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Judge Set to Hear Abortion Pill Case Was Sworn in at Billionaire Harlan Crow’s Library - Tiangou - 05-09-2023
Corruption all the way up the chain.
https://jezebel.com/judge-set-to-hear-abortion-pill-case-was-sworn-in-at-bi-1850416283
Former President Donald Trump nominated the Texas judge to the appeals court in 2017, and Ho was sworn in in January 2018 by Justice Thomas himself—in Crow’s private library.
ProPublica reporter Justin Elliott resurfaced the photo of the ceremony the day the outlet uncovered Crow’s financing of luxury travel for Thomas, including many private jet trips. He tweeted: “A detail from our story today: Ted Cruz tweeted this photo of Clarence Thomas swearing in 5th Circuit Judge James Ho. Turns out this is in billionaire Harlan Crow’s private library, and flight records show Crow’s jet dispatched to DC and back to Dallas before + after this event.”
...The other two judges on the panel are Trump appointee Cory Wilson, who voted for a six-week abortion ban as a Mississippi state lawmaker, and George W. Bush nominee Jennifer Elrod, who said Obamacare was a “fraud on the American people.”
...Given this horrific three-judge panel, it seems all but assured that the Fifth Circuit will write an awful ruling, and the FDA will have to appeal it to SCOTUS.
Re: Judge Set to Hear Abortion Pill Case Was Sworn in at Billionaire Harlan Crow’s Library - $tevie - 05-09-2023
I wish a time traveler had come to us in the 90s and warned us that the GOP was going to concentrate on Gerrymandering, and appointing and buying judges, and buying politicians, while we just let it go on like a party of innocents. All the advances we made since then are being wiped out one by one because we never saw the forest for the trees.
Re: Judge Set to Hear Abortion Pill Case Was Sworn in at Billionaire Harlan Crow’s Library - JoeH - 05-09-2023
The warnings were out there already, problem was that nobody listened. It seemed the national committees of the Democratic Party just concentrated on national races, paid small attention to what was happening in state and local elections. That left redistricting to the legislatures controlled by the GOP in many states after the 2000 and 2010 Censuses. This round of redistricting is also overly under the control of the GOP. I don't foresee any real change until after the 2030 or 2040 Censuses.
Re: Judge Set to Hear Abortion Pill Case Was Sworn in at Billionaire Harlan Crow’s Library - DeusxMac - 05-09-2023
$tevie wrote:
I wish a time traveler had come to us in the 90s and warned us that the GOP was going to concentrate on Gerrymandering, and appointing and buying judges, and buying politicians, while we just let it go on like a party of innocents. All the advances we made since then are being wiped out one by one because we never saw the forest for the trees.
There's been plenty of "warning"; 211 years should be sufficient.
"The word gerrymander (originally written Gerry-mander; a portmanteau of the name Gerry and the animal salamander) was used for the first time in the Boston Gazette on 26 March 1812 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. This word was created in reaction to a redrawing of Massachusetts Senate election districts under Governor Elbridge Gerry, later Vice President of the United States."
Re: Judge Set to Hear Abortion Pill Case Was Sworn in at Billionaire Harlan Crow’s Library - RgrF - 05-09-2023
$tevie wrote:
I wish a time traveler had come to us in the 90s and warned us that the GOP was going to concentrate on Gerrymandering, and appointing and buying judges, and buying politicians, while we just let it go on like a party of innocents. All the advances we made since then are being wiped out one by one because we never saw the forest for the trees.
I suspect that national Democratic leadership wouldn't have done anything differently. They had their sinecures to reinforce and a national policy of co opting GOP campaign points, from crime bills to "workfare", by making them their own. Any attention they paid to women, women's right or civil rights in general didn't amount to anymore than lip service.
So no, even with the benefit of time travel, it's doubtful today's Dems could have moved the 90 Dem needle at all.
Re: Judge Set to Hear Abortion Pill Case Was Sworn in at Billionaire Harlan Crow’s Library - RAMd®d - 05-09-2023
I suspect that national Democratic leadership wouldn't have done anything differently.
That's probably true, but only because completly convincing enough someones of what was going to happen would be very unlikely.
I've seen this in dozens of time travel TV and movies.
Re: Judge Set to Hear Abortion Pill Case Was Sworn in at Billionaire Harlan Crow’s Library - steve... - 05-09-2023
Ewww. Was he sworn in amongst Crow’s Nazi collection?