https://x.com/mjs_DC/status/1793647147994513760
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:37 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/23/politics/supreme-court-south-carolina-district-black-voting-power/index.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:37 (three weeks ago) link
so Slobbo's cool with overturning Brown
https://x.com/mjs_DC/status/1793650522916102283
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:41 (three weeks ago) link
Thomas still under the delusion that he will ever be anything but a useful racial slur to the gaggle of racist neanderthals who aid and abet this kind of fascism
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:47 (three weeks ago) link
If you read Corey Robin's book on him, Thomas is under no delusions at all. He's a black nationalist who will take what he can get out of white people, but doesn't trust them at all.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 23 May 2024 15:14 (three weeks ago) link
he believes in the Second Amendment because after their experiences during Reconstruction he thought Black men need to arm themselves.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 May 2024 15:17 (three weeks ago) link
all that just makes his whole thing make LESS sense
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 23 May 2024 16:24 (three weeks ago) link
well i imagine it makes him feel that he is the laughing at them tbh
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Thursday, 23 May 2024 16:28 (three weeks ago) link
Robin's thesis may be descriptive of young Clarence Thomas but for the past thirty years or so his decisions seem much more based on "Will this make rich people give me free stuff?"
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 May 2024 16:32 (three weeks ago) link
He mentions that too.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 May 2024 16:35 (three weeks ago) link
He seems to rewrite US history based on how he perceives the criticism he has personally received . Plus by ignoring all the assistance he has gotten.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 May 2024 16:52 (three weeks ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 24 May 2024 02:01 (three weeks ago) link
He has no interest in Black people. We're all alone, to quote Boz Scaggs, except when billionaires pay for your trailer.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 May 2024 02:14 (three weeks ago) link
The Alitos had a big ol’ freak session in their driveway in front of a Washington Post reporter on the day of Biden’s inauguration, and the paper inscrutably decided not to run it
In 2021 the Washington Post's then Supreme Court reporter was there but didn't run a story because he accepted Mrs Alito's take that this was just about her and a dispute with neighbors! Oy veh, that's terrible. So now the Washington Post tells on themselves about it in 2024.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/25/alito-flag-martha-ann-washington-post/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 May 2024 16:36 (three weeks ago) link
Democracy dies in "The Post decided not to report on the episode at the time because..."
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 25 May 2024 16:41 (three weeks ago) link
Chris Geidner in his Substack is hoping Justice Roberts will pressure Alito to recuse from J6 and Immunity decisions.
Hope in one hand . . .
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 25 May 2024 16:44 (three weeks ago) link
Gift link in tweet
NEW The Washington Post found out about the inverted flag flying over Justice Alito’s home back in 2021. A WaPo reporter went to the Alito residence on Inauguration Day and had a tense encounter with Justice Alito and his wife Martha-Ann. The Post says it didn’t report on… pic.twitter.com/Pf2z3lV602— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 25, 2024
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Saturday, 25 May 2024 17:07 (three weeks ago) link
I dunno I feel a Supreme Court justice and wife flipping out at neighbors should have been news.
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 25 May 2024 17:23 (three weeks ago) link
I feel like people should maybe regularly drop in at the Alito abode.
Perhaps every night
Indefinitely
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Monday, 27 May 2024 15:33 (three weeks ago) link
I love the scene from Alito’s confirmation hearing when his wife came down with white fragility:
The distraught wife of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito broke down in tears and fled his confirmation hearings yesterday after Sen. Ted Kennedy led Democrats in a furious bid to tar her husband as a bigot.
Martha-Ann Bomgardner was overcome with emotion after Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) lambasted Kennedy for trying to smear the nominee as “a closet bigot.”
“I am sorry that you have had to go through this,” Graham said.
As she sat right behind her husband, Bomgardner’s lips trembled and she wiped away tears. Her sister-in-law Rosemary – herself a top lawyer – put a reassuring arm around her, but Bomgardner hastily fled the room.
The hearing exploded in anger when Kennedy tried to link Alito to a racist and anti-feminist article written by a member of a group to which he belonged over 30 years ago, the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP).
His voicing rising, Kennedy demanded to know if Alito shared the belief that blacks and Latinos “just don’t seem to know their place.”
