"Sam Alito is the most pompous of the current Leonard Leo justices. Clarence Thomas is the most corrupt. Brett Kavanaugh is the most nakedly partisan. But John Roberts is the most dangerous, the most insidious, the most fascistic, and, worst of all, the most appealing in the eyes of the press—despite the severe and possibly fatal damage he’s done to our democracy."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #LeonardLeo #corruption
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"And who pays the price? Pregnant women who cannot access necessary healthcare. Children who get gunned down by the score in schools all across the country. Minorities who have seen their federal civil rights protections evaporate. Consumers of tainted cold cuts. And, just to pull something out of today’s news, homeowners in the path of Hurricane Helene, victims of the climate change the GOP & its stooges on the Supreme Court will deny until Florida is underwater."

#SupremeCourt #corruption
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I wonder what Greg Olear really thinks of the Robert Supreme Court and of John Roberts himself:

'Leonard Leo and the rightwing machine decide what outcomes they want, they game the lower court system to get the Supreme Court to take on the requisite cases, and then Roberts & Co. pull shit out of their collective ass to produce a ruling that pleases their rightwing whoremasters."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #LeonardLeo #corruption
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gregolear.substack.com/p/john-…

John Roberts Doesn't Want You to Vote

A conversation with David Daley, bestselling author of "Ratf*cked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count," about his new book, "Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections"

^{Greg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)}

NEW: The Supreme Court DENIES a stay of execution for Marcellus Williams. All three honest, professional, legitimate judges dissent.

The christo-fascist republicans vote to kill.

#scotus #corruption

🔫 Mining company tied to Cambodian military officials grabs community forest

news.mongabay.com/2024/09/mini…

#cambodia #forests #deforestation #globalsouth #crime #politics #corruption

Mining company tied to Cambodian military officials grabs community forest

STUNG TRENG, Cambodia — Rain poured down in torrential sheets as Ouk Mao guided reporters through the winding dirt tracks that were, in August, rutted with deep trenches of mud and rainwater as Cambodia’s wet season began in earnest.

^{Isabel Esterman (Conservation news)}

✊ Opinion: Bangladesh's civil service is plagued by corruption—the country can't get back on its feet without major reform

phys.org/news/2024-09-opinion-…

#bangladesh #southasia #politics #corruption

Opinion: Bangladesh's civil service is plagued by corruption—the country can't get back on its feet without major reform

A quota system to reserve jobs in the civil service for specific groups, including descendants of war veterans, became the Achilles heel of Bangladesh's authoritarian prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.

^{Jonathan Lord (Phys.org)}

"The Trump-appointed judge [i.e., Aileen Cannon] who threw out the former president’s criminal classified documents case wasn’t up-front about her own conflicts, and now the details of her backroom liaisons are beginning to trickle out."

~ Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

#AileenCannon #Republicans #corruption #judiciary

newrepublic.com/post/186101/ai…

Judge Cannon Is Hiding a Far-Right Lecture Circuit

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s classified documents case has failed to disclose multiple speaking appearances.

^{The New Republic}

Funniest moment during public comment was when someone said:

“If you are so concerned about women being bought maybe you should look over at [Councilmember] Tanya woo”

Which Tanya Woo is such a clown car of corruption and backdoor dealing I don't even know where to start but she's definitely the most bought woman in Seattle 🫠
thestranger.com/news/2024/07/0…

#Seattle #TanyaWoo #CityCouncil #Corruption

Council Member Tanya Woo Decries Graffiti Targeting Her in the CID as Hateful

Woo's response to graffiti contained some inconsistencies.

^{Ashley Nerbovig (The Stranger)}

It bugs me that we never learned what actually happened with Doug Ericksen's passing and his conduct in the years before it.

What was he doing in El Salvador? Where did he actually die? What were the details of his involvement with Cambodia?

cbsnews.com/news/doug-ericksen…

#Republican #Corruption #DougEricksen #ElSalvador #Cambodia

Washington state Sen. Doug Ericksen dies after COVID battle at age 52

Ericksen's death Friday came weeks after he said he had tested positive for the coronavirus while in El Salvador.

^{CBS News}