As part of her sworn testimony in that case, Jane [Roberts, wife of Chief Justice Roberts] summed up the modus operandi of the Supreme Court and its circle with a line that could have come straight from the Godfather’s lips: “Successful people have successful friends.”
Mob Justice
What do plutocrats and Supreme Court members get from being friends?
By Brooke Harrington @TheAtlantic #scotus https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-ethics-neil-gorsuch-john-roberts/673967/ #clarencethomas #harlancrow #mafia #thegodfather #neilgorsuch #SupremeCourt
@jackhutton @TheAtlantic If you successfully purchase politicians & elections, you get to successfully select your very own hand-picked judges.
Branching off from successes, you may wine & dine your puppet officials & judges, pay for their homes, send their wards to private school, take them on vacations around the world as your "guests", & you might find success from their rulings that enrich you further.
Success breeds success. Go figure.
I think you overlook the existence of voters in the US system of government.
Stories of purchasing elections have been generally debunked as nothing more than conspiracy theory.
I like how I pointed out that you're overlooking voters, and you reply with a bunch of articles that... overlook voters.
If the voter does not matter in voting, then none of this matters anyway so why talk about it?
Fortunately, yes, voters do matter in voting, and it's pretty ridiculous to say otherwise.
@volkris @HarryCallahan @TheAtlantic the Roberts Court —a captured court, has enacted Citizens United, the group Leonard Leo had Kellyanne Conway bill $25 to give as a bribe to Ginni Thomas submitted an amicus brief on the case that eviscerated voter rights legislation. This is going on now. The Senate needs to hold hearings, issue subpoenas—
You as a soldier of the fake engagement right would like Americans to throw up their hands — very Putinesque.
Here's a link directly to the Citizens United ruling where you can see for yourself that Kennedy, not exactly a diehard conservative, laid out that the government could not stand in the way of voters receiving information from each other, ESPECIALLY as such restriction favors big, rich, and powerful voices who could get around them.
Citizens United was a decision in favor of voters.
The rest of your conspiracy theory rant holds just as little water as your misinformation regarding CU.
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep558/usrep558310/usrep558310.pdf
@volkris @HarryCallahan @TheAtlantic Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States - Harvard Law Review https://harvardlawreview.org/forum/no-volume/identifying-and-minimizing-the-risk-of-election-subversion-and-stolen-elections-in-the-contemporary-united-states/
@volkris @HarryCallahan @TheAtlantic volkris, the fake engagement bot, troll, ignores the the simple fact that the objective of these dark money efforts is election subversion— the vote is irrelevant. The outcome is guaranteed to accommodate the corporate right policy — low taxes, no regulation..
The voter does not matter. Minority rule.