OA723: Right-Wing Judges Take the Money and Run… Away With Your Civil Rights
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🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Liz and Andrew tackle three stories: an update on the dueling mifepristone rulings in Texas and Washington, Clarence Thomas's latest corrupt activities, and (for patrons) an update on Steve Bannon's sugar daddy.
Notes
OA 594: Impeach Clarence Thomas
https://openargs.com/oa594-impeach-clarence-thomas/
OA 714 on Kwok
https://openargs.com/oa714-gonna-be-hard-for-steve-bannons-sugar-daddy-to-write-those-checks-from-prison/
Kwok superseding indictment
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.595325/gov.uscourts.nysd.595325.19.0_1.pdf
Ethics in Government Act of 1978, 5a U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5a/compiledact-95-521/title-I
Washington v. FDA Motion for Clarification
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.waed.102225/gov.uscourts.waed.102225.81.0_3.pdf
Washington v. FDA Motion to Expedite
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.waed.102225/gov.uscourts.waed.102225.82.0.pdf
FDA 5th Circuit Motion to Stay
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145.20.0_4.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Intervenors 5th Circuit Motion to Stay
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145.22.1_1.pdf
Robert EOY report on the Supreme Court 2021
https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/year-end/2021year-endreport.pdf
NPR on 2022 state supreme court races
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/05/1134514218/money-is-pouring-into-state-judicial-campaigns-this-year
ProPublica Thomas story
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow
Wall Street Journal on federal judges violating the ethics laws
https://www.wsj.com/articles/131-federal-judges-broke-the-law-by-hearing-cases-where-they-had-a-financial-interest-11632834421
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| 0:00.0 | I'll have you know the contents of that dumpster are private. |
| 0:07.6 | You stick your nose in, you'll be violating attorney dumpster confidentiality. |
| 0:11.6 | I just want to say hello. |
| 0:13.8 | Oh, hello. |
| 0:16.8 | All right, we're done. |
| 0:20.9 | You think the language in the Second Amendment is clear enough? |
| 0:23.3 | You know about the right to bear arms? |
| 0:24.8 | Of course it's clear. |
| 0:25.8 | Every American has the right to hang a pair of bear arms on their wall. |
| 0:29.0 | How could that possibly be misconstrued? |
| 0:30.8 | All right, fantastic then. |
| 0:32.6 | Wait, you know what? |
| 0:33.6 | Before we send this to the printer, let's take that abortion thing out. |
| 0:39.6 | Oh, come on, I move for a hearing on the matter. |
| 0:41.5 | What? |
| 0:42.0 | You want me to have a special motion on the admissibility of the word asshole? |
| 0:45.6 | Well, let me have asked them. |
| 0:47.4 | That's close enough. |
| 0:48.5 | What law school did you go to? |
| 0:49.8 | I'll agree to it, Your Honor. |
| 0:50.7 | You will, why? |
| 0:51.6 | I don't want any interlocutorial appeals. |
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