Judd Legum reports today on the attempt of the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission, packed with judges appointed by Republican chief justice Newby, to silence Supreme Court justice Anita Earls, the only Black woman on the court.
Her alleged misconduct? She has criticized the state Supreme Court for its handling of issues of racial and gender discrimination. So the court wants to make her shut up.
#NorthCarolina #court #discrimination #race #gender
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https://popular.info/p/top-north-carolina-judge-faces-potential
And as Heather Cox Richardson writes, in North Carolina's daughter state of Tennessee, at a special legislative session, Republicans blocked the public from holding signs and kicked the public out of a hearing. They also passed rules that can prohibit Democrats from speaking.
#Tennessee #Republicans #racism #democracy
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Judd Legum reports today on the attempt of the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission, packed with judges appointed by Republican chief justice Newby, to silence Supreme Court justice Anita Earls, the only Black woman on the court.
Her alleged misconduct? She has criticized the state Supreme Court for its handling of issues of racial and gender discrimination. So the court wants to make her shut up.
#NorthCarolina #court #discrimination #race #gender
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https://popular.info/p/top-north-carolina-judge-faces-potential
nostr:npub1y0sqcehlrcaa7uvuhfh4e494wp7xa3cjpucktvpx2ajv98qv0ccszqpzt3 Some of us do not have the luxury not to hope.
nostr:npub1ecxs6u4pmtqam74y8scdfkzanuxmeqv2x74c66wws7499kpl7kcs2m8f8a Thanks for correcting my mistake. I appreciate it.
New York attorney general Letitia Janes announces in a court filing that "Trump had falsely boosted his net worth by between $812 million and $2.2 billion each year over the course of a decade." The evidence for this is "undisputed," she asserts.
~ William K. Rashbaum, Ben Protess, and Jonah E. Bromwich
#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #InmateP01135809 #insurrection
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/nyregion/trump-james-civil-lawsuit-trial.html
Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains why Mark Meadows' mugshot haunts her:
"Meadows’ mug shot, which displays a mix of anger and exhaustion, is an artifact from a particular tradition: political elites who enabled authoritarians and then found themselves on the wrong side of history. He glares at the camera, likely not quite believing that this is actually happening to him."
#Trump #Meadows #crime #BigLie #insurrection #authoritarianism
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/why-mark-meadows-mug-shot-haunts
"Although there is a shade of humiliation, there is no visible remorse. Like so many others in the GOP, Meadows would likely do it all again if he knew it would succeed."
A dangerous combination, moral vacuity combined with extreme arrogance. Mark Meadows has this combination in spades.
#Trump #Meadows #crime #BigLie #insurrection #authoritarianism
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains why Mark Meadows' mugshot haunts her:
"Meadows’ mug shot, which displays a mix of anger and exhaustion, is an artifact from a particular tradition: political elites who enabled authoritarians and then found themselves on the wrong side of history. He glares at the camera, likely not quite believing that this is actually happening to him."
#Trump #Meadows #crime #BigLie #insurrection #authoritarianism
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/why-mark-meadows-mug-shot-haunts
nostr:npub1y0sqcehlrcaa7uvuhfh4e494wp7xa3cjpucktvpx2ajv98qv0ccszqpzt3 I don't know if he'll do time. What I do know is that he's facing multiple indictments, so things — serious things — are taking place on multiple legal fronts. Whether he can worm his way out of multiple criminal charges remains to be seen. I'm not one for predicting the future, and my hope is always measured against reality. But I believe in holding onto hope and it's a hopeful development that he's being charged for multiple crimes.
nostr:npub1t3d0yc2kmf6qqcd7tg63smeg7r9xdvea734kr9mmklfdvuk0f2wszwqnlg I think Fani Willis is a superb prosecutor and legal mind and will be steps ahead of the tricks of the defense teams of the indicted co-conspirators. I suppose I'm less sanguine about some of the judges who will be overseeing these legal proceedings.
nostr:npub1mfq6yq3gmhs8wy5gvynwpjh4xmua4rh80tegxv8rjuf3kpukk95swcfur3 nostr:npub1px9prtjuza0vmqe57uy7hkhu8j8fl3kjygn9vcfq3ffjkcjc2tws4uv9r5 I see. Thanks for explaining that. The cartoon puzzled me since I assumed the man with a gun (well, maybe I'm assuming it's a man, too) was a Black man.
nostr:npub1kr85r3xf07he4ccf98a7826v3cafxmw4w88shjrrndp3304fgehqqxznpx Yes, the term "pro-life" clearly means all of those things — and the vast majority of "pro-life" voters in the US reject them.
nostr:npub148rwe7md46exnal9hqc9xpnkhnm8sy9mcfn25dwuw9xah0m3upaq57m85g It's actually Alexander Topping, whom I'm quoteing above, who speaks of a "change in law." Because marriage is both a church ritual and a secular contract recognized by the state (if., that is, a couple wants the former), then ministers performing marriages have to be sure to conform to what the law in their society permits vis-a-vis marriage.
nostr:npub16qptyvc6446hu66ahlluvymv7eu9f4q32e567d7mxqk7l5acu4wqz2u0e9 I'm in favor of defeating them at the ballot box — but that depends on the willingness of way too many apathetic voters to get out and vote in coming elections.
nostr:npub1cwe62gxk04ydmu0fprjqscfm0u26w7xs2cx30xev9059nrgltwcqmywxlz I hear you. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I'm living back in my home state of Arkansas. It's hard to imagine a sadder, more dismal example of the corruption, anti-intellectualism, and religious lunacy now driving the Republican party than by examining what's happening in the sad, relatively poor, dismally undereducated state of Arkansas.
nostr:npub1k6vhty6nyda69286vg7x36txvth35kn6adnjep2nt8t8tz5k5sesluwdqx Yes, a real nest of vipers — and they don't intend to stop their viperous behavior.
nostr:npub1y0sqcehlrcaa7uvuhfh4e494wp7xa3cjpucktvpx2ajv98qv0ccszqpzt3 Yes, we will see.
And we're already seeing.
"THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a reminder of the insidious imbalance of conspiracy theories: They are always easier to state than to disprove. RFK Jr. can make a claim in minutes that can take hours to dispute and explain. Give him three hours—say, the length of a Joe Rogan episode—and RFK Jr. can unspool so many falsehoods and semi-truths that untangling them fully would require a book-length response."
~ Bill Wirtz
#RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-science-conspiracy-theories
"I simply have to observe this: It probably irks Trump to no small degree that the professionalism, experience and skill of three powerful Black women—District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia, Attorney General Letitia James in New York, and the Hon. Tanya Chutkan in D.C.—will largely determine his fate and even his freedom in this era of accountability.
Karma sometimes has a wicked sense of irony."
#Chutkan #FaniWillis #LetitiaJames #Trump #LawandOrder #BlackWomen
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"The way in which Judge Chutkan conducted herself—cool, no nonsense, factual—was in stark contrast to the tone of Trump’s lawyer, John Lauro. It sets up a dynamic and a model that other judges could look to when dealing with a bombastic, aggressive defense from Trump’s team."
~ Jay Kuo
#Chutkan #JudgeChutkan #Trump #crime #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie #insurrection
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/all-rise-for-judge-tanya-chutkan
"Pro-tip: If you’re a rich, white, famous defendant, you shouldn’t invoke a case comparing yourself to a group of Black teens who were falsely accused of rape, railroaded into show trials without effective counsel, and then unjustly sentenced to death. And you really shouldn’t do that before a Black judge who was a former public defender. To do so, as retired Judge LaDoris Cordell remarked to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, was not only wrong but 'stunningly stupid.'”
#Chutkan #Trump #LawandOrder
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