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(MSN)   Ethics complaint filed with Congress and the DOJ alleging that the activities of a spouse of Supreme Court Justice create a conflict of interest that should make her husband recuse himself from most cases. Difficulty: NOT Clarence and Ginny Thomas   (msn.com) divider line
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eurotrader [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 12:10:38 PM  
Republicans being devoid of any sort of good ethics is a given.
Republicans lying, cheating and stealing goes with their motto of be evil
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 12:15:14 PM  
John Roberts is bought and paid for by corporate America. That his wife does the same thing to bring in millions?

Dude... it's time to completely redo some of out sh*t because this is a goddamn joke.
 
AirForceVet [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 1:28:53 PM  

NewportBarGuy: John Roberts is bought and paid for by corporate America. That his wife does the same thing to bring in millions?

Dude... it's time to completely redo some of out sh*t because this is a goddamn joke.


Completely concur.
 
Demetrius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 1:57:53 PM  
Yeah, I'm sure they'll get right on that.

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red230
2023-02-01 2:22:19 PM  
They'll get on that right around the same time they get to the bottom of what blackmail material Trump used to get him to suddenly resign.
 
1funguy
2023-02-01 2:22:53 PM  
Republicans gonna Republican.

News at 11.
 
Karma Chameleon
2023-02-01 2:23:18 PM  
Put an ethics complaint in one hand and shiat in the other
 
Aussie_As
2023-02-01 2:26:53 PM  
But remember, Roberts told y'all to stop questioning the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, so, you know, there's that.
 
MightyMerkin
2023-02-01 2:27:35 PM  
Do as I say, not as I do.
 
Peter von Nostrand
2023-02-01 2:30:33 PM  
I was guessing Amy cornhole burrito. Oh well.
 
ricochet4
2023-02-01 2:30:37 PM  
Throw it on the pile
 
Jacobin
2023-02-01 2:31:25 PM  
5 scoundrels on the bench

No other way to describe it
 
Palined Parenthood [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 2:32:15 PM  
the process ain't gonn' trust itself
 
wademh
2023-02-01 2:33:05 PM  
There are Justices on the Supreme Court that I do not like. It has nothing to do with their spouses.
There are Justices on the Supreme Court that I like. I don't care about their spouses.
 
FiloBato
2023-02-01 2:33:25 PM  

red230: They'll get on that right around the same time they get to the bottom of what blackmail material Trump used to get him to suddenly resign.


His sons were the underwriters of the loans from Deutschmark bank,
If your talking about inJustice Kennedy(not a kennedy)
 
wademh
2023-02-01 2:33:52 PM  

Jacobin: 5 scoundrels on the bench

No other way to describe it


The story was about number 6.
 
gameshowhost [OhFark]
2023-02-01 2:36:15 PM  

NewportBarGuy: John Roberts is bought and paid for by corporate America. That his wife does the same thing to bring in millions?

Dude... it's time to completely redo some of out sh*t because this is a goddamn joke.


bUt tHe u.S. cOnStiTuTiOn iS tHe gReAtEsT tHiNg iN nEaRLy fOuR biLLiOn yEaRs oF liFe oN tHiS pLaNeT
 
red230
2023-02-01 2:36:20 PM  

FiloBato: red230: They'll get on that right around the same time they get to the bottom of what blackmail material Trump used to get him to suddenly resign.

His sons were the underwriters of the loans from Deutschmark bank,
If your talking about inJustice Kennedy(not a kennedy)


I was. Sorry, it's tough to keep all of the corruption straight.
 
JerkStore
2023-02-01 2:37:22 PM  
They ignore Ginny Thomas, but THIS is the one that they'll act on?

Pfffft.
 
Dr Dreidel
2023-02-01 2:37:52 PM  

NewportBarGuy: John Roberts is bought and paid for by corporate America. That his wife does the same thing to bring in millions?

Dude... it's time to completely redo some of out sh*t because this is a goddamn joke.


Nonsense.

You should know by now that as someone goes through a nomination and confirmation to a SCOTUS seat they instantly and incontrovertibly become devoid of any bias or preconception, and magically become as babes in the woods. That's how you can present a hyperpartisan like Brett Kavanaugh - whose interest in the Presidential Staff was far more than professional, if you catch my meaning - as someone who would be a legitimate and faithful caller of legal balls and strikes; and how four or five Justices at their confirmation hearings can say that Roe was "settled" only to sign an opinion that begins "Roe was incorrectly decided from the start".

You have to account for the fact that donning that black robe for the first time completely wipes their minds - John Roberts is thus as pure as driven snow.

// suggesting otherwise threatens the legitimacy of the Court, and we don't want that now, do we?
 
mrwknd
2023-02-01 2:40:26 PM  
Ah, clearing the slate before the shiat hits the fan then...
 
Not again 5
2023-02-01 2:40:31 PM  

red230: They'll get on that right around the same time they get to the bottom of what blackmail material Trump used to get him to suddenly resign.


That was Kennedy.  You can see exactly when it happened.
 
Weatherkiss [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 2:42:45 PM  
Guys, the Supreme Court is not a political institution. It's completely apolitical. I know this because Justice Coney-Barrett told me it was while she was standing next to Senator Mitch McConnell at the McConnell Center in Kentucky.
 
northernmanor
2023-02-01 2:46:52 PM  
I did not have on my bingo card "judicial branch takes a resounding lead over executive and legislative branches in the category of blatant corruption." This is how corporations became people.
 
Eunice's Social Calendar [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 2:49:07 PM  

NewportBarGuy: John Roberts is bought and paid for by corporate America. That his wife does the same thing to bring in millions?

Dude... it's time to completely redo some of out sh*t because this is a goddamn joke.


so much this...too much diversion discussing shiat at the margins on so much...some intransigent things need to be blown up, not whittled back down.
 
Teddy Brosevelt
2023-02-01 2:49:49 PM  
an ethics complaint?  bwaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

next file one about how that handmaid biatch is in an actual doomsday cult.

/they had a real watery shiat this morning, need some extra paper to wipe with
 
EyeballKid
2023-02-01 2:52:57 PM  

Eunice's Social Calendar: NewportBarGuy: John Roberts is bought and paid for by corporate America. That his wife does the same thing to bring in millions?

Dude... it's time to completely redo some of out sh*t because this is a goddamn joke.

so much this...too much diversion discussing shiat at the margins on so much...some intransigent things need to be blown up, not whittled back down.


Yes, *ahem*, "things" need to be blown up.
 
Ixnay on the ottenray
2023-02-01 2:53:41 PM  

gameshowhost: NewportBarGuy: John Roberts is bought and paid for by corporate America. That his wife does the same thing to bring in millions?

Dude... it's time to completely redo some of out sh*t because this is a goddamn joke.

bUt tHe u.S. cOnStiTuTiOn iS tHe gReAtEsT tHiNg iN nEaRLy fOuR biLLiOn yEaRs oF liFe oN tHiS pLaNeT


Sorry for the rant, but jeebus freaking christos - either caps on, or caps off.  This upper/lower sh*t makes you look like a five year old.

I do apologize - not meant directly at you - it's a personal pet peeve.   Thank you for letting me vent, and again, sorry you bore the brunt of my pet peevishness.

/and no, I don't have anything of substance to add to this topic - I'm sure it will all be covered by the other Farkers!
 
Dr Dreidel
2023-02-01 2:57:51 PM  

Ixnay on the ottenray: gameshowhost: NewportBarGuy: John Roberts is bought and paid for by corporate America. That his wife does the same thing to bring in millions?

Dude... it's time to completely redo some of out sh*t because this is a goddamn joke.

bUt tHe u.S. cOnStiTuTiOn iS tHe gReAtEsT tHiNg iN nEaRLy fOuR biLLiOn yEaRs oF liFe oN tHiS pLaNeT

Sorry for the rant, but jeebus freaking christos - either caps on, or caps off.  This upper/lower sh*t makes you look like a five year old.

I do apologize - not meant directly at you - it's a personal pet peeve.   Thank you for letting me vent, and again, sorry you bore the brunt of my pet peevishness.

/and no, I don't have anything of substance to add to this topic - I'm sure it will all be covered by the other Farkers!


Until we can agree on a different "sarcasm" font, alternating-case seems to have come out the winner.

