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Bette with tonight's SNAP tweet of the week... (Crooked Clarence) (Original Post) Pluvious Apr 2023 OP
Seems about right gratuitous Apr 2023 #1
EXACTLY TigressDem Apr 2023 #12
What an Ugly Stupid MF Cha Apr 2023 #2
K&R Blue Owl Apr 2023 #3
K and R...Thanks for posting.. Stuart G Apr 2023 #4
NO SHIT Skittles Apr 2023 #5
Nailed it republianmushroom Apr 2023 #6
ty - k&r, rt n/t orleans Apr 2023 #7
Exactly my thought Richard D Apr 2023 #8
Coke Can Clarence isn't incapable MontanaMama Apr 2023 #9
SNAP is right. JudyM Apr 2023 #10
Nothing. An article a few months ago reported how Roberts' wife earns a large income from Lonestarblue Apr 2023 #16
Right, Congress, too... so many are compromised, themselves. Credit to those who are stepping up JudyM Apr 2023 #20
Excellent point! calimary Apr 2023 #11
K&R TigressDem Apr 2023 #13
Rec malaise Apr 2023 #14
Exactly. niyad Apr 2023 #15
And there it is, in one sentence. (nt) Paladin Apr 2023 #17
Of course nothing will be done nuxvomica Apr 2023 #18
Indeed! nt Wounded Bear Apr 2023 #19
Why be logical? dlk Apr 2023 #21
K&R MustLoveBeagles Apr 2023 #22
Damn right 3auld6phart Apr 2023 #23
Skull and Bones thanks you, America. He be Bushie. Remember? czarjak Apr 2023 #24
LOL! burrowowl Apr 2023 #25

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. Seems about right
Mon Apr 17, 2023, 10:57 PM
Apr 2023

Also, if you're making rules for the rest of us to live (or in the case of women, die) by, you should at least follow the rules that apply to you. Or get the hell off the bench, you fraud.

MontanaMama

(24,331 posts)
9. Coke Can Clarence isn't incapable
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 12:12 AM
Apr 2023

of understanding the constitution. He understands it all…he just doesn’t care and believes it doesn’t apply to him.

Lonestarblue

(12,443 posts)
16. Nothing. An article a few months ago reported how Roberts' wife earns a large income from
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 09:12 AM
Apr 2023

her work for firms with cases before the Supreme Court. Alito has helped “friends” who cultivated him by leaking decisions before they were announced. And heaven knows that Kavanaugh’s debt relief rescue probably can’t stand much scrutiny.

“Jane Sullivan Roberts, a legal recruiter, has earned “millions” in commissions for recruiting attorneys for jobs at law firms, which include firms that have cases before the Supreme Court, her former colleague Kendal Price said, according to a letter obtained by the Times.

Price provided records to the federal government showing commissions the justice’s wife earned between 2007 and 2014, and asked for an inquiry into the matter, arguing it should be mandatory for justices to disclose information about their spouses’ work.“

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/chief-justice-roberts-wife-is-latest-supreme-court-spouse-to-spark-ethics-concerns/ar-AA16XwsF

JudyM

(29,540 posts)
20. Right, Congress, too... so many are compromised, themselves. Credit to those who are stepping up
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 10:30 AM
Apr 2023

here to challenge Robert’s.

I hope ProPublica gets plenty of donations to keep digging more broadly, and that the rest of the media boosts coverage on this too.

nuxvomica

(13,200 posts)
18. Of course nothing will be done
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 09:54 AM
Apr 2023

But this becomes another argument for expanding the court when we take back the House. There should be more talk about that as a solution so that it weighs heavily on Roberts that this is where things are going.

dlk

(12,597 posts)
21. Why be logical?
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 11:22 AM
Apr 2023

Republican corruption is in our faces and they are daring us to do anything about it.

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