Category: Blind Justice

Also unusual

~ susie ~ 1 Comment

https://twitter.com/watercutter11/status/1450511793441230856

Not as bad as I feared

~ susie ~ 1 Comment

Okay, this preliminary report was dribbled out after close of business today, which made me suspicious. Releasing this at that time was a PR move, and that made me think that the other members of the commission didn’t agree.

Sounds like I was right:

https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1448771128034410516

Right wing asshole

~ susie ~ 1 Comment

These SCOTUS justices, who exempted themselves from the same rules of conduct every other federal judge has to follow, really do want to have their cake and eat it, too. Consider their recent public appearances with Mitch McConnell

No supervision, no accountability

~ susie ~ 2 Comments

And it starts at the top, because SCOTUS has exempted themselves from even that much accountability. Maybe there’s some connection with that, and the lowest credibility numbers ever for the top court?

Smaller fish

~ susie

Jesse Benton was Mitch McConnell’s campaign manager, and completely coincidentally, got a pardon from Trump! He’s also married to Ron Paul’s granddaughter.

Doug Wead is a gay-hating Assemblies of God preacher, so he’s probably a closet case.

 

Who crossed that line first?

~ susie

Now that we know the FBI did not conduct a real investigation into Beer Bong Brett, and yet Brett still felt entitled to rule against precedent? I’m not feeling too sympathetic.

I was talking to a friend last night who works at the Post about why the editorial board has gone even more neo-con than usual. Ugh. It’s a company town, and they’re the company newsletter: