The Supreme Court has been paying Michael Chertoff's firm for 5 years
Source: Politico
The arrangement went undisclosed until this year because there was no requirement for the high court to reveal it.
Chertoff’s acknowledgement of the work came in response to an inquiry from lawmakers who wanted more details on the role he and his firm played investigating the unprecedented leak of a draft of the pivotal Dobbs abortion ruling to POLITICO last year.
While federal courts enforce the Freedom of Information Act, they are not subject to it.
“Just weeks ago, the Court requested an additional $10 million for security funding in the next fiscal year. That may be necessary, given increased threats, but taxpayers also deserve to know where that money is being spent, and that no such accounting has been released is typical SCOTUS opacity,”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/21/supreme-court-michael-chertoff-00088119
So Chertoff providing evidence and information then incorporated into SCOTUS rulings is a very real thing.
Chertoff was the co-author of the Patriot Act, and formerly worked on the Whitewater committee investigating the Clintons, as well as a judge on the 3rd Circuit until 2005 when appointed Secretary of Homeland Security.
TLDR: SCOTUS needs some sunshine and an enema.
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Because without Reason, our Freedoms cease to exist.
Which is why I won't back down!
It's always been a fight between the malevolently delusional and those of us with reason.
Machiavelli and Darwin will always apply.
But... don't let it get you down!
I'm in Caddo Parish, the last military strong-hold of the confederate traitors.
"It's not ideal here either" would be a classic English understatement...
I pick my battles carefully, 'cause once I put a quarter in that jukebox, I never know when that emotional gorilla dancing in my head is gonna' quit.
All of my family and that of my life-long honey's are all infected with the Nationalist Christian virus. That is beyond my control. Delusion is a horrible state to exist within. I know this from my own escape that took thirty years.
Me and mine are the only ones that escaped the "biblical" blood cults. I remember thinking back in my early twenties that the Nazis had kind of gotten it right, the evolvement of Genocidal Judaism into National Christianity was indeed "God's Will". They had just missed the part where they were not the one's that were to be YAHWEH's instruments of destruction. Oh no!
That was the job of the "Word of God Made Flesh", the "Savior" himself when he comes back to unleash his fiery wrath upon the majority of his creation that he's damned to burn in eternal hell.
So I know that if I become caught up in the delusional fascist maelstrom's depraved acts that lie outside of my circle of influence, I neglect what it is that I'm able to influence while simultaneously allowing other's dysfunction and pain to live rent free in my head.
Today my "savior" is doubt and my "god" is reason.
My methodology for not letting it get me down is eliminating the negative by focusing on what I'm able to change that positively impacts myself, neighbors and friends, I work within arms reach of my ass for all that I find valuable, that I'm able to be a part of in a mutually beneficial way, both for myself and those around me.
All politics are local.
That means it starts with me.
I just do what I'm able and stay focused on the task at hand.
It allows me to live in the moment and live a happier more productive life.
Back to installing a dash cam in our "assistance vehicle'. Had an idiot run into our Benz, if it bent the frame it'll likely total it out. Turns out that in my experience they're the easiest to work on of any vehicle I've ever touched. Find out if we're shopping or waiting for repairs, in the mean-time I won't drive without a dash-cam.
Idiots rule doesn't begin to describe the drivers here... Tijuana has better drivers...
Oh well, so be it...
Laissez bon temps rouler, ya' might as well!