And the kicker:
In another flap, Biden showed up in a white baseball cap blaring “PRINCETON” to question Alito about CAP. “I want to, kind of, set the record straight on Princeton,” said Biden. A day earlier, he’d claimed “I didn’t even like Princeton,” only to have old news reports show he’d once said he wanted all his kids to go there.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 27 May 2024 16:26 (three weeks ago) link
More:
The police in Fairfax County, Va., received an unusual phone call on Feb. 15, 2021. A young couple claimed they were being harassed by the wife of a Supreme Court justice.
“Somebody in a position of authority needs to talk to her and make her stop,” said the 36-year-old man making the complaint, according to a recording of the call reviewed by The New York Times. The officer on the line responded that there was little the police could do: Yelling was not a crime.
The couple placed the call after a series of encounters with Martha-Ann Alito, wife of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., that had gone from uneasy to ugly. That day, Emily Baden, whose boyfriend (now husband) contacted the police, had traded accusations with Mrs. Alito, who lived down the street. In a recent interview, Ms. Baden admitted to calling her a lewd epithet.
The clash between the wife of a conservative Supreme Court justice and the couple, who were in their 30s, liberal and proud of it, played out over months on a bucolic block in Alexandria. It was the kind of shouting match among private citizens, at the height of tensions over the 2020 election, that might have happened in any mixed political community in America. But three years later, that neighborhood spat — which both sides said began over an anti-Trump sign — has taken on far greater proportions.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 00:10 (two weeks ago) link
Mrs. Alito ran toward their car and yelled something they did not understand. The couple continued driving, they said, and as they passed the Alito home again to exit the cul-de-sac, Mrs. Alito appeared to spit toward the vehicle.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 02:28 (two weeks ago) link
Ms. Baden admitted to calling her a lewd epithet.
Hmmmm. I'm betting it was spelled C-U-N-T.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 02:41 (two weeks ago) link
See You First Monday
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 02:44 (two weeks ago) link
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/24/biden-alito-controversy-silent-00159968
Biden has publicly warned that Republicans are undermining democratic norms and threatening its institutions. But he is reluctant to extend that argument to the judicial branch, aides say, fearful it could be cast as politically motivated and undermine his broader effort to portray himself as a champion for strengthening democratic institutions. They believe it’s crucial to maintain a clear contrast with Donald Trump, who has readily attacked an independent judiciary for political gain.
“The central pushback should come from the legislative branch, and not the executive branch,” said Anthony Coley, a former senior official in the Biden Justice Department, arguing that Congress has wide-ranging investigatory authority. “That’s the right place where we should be seeing aggressive oversight, and right now they are not meeting the moment.”
On the Hill, however, Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin has resisted calls to hold a hearing into the matter. “I don’t think that’s going to achieve anything,” the Illinois Democrat told POLITICO of calling for Alito to appear, indicating a preference instead for the chamber to consider ethics legislation for the Supreme Court that has already passed his committee. Durbin on Friday sought a meeting with Chief Justice John Roberts to discuss the matter.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 03:40 (two weeks ago) link
yeah if theres one thing we all know Joe Biden for it's strengthening democratic institutions. like who am I Hank Hill
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 03:47 (two weeks ago) link
And Durbin who never followed through on subpoenaing Leo from the Federalist Society, or Thomas' billionaire buddy Crow, and who was already turned down once by Chief Justice Roberts for a committee hearing , is going to try for a meeting with Roberts....
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 05:07 (two weeks ago) link
Biden, like Obama, is a fucking coward who is always obsessed with optics and being the nice guy. That shit doesn’t work today
― beamish13, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 05:40 (two weeks ago) link
Thomas and Alito should be out of a job by this point, how egregious does this shit need to be
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 09:59 (two weeks ago) link
The Wall Street Journal board editorial is fine with what he's doing:
We’ve discussed those flag cases in previous editorials as irrelevant to the Justice’s views on cases before the Court. But that didn’t stop the Democrats from asserting that the flags create “reasonable doubt as to his impartiality in certain proceedings, thereby requiring his disqualification” from cases involving Donald Trump.