// I blame Spongebob
 
bronskrat
2023-02-01 2:58:05 PM  
Not Jose Roberto!
 
mongbiohazard
2023-02-01 3:00:31 PM  
FTFA:
A Boston attorney and former colleague of U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts' wife, Jane, has filed a complaint with Congress and the Justice Department

That holds about as much weight as a wet tissue. Might as well have stood on a streetcorner and shouted into the wind, "I declare shenanigans on chief Justice John Roberts" for all the good it will do you.

You want that to change? You're gonna need guns. It won't change under our current constitution.
 
gameshowhost [OhFark]
2023-02-01 3:05:18 PM  

Dr Dreidel: Ixnay on the ottenray: gameshowhost: NewportBarGuy: John Roberts is bought and paid for by corporate America. That his wife does the same thing to bring in millions?

Dude... it's time to completely redo some of out sh*t because this is a goddamn joke.

bUt tHe u.S. cOnStiTuTiOn iS tHe gReAtEsT tHiNg iN nEaRLy fOuR biLLiOn yEaRs oF liFe oN tHiS pLaNeT

Sorry for the rant, but jeebus freaking christos - either caps on, or caps off.  This upper/lower sh*t makes you look like a five year old.

I do apologize - not meant directly at you - it's a personal pet peeve.   Thank you for letting me vent, and again, sorry you bore the brunt of my pet peevishness.

/and no, I don't have anything of substance to add to this topic - I'm sure it will all be covered by the other Farkers!

Until we can agree on a different "sarcasm" font, alternating-case seems to have come out the winner.

// I blame Spongebob


definitely spongebob's fault
 
gameshowhost [OhFark]
2023-02-01 3:06:06 PM  

Ixnay on the ottenray: gameshowhost: NewportBarGuy: John Roberts is bought and paid for by corporate America. That his wife does the same thing to bring in millions?

Dude... it's time to completely redo some of out sh*t because this is a goddamn joke.

bUt tHe u.S. cOnStiTuTiOn iS tHe gReAtEsT tHiNg iN nEaRLy fOuR biLLiOn yEaRs oF liFe oN tHiS pLaNeT

Sorry for the rant, but jeebus freaking christos - either caps on, or caps off.  This upper/lower sh*t makes you look like a five year old.


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foo monkey
2023-02-01 3:06:19 PM  
"I do believe that litigants in U.S. courts, and especially the Supreme Court, deserve to know if their judges' households are receiving six-figure payments from the law firms," Price wrote, according to the Times.

Or many five-figure payments.
 
austerity101
2023-02-01 3:10:05 PM  

bronskrat: Not Jose Roberto!


*Juan?
 
Tyrone Slothrop
2023-02-01 3:11:34 PM  
There are literally no ethics rules governing the Supreme Court. Because the ultimate arbiters of the law of the land shouldn't have any pesky restrictions on them in a democracy.

/someone needs to go back in time and slap the founders silly
 
Unsung_Hero
2023-02-01 3:13:28 PM  

mongbiohazard: FTFA:
A Boston attorney and former colleague of U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts' wife, Jane, has filed a complaint with Congress and the Justice Department

That holds about as much weight as a wet tissue. Might as well have stood on a streetcorner and shouted into the wind, "I declare shenanigans on chief Justice John Roberts" for all the good it will do you.

You want that to change? You're gonna need guns. It won't change under our current constitution.


If the current SCOTUS replies, it'll boil downto "shut up and obey, peasants, we don't have to explain anything".

It won't even be their first time doing that.
 
Eunice's Social Calendar [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 3:16:39 PM  

EyeballKid: Eunice's Social Calendar: NewportBarGuy: John Roberts is bought and paid for by corporate America. That his wife does the same thing to bring in millions?

Dude... it's time to completely redo some of out sh*t because this is a goddamn joke.

so much this...too much diversion discussing shiat at the margins on so much...some intransigent things need to be blown up, not whittled back down.

Yes, *ahem*, "things" need to be blown up.


Hmmm...my apologies for not going into detail, or were you put off more by my word choice?  I do recognize how simple I am, but please don't let my brevity here be the proof...there is much behind my desire to see "things blown up" as it were...as there is much to have reconstructed.  have a good day kid...try not to worry about me so much.
 
