Did Justice Thomas’s failure to report lavish gifts violate ethics laws?
Brennan Center experts explain Supreme Court disclosure rules.
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The vote was 5 to 4, w/ #ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts & Justice #AmyConeyBarrett joining the court’s 3 liberal members — Justices Sonia #Sotomayor, Elena #Kagan & #KetanjiBrownJackson — to form a majority.
Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel #Alito, Neil #Gorsuch & Brett #Kavanaugh noted #dissents. Like the justices in the majority, they did not explain their reasoning.
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The tween tests with #babylonjs have worked well, little by little we are getting a base.
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Las pruebas de tweens con #babylonjs han funcionado bien, poco a poco vamos sacando una base.
#babylonjs #gamedev #sotomayor
#Update: Senate Panel Votes in Favor of Supreme Court Ethics Reform https://politicaliq.com/2023/07/20/senate-panel-votes-on-supreme-court-ethics-reform/ #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Senate #Ethics #SenateJudiciaryCommittee #ClarenceThomas #Alito #Kagan #Sotomayor #JohnRoberts #politicaliq #news #politics
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Senate Judiciary Committee to Vote on Supreme Court Ethics Reform https://politicaliq.com/2023/07/20/senate-panel-to-vote-on-supreme-court-ethics-reform/ #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Senate #Ethics #SenateJudiciaryCommittee #ClarenceThomas #Alito #Kagan #Sotomayor #JohnRoberts #politicaliq #news #politics
#supremecourt #SCOTUS #senate #ethics #senatejudiciarycommittee #clarencethomas #alito #kagan #sotomayor #johnroberts #politicaliq #News #politics
ICYMI:
Justice #Sotomayor's staff urged schools & libraries to buy her memoir or kid's books
The Associated Press
It’s not the $300k vacations Thomas or Alito took, but it’s still not just unacceptable, but also an easy call. You have a publisher, a publicist, they handle the publicity for your books, not your #SCOTUS staff.
#SCOTUSstench #JudicialEthics
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1187005372/sonia-sotomayor-supreme-court-staff-book-sales-signings-memoir
#sotomayor #scotus #scotusstench #judicialethics
Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Is This All You've Got on Justice Sonia Sotomayor? https://jezebel.com/is-this-all-youve-got-on-justice-sonia-sotomayor-1850638005 #Jezebel #supremecourtoftheunitedstates #soniasotomayor #clarencethomas #jmichaelluttig #michaelluttig #antoninscalia #samuelalito #danfroomkin #sotomayor #frankboas #megadonor #lawcrime #politics #venmo
#jezebel #supremecourtoftheunitedstates #soniasotomayor #clarencethomas #jmichaelluttig #michaelluttig #antoninscalia #samuelalito #danfroomkin #sotomayor #frankboas #megadonor #lawcrime #politics #venmo
Supreme Court Ethics Scrutiny Targets Liberals as well as Conservatives https://politicaliq.com/2023/07/12/supreme-court-ethics-scrutiny-targets-liberals-as-well-as-conservatives/ #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #ethics #liberals #Conservatives #Sotomayor #Kagan #Alito #ClarenceThomas #JohnRoberts #Senate #politicaliq #news #politics
#supremecourt #SCOTUS #ethics #liberals #conservatives #sotomayor #kagan #alito #clarencethomas #johnroberts #senate #politicaliq #News #politics
Just as we need tax-payer funded US presidential #elections, we equally need term limits in the #SupremeCourt (and congress, yes)
Justice #Sotomayor's staff urged schools and libraries to buy her memoir or kid's books
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1187005372/sonia-sotomayor-supreme-court-staff-book-sales-signings-memoir
Keep in mind, Sotomayor is known as being one of the court justices who is looking out for "the people," but is no doubt just as intoxicated with #capitalism as presidential candidates hawking their books.
#elections #supremecourt #sotomayor #capitalism #eattherich
@npr_bot All #SCOTUS Justices should adhere to ethics rules regardless of their political leanings. #Sotomayor should be ashamed of herself. Why are these people so obsessed with wealth? #capitalism #corruption
#scotus #sotomayor #capitalism #corruption
J. #Sotomayor's powerful dissent explains past cases should have controlled - we've seen discriminatory businesses try to sub 'services' for 'people' before. "Heart of Atlanta Motel could have argued that Black people may still rent rooms for their white friends. [#303Creative], like Ollie McClung, who would serve Black people take-out but not table service, discriminates against #LGBT people by offering them a limited menu. This is plain to see, for all who do not look the other way." #scotus
#sotomayor #303creative #lgbt #scotus
#Justice Sonia #Sotomayor delivered a passionate #dissent to the court’s #conservative majority. Sotomayor decried the decision protecting rights of a web designer to refuse to create websites for the weddings of #SameSex couples.
