Former lawmaker Yoshitami Kameoka pleaded not guilty Friday over his alleged distribution of cash to voters just before the official campaign period for the October 2024 House of Representatives election. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/japan/politics/lawmaker-kameoka-cash-distribution/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #yoshitamikameoka #corruption #lowerhouse #japanesecourts #fukushima
Jesse Lee: "The Trump Administration launched an onslaught of cancellations of energy projects that would have given Americans all over the country relief from skyrocketing utility bills. Trump half-heartedly claimed it was wasteful and we couldn’t afford them. They totaled $8 billion." But Trump is giving his crony in Argentina $20 billion as a taxpayer-funded bailout.
#values #corruption #cronyism #mismanagement #politics copy: @renewedresistance
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"In an interview at Catholic University last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said what he’s clearly been thinking for the past 30 years: Supreme Court precedents don’t matter, and he’s making things up as he goes along to fulfill his own political agenda.:
~ Jeet Heer
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/clarence-thomas-speech-precedent/
"If Thomas were the only justice who thought like this, it would be a containable problem. But the entire Republican cabal on the Supreme Court rules exactly in the way Thomas is talking about, with no respect for precedent or stare decisis. …
The entire Trump administration has been a 'mask off' moment for the Supreme Court’s conservatives."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
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"It turns out, they don’t actually care about precedent (no matter how many times they lied and claimed to care during their Senate confirmation hearings). They don’t actually care about the text. They don’t actually care about judicial restraint. They want the political outcomes they want and they have the votes to do it."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
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"Thomas is saying that if he doesn’t like where the 'train' of stare decisis is leading him, he can just get off and go in a different direction. Remember, Thomas’s war against the 20th century can’t achieve victory if old Supreme Court opinions have weight."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
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"If Thomas were the only justice who thought like this, it would be a containable problem. But the entire Republican cabal on the Supreme Court rules exactly in the way Thomas is talking about, with no respect for precedent or stare decisis. …
The entire Trump administration has been a 'mask off' moment for the Supreme Court’s conservatives."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
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"In an interview at Catholic University last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said what he’s clearly been thinking for the past 30 years: Supreme Court precedents don’t matter, and he’s making things up as he goes along to fulfill his own political agenda.:
~ Jeet Heer
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/clarence-thomas-speech-precedent/
"Thomas is saying that if he doesn’t like where the 'train' of stare decisis is leading him, he can just get off and go in a different direction. Remember, Thomas’s war against the 20th century can’t achieve victory if old Supreme Court opinions have weight."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
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"In an interview at Catholic University last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said what he’s clearly been thinking for the past 30 years: Supreme Court precedents don’t matter, and he’s making things up as he goes along to fulfill his own political agenda.:
~ Jeet Heer
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #Trump #corruption #Constitution
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/clarence-thomas-speech-precedent/
"The polite norms around the Supreme Court have been obliterated. This should be apparent to everyone; every one of these shadow docket rulings where the majority semi-anonymously grants a would-be dictator more power to overthrow the Constitution only reinforces the fact that the high court’s age of respectability is over."
~ Jason Linkins
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #Constitution
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💰 Bangladesh’s missing billions, stolen in plain sight | FT Film
💰 Bangladesh’s missing billions, stolen in plain sight | FT Film
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"Does it ever feel like the Supreme Court is going out of its way to favor all the cases that undermine democracy, while hampering cases that would lift democracy?
Not just on the merits of cases, but in the way the Court goes about hearing cases and making its decisions in the first place."
~ David Pepper
#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #JohnRoberts
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https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/justice-delayed-justice-denied-5d6
Google deletes history: https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/
@dangillmor The way US conservative money has been flowing into European elections lately, this smells of #corruption..
It’s not just Russia running bot farms now.
"A number of prominent liberal court-watchers, such as law professors Lawrence Tribe and Leah Litman, pundit and author Ian Milhiser, and, at times, Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson, have ascribed the conservative majority’s receptivity to Trump shadow docket requests to rank partisanship. Much evidence lends credibility to that charge."
~ Simon Lazarus
#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #fascism #corruption
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https://newrepublic.com/article/200614/roberts-court-shadow-docket-blowback
"As of this writing, the Trump Justice Department has filed 20 emergency applications with the court in its brief tenure, compared with a 16-year total of eight such applications from the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, or one every other year.
This year, the court granted 18 of Trump’s requests to stay adverse lower court orders, usually over fierce dissents from liberal justices."
"The order is a resounding win for Trump, further proof that the right-wing majority will find a way to expand his power no matter how flimsy the argument. The administration, in turn, is acting with the hubris of a White House that just crossed a major boundary and was congratulated for it."
"A number of prominent liberal court-watchers, such as law professors Lawrence Tribe and Leah Litman, pundit and author Ian Milhiser, and, at times, Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson, have ascribed the conservative majority’s receptivity to Trump shadow docket requests to rank partisanship. Much evidence lends credibility to that charge."
~ Simon Lazarus
#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #fascism #corruption
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https://newrepublic.com/article/200614/roberts-court-shadow-docket-blowback
"With one weird timing trick, the administration claimed, it could request that the money not be spent close enough to the end of the fiscal year that the funds would simply freeze indefinitely. The theory — called a 'pocket rescission' — is at near comical odds with the text of the Impoundment Control Act, specifically passed to restrict this exact presidential infringement upon Congress’ spending powers."
"The order is a resounding win for Trump, further proof that the right-wing majority will find a way to expand his power no matter how flimsy the argument. The administration, in turn, is acting with the hubris of a White House that just crossed a major boundary and was congratulated for it."
"President Trump notched a startling legal win Friday evening, as the Supreme Court gave an early stamp of approval to a legal theory so outlandish that experts at one point predicted to TPM it wouldn’t 'get a single vote.'
The Court blessed, at the preliminary stage, Trump’s gambit to zero out money Congress already appropriated."
~ Kate Riga
#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #fascism #corruption
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-supreme-court-pocket-rescissions-birthright-citizenship
"With one weird timing trick, the administration claimed, it could request that the money not be spent close enough to the end of the fiscal year that the funds would simply freeze indefinitely. The theory — called a 'pocket rescission' — is at near comical odds with the text of the Impoundment Control Act, specifically passed to restrict this exact presidential infringement upon Congress’ spending powers."
"President Trump notched a startling legal win Friday evening, as the Supreme Court gave an early stamp of approval to a legal theory so outlandish that experts at one point predicted to TPM it wouldn’t 'get a single vote.'
The Court blessed, at the preliminary stage, Trump’s gambit to zero out money Congress already appropriated."
~ Kate Riga
#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #fascism #corruption
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-supreme-court-pocket-rescissions-birthright-citizenship
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Carla Bruni arrache la bonnette du micro de Mediapart à la fin du discours de Sarkozy après sa condamnation. La mauvaise...
#Politique #Sarkozy #Video #CarlaBruni #Justice #Prison #Corruption #Proces #Medias #Mediapart
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Sarkozy condamné à cinq ans de taule pour association de malfaiteurs. L'ex-président sera convoqué" pour être incarcéré. Séisme politique. Il est aussi condamné à 100 000 euros d’amende, privé de ses droits civiques et inéligible pendant de cinq ans. Le tribunal évoque des "faits d’une gravité exceptionnelle de nature à altérer la confiance des citoyens en ceux qui les représentent".