Posts by RobertMaguire@journa.host
(DIR) Post #AUyufFgLFTneTy9fKi by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-04-24T15:31:00Z
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Notice Cleta Mitchell spends about 10 minutes railing against the use of 501c3s to try to expand the vote and protect democracy as "political," then she pivots to praising the work the Conservative Partnership Institute—a 501c3 with an 8-figure budget—is doing to help the GOP ---RT @lawindsorNEW: In exclusive audio from the RNC Spring Retreat, Trump atty Cleta Mitchell told donors:"Whenever anybody starts telling you that they're wor…https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1650499628809302016
(DIR) Post #AUyufHUiVfgo6UjPUW by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-04-24T15:31:01Z
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Big scary billionaires are only big and scary when they're not funding her efforts to undermine democracy and suppress the vote.
(DIR) Post #AUyufJSfCHEeChmnZI by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-04-24T15:31:02Z
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Note that before Cleta Mitchell gained notoriety as an arch-election denier, she was a lawyer for a number of massive, billionaire-funded dark money groups, and now she works for the Conservative Partnership Institute
(DIR) Post #AV3UszvezKxKf60ttI by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-04-26T20:28:55Z
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Look y'all! It's actual cancel culture! ---RT @cwnewserBreaking: Montana Republicans have passed a motion to bar the lone transgender legislator Rep. Zooey Zephyr from entering the state House for the remainder of the legislative session.https://twitter.com/CWNewser/status/1651314099903447043
(DIR) Post #AV3Ut1icKniADDvVq4 by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-04-26T20:28:55Z
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One thing that has become clear in Tennessee and Montana is that Republicans are dying to portray anything their opponents do as an "attack" on democracy, because it waters down critics of the actual attacks on democracy ---RT @cwnewserRepublican Montana state Rep. David Bedey claims @ZoAndBehold “incited” an “assault” on Montana’s democracy.Republicans are doing this entire exercise in essential secret, having banned the public from…https://twitter.com/CWNewser/status/1651312331664531456
(DIR) Post #AV3bpwuQSWvm6dvgzg by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-04-26T21:37:03Z
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Local attorney in Ohio has been charged with voter fraud, accused of voting twice in both 2020 and 2022 in Ohio and Florida.FEC data shows he had made political contributions to Trump and other GOP organizations. https://fox8.com/news/local-attorney-charged-with-voter-fraud-in-2020-2022-elections/
(DIR) Post #AV7E0KnEtQF8oFpKjo by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-04-28T14:43:05Z
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Davis pinned the blame for Kavanaugh's alleged conduct on another Yale classmate—who, it turns out, "was not attending Yale at the time of the alleged incident." ---RT @nycsouthpaw“The suggestion that Kavanaugh was the victim of mistaken identity was sent to the judiciary committee by … a friend and former colleague of the judiciary committee’s then lead counsel, Mike Davis.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/28/brett-kava…https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1651949705121726465
(DIR) Post #AVDTRLTj7LPr0xnVuC by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-05-01T16:12:32Z
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Thomas's defenders have tried to minimize Harlan Crow's direct business before the Court, but in some ways that's the wrong question. During his tenure, Thomas has pushed to give more political power to the powerful, with less accountability.https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/analysis/clarence-thomass-decisions-have-been-benefiting-wealthy-donors-like-harlan-crow-for-decades/
(DIR) Post #AVDTRMCORH93FUhBWi by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-05-01T16:12:33Z
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For at least two decades, in multiple decisions, Thomas has railed against the long-established limits on political contributions, calling them an unconstitutional limit on free speech. In his view, wealthy donors should be able to give as much as they want.
(DIR) Post #AVDTRQZaB04SoZZlE8 by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-05-01T16:12:34Z
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And on the subject of disclosure, we often forget that Thomas was the *only* justice not to support the part of the Citizens United decision that reaffirmed the importance of disclosure in the American campaign finance system.
(DIR) Post #AVDTRSYwmKkczBIHVw by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-05-01T16:12:35Z
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In Thomas’s perfect world, it seems American politics would be free of limits or disclosure. Wealthy donors, corporations and special interests could give as much as they want, with no public disclosure.
(DIR) Post #AVDTRUNg1CvMco2JE0 by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-05-01T16:12:36Z
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This also applies to judicial recusals. In 2009’s Caperton v. Massey, he was in the minority and voted against forcing a judge who had gotten $3 million in campaign support from a single contributor to recuse when that donor was a party in a case before him.
(DIR) Post #AVFpemAflxbmsAc9mC by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-04-28T19:11:52Z
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Whistleblower documents allege that Chief Justice John Roberts' wife Jane Roberts made more than $10 million from elite law firmshttps://www.businessinsider.com/jane-roberts-chief-justice-wife-10-million-commissions-2023-4
(DIR) Post #AVFpemltXZNmjc1snI by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-04-28T19:11:54Z
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This is fine
(DIR) Post #AVGbwjcAoNjVxM6gLo by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-05-03T04:15:49Z
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The average historically Black college and university received 178 times less funding from foundations than the average Ivy League school in 2019, according to a new report on the underfunding of HBCUs released Tuesday. https://apnews.com/article/3b2a1f3cb6ddf93baf66cea47b902657
(DIR) Post #AVK7OknVgg2bmp86Rk by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-05-04T20:31:21Z
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I've been tracking money in politics, particularly from hidden sources, for more than a decade. I'm also very cynical. Yet even I'm truly shocked by the stories we're seeing lately involving just plain failure to report massive amounts of money that create huge conflicts.
(DIR) Post #AVK7OmkkPv1HqpqvQ0 by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-05-04T20:31:22Z
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If it was that easy for Hershel Walker to get away with potentially pocketing $500k for as long as he has—using a corporation he never reported—what's keeping any number of powerful political figures from lying about their finances or arranging payoffs? ---RT @RobertMaguire_WOW: Herschel Walker appears not only to have asked a donor for a $500k contribution to an allied super PAC (illegal), but he also channeled it through a compa…https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/1653916176995450880
(DIR) Post #AVK7OoUVxFDtF4GzOS by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-05-04T21:00:44Z
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Then of course there's Clarence Thomas. I mean the brazenness and the all-encompassing nature of the conflicts of interest. We've always known that people don't report certain things until they're caught, but this is entirely different in scope.
(DIR) Post #AVK7OqSocX3JMNUf1U by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-05-04T21:00:45Z
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Or hell, Trump, with his companies, raking tens of millions of dollars from special interests, foreign governments and wealthy donors to curry favor with him while he's in the White House. This is just getting out of control.
(DIR) Post #AVMaxbzbhYULbJgK0m by RobertMaguire@journa.host
2023-05-06T01:43:29Z
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The world is on fire and god’s out here sending us ice cold dick pics ---RT @bader_diedrichI mean, even cold https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/01/canada-phallic-iceberg-photo-newfoundland-dildohttps://twitter.com/bader_diedrich/status/1654582248094720001