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Supreme Court Grants Trump Absolute Immunity’ for Official Acts

Monday, July 1, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
collage of Jan 6 riots with Trump and Supreme Court justices after immunity ruling

Trump is immune Former presidents are immune from prosecution for official actions taken while in the White House, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday, but do not have immunity for unofficial acts. The 6-3 ruling along ideological lines appears to mean that parts of Donald Trump’s federal election-interference trial could proceed in D.C., but only… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: election interference, Jan. 6, Justice Sotomayor, presidential immunity, Republican-appointed Justices, Supreme Court, Taney Court, Trump immunity

Supreme Court Justices Acting with ‘Absolute Immunity’ to Help Trump

Friday, April 26, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Supreme Court oral argument on Trump's claim of absolute immunity

Supreme Court justices are above the law The Republican-appointed justices (RAJ) who control this Supreme Court act as if they’re above the law. Their imperiousness, however, is the defining feature of the Roberts Supreme Court. Most notably, they refuse to abide by a code of ethics that constrains every other federal judge.  More troubling, however, is their imperious overturning of long-settled legal… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: absolute immunity, code of ethics, Democrat-appointed justices, presidential election, Republican-appointed Justices, Supreme Court

Clarence Thomas’s Other Billionaire ‘Friends’

Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Cartoon of Justice Clarence Thomas parading as king with three billionaires hold his long flowing robe and mock image of him and his wife in their RV packed with expensive gilfts.

Clarence Thomas’s billionaire friends Justice Clarence Thomas reacted with righteous indignation when news broke about the luxury trips that billionaire Harlan Crow lavished upon him. Except that Thomas compounded his brazen venality by betraying willful gullibility. Because he wanted us to believe that Crow was just an old friend doing what old friends do. But everyone knows Crow wouldn’t have given Thomas the time… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Clarence Thomas, Grifting, Harlan Crow, Political hacks, ProPublica, Republican-appointed Justices, Supreme Court

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