The fate of the abortion pill mifepristone is now before the Supreme Court, after a fifth-circuit appeals panel of three judges ruled against its distribution last summer.
According to a new report, the wife of one of those judges—James Ho, a Trump appointee who previously served as the solicitor general of Texas—took at least six payments between 2018 and 2022 from the conservative legal group that brought the case to court.
I don’t get it. What is the point of creating laws that specifically exempt some public servants from basic bribery laws?
So they can take more bribes, obviously.
Please tell me that’s not a thing
It seems very much to be a thing.
I actually heard a (Republican, naturally) lawyer on NPR yesterday morning call the U.S. justice system the best one in the world.
If that’s true, the world is seriously fucked.
It’s all about perspective. Do you profit of prison labor? Do you get paid for defending pieces of shit? America sounds fuckin awesome for those people.
Considering this guy was a lawyer defending Republican politicians, there’s no question about the latter.
That said, he wasn’t 100% optimistic about Trump’s legal woes, so at least he’s a little worried.
We have more people locked up per capita than anywhere else; if that’s not a success measure I don’t know what is!
Excuse me, I just threw up in my mouth a bit.
They’re right when looking at the specs. Took british common law then added a bunch of inalienable rights.
We fucked up the implementation.
So I’m sure politicians like MTG, who are going after the Fulton County DA over a few trips they say are evidence of a big kickback scheme, are going to be all over this Federal Judge whose wife is directly benefiting from his rulings. Right?
Oh, never mind, this judge has the magic ® after his name, which makes him immune to consequences like that. How silly of me.
and what do you do? Oh you’re a judge? I’m so sorry, how embarrassing for you. Still, could be worse, you could be a Supreme Court Justice
In any event, my wife’s practice is to donate honoraria to charity.
So where did the money go?
Yech. All these people look like demons.
The US is systematically failling. Just going to an election every couple years to decide between two parties who are both reponsible for and defending this current status is not going to cut it.
How are people like you still both-sides-ing for upvotes when one of those two parties is filled with literal fascists and Nazis and the other just forgave billions of dollars worth of student debt? Wake the fuck up. Your false equivalence only serves to help the fascists. Unless, of course, that is your goal?
Umm, akchually, fascist = fascist, sure, but antifa - anti = fa = facesit = fascsist, so clearly, as proven by my undisproveablely proveable equation, both sides are clearly fascist, frogs are gay. If democrats are stonewalled every step of the way, clearly theyre just not democracying as hard as republicans are fascisting so theyre to blame just as much as the other so, again, both sides = same.
Check.
Mate.
Reality.
I don’t know if that facesit was intended but please don’t fix it if it wasn’t lol
Totally was :p sorry if thats a disappointment xD
I agree with you, both parties are not the same and we need to make sure the fascists don’t win any elections. But the person above you didn’t say not to vote, they just said voting isn’t enough, which is true. Voting is a form of harm reduction, but it’s also the least effective form of civic engagement. If we want to really change this shit, we have to get more involved than just voting every few years.
The problem with what you are saying is making voting sound like it matters less than it does. Voting is all the majority of people can do. Most people have jobs and families to take care of and can’t be political activists. However, they can just take one day out of their year to vote.
It does matter less than being more involved though. If that’s all you can do that’s perfectly fine, but if we really want to fix things we need those who can to be more involved, that’s all.
voting is not harm reduction
It’s this absolutely blind adherence to a party that pretends to care about you. You’re just looking like a tool thinking Democrats aren’t racist fascists, thinking they aren’t taking corrupt money and skirting the will of the people.
You bring up student debt, but forgot to mention that Biden is funding Trump’s Hitlerian wall. Biden busted unions. Gaza.
Sounds like you’re the one dumbing down your own beliefs to feel comfortable with the Democratic Party.
