Sen. Whitehouse: Three New Supreme Court Justices Being Told What To Do By Donor Front Groups

[Mr. Sparkle]

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Legislating from the billionaires' coffers. . . .nt

[gab13by13]

6. Absolutely, but

Whitehouse was only talking about what the Federalist Society does in relation to the Supreme Court. The Federalist Society is involved in much more. According to Whitehouse, the Federalist Society was behind writing the anti-voter/election laws that have been passed throughout the states, and much more.

Is it just coincidence that Trump chose Christopher Wray to be FBI Director who is also a member of the Federalist Society?

No proof that Merrick Garland is a member but he participated in at least 10 Federalist Society events.

[certainot]

24. like ALEC, the federalist society couldn't do much if dems stopped ignoring rw radio, which

has been creating made-to-order 'outraged' constituencies for them for 30 years.

and because rw radio is completely off the political table media treats those disinformed constituencies as legitimate, as opposed to flying out of the assholes of a few hundred limbaugh-trained racist lying assholes

[czarjak]

28. Hannity's "work hard and play by the rules, you too can be a success in America", is still hilarious

[calimary]

40. More like a bad joke.

[ShazzieB]

43. A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad joke. 😡

[Tumbulu]

29. Yes, and what is your personal theory on why the RW hate radio is protected

by dems with such vehemence?

Whenever I post anything about it I get all these outraged responses about free speech, etc. utterly missing the point, utterly lacking in imagination or purpose.

It would have been so easy for us to have stood up to the college campuses blasting this hate out. And the military bases as well. What the hell? Why is it not only protected but amplified?

And anything these creeps put out, instead of knocking them off their fake high moral grounds, the Dems keep trying to prove how we are better than they are. By ignoring the hate and doing things like getting Al Franken to resign. Instead of fighting back. And getting them off of public airwaves. It is not a free speech issue, it is an amplification by the taxpayers of hate speech. Which may have not gone anywhere had it not been amplified for 35 years. And two generations.

[llashram]

39. I agree, wholeheartedly

[certainot]

41. they can't read it and it hurts their ears so they ignore it. artificial intelligence would make it

really easy to do large scale recording, transcription, and analysis of hundreds of major stations - and totally expose and destroy it.

MIT researchers prototyped that a couple of years ago and the dem party is stupid not to do it too, especially this year. it would destroy the GOP.

but i don't know any big league....

[reACTIONary]

45. My personal theory on why...

... it is protected....

[Tumbulu]

47. See- so you believe that blasting hate

speech on public airwaves is protected somehow?

Attitudes such as yours is why we are in this place where we may just lose our Democracy. Freedom of speech does not mean taxpayer funded amplification of violent and hateful rhetoric.

[reACTIONary]

48. Yep, it sure is. And the somehow is...

.... the First Amendment. By the way, freedom of speech is absolutely fundamental to democracy. Democracy doesn't exist without it. Just ask Putin.

[Tumbulu]

49. Yes, freedom of speech is fundamental

But the amplification of hate speech is not a first amendment right. Only the freedoms to express.

The issue is amplification and why you wish to argue this with me, is mystifying. I don’t matter, I am not in charge.

I just resent absolutely that so called liberals and progressives have not put one brain cell on the task of protecting those of us who have been the victims of these hateful sentiments.

The country as a whole is only now experiencing what those of us in rural areas have lived through for nearly 4 decades now.

Personally, I don’t see how the nation recovers from it.

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[Lovie777]

3. That is why Thomas will not recuse . . .

[Sanity Claws]

4. THis is key!

He must have the goods if he went public on it. I hope that other news outlets pick this up and maybe add their own investigation to add more to the story.

[gab13by13]

7. Whitehouse does not have the goods on who is funding them.

Citizens United allows for dark money to flow into groups like this by anonymous donors. Whitehouse has been trying to pass the Disclose Act which would shine a light on these secret donors. He has a long row to hoe getting that passed when the GQP and SC is on the take.

[Sanity Claws]

9. That wakes me up.

So sorry to hear that he doesn't have the goods. I still remain hopeful that others can continue the investigation and get more of the goods, even without the Disclose Act. Passage of that bill is unlikely with this current Senate.

[whathehell]

31. Unlike some others, however, he's at least speaking out

about it and trying to correct it.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Explosive. /nt

[Scrivener7]

10. Kick.

[world wide wally]

11. I would love to see Whitehouse run for the Whitehouse

[Duppers]

12. Great idea!

[whathehell]

33. Met too, absolutely..

[2naSalit]

34. Just imagine...

President Whitehouse.

At least he's a very good statesman.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. So is the Federalist Society running the U.S. and that is why there is no accountability?

[gab13by13]

15. They aren't the only group

but most likely the main one.

[Rebl2]

22. I would

like to see them investigated, but know that won’t ever happen.

[LaMouffette]

14. Provided there is evidence, seems Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Thomas should ALL be impeached.

Wouldn't that be nice! With the present makeup of the Senate, it would likely not result in their removal, but as a guest on MSNBC said yesterday, it would still be worthwhile to impeach them just to make their corruption public.

[gab13by13]

18. Question?

Why did you omit Alito and Roberts?

[LaMouffette]

25. Good point. The interview with Whitehouse put the three new ones forefront in my mind, I guess, and

Thomas is all over the news these days. But you're right: add Alito and Roberts to the list.

[Achilles Skye]

16. #DeepState

It is a real right-wing thing. PsyOps: right-wing rubes are told to project these sins upon the Democratic Party.

[flying_wahini]

17. Who else is the federalist society bankrolling?

If Merrick Garland has Federalist sympathies and ~10 senators, 3 SCOTUS, 1 former President and who knows how many in the House…
Isn’t it possible that we (Dem party) are fighting an uphill battle to keep our country without
Passing a Voting Rights Act and prosecuting these elected mobsters?


Why aren’t the moderate Republicans fighting with us? Is it really all about the money and personal power? Really?
I am gobsmacked that the Moderate Repugs aren’t standing with us. Truly sickened by it all.

[gab13by13]

19. Every SC justice picked by a Republican president

was actually selected by the Federalist Society. All 6 "conservative" justices.

[sop]

44. When moderate Republican and Democratic voters do finally come together, it's over for the 1%.

The day both sides of the political spectrum realize the constant left-vs-right political divisions have largely been contrived, a false dichotomy created and perpetuated by the 1% to divert, divide and conquer the 99%, things will quickly change.

[turbinetree]

20. Next up into the future Rick Scotts gutting Medicare and Social Security....

through the right wing federalist society judges.....

[gab13by13]

23. Every washed up celebrity

who shills for Medicare Advantage on TV commercials is gutting Medicare.

[turbinetree]

26. Yes they are, while they sit home living off Medicare and Social Security

and then going into some office being a snake oil salesman....for some advantage plan....

[DENVERPOPS]

30. +1

WASF..........Katie Bar The Door..............

[seta1950]

21. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse

I think he should be the leader of the senate if we keep majority.

[2naSalit]

35. He'd be good at it.

I haven't really put much thought into who might be in that role next.

[greenman3610]

27. read Democracy in Chains by Nancy Maclean

[TeamProg]

36. K&R Thanks for posting. n/t

[SpankMe]

37. We need a mass impeachment process for SCOTUS. n/t

[Delphinus]

38. So

wish we had a senator with integrity here in Indiana. We just get Dotard suck-ups.

[Hekate]

42. KnR

[UCmeNdc]

46. K&R