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'It's Hard To Believe He Wasn't Involved In The Epstein Coverup': Dick Durbin Torches Emil Bove

 

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) spoke about Trump's nominee to be a judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Emil Bove.

BREAKING: Dem Senators Dramatically Walk Out Of Hearing As Booker Rips Grassley Over Emil Bove Vote

 

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Democratic Senators storm out of the Senate Judiciary Committee as Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) rails against Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) for advancing the confirmation of controversial judicial nominee Emil Bove. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more: https://account.forbes.com/membership... Stay Connected Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter:   / forbes   Forbes Video on Instagram:   / forbes   More From Forbes: http://forbes.com

"Wild MAGA Behavior" & "Appallingly Bad Judgment": Sen. Whitehouse Makes the Case Against Kash Patel

 

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February 13 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivers remarks in the Senate Judiciary Committee against the nomination of Kash Patel to serve as Director of the FBI.

Sign the petition: Clarence Thomas' funded yacht trip in Indonesia

It seems that there’s no end to how many luxury vacations, shady payments, and lavish gifts Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has received.

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported that Thomas took an additional 3 trips — including a yacht vacation in Indonesia — funded by billionaire GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow.¹ Over two decades, Clarence Thomas has received over $4 million in gifts,² much of which have been undisclosed like these trips with Crow.

These GOP billionaire-funded gifts and the many scandals and conflicts of interest on the Court — between Thomas, Alito, and Roberts — cast serious doubt on the impartiality and ethical standards on SCOTUS. But Congress can hold Thomas accountable and finally end corruption on the Supreme Court.

Sign the petition: Pass a Supreme Court Ethics Act to end corruption by Clarence Thomas and the other right-wing Justices on SCOTUS.

The list of Thomas’ corruption scandals is long and includes mysterious, unexplained business income, a web of conservative dark money benefitting him and his wife, failures to recuse himself from cases where he has clear conflicts of interest, and much more.

Here’s how the New York Times put Thomas’ refusal to recuse himself from Trump’s immunity case: “Justice Clarence Thomas...participated in the case despite his wife [Ginni] Thomas’s own vigorous efforts to overturn the election.”³

Justice Alito also recently became enmeshed in a new corruption scandal when it was discovered that a Stop the Steal style flag was flying over his house in 2020. The flag flew as the Court considered whether or not to take on a critical election case in the days after the Capitol riots, just before President Biden was sworn in.⁴

The Supreme Court is supposed to be fair and independent, but conservative Justices’ corruption and ethics scandals are piling up. We need Congress to pass this bill to finally create a real, binding code of conduct for our federal courts.

Add your name: End the corruption on the Supreme Court! Pass a Supreme Court ethics act.

Thanks for taking action,

Joey and the team at Demand Progress

1. ProPublica, “Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds,” June 13, 2024.
2. Steven Mazie on Twitter, “It pays to be Justice Clarence Thomas. New data from...” June 6, 2024.
3. The New Yorker, “Legal Scholars Are Shocked By Ginni Thomas’s 'Stop the Steal' Texts,” March 25, 2022.
4. The New York Times, “At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display,” May 16, 2024.

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Ruth Marcus: ‘Any reasonable person’ hearing SCOTUS ethics claims would say it ‘doesn’t look right’

 

The Senate Judiciary committee is holding a hearing on considering strengthening ethics rules in the Supreme Court following revelations about Justices receiving all-expenses paid vacations and real estate deals. NBC News Washington Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor and Washington Post Associate Editor and columnist Ruth Marcus join Andrea Mitchell to weigh in. “I think any reasonable person reading the facts of the story involving Justice Thomas and Harlan Crow would stop and say, “Hey, what's going on here? This just doesn't look right,’” says Marcus. “We're just not capable of looking at that without assigning political animus and political motivation. And look, I think that's true on both sides.”

RSN: FOCUS: Charles Pierce | The Senatorial Speeches at the Beginning of Supreme Court Nomination Hearings Should Be Sh*tcanned

 

 

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FOCUS: Charles Pierce | The Senatorial Speeches at the Beginning of Supreme Court Nomination Hearings Should Be Sh*tcanned
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Pierce writes: "If I were king of the forest, I would pass a rule for the Senate by which every opening statement by any senator in a confirmation hearing would be sent in writing to the committee chairman and entered into the record as written."

Submit your statements in writing and get on with it.

'If I were king of the forest, I would pass a rule for the Senate by which every opening statement by any senator in a confirmation hearing would be sent in writing to the committee chairman and entered into the record as written. That way, the first day of the hearings would consist of the nominee’s opening statement and then everybody could go home for the day. I came to this conclusion while watching the beginning session of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Herewith, my evaluation of the pros and cons of such a change.

Downside:

1. No chance of hearing Senator Sheldon Whitehouse explain to his Republican colleagues that, if they want to bring some bullshit about “outside groups” and “dark money” supporting the nominee, he has several barges worth of receipts concerning the Federalist Society and its wingnut front groups conveniently moored along the Potomac.


2. No chance to hear Senator Amy Klobuchar diss the Hapsburgs and silos, the latter a risky choice for a senator from Minnesota.


3. No chance to hear Chuck Grassley wrestle with some absurd metaphor about elephants in mouseholes.


4. No chance to see the nominee look at Tailgunner Ted Cruz in such a way as to become the living embodiment of the phrase, “Oh, please.”

Upside:

1. Not having to listen to endless whinging about what happened to poor Brett Kavanaugh, and poor Robert Bork, and poor Janice Rogers Brown.


2. Not having to listen to Young Ben Sasse give us a demonstration of When Middle School Civics Goes Horribly Wrong while throwing an elbow into the doctrine of unenumerated powers along the way.


3. Not having to listen to Huckleberry Graham’s patented syrupy passive-aggression. I swear you could grease up an 18-wheeler with a paragraph of his rhetoric.


4. Not having to listen to konztitooshunal skolar Mike Lee explain that, “The Constitution, written by wise men over 200 years ago. Wise men who I believe were raised up by almighty God for that very purpose.” And, in the Beyond, James Madison comes to the sad realization that his life’s work had no purpose.


5. Not having to watch Tailgunner Ted Cruz mistake a Senate hearing room for an afternoon session at CPAC, thereby prompting the aforementioned look from the nominee.


6. Not having to watch as the Reconstruction Amendments are simply read out of American constitutional history—“Cancelled,” if you will—in favor of a conservative concept of retroactive clairvoyance about what a bunch of 18th-century lawyers and slavers, and both, were thinking.

I’ll take the swap, actually. More to follow, I’m sure.

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