When compared to say Project 2025 or Trump’s policy agenda. In fact, the second Trump presidency may be for sale; but before I explain that, let’s back up a little. Last summer Trump decried lobbyists. “You have to stop listening to lobbyists,” he said, “They’re m[...]
Posts Tagged ‘corruption’
September 7th, 2024 - 1:33 am § in Law and Courts
Why is Justice Alito taking gifts from a German bigot?
Supreme Court justices can’t be fired. Congress can impeach and remove them for bad behavior, but that requires bipartisan cooperation. A few decades ago that was possible; but today’s Republican Party is so dysfunctional, and so invested in the blatantly partisan decisions of the worst [...]
Can the Democrats fix the Supreme Court?
The first question to ask is whether the court is broken. I would argue yes. Many other people think so, too. Polls show this is the least trusted court in generations. It’s widely seen as a partisan body. Vox describes it as “essentially [a] policymaking arm of the Republican Party̶[...]
July 18th, 2024 - 11:54 pm § in China
Don’t use commie cooking oil, it’ll give you a gut ache
Capitalism has crooks like this guy, but communism is worse. In fact, China is one of the world’s more corrupt countries (see ratings here and article here), so they can’t say their system is superior to ours in that respect. Feloniously sloppy airplane assembly is bad, but so far has on[...]
Democratic senator convicted of corruption
A jury convicted Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), 70, of “bribery, acting as a foreign agent and a slew of other charges,” The Hill reported on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 (read story here). The charges involved, among other things, undisclosed gifts from a donor. Menendez (photo, left) brushed asi[...]
Thomas and Alito deserve to be impeached
Justice Thomas took millions in undisclosed gifts, and refused to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases even though his wife was neck-deep in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election, even calling Trump’s chief of staff. Justice Alito also failed to report expensive gifts, including a luxury fishing [...]
May 25th, 2023 - 12:58 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Ethics probe slams GOP attorney general’s crimes and corruption
A GOP-led investigation of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (photo, left), a Republican, accused him of “committing multiple crimes in office — including felonies — during an extraordinary public airing of scandal and alleged lawbreaking that plunged one of the GOP’s conservative stars [...]
How to start a rumor
Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife are neck deep in cash and lavish gifts. Billionaire Harlan Crow treated the Thomases to exotic vacations, travel on jet planes and lounging on yachts, bought his mother’s home and lets her live there rent free, and paid private school tuition for a nephew h[...]
The $2 billion bribe
Saudi Arabia can afford it. After all, it’s an investment. The Washington Post reported, “The day after leaving the White House, Kushner created a company that he transformed months later into a private equity firm with $2 billion from a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Saudi Crown Prin[...]
Mississippi genocide
You may remember the white Republicans who run Mississippi stole nearly $100 million of federal TANF funds intended for the state’s poor, many of whom are black. Two million dollars was paid to retired NFL player Brett Favre as “speaking fees” for talks he never gave, which he refu[...]