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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoping this Scotus "Leak" is true: Trump is going to lose all of the tax cases either 5-4 or 6-3.
(I have no idea if this is true, but it is juicy)
A staffer for either Thomas, Alito or Kavanaugh, leaked to Barr and the White House that the big boy is going to lose all of the tax cases either 5-4 or 6-3. This is why they tried to pull their little maneuver tonight.Link to tweet
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Background:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-19-2020?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4MDE1MzEzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1NzA4NzcsIl8iOiJlZ0RoTSIsImlhdCI6MTU5MjY0ODc5NywiZXhwIjoxNTkyNjUyMzk3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjA1MzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.e3SmjEGx6BKvIWloL222S5T_L8ovUFMfhg5jons7HQY&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share
Maeve
(42,288 posts)BComplex
(8,064 posts)and barr. Kavanaugh has no ethics. He's a rapist and a cheat. He's a snake and a tool.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)The next week or so should be eventful
safeinOhio
(32,715 posts)I think a large National celebration would be called for.
Mme. Defarge
(8,042 posts)from election night of 2016 for just such an occasion.
tanyev
(42,610 posts)But Ive got a less expensive backup on hand, just in case.
Mme. Defarge
(8,042 posts)Confusion to the enemy! 🥂
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Wonder who this guy is. He must be a political junky to have taken on the persona of a senator who died in the 1980s. (The actual Senator Young took office in 1945--what a year to join the US Senate!) Think I'll follow him.
dem4decades
(11,304 posts)Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)But you never know when it comes to the cultists. They will corrupt everything.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)RW government circles, even infiltrating and embedding in the Supreme Court, that bad character has become a job requirement. Seriously.
Shades of the famous Midnight Runs of Devin Nunes to the WH shrubbery while he was in charge of the house intelligence committee's investigation into Trump-Russia.
mn9driver
(4,428 posts)PWPippinesq
(195 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)yardwork
(61,703 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)I hope hes got protection and I hope hes got flash drives full of information stashed somewhere safe.
honest.abe
(8,685 posts)and number 5 is Roberts.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)The Supreme Court doesnt leak. It should be investigated if this happens.
Buckeyeblue
(5,502 posts)It seems like it would be professional courtesy.
Polybius
(15,476 posts)Trump doesn't even like Roberts. But who knows, maybe Roberts is just a respectful guy, you could be right.
BComplex
(8,064 posts)Just a feeling. No facts to back it up.
aeromanKC
(3,327 posts)Gorsuch? That would be ironic.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)"This" as in "a leak."
Lonestarblue
(10,064 posts)Kavanaugh is a slimy SOB, not beyond unethical dealings.
BComplex
(8,064 posts)And he has no honor, and never should have been placed on the court. Kavanaugh is the one leaking to the trump team. He's their plant.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)One tell this guy isn't really plugged in is the term "staffer." Judges chambers are staffed by clerks and secretaries. They're not referred to as "staffers" by insiders.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)but Kavanaugh alone is a very dirty, unscrupulous political operative. We know from watching this administration and their counterparts in congress for years now that dirty operators seek each other out and hire their own kind to work with.
And we've seen that their very presence signals a collapse of the ethical structures that had constrained others of weak integrity from outright corruption. Those believed to be ethical because they behaved that way when violations would be quickly pounced on, who then turned into Barres. Not much of a stretch to imagine Gorsuch, Alito and Thomas in that category. Scalia!
So I find passing of information to Trump not only very credible but something that would even be expected members of this cabal at the SC needed to tip off the WH. And expected adverse decisions on cases related to Trump's business before the election would seem to qualify. Desperation time.
Only wish they were caught holding midnight meetings in the WH shrubbery again.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)And, even if they did, I really doubt the people they leaked to would be going around talking about it so that it got to some obscure person on Twitter but no one else knows about it ...
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)swamp creatures in the WH anything might leak. They've infiltrated their corruption into all three branches of government now, embedded into the SC through the coordinated efforts of their sort in the executive and legislative branches.
But you're entirely right that I am running away with this speculation. If not secret info SCOTUS rulings, did something else suddenly trigger Trump's attempt to stop the SDNY investigations at this point?
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)And you could be right. Nothing is very certain these days ...
BannonsLiver
(16,448 posts)All three of those men are evil to their core and their staff is likely to be as well. Something about it smells. Its just too easy.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)I'll believe it when I see it though. The Orange Hemorrhoid never seems to suffer the same slings and arrows as everyone else.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)It's fun to think this is a real leak, but I'm not holding my breath.
ramblin_dave
(1,549 posts)So I would say this has no credibility
Polybius
(15,476 posts)They just lost two big ones (DACA and LGBTQ protection), and lost a somewhat smaller one too. I forget which one that was, but it was the same day as the LGBTQ protection ruling.
Plus the SC isn't gonna side with the faithless electors or the abortion case either. Conservative SC? What conservative SC?
crickets
(25,983 posts)Leaks from the Supreme Court, though?
Re your link to a good read from Heather Cox Richardson, there's a great post by Silent3 that you might want to see:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213615353
BComplex
(8,064 posts)Supremes' ranks, letting Barr and Trump know the jig was up!
BComplex
(8,064 posts)From the link:
"Law professor Stephen Vladeck also asked us to keep in mind that Barr out-and-out * lied * in a written statementand in a context in which there could have been little question to him that Berman would publicly call him out for doing so
And he did it anyway. Something * really * stinks, Vladeck concluded. "
What was the written statement in which Barr out & out lied?
GeorgiaPeanut
(360 posts)It will most likely be a unanimous decision against Trump. There are two prior precedents in Nixon and Clinton cases where there were unanimous decisions against the sitting president regarding discovery.