But eventually most of these issues are likely to be resolved by #SCOTUS, & the court’s 6-member #Republican-appointed majority has generally ruled in ways that favor the #conservative #social-policy priorities reflected in the #redstate actions. That inclination was most dramatically demonstrated in last year’s #Dobbs decision, when the Court overturned the #constitutional #right to #abortion.

Mon 9/11 - Executives go Mum on DEI, Eastman Tries More Tricks, Gas-to-crypto on the rise, Biden Admin's Social Media Muzzle Loosened and Meadows Fails to Remove to Federal Court

#DEI mentions by execs down after #SCOTUS decision gutting affirmative action, #Eastman tries more nonsense, the rise of gas-to-crypto, #Biden admin’s social media limitations lifted some and #Meadows fails to remove to fed court.

#lawfedi @law

https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/mon-911-executives-go-mum-on-dei

Whoops! #moms #guncontrol #gop #scotus

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/moms-demand-action-gun-research-clarence-thomas.html

"Corporations did not have the same corporate veil of protection that are enjoyed today.

"The shift towards corporations gaining more power and control happened as the US progressed towards industrialization. The Civil War wildly enriched corporations and with this new wealth came bribes to legislators and courts that allowed for increased liability protection and other corporate protections. The 1886 #SCOTUS case Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific decided that #corporations were people"

https://newrepublic.com/article/175403/samuel-alito-wrong-arrogant-supreme-court-ethics?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other

One of the better take downs of #Alito. My only quibble is the use of the phrase "reigned in". Reigned in suggests regaining control of a horse.

Alito needs to be removed and prosecuted.

#SCOTUS #USPol #Politics

Everyone is pro-life with exceptions. We just disagree on the exceptions.

#roevwade #roe #scotus

Excellent reporting by @HeidiReports it continues & gets even crazier w/millions going to #GinniThomas; characters such as #JohnEastman, #CletaMitchell & more submit amicus briefs & attempt to influence #SCOTUS; #CarrieSeverino a #ClarenceThomas clerk & #LeonardLeo #JEP assoc briefs SCOTUS on the anti-#abortion anti-#Obamacare #HobbyLobby case; the 2016 #Trump election; #FederalistSociety groomed judges #AmyConeyBarrett, #BrettKavanaugh & #NeilGorsuch get appointed.
Recommended read.

…The application was approved 7 days before #ClarenceThomas joined the 5-4 majority on a decision that would open the door to a new era of major #spending on groups like the one his wife was forming. After putting up $500k, the lion’s share of her #nonprofit’s seed money, #HarlanCrow held an event for #GinniThomas at his palatial home in Dallas. The group later made clear its goal was disassembling President Barack #Obama’s agenda, mainly the #AffordableCareAct.

#DarkMoney #SCOTUS #Corruption

Now, #LibertyConsulting is a focus of interest from congressional committees probing #SCOTUS’s #ethics disclosures. #Senate #Democrats have demanded that #LeonardLeo & #HarlanCrow provide a list of “gifts, payments, or other items of value” they’ve given #GinniThomas & her husband.

Meanwhile, Leo’s network of *nonprofits* — whose annual donations have skyrocketed into the hundreds of millions of dollars — is the subject of an investigation by the DC AG….

A key #LeonardLeo aide, Sarah Field, would come aboard to help #GinniThomas manage the group, which they called #LibertyCentral.

After Liberty Central went public, it provoked an outcry over a #SCOTUS justice’s wife promoting causes like overturning #Obamacare that were before her husband’s court. Leo & Thomas changed gears. His network reactivated a dormant group, the #JudicialEducationProject, which would go on to become a major supplier of #AmicusBriefs before the nation’s highest court.

The activists included #FederalistSociety leader #LeonardLeo &his ideological soulmate, a hard-edged activist named #GinniThomas, the wife of #SCOTUS Justice #ClarenceThomas.
“Ginni really wanted to build an organization & be a movement leader. Leonard [Leo] was going to be the conduit of that” said a person familiar….
She also had… #HarlanCrow, the… #billionaire who helped Thomas & her husband in many ways, from #funding #luxury #vacations to picking up #tuition payments for their great-nephew.

Legal News

Here’s a good overview of the creepy intermingling of dark billionaire money, phony front groups, far-right extremists, and the United States Supreme Court

What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement

Thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, a trove of so-called “dark money” was about to be unleashed. Two activists prepared to seize the moment.

#scotus #corruption

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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082

#scotus Mark Meadows is back in the headlines again for his diligent efforts to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election—but somehow, the fact that Ginni Thomas, the wife of a sitting justice, was texting him to urge that he do precisely this act has fallen away almost completely. Somehow, it’s been cleansed and purified.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/political-press-horse-race-supreme-court-coverage.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=article&utm_content=twitter_share via @slate

The timeline is damning.

“The 2010 Citizens United decision transformed politics. It loosened restrictions on campaign spending and unleashed a flow of anonymous donor money to groups run by political activists.

“In the months before the ruling, a group of conservative activists [including Virginia Thomas, Leonard Leo, and Harlan Crow] came together to create just such an organization."
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082
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#corruption #GOP #elections #impeach #SCOTUS

The Clarence Thomas and Elon stories this week are just jaw dropping. What a fucking disgrace that Congress isn’t willing to bring these assholes in for a hearing. Preaching to the choir here I know but god damn this shits so depressing. #Politics #Elon #SCOTUS

#scotus What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, a trove of so-called “dark money” was about to be unleashed. Two activists prepared to seize the moment. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082

#GinniThomas’ ‘application to create a nonprofit… which would benefit from her husband’s upcoming [#SCOTUS] ruling, was approved 7 days before the decision… with Justice Thomas objecting to disclosure’ https://x.com/heidireports/status/1700830873287827675?s=12

The #DOJ had argued that #Doughty’s ruling was overly broad & could “chill” a wide range of lawful communications between the govt & #SocialMedia companies, especially in the face of #public #emergencies.…

Any #appeal of the order would bring the debate over #online #speech before #SCOTUS, which is already expected to take up conflicting appeals court rulings over state social media #laws this year.

The judges also said there was NO evidence that the #StateDepartment’s communications w/the platforms “went beyond educating the platforms on ‘tools & techniques’ used by foreign actors.”

The #DOJ did not immediately respond to requests for comment, & it was not immediately clear if it would #appeal the ruling. The order will take effect in 10 days, unless the government seeks intervention from #SCOTUS.

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