercy) April 6, 2022
Circus
3 yes GOP votes
Lindsey seethes https://t.co/QO6v9OmSKz
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) April 4, 2022
Breaking: Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski is a YES on Judge Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 4, 2022
500,000 views and counting
The rot in the GOP has made its way to the highest court in the land. Justice Clarence Thomas is compromised and must recuse himself. pic.twitter.com/mi9kytDuQQ
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) April 1, 2022
You don’t say
If the DOJ wants a 131-lawyer boost, it’s because the DOJ believes there will be plenty of work for the new folks to do. https://t.co/P72kTaRLTS
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 28, 2022
Spilling the tea
NYT has obtained the resignation letter of one of the prosecutors who was leading the Manhattan DA's Trump investigation. It argues that not seeking charges against Trump was "misguided" and "contrary to the public interest." W/ @WRashbaum and @benprotess https://t.co/gOJawZyoKd
— Jonah Bromwich (@Jonesieman) March 23, 2022
remarkable resignation letter here stating forthrightly that the now-former prosecutor, mark pomerantz, believes the manhattan DA has “evidence sufficient to establish Mr. Trump’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt” https://t.co/kHGrHIjyxp
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) March 24, 2022
Lawless SCOTUS
Maybe they’re afraid Clarence won’t be around much longer:
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS uses shadow docket to summarily throw out Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling adopting Governor Evers’s redistricting maps.
Sotomayor and Kagan publicly dissent: pic.twitter.com/tNDV7pbDSK
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) March 23, 2022
The Court using the shadow docket to imply that the 14th Amendment and VRA require Wisconsin to have more gerrymandered electoral maps that give less representation to Black voters is incredible stuff even by Roberts Court standards https://t.co/kBYPVqk1fn
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) March 23, 2022
If anything, Sotomayor's dissent undersells just how "unprecedented" this decision is. It appears to dramatically alter the law of redistricting to make it much harder for states to draw majority-Black districts—all through a cryptic shadow docket ruling. https://t.co/po1Tepd1uW pic.twitter.com/7CCcRmXw7B
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 23, 2022
There is literally no discussion of the Purcell principle in the unsigned majority opinion—even though the majority has repeatedly used Purcell to prevent federal courts from altering election laws shortly before an election. Which is what the majority just did.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 23, 2022
I’ll believe it when I see it
A new Supreme Court case allows the justices to fix one of their worst anti-worker decisions | By Ian Millhiser https://t.co/k819jqkzzv
— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) March 15, 2022