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I really wish the graft was open and public knowledge. Then we can make counter-offers. "if you protect the US constitution, we'll provide two motorcoaches and three overseas trips to the country of your choice."
I'm sure ~~Suzanne Collins~~ Barrett will do the right thing.
I think you mean the alt-right thing.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In addition to giving him practical immunity from prosecution, the court restored his name to the ballot in states that had banned him because of his participation in the Jan. 6 attempt to reverse Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
The court’s other conservatives spent much of their careers before becoming judges as acolytes of Republican presidents, toiling in the White House or the Justice Department, and viewing opposition party attacks as an assault on presidential power.
In contrast, Justice Barrett grew up in Louisiana and spent almost all of her professional life in academia at Notre Dame Law School in South Bend, Ind., far from the power politics of Washington.
After all, the court decided the majority of its non-unanimous cases by a 6-to-3 vote along ideological lines—the most important being the decision to give Trump and future presidents sweeping immunity from prosecution.
But as it turned out in this term at least, the Fifth Circuit, populated with lots of young and aggressive Trump Appointees, was firmly rebuffed by the Supreme Court’s conservative and liberal justices.
Indeed, FixTheCourt, an organization dedicated to greater court transparency, found that Justice Clarence Thomas had received some $4.2 million in gifts and luxury trips over the past 20 years, much of it from Republican megadonors.
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