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.
And yet, voters did, indeed, vote for candidates who won.
You can talk all day about WHY voters voted as they did, but at the end of the day, it was their decision whom to empower.
