From the article:
The lawyers who made the Venmo transactions were: Patrick Strawbridge, a partner at Consovoy McCarthy who recently successfully argued that affirmative action violated the US constitution; Kate Todd, who served as White House deputy counsel under Donald Trump at the time of the payment and is now a managing party of Ellis George Cipollone’s law office; Elbert Lin, the former solicitor general of West Virginia who played a key role in a supreme court case that limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions; and Brian Schmalzbach, a partner at McGuire Woods who has argued multiple cases before the supreme court.
Watch for those names in the news.
Oh boy, look at clarence with his “buisiness trips.” This is should be a huge violation of the courts. Oh wait, you can’t do anything as republicans love it while democrats are literally begging for some ethics violation. Man fuck the supreme court.
Our government is 1000% compromised and needs to be abolish. Starting with the Supreme Court. This can’t be allowed to stand and ALL their rulings need to be overturned.
…or maybe try something less radical first, like impeaching this corrupt asshole.
How when they All corrupt who going to impeach them when the ones who can are just as guilty and don’t care.
You want to both abolish the government AND overturn these rulings? Those two acts are mutually exclusive, or at the least meaningless in both instances of order of precedence; if you abolish the government these rulings no longer exist or have legal meaning, overturning them would require re-establishing a government which accepts all previous supreme court rulings. Which seems idiotic, since if the intent is to overturn these rulings why accept them in the first place?
Benjamin Franklin said the constitution should be abolished and rewritten every 20 to 30 years. Yes abolish all those mother fers. Sorry but our government is own and operated by the rich. Time for a revolution unfortunately it won’t happen.
Our government is 1000% compromised and needs to be abolish.
Dare I ask what “abolish” is actually supposed to mean.
I have some ideas…
Like?
Nice try guy
Well, it’s Clarence Thomas so it’s OK because he’s a Republican.
I did hear that Kentaji Brown Jackson once accepted a couple of boxes of Girl Scout cookies back in 1987, and I think we need to have several hearings over it to make sure that she didn’t commit an ethics violation back when she was in high school.
Bribery is in the constitution as a reason to be impeached, though in regards to the Executive Branch. This slimy fuck needs to be jailed.
I just…Venmo lets you make payments privately. Why leave them public? You know you’re pulling some bullshit!
I only send stuff privately. I don’t care if it’s $20 for paying my friend back for donuts, it doesn’t need to be public
reading news like this makes me wish i believed in hell, because it would at least be somewhat comforting to know clarence thomas’ chestnuts will soon be roasting on an open fire.
Matt Gaetz’ favorite app!
How else are you going to pay for verdicts in your favor?
Zelle does not disclose bribes, so it would be the better choice.
lmao nice and secretive.
I wonder if they used shitty emojis representing corruption to describe the purpose of the transaction, too 🤑💰
This is the kinda shit I had in mind as a teenager when boomers gave me shit about not engaging in performative patriotism. We’re a fucking embarrassment, we have been for a while, and jingoistic chest beating can only run cover for that for so long. No, God damnit, I’m not proud of my country. We could do better, we just choose not to. I want to be proud of my country, I want us to do better, but it seems like we’re all too happy to carry on with this bullshit until all the legitimacy of our government is weathered away.
Stuff like this is how we’ll eventually end up begging for an AI to be put in charge. At least we won’t have to be as embarrassed if they can hide their corruption better than these boneheads.