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On Fri, 6 Oct 2023 20:44:39 -0700, Alan says...
"A" judge"? LOL Unilateral decisions like this ALWAYS get reversed on appeal.
Give an example.
Look them up yourself, bitch.
I did.
About 7,960,000 results (0.48 seconds)
Nothing is final, until it goes to The SCOTUS.
The bought and paid-for SCOTUS you mean?
Jes. Are the justices who are considered "left-wing" immune from receiving gifts?
No.
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Liberal Justice Elena Kagan Pocketed Over $141,500 from Harvard While On the Court; Refused to Recuse from Harvard Affirmative Action Case
As noted in the title, Justice Elena Kagan refused to recuse from the Harvard affirmative action case despite being employed by Harvard teaching with greatly out-sized compensation given the course was only a week-long seminar. From 2011 to 2019, Justice Kagan took between $14-17,500 each year to teach this course; all while a sitting Supreme Court Justice. Yet when Harvard's interests were before the Court this last term, she did not recuse and voted in conference on whether to help Harvard continue its discriminatory practices. It is predicted that her vote favors Harvard's interests.
Additionally, in 2021 she received compensation for transportation, hotels, and meals from Harvard. In each of the years between 2011 and 2019, she also received compensation (sometimes on multiple occasions) from Harvard for such transportation, hotels, and meals. Thus her total compensation from Harvard exceeds just the $141,500 direct cash payments.
2021 Financial Disclosure: Received undisclosed amount for transportation, hotel, and meals from Harvard Law School |
https://fixthecourt.com/wp- content/uploads/2022/06/Kagan-E-J3.-SC_SR_21.pdf
2019 Financial Disclosure: Visiting Professor (August 2019) Harvard Law School; Received $17,500.00 Income |
https://fixthecourt.com/wp- content/uploads/2020/06/Kagan-E-J3.-SC_SR_19.pdf
2018 Financial Disclosure: Visiting Professor (August 2018) Harvard Law School; Received $17,500.00 Income |
https://fixthecourt.com/wp- content/uploads/2019/06/Kagan-2018.pdf
2017 Financial Disclosure: Visiting Professor (August 2017) Harvard Law School; Received $17,500.00 Income |
https://fixthecourt.com/wp- content/uploads/2018/06/Kagan-E-J3.-SUP_R_17.pdf
2016 Financial Disclosure: Visiting Professor (September 2016) Harvard Law School; Received $15,000.00 Income
https://fixthecourt.com/wp- content/uploads/2017/06/Kagan-2016-Financial-Disclosure-Report.pdf
2015 Financial Disclosure: Visiting Professor (September 2015) Harvard Law School; Received $15,000.00 Income |
https://fixthecourt.com/wp- content/uploads/2016/06/Kagan-2015.pdf
2014 Financial Disclosure: Visiting Professor (September 2014) Harvard Law School; Received $15,000.00 Income |
https://fixthecourt.com/wp- content/uploads/2015/11/Kagan-Disclosure-2014.pdf
2013 Financial Disclosure: Visiting Professor (September 2013) Harvard Law School; Received $14,000.00 Income |
https://pfds.opensecrets.org/N99999916_ 2013.pdf
2012 Financial Disclosure: Visiting Professor (September 2012) Harvard Law School; Received $15,000.00 Income |
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/710473/kagan-2012- 2012.pdf
2011 Financial Disclosure: Visiting Professor (September 2011) Harvard Law School; Received $15,000.00 Income |
https://pfds.opensecrets.org/N99999916_ 2011.pdf
Personally, I don't have any concerns about this. But I know there are a lot of other users who are concerned about this kind of thing so I thought I would share for their benefit.
People are saying the court is de-legitimizing itself in the eyes of the people, but I think the partisan press attacks are the driving force for this.
The partisan press attacks, in coordination with the congress-critters who find the Supreme Court to be useful targets.
Basically. At this point I'm completely willing to say that, as long as I see little deviation from an SC Justice's history of decisions, I don't care what they do or who they rub elbows with. This is just folks pouncing on the fact that they're upset that the Court isn't doing things they like anymore and SCOTUS has finally decided to tell Congress and the Executive to get off their asses and do their jobs.
And also, quite frankly, the People (myself included) are uninformed. The average American has no knowledge on how our gov't. is supposed to work, what separation-of-powers means, or how the checks and balances are supposed to function. Plus, we really don't need to be commenting on these issues when most of us get our news from the internet and biased news organizations that sell outrage and click-bait.
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Sonia Sotomayor Got FINE Art
Sotomayor was confirmed to the high court in 2009, and in her first three years on the bench, SHE DISCLOSED MORE GIFTS - AND PROVIDED MORE DETAILS ABOUT THEM - THAN ANY OF HER COLLEAGUES.
Some of the items she listed in her early years sound worthy of a modern art gallery. In 2011, she received a "translucent composite print," apparently by the California photographer Robert Weingarten, worth $6,000. In 2010, she received an "Einstein sculpture," by the artist Robert Berks, worth $1,500. And in 2009, she received a watercolor painting of three owls, worth $1,125.
Elena Kaman Got A Signed Book By Felix Frankfurter
In her 13 years on the court, Kagan has disclosed just one gift: a signed first edition of The Public and Its Government by former Justice Felix Frankfurter in 2015. It was given to her by the University of Chicago Law School, and she reported the value as $499.94.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg got a $1 million prize. Got caught, donated it.
How long before those scandals start to really break?
Probably never.
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SCOTUS Justices Went on Cushy Teaching Trips To Italy, Iceland, And The UK Funded By A Conservative Law School: NYT
Neil Gorsuch went to Padua, Italy, in 2018 and to Iceland in 2021, where he was joined by Elena Kagan.
She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 10, 2010, and has served since August 7, 2010.
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Joe Biden Is More Racist Than Republicans
"Americans can't distinguish "between a South Korean and someone from
Beijing." - Joe Biden
Yup... they all look alike, Joe.
Old-Rich-White-Religious Freak, Joe Biden Bragged About His Ability to Work With Racists
Old-Rich-White-Religious Freak, Joe Biden Brags About a Segregationist Democrat Not Calling Him "Boy" Like He Did Others
Used Racist Term "Roaches" to Describe Black Kids Who Felt His Hairy Legs
Praised Democrat Segregationist Sen. John Stennis(D) as "Man of Character"
"Segregation Is Good for Black People" - Joe Biden
"(The) Democrat Party Needs More People Like Racist Democrat Governor George Wallace." - Joe Biden
Gave Speech About What's "Good for the Negro"
"... if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black..." - Joe Biden
"If my opponent wins, they're going to put y'all back in chains." - Joe Biden
Funny, since Democrats have been KEEPING Blacks "in chains" for 60 years, and PUT them there, in the first place. Lincoln and Frederick Douglas and H.R. Revels, Benjamin S. Turner, Josiah T. Walls, Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. De Large, Jefferson H. Long, R. Brown Elliot were ALL Republicans
http://www.wordfoundations.com/wp- content/uploads/2016/08/First_Colored_Senator_and_Representatives.jpg
"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle." - Joe Biden
Jungle: Slang term for a city or urban area.
"You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking." - Joe Biden
Only people from India can work at 7-11?
"Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids" - Joe Biden... as opposed to "White Kids"? That would imply all poor kids are Black.
"I do not buy the concept, popular in the '60s, which said, "We have suppressed the black man for 300 years." - Joe Biden
Seems that THAT'S exactly what Democrats have been saying, ever since they found out that they could buy their votes so easily with free shit.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean." - Joe Biden
What... they're not SUPPOSED to be?
"We (Delawareans) were on the South's side in the Civil War." - Joe Biden
"I mean these Shylocks (Jews) who took advantage of, um, these women and men while overseas." - Joe Biden (Not "racist", per se, but still...)
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