Let’s take a look at some of the tweaks the Supreme Court made to the lower courts’ code of conduct. Swapping out “judge” for “justice” makes perfect sense, but a few of these edits ought to raise eyebrows.
Here’s the “no ratting out your colleagues” switch:
Note here the addition of “knowingly.”
Deleted: “that a judge’s conduct contravened this Code, that a judicial employee’s conduct contravened this Code, that a judicial employee’s conduct contravened the Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees, or that a lawyer violated applicable rules of professional conduct.”
"Shall" is swapped for "should."
"Shall" swapped for “should,” and “knowingly” sprinkled in a few more times.
And one more excerpt.
Setting aside the main problem of no process/no umpires, even the Code itself is watered down for Their Olympian Highnesses.
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The latest shadow docket decision moves the Supreme Court further down a submissive pattern of wins given up to Trump: the pattern is 10:1. 🧵
Courts allow bias to be assessed using evidence of pattern, so what’s good for the goose should be good for gander, and pattern evidence should be fair game.
Particularly when the shadow docket allows this Supreme Court to submit to Trump without explanation, pattern is all we’re left with.
Saying the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in D.C. had issued an order, challenging me “Do you want me to violate a court order?”
The judge later all but said on the record there was no order; Patel was free all along to disclose his own grand jury testimony as a witness in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
Republicans still grouse about Harry Reid “going nuclear” ONCE, way back in 2013, to undo their blockade of D.C. Circuit judicial nominees. Supreme Court nominees were negotiated out of that.
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Then, when Republicans had the majority and wanted to jam partisan justices onto the Supreme Court, they went nuclear. Happily. So much for their complaining; so much for the deal exempting the Supreme Court.
Senate Republicans have now gone nuclear THREE TIMES in the last few months (four, technically, if you count going nuclear twice in this episode). All the big talk while we were in the majority, all the early assurances — POOF! Pure fakery.
After Trump’s fossil-fuel goons shut down Revolution Wind, I’ve been waiting for the phone to ring with the ransom demand.
But maybe this is attempted murder, not extortion, and there will be no demand.
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That moves us to litigation, where my experience tells me the discovery phase will be fascinating as the lawyers dig into the true motivations and scheming behind this ugly fossil-fuel thuggery.
In the meantime, it’s worth spotlighting the corruption. This is a switcheroo to replace the clean energy electrons from Revolution with polluting fossil-fuel-generated electrons, adding revenues to Trump’s political patrons and string-pullers.
Team Trump is purposefully raising your electricity prices, hoping you’ll be mad at your electric utility and not blame them. The benefit to them is extra dollars for their greedy fossil fuel donors.
Here’s how it works. 🧵
1. The Trumpsters make good on their crooked deal with fossil fuel donors to harass and harm fossil fuel’s clean energy competitors, competitors who actually made up 95% of all new power added to the grid last year.
2. Delaying that clean energy coming on line puts more dependence on polluting fossil fuel, so more pollution (they don’t care, they get to pollute for free) but also more consumption, meaning more revenue (bingo!) to fossil fuel.