David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
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Corrupt Judges Are Legalizing Bribery
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices have redefined bribery to their advantage, claiming that post-favor payments are not corrupt. This ruling, written by Brett Kavanaugh, reflects a disturbing moral stance. It’s a case of corrupt judges legalizing their own corruption and defending malfeasance by local officials, while paving the way for corporate influence.
The Supreme Court’s Gone Rogue And Americans Are Suffering For It
Three illicitly appointed GOP judges sit at the heart of the court’s legitimacy crisis. By Mitchell Zimmerman | July 12, 2023 An older generation remembers President Richard Nixon desperately insisting, during the Watergate scandal, “I am not a crook.” Along the same…
A Surprising Win for Animal Rights – And Democracy
The Supreme Court sided with a voter-backed animal welfare rule over the corporate lobbyists who opposed it. By Jim Hightower | May 31, 2023 Special to the Roosevelt Island Daily News It’s an odd marketing strategy for an industry to assail its…
The Supreme Court Is Corrupt. Let’s Fix It.
When public officials get themselves mired in the muck of corruption, they can always count on Senator Ted Cruz to issue a moral judgment: If the offender is a Democrat, he pronounces the corruption inexcusably grotesque; if it’s a Republican,…
Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.
by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. See the original story here. In 2014, one of…
THE SUPREME COURT IS CORRUPT AND CLUELESS
Justices are partying at $25,000-a-head soirees with corporations that have cases before the court. As many of its own members privately admit, Congress has become a pay-to-play lawmaking casino — closed to commoners, but offering full-service access to corporate powers….
HOW TO PREVENT AN AMERICAN THEOCRACY
Six judges shouldn’t get to overturn the will of voters and destroy our rights. Expand the Supreme Court. By Mitchell Zimmerman | July 13, 2022 Barely a month ago we lived in a world where all Americans had the right to decide…
REFORM THE SUPREME COURT OR LOSE YOUR RIGHTS
Unelected judges shouldn’t have the power to take away rights most Americans support. Regardless of anyone’s views on abortion, the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson took away a reproductive right that a half-century of hard-fought judicial precedent had determined was…
Roe v. Wade: New York Democrats pledge safe harbor
(The Center Square) – While Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization means abortion will become illegal in several states, New York will not be one of them, and state leaders have issued statements after…
Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright Assails Overturning Roe
New York State Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright represents the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island. She’s a staunch support of any woman’s individual right to choose. But for her, it’s also personal. Her mentor and friend, the late Sarah Weddington,…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor