What was the role of the Federalist Sociery

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(and its past and present members) in the planning of the failed coup?

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Getting to the bottom of the 30-40 year roots will be hard

But yes, past and present ... Thomas a 31 year sleeper ... waiting for the parts to assemble, the stolen seats, McConnell's dereliction, Justice Beerbong's loans .... there's a lot to explore.

[brush]

2. Yeah, they groom republican judges for SCOTUS.

And have they come up wisth ome doozies lately.

Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett. Come on.

And before with Alito, Thomas, Scalia.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Alito and Scalia

from the same suburban Trenton NJ - Lawrenceville - area ... umm, coincidences don't just happen

[Celerity]

4. Anthony Kennedy's pro Trump rulings & his timing of retiring faced up as possibly dodgy AF

https://archive.ph/3TOTj

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Inside the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/us/politics/trump-anthony-kennedy-retirement.html

“Mr. Trump was apparently referring to Justice Kennedy’s son, Justin. The younger Mr. Kennedy spent more than a decade at Deutsche Bank, eventually rising to become the bank’s global head of real estate capital markets, and he worked closely with Mr. Trump when he was a real estate developer, according to two people with knowledge of his role.

“During Mr. Kennedy’s tenure, Deutsche Bank became Mr. Trump’s most important lender, dispensing well over $1 billion in loans to him for the renovation and construction of skyscrapers in New York and Chicago at a time other mainstream banks were wary of doing business with him because of his troubled business history.”

Trump’s relationship with Justice Kennedy sounds shady in this new report.

https://newrepublic.com/article/149496/trumps-relationship-justice-kennedy-sounds-shady-new-report

“Say hello to your boy. Special guy.”

Donald Trump spoke those words to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, shortly after ending his first speech to a joint session of Congress in February of 2017 according to a New York Times report that was published on Thursday evening. Trump was referring to Kennedy’s son, Justin, a banker who worked at Deutsche Bank for over a decade. Deutsche Bank was, notably, the only important financial institution that would work with Trump after his bankruptcies in the 1990s, lending him over $1 billion. Last year, the Financial Times reported that Kennedy’s son was “one of Mr Trump’s most trusted associates over a 12-year spell at Deutsche.” New York fined Deutsche Bank $425 million for its role in a Russian money laundering scheme in January of 2017. Kennedy announced that he was retiring after thirty years on the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

The connections between Kennedy and Trump, per the New York Times report are surprisingly deep, given the president’s general lack of DC experience—and Trump and his allies exploited them to perfection, encouraging the swing justice to retire before the 2018 midterms, which could return control of the Senate back to Democrats. Trump nominated Neal Gorsuch, a former Kennedy clerk, to replace Scalia shortly after assuming office. Ivanka Trump visited the Supreme Court a week before Kennedy’s retirement as the justice’s guest. Kennedy has, over the last two years, sided with the Trump administration in a number of narrow rulings.

Finance is, of course, deeply involved in every level of American government; the connections between Trump and Kennedy have been reported over the last two years. There is no reason to believe that Kennedy’s ties to Trump affected any of his votes. But as this new report details, these ties coincided with “a quiet campaign” to ensure Kennedy’s retirement and give Trump a chance to fill a spot on the Supreme Court.




The Son of Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Helped Trump Secure Loans at Deutsche Bank

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-son-of-former-supreme-court-justice-anthony-kennedy-helped-trump-secure-loans-at-deutsche-bank/

The son of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy helped Donald Trump in 2005 secure nearly $700 million in loans to construct a skyscraper in Chicago, despite Trump’s reputation for defaulting on business loans, the New York Times https://t.co/Cp9x0wSCYn" target="_blank">reported on Tuesday evening.

According to the report, Justin Kennedy, who ran the German bank’s commercial real estate team and was close with the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, was willing to overlook Trump’s shoddy history as a debtor, getting the future president to personally guarantee $40 million of the loan. Both Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump currently work in the White House.

The Times reported that Trump was able to convince Kennedy and other top executives that “the Chicago development was a guaranteed moneymaker,” and further signaled “the Trump family’s commitment to the project” by informing the bank that Ivanka would be in charge of the operation. Justin Kennedy’s role in helping to breathe life into Trump’s business empire before he was president has continued to breed rumors and conspiracies about the alleged “White House charm offensive” carried out by the Trump family to help convince Justice Kennedy to retire and make way for Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the bench.

In Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump and an Epic Trail of Destruction, finance editor of the New York Times David Enrich described how Justin Kennedy was “drawn to Trump’s risk-taking and glamour” while he was shepherding lucrative loans to Trump’s private businesses, even after the bank’s clients took massive losses when Trump’s Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. After Trump’s election, the family reportedly set their sights on persuading Justice Kennedy to step down so the president could appoint a second justice to the bench.

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[gab13by13]

5. Just Google Sheldon Whitehouse - Federalist Society.

He has been the lone voice going after them. People should know who Leonard Leo is but they do not.

According to Sheldon, dark money flows into the Federalist Society from American oligarchs. The money funds all kinds of things and people. We know they pick the SC. We know they wrote the anti-voter/election laws that have been passed throughout the states.

We know that Mike Lee wanted Trump to replace Comey with Merrick Garland. There is no proof that Garland is a member of the Federalist Society but he was involved in at least 10 of their conventions. We do know that Trump replaced Comey with Christopher Wray who is a member of the Federalist Society.

We also know that 2 of the planners of the coup, John Eastman and Ted Cruz both belong to the Federalist Society.

Just a taste of what Sheldon lays out in his speeches.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. A nexus. . . . nt

[gab13by13]

7. Yes, Sheldon Whitehouse has been trying

to pass the Disclose Act which would reveal who is funding organizations like the Federalist Society. The problem is the Supreme Court is full of Federalist Society justices and so is the GQP full of members.

[magicarpet]

8. Ginnie Thomas trashes democracy with Koch Industries money....

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Charles Koch is usually very careful in keeping an arm’s length relationship between himself and his political operations. But on at least one occasion Koch conducted a dinner meeting directly with sitting Justice Clarence Thomas at a private club in California.

In January 2008, Justice Thomas attended an all-expenses-paid, four-day trip to the Koch brothers’ semi-annual political gathering in the Palm Springs area of California. (According to his 2008 disclosure form and the Supreme Court’s public information office, Thomas’ expenses for that trip were paid by the Federalist Society, a conservative nonprofit that Koch foundations have generously supported.)

Justice Thomas’ trip to the Koch event occurred in the same year that the Citizens United case was accepted by the Supreme Court. The Court accepts less than two percent of all cases appealed to it.

Wall Street On Parade was previously able to confirm with Scott Markley, Public Information Specialist at the Supreme Court, that during that January 2008 visit to the Koch political gathering, Justice Thomas was hosted by Charles Koch and his wife, Elizabeth, at the private Vintage Club where Charles Koch is a member.

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/30/the-money-trail-to-the-ginni-thomas-emails-to-overturn-bidens-election-leads-to-charles-koch/