#MikeJohnson’s next steps on #GovernmentFunding fight could determine whether he gets to keep his job as #House #Speaker.

w/the #election & a #government #funding deadline around the corner, the speaker must find a way to govern, avoid a #shutdown that could cost his members in swing districts [& the country, not that the #GOP cares] & keep #Trump & #FarRight #HouseRepublicans happy enough to not imperil his own #political future.

#IssuesNotSolutions #PublicDisservice
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/12/politics/mike-johnson-next-steps-government-funding-fight/index.html

On the same call, Shackelford attacked Justice #ElenaKagan as “treasonous” & “disloyal” after she endorsed an #enforcement mechanism for the court’s