"Peter Navarro —an architect of the attempt to overthrow democracy- serving federal time for contempt of Congress, was promised by Trump in prison that he would be hired back at the White House, joining a long line of felons and the disbarred who will work for Trump again." Michael Popok explains:
You might not see this MTN Meidastouch Network post a corporate news site. Maybe on page 32 of The New York Times:
"In addition to promising to pardon J6 defendants who beat police officers, and sharing the stage with 2 gang members currently out on bond for a 140 count indictment including conspiracy to commit murder, Trump finished up the week pledging to commute the sentence of one of the most notorious drug traffickers in American history.
Trump was given a list today by the Libertarian Party of the Top 10 most important issues for delegates attending their National Convention this weekend. The first item on that list was to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht.
Ulbricht created the dark web network called Silk Road which was used to traffic narcotics to over 100,000 buyers in hundreds of kilos of a variety of drugs. The drugs sales using Ulbricht's network totaled over $183 million. Ulbricht was convicted at trial of 7 counts of distributing narcotics and was sentenced to two life sentences without the possibility of parole. The Supreme Court refused to hear his final appeal in 2018."
Ron Filipkowski is a former federal and state prosecutor. A Marine and former Republican, Filipkowski has amassed a massive following for his reporting exposing those who threaten American democracy. Filipkowski is the editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch.com and co-hosts the hit podcast 'Uncovered' on the MeidasTouch Network.
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Trump Pledges to Commute Life Sentence of Drug Trafficker Serving Life
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May 25, 2024
The top of the Washington Post site states, “Democracy dies in darkness.”
It’s “BLUE HOUR” 20 minutes to darkness, The Washington Post is finally partly accepting the reality that another President Trump will be a dictator leading a KLEPTOIDIOCRACY!
The Washington Post
Opinion Trump’s fascist talk is what’s ‘poisoning the blood of our country’
Dem Leaders STRIKE BACK at CORRUPT Supreme Court:
"When a second flag was discovered flying, this time over Alito’s New Jersey home, the Times reported that the “Appeal to Heaven” flag in question was also “carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021” and “is now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms.” And this symbol of Christian nationalism was aloft Alito’s house in 2023.
With a second flag story, Durbin got huffy on social media. “This incident is yet another example of apparent ethical misconduct by a sitting justice, and it adds to the Court’s ongoing ethical crisis,” he tweeted. “Justice Alito must recuse himself immediately from cases related to the 2020 election and the January 6th insurrection.”
In response to Durbin’s empty words, constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe declared that the issue was no longer “just about the insurrection-abetting Sam Alito, [but] about the AWOL Senator Durbin.” Tribe added, “He has no excuse for not holding hearings about Alito now.”
After all, Alito cannot very well blame his wife or another rude neighbor for this violation of the principle of judicial impartiality. The second flag not only sheds doubt on the veracity of the first round of excuses; it suggest he harbors an affinity for an antidemocratic group that defines the United States as a White Christian country, repudiates the division between law and Christian dogma and views the United States as under siege from secular forces. At the very least it suggest the appearance of such partiality. That is a gigantic problem for a justice who is required by statute to be and appear impartial. On issues involving the establishment of religion, gay rights and abortion, litigants opposing the Christian nationalist viewpoint should not have confidence they are dealing with a fair and impartial court.
Durbin inadvertently revealed in a statement just how derelict he has been:
The Senate Judiciary Committee has been investigating the ethical crisis at the Court for more than a year, and that investigation continues. And we remain focused on ensuring the Supreme Court adopts an enforceable code of conduct, which we can do by passing the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act.
More than a year?! (Well, at least we know he has remained “focused” on ethics reform.)
Alito’s misconduct also brings Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who heads an entire branch of government, to an inflection point. If he does nothing, Roberts is complicit in the destruction of the court’s reputation. Such spinelessness might even snatch from Roger B. Taney, the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott, the title of “worst chief justice ever.”
In one sign the pressure on Durbin is building, he and Judiciary Committee member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) released a letter to Roberts imploring him to make certain that Alito recuses himself “in any cases related to the 2020 presidential election and January 6th attack on the Capitol, including the question of former President Trump’s immunity from prosecution.” They requested a meeting with Roberts “as soon as possible.” They continued, “Until the Court and the Judicial Conference take meaningful action to address this ongoing ethical crisis, we will continue our efforts to enact legislation to resolve this crisis.” Though Roberts is unlikely to agree, a refusal might then spur Durbin into taking meaningful action.
To be blunt, Durbin’s oath of office to protect the Constitution demands he do something. And Alito’s grotesque malfeasance tests not only Durbin, but also Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). His credibility and fidelity to his oath remain in question unless he can push Durbin to take real action.
Without hearings, no short-term response (e.g. passage of ethics reform, investigation of any grounds for impeachment) or medium-term fix (e.g. elevating the Supreme Court as a voting issue) to Alito’s bias — and his affinity for an anti-constitutional movement that his oath of office obliges him to oppose — can be attained.
The long-term imperative must be to educate the public about the extent to which the court has been compromised. Only then can democracy defenders build consensus for serious reform such as term limits or the appointment of additional judges to rebalance the court and restore its stature. That process should begin now.
Furthermore, when a future court (soon, we hope) reexamines some of the era’s most reckless, precedent-wrecking and historically cherry-picked cases, the questionable legality of justices sitting on cases in violation of legal recusal requirements (28 U.S.C. §455) should be a valid consideration in determining the opinions’ precedential value. Put differently, overtly ideological, biased judges may have muscled through radical opinions, but that does not mean we should take the tainted pronouncements of robed partisans as the definitive word on controversial topics.
Alito’s misconduct, if unaddressed, would make the 2024 election a referendum on the court. Barring a sufficient response from Alito and Roberts, voters will be left to decide how to rehabilitate the court, rid it of the stench of scandal and insulate it from MAGA extremists. Democrats must be prepared to offer solutions."
FROM:
The Washington Post
Opinion What more need Alito do before Durbin gets off the stick?
Passivity in the face of Supreme Court corruption is unacceptable.
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May 26, 2024 at 7:45 a.m. EDT
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