Barricaded Gunman
2023-02-01 3:26:53 PM  
A spokeswoman for the Supreme Court did not respond either, though a spokesperson told the Times that the court's members were "attentive to ethical constraints..."


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Drank_the_40_water
2023-02-01 3:38:31 PM  

wademh: There are Justices on the Supreme Court that I do not like. It has nothing to do with their spouses.
There are Justices on the Supreme Court that I like. I don't care about their spouses.


And if there isn't an explicit quid followed within 24 hours by a prearranged and explicit pro quo complete with signed and notarized terms by both parties, then it is not bribery and is of no concern or consequence to the good working order of government and justice.

SMDH
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 3:51:37 PM  
Kavanaugh can sit on the front court steps in his underwear, chugging down cans of Schlitz, and nothing would happen to him either.
 
misanthropicsob [OhFark]
2023-02-01 4:02:42 PM  
I thought the new standard was that family corruption only matters if the family member was employed by the government.

See also: Ginni Thomas, Nancy Pelosi, and Hunter Biden.

/s
 
GrizzlyPouch
2023-02-01 4:17:06 PM  
FTA-

"I do believe that litigants in U.S. courts, and especially the Supreme Court, deserve to know if their judges' households are receiving six-figure payments from the law firms," Price wrote, according to the Times."

Since she quit that job in 2005 when Roberts was confirmed, that doesn't seem to be a problem
 
EyeballKid
2023-02-01 4:21:00 PM  

misanthropicsob: I thought the new standard was that family corruption only matters if the family member was employed by the government.

See also: Ginni Thomas, Nancy Pelosi, and Hunter Biden.

/s


i'M oN tHe fEnCe NoW aBoUt vOtInG fOr jOhN rObErTs' WiFe!
 
jaytkay [OhFark]
2023-02-01 4:23:23 PM  

Jake Havechek: Kavanaugh can sit on the front court steps in his underwear, chugging down cans of Schlitz, and nothing would happen to him either.


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Pincy
2023-02-01 4:57:26 PM  
It's concerning a conservative justice so nothing to see here.
 
Barricaded Gunman
2023-02-01 5:02:16 PM  

GrizzlyPouch: FTA-

"I do believe that litigants in U.S. courts, and especially the Supreme Court, deserve to know if their judges' households are receiving six-figure payments from the law firms," Price wrote, according to the Times."

Since she quit that job in 2005 when Roberts was confirmed, that doesn't seem to be a problem


Are you assuming that every lawyer she placed in with a law firm has retired or died since 2005?
 
veryspecial
2023-02-01 6:17:49 PM  
So... tell me where I'm wrong. I know the phrase 4D chess is over used these days but Roberts wants to drag his court back from the abyss but had little ability to force ethics on his colleagues (obviously Thomas being the worst offender)  so he gets his wife to point out his and her lack of ethics. And then he...makes.. um... there are these.... Huh?  Well I thought I had something there... come to think of it, isn't Roberts able to enact ethics rules on his own?   Now I'm just confused,
 
Drank_the_40_water
2023-02-01 7:06:11 PM  

Barricaded Gunman: GrizzlyPouch: FTA-

"I do believe that litigants in U.S. courts, and especially the Supreme Court, deserve to know if their judges' households are receiving six-figure payments from the law firms," Price wrote, according to the Times."

Since she quit that job in 2005 when Roberts was confirmed, that doesn't seem to be a problem

Are you assuming that every lawyer she placed in with a law firm has retired or died since 2005?


No, he is assuming you didn't read the article where it says she has an on going consulting hustle. And what you said.
 
GrizzlyPouch
2023-02-01 10:02:38 PM  

Barricaded Gunman: GrizzlyPouch: FTA-

"I do believe that litigants in U.S. courts, and especially the Supreme Court, deserve to know if their judges' households are receiving six-figure payments from the law firms," Price wrote, according to the Times."

Since she quit that job in 2005 when Roberts was confirmed, that doesn't seem to be a problem

Are you assuming that every lawyer she placed in with a law firm has retired or died since 2005?


No, I'm assuming she's no longer doing a job that requires her to place attorneys for a commission.

If judges have to start recusing themselves because they know, or someone they're related to knows an attorney and/or they've worked with them before.....there aren't going to be many judges left to hear cases.
 
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