Sotomayor called it a “sad day in American constitutional law & in the lives of LGBT people.”
Dissent starts p33
#LGBTQ+Rights #law #equality #gender #legal #SCOTUS #303CreativeLLCvElenis #minoritarianism
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-476_c185.pdf
#justice #sotomayor #dissent #conservative #samesex #lgbtq #law #equality #gender #legal #scotus #303creativellcvelenis #minoritarianism
by #MarkJosephStern in #Slate:
"[I]n a direct response to the incandescent dissents by Sotomayor and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Roberts’ opinion leaves some room for admissions officers to undertake what might be called a 'holistic review' of each applicant, including their racial identity as it relates to their life experiences. A 'holistic review,' however, was already required by the precedents that Roberts effectively overturned on Thursday. Thus, the decision substitutes one vague regime with an even more ambiguous one—inviting, as Sotomayor noted, 'a plethora of litigation” that will “promote chaos' rather than establishing a workable new order."
#AffirmativeAction #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #college #education #KetanjiBrownJackson #Sotomayor
#markjosephstern #Slate #affirmativeaction #supremecourt #SCOTUS #college #education #ketanjibrownjackson #sotomayor
Supreme Court Makes it Tougher to Convict Someone for Making Violent Threat https://politicaliq.com/2023/06/27/supreme-court-makes-it-tougher-to-convict-someone-for-making-violent-threat/ #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Kagan #Sotomayor #ClarenceThomas #Gorsuch #Barrett #FirstAmendment #TrueThreat #Facebook #BillyCounterman #ColesWhalen #politicaliq #news #politics
#supremecourt #SCOTUS #kagan #sotomayor #clarencethomas #gorsuch #barrett #FirstAmendment #truethreat #facebook #billycounterman #coleswhalen #politicaliq #News #politics
@sonyasteele Sure seems the end will be that any action by #employees, #union or not, that causes economic "concern", will be judged illegal and employees will be held liable for "repaying" employers due to such actions.
I'm deeply disappointed in #Sotomayor, especially. I hope she's not caught the "They're going to let me be white" syndrome too many #Latins suffer from (e.g. #Cruz, #Rubio).
Kudos and strength to #KentajiBrownJackson for delivering a correct and moral opinion.
#KentajiBrownJackson #rubio #cruz #latins #sotomayor #Union #employees
Even if #Sotomayor did anything wrong (along with Gorsuch btw, who similarly did not recuse from cases involving the book publisher), they both disclosed the earnings from their books. Clarence Thomas has a literal flood of undisclosed financial contributions from his "friend."
Even if #Sotomayor did anything wrong (along with Gorsuch btw, who similarly did not recuse from cases involving the book publisher), they both disclosed the earnings from their books. Clarence Thomas has a literal flood of undisclosed financial contributions from his "friend."
«"If #Kagan, #Sotomayor and #Jackson truly believe that it is only the #SupremeCourt that has the ability to govern itself, then they need to be more forceful in putting that self-regulation into practice. They need to be willing to tell #Congress if, as it appears from the outside, there is no effective way for that to happen. And they need to be willing to speak out about whether they believe #Thomas violated the #EthicsCode that they have now signed onto."»
#kagan #sotomayor #jackson #supremecourt #congress #thomas #ethicscode
Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Clarence Thomas Quietly Accepted Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Luxury Travel https://jezebel.com/clarence-thomas-quietly-accepted-hundreds-of-thousands-1850307063 #Jezebel #supremecourtoftheunitedstates #conservatismintheunitedstates #judicialdisqualification #pricewaterhousecoopers #supremecourtofindia #clarencethomas #supremecourt #markpaoletta #hunterbiden #dickdurbin #law2ccrime #government #harlancrow #leonardleo #sotomayor #gaberoth #law
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‘Wrong things can be changed’: Justice #Sotomayor speaks on disillusionment
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/politics/sonia-sotomayor-fordham-speech-supreme-court/index.html