Dirty Justices
Most Astros fans know that the MLB Commissioner is a punkarse. I just saw this headline on the Chron’s website:
Rob Manfred says he regrets giving Astros players immunity during cheating investigation
Shut up. This is old news.
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I never thought I would say it. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito are dirty. Pure and simple. It takes investigative reporters to find out they don’t report lavish, luxurious trips in their ethics reports. They are like those two-bit elected officials who take bribes or are on the take. These aloof arsholes think we are all peons or peasants. They are dirty scumbags who lack decency. No honor with these two.
It is today’s featured photo.
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This came out this morning in the Daily Beast:
Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s classified documents case appear to have in their possession multiple recordings of the former president, according to new court filings cited by CNN. Only one recording was previously reported—an interview with Trump conducted at his Bedminster golf club for a memoir being written by former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, in which Trump talks about a top secret military document with several others present in the room. Prosecutors nodded to the admission by using a plural—“interviews”—to refer to their audio evidence, which Special Counsel Jack Smith began producing for Trump’s legal team Wednesday.
Pour it on.
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The rules are set. From the Trib:
Suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton will answer to 16 of 20 articles of impeachment at a trial to begin Sept. 5, the Texas Senate said Wednesday night after spending about 20 hours drafting the trial rules in private.
Paxton’s wife, Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, can attend, but she will not participate in deliberations or closed sessions when the Senate sits as a court of impeachment, according to the trial rules adopted without discussion Wednesday on a 25-3 vote.
The three votes in opposition included Angela Paxton and Sens. Sarah Eckhardt, D-Austin, and Bob Hall, R-Edgewood.
And this:
In the rules adopted Wednesday, the Senate set aside four of the articles, saying they can be considered after the senators decide the first 16 or can be dismissed by a vote of a majority of senators.
Two of the set-aside articles were related to Paxton’s eight-year-old securities fraud case in which he is accused of soliciting investors in Servergy Inc. without disclosing that the McKinney tech company was paying him to tout its stock.
One of the articles accused Paxton of causing “protracted” delays, while the other accused Paxton of “thwarting justice” when one of his political donors took legal action that halted payments to the prosecutors in the case.
The other two articles accused Paxton of lying on official records by failing to register as an investment adviser, as required by state law, and for not “fully and accurately” disclosing his financial interests on required disclosure forms.
Here is the entire read:
Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial will begin Sept. 5 before Texas Senate | The Texas Tribune.
The rules also say everyone, including the state senators, should not be talking about the upcoming trial. That is ok by me.
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We won yesterday and have today off.