I was paywalled from more of this
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 13:33 (two weeks ago) link
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s husband is representing Fox Corporation — Fox News’ parent company — in a defamation lawsuit, according to court records reviewed by Rolling Stone.
new 2024 paywalled story
Coney Barrett tries to hide from the public whom her lawyer husband represents
2022 article - https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/29/justices-spouses-conflict-of-interest-disclosures-00059549
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 13:43 (two weeks ago) link
"A flag is simply a rectangle of cloth or fabric with a design on it - and we fail to see how a piece of fabric can pose a threat to the independence of the judiciary"
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 15:33 (two weeks ago) link
Try burning it and see what happens
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 15:50 (two weeks ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/29/supreme-court-alito-recuse-flag-jan-6/
Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. announced Wednesday that he will not recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases at the Supreme Court after Democratic lawmakers questioned whether he could be impartial following reports that an upside-down flag flew at his home in the weeks after the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021.
In a letter to Democratic leaders in the House and Senate, Alito said that flag and a second, religious-themed flag were raised by his wife, without his knowledge, and the incidents do not meet the conditions for recusal outlined in the Supreme Court’s code of conduct.
Alito disclosed for the first time that he was not aware of the upside-down flag until it was called to his attention and that his wife initially resisted taking it down.
“As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused,” Alito wrote in the letter to Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).
Alito said in the letter that the second flag was also raised by his wife, Martha-Ann Alito.
“My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not,” he wrote.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:00 (two weeks ago) link
Cucked by his wife in a flag beef
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:02 (two weeks ago) link
His full letter is linked in the article. He doesn't address the argument of many legal ethics scholars that his wife's free speech has to take a back seat when it impedes the appearance of impartiality for him
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:06 (two weeks ago) link
I read this and could see him in my imagination, making his customary frowning "I am filled with disgust" face.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:25 (two weeks ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/X3dyJk4.gif
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:35 (two weeks ago) link
"I, for one, will only ever fly my freak flag"
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 19:10 (two weeks ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_guy
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 19:54 (two weeks ago) link
"My wife's reasons for flying the flag are not relevant for present purposes..."
What a joke.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/alito-thomas-recuse-trump-jan-6.html
Representative Jamie Raskin argues : The U.S. Department of Justice — including the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, an appointed U.S. special counsel and the solicitor general, all of whom were involved in different ways in the criminal prosecutions underlying these cases and are opposing Mr. Trump’s constitutional and statutory claims — can petition the other seven justices to require Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves not as a matter of grace but as a matter of law.
It seems unlikely that will happen. It also seems unlikely that Schumer and Durbin will hold a hearing anyway, or get the Senate to vote on a new enforceable ethics code and creating an office at the Supreme Court to handle ethics complaints .
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 May 2024 01:23 (two weeks ago) link
https://bsky.app/profile/jbouie.bsky.social/post/3ktox3z4dgh27
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 30 May 2024 12:04 (two weeks ago) link
just read "“My wife is fond of flags. I am not.” for the first time
there are two kinds of people. people who have read that and
― z_tbd, Thursday, 30 May 2024 14:56 (two weeks ago) link
she has an extreme flag fetish, please don't yuck her yum
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 30 May 2024 14:58 (two weeks ago) link
any constitutional scholar will tell you that congressional kink shaming is a violation of the 1st amendment
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 30 May 2024 15:06 (two weeks ago) link
Buddy, she wont even let ME fuck it
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 30 May 2024 15:12 (two weeks ago) link
Supreme Court Opinion released today per Slate's Mark Stern-
The Supreme Court's third AND FINAL decision of the day is Thornell v. Jones. In a 6–3 opinion, Alito holds that the 9th Circuit was wrong to find that a man condemned to death suffered ineffective assistance of council. All three liberals dissent
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 May 2024 16:39 (two weeks ago) link
(AP) — Chief Justice Roberts rejects request by Democratic senators to discuss Supreme Court ethics and Alito flag controversy.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/chief-justice-john-roberts-declines-meet-democrats-ethics-concerns-rcna154718
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 May 2024 19:28 (two weeks ago) link
Roberts cited separation of powers earlier when rejecting a request to come to a committee hearing , and now he cites that again for a meeting with Senators Durbin and Whitehouse
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 May 2024 19:30 (two weeks ago) link
Glad that's settled.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2024 19:30 (two weeks ago) link