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Alito did not report the 2008 fishing trip on his annual financial disclosures. By failing to disclose the private jet flight Singer provided, Alito appears to have violated a federal law that requires justices to disclose most gifts, according to ethics law experts.
Experts said they could not identify an instance of a justice ruling on a case after receiving an expensive gift paid for by one of the parties.
“If you were good friends, what were you doing ruling on his case?” said Charles Geyh, an Indiana University law professor and leading expert on recusals. “And if you weren’t good friends, what were you doing accepting this?” referring to the flight on the private jet.
You don’t have to think this particular incident influenced a vote to recognize that this pattern of secretive gift-taking by Supreme Court justices is an open avenue that corruption can and will travel through…unless it is addressed.
So, in 2007 the court rejected a hedge's fund's complaint. In 2008 the owner took him on a trip. In 2009 it again rejected his complaints. Again in 2010 it turned them down. Then, 6 years after that trip, it finally took one of eight complaints and decided in their favor (7-1, with Kennedy, Kagan, and Breyer joining)? And what is this evidence of?
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imagine if these were some of the liberal justices who took flights with george soros
the right wing media would probably be whipping up the maga-ites to storm government buildings with bats
pawns
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i hate those theoretical people in that theoretical scenario
so much
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but i also would not be cool with them taking those flights
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and now have a kindred linkage to those theoretical people whom i hate
i have some soul-searching to do now
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Alito did not report the 2008 fishing trip on his annual financial disclosures. By failing to disclose the private jet flight Singer provided, Alito appears to have violated a federal law that requires justices to disclose most gifts, according to ethics law experts.
Experts said they could not identify an instance of a justice ruling on a case after receiving an expensive gift paid for by one of the parties.
“If you were good friends, what were you doing ruling on his case?” said Charles Geyh, an Indiana University law professor and leading expert on recusals. “And if you weren’t good friends, what were you doing accepting this?” referring to the flight on the private jet.
You don’t have to think this particular incident influenced a vote to recognize that this pattern of secretive gift-taking by Supreme Court justices is an open avenue that corruption can and will travel through…unless it is addressed.
I agree that there is a level of Urkel-ish "did I do that?" attitude when it comes to these paperwork errors, but I recall the court tightened up the rules earlier this year to reduce the confusion over reporting.
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The Supreme Court accepted a case that will let it decide whether there can be a wealth tax. IE, can Congress tax unrealized capital gains?
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The Supreme Court accepted a case that will let it decide whether there can be a wealth tax. IE, can Congress tax unrealized capital gains?
I thought this was already decided multiple times.
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The Supreme Court accepted a case that will let it decide whether there can be a wealth tax. IE, can Congress tax unrealized capital gains?
I thought this was already decided multiple times.
Not that I know of. In this particular case lower courts have twice decided that Congress can tax unrealized foreign capital gains.
Obviously the Court doesn't have to decide anything about unrealized domestic gains but this gives them a chance to preemptively state that a wealth tax is unconstitutional if they want.
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Translation: NC gerrymandered maps need to be redrawn?
More broadly, states can't draw maps and pass laws shielding said maps from judicial review.
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such a complex topic
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It will ultimately be a moot point in a decade, once all the sub-Ivy schools are clamoring for on-campus students to subsidize their real estate assets. Acceptance benchmarks will drop left and right, and suddenly a 1.8 GPA will be perfectly fine for a student seeking an in-person engineering degree.
And then more optimistically, hopefully more schools will continue to transition more credits online, with an emphasis on 2-year degrees, that allows those BIPOC people who got shafted today to start achieving upward mobility from the comfort of their parents' homes.
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