Just wait till these folks hear about what Justice Thomas's wife has been up to. Amirite, @mjs_DC ?
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I picked a damn good day to be away from my twitter account
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“Guys, just because a judge’s family made money off the defendant, don’t get all ‘conspiracy theory’.” No theory required. That’s a straight conflict.
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It wouldn’t have been a big deal if Trump didn’t act chummy mentioning the kids with Kennedy at SOTU address. Any other president would have taken pains to separate himself from a look of impropriety. Trump is the definition of impropriety.
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He does this to keep coconspirators close. "Look, everyone sees were in this together. No growing a spine now" like Made Men getting photo ops with complicit officials
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So Rick, I’m just catching up here and looking for truth. This whole thing about Kennedy‘s son bankrolling Trump is untrue? Thanks for any objectivity you can give. A dem looking for truth.
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I think the key takeaway here is that presidents and Supreme Court justices have had far closer relationships than Trump has with Kennedy. LBJ with Abe Fortas is the most extreme example I know. Nothing in the Trump-Kennedy relationship forms a colorable basis for recusal.
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You know, except for the son working for the bank that loaned trump money after no US bank would. The bank under investigation for funneling Russian money through it. Then, suddenly deciding the Muslim ban was okay, the day before retiring. Pesky facts like that.
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I think the personal relationship is far too convoluted to warrant reversal. I also believe that partisanship is a more straightforward explanation for his votes in Bush v. Gore, NFID v. Sebelius, and Trump v. Hawaii.
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I'm willing to go with you on the personal relationship, unless the problems the bank that are being investigated turn out to be even more filled with corruption than we already know they are being investigated for. I appreciate you sharing your view.
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Even in 2018, it's possible to have a civil discussion on the internet. Have a good day.
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Have you ever read this document?http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/code-conduct-united-states-judges#c …
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2A “An appearance of impropriety occurs when reasonable minds, with knowledge of all the relevant circumstances disclosed by a reasonable inquiry, would conclude that the judge’s honesty, integrity, impartiality, temperament, or fitness to serve as a judge is impaired...”
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Based on this rant, I don’t think you have. Although, I do imagine you’ll pretend you have, and that members of the public upset about the ties between Kennedy and Trump are ‘unreasonable.’ Good lord.
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I'm not a lawyer; I'm a law librarian, and I have researched codes of judicial conduct on numerous occasions for law professors. This relationship would not have passed a conflicts check in a Philadelphia PI firm, let alone SCOTUS.
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I was involved in a business case last year where the presiding Judge was personal friends with one of our attorney's mother. The Judge recused herself from the case. Conflicts are real and the appearance of a conflict are just as real.
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