Category: Blind Justice

Ha ha

~ susie

When you’ve never paid attention to ethics in the first place, it’s hard to tell when you’ve really stepped in it:

An update: D.C. U.S. Attorney Edward Martin has moved to withdraw from the case in which he dismissed the prosecution of a man he represented as a defense attorney. He said he "does not currently represent" the man. He filed his motion several hours after we wrote about the apparent conflict.

— Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social) 2025-02-06T02:09:29.127Z

Vertical integration

~ susie

Tell your Senators: Pam Bondi should never be Attorney General!

— Sam Jones (@samjownes.bsky.social) 2025-01-13T22:51:19.933Z

Pam Bondi’s brother, Brad Bondi, was previously listed as an attorney for Elon Musk’s company Tesla during an SEC investigation alleging Musk committed securities fraud.If confirmed as attorney general, Pam Bondi will be perfectly positioned to shut down federal prosecutors’ ongoing…

— Stephanie Kennedy (@wordswithsteph.bsky.social) 2025-01-13T11:13:48.657Z

Yee haw!

~ susie

Surprise! SCOTUS Will Not Save Trump On Hush Money Case talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/tr…

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2025-01-10T00:42:17.895Z

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA The 11th Circuit just slapped Aileen Cannon with a Writ of Go Fuck Yourself HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Jack Smith gets to release his report HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA oops I mean how terrible for Donald Trump

— Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich.bsky.social) 2025-01-10T01:12:09.789Z

Huh

~ susie

I’m sure that nice Judge Alito wouldn’t do anything wrong! Via ABC News:

“Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to President-elect Donald Trump by phone Tuesday to recommend one of his former law clerks for a job in the new administration, ABC News has learned.

“William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position,” Justice Alito confirmed to ABC News Wednesday. “I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon.”

The call occurred just hours before Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday morning filed an emergency request with the justices asking them to block a New York judge from moving forward with sentencing Trump on Friday in his criminal hush money case.

Alito said that he and Trump did not discuss that matter.

“We did not discuss the emergency application he filed today, and indeed, I was not even aware at the time of our conversation that such an application would be filed,” Alito said. “We also did not discuss any other matter that is pending or might in the future come before the Supreme Court or any past Supreme Court decisions involving the President-elect.”

It is not unusual for a sitting justice to offer a job recommendation for a former clerk, but it is rare, court analysts said, for a justice to have such a conversation directly with a sitting president or president-elect, especially one with an active stake in business pending before the court.