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Richie Bittner's avatar

Someplace I read that John Roberts has an acute sense of what history will make of his tenure as Chief Justice. Nonsense, his place in history gets cemented with every decision handed down. They take positions that are clearly at odds with what the founders intended, what they wrote down and what became the constitution. Rendition to third countries without due process? Yeah, that's in there. My slight hope that Roberts and Coney-Barrett would somehow come to thier senses has been destroyed, back to stammering in disbelief.

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Beatriz Roman's avatar

That "discussion" by town board members made it sound like it had never occurred to them to have disclosure forms to sign every year (truthfully). Smaller less impact full boards have those forms, but the lax and self-interested attitude toward ethics has their slips showing, so to speak. Thank you for watching and reporting their shenanigans from afar. Your information about factory workers once again points to the need for workers who absolutely, desperately need jobs to survive with their families, and many of those travel far and wide for the privilege of employment. But racism and bigotry prevail in our current administration, glaringly biting the hand that feeds class society. Sotomayor's signature tells me that the rage and righteous indignation she should feel toward her biased colleagues has turned to hopelessness. It is interesting that the millions made by a democratic Supreme Court Judge for her book has made recent headlines, while other glaring perks garnered by long standing Supreme Court judges are literally glossed over. They absolutely need to expose their own conflicts of interest/ethics criteria also. What a rotten mess this all is.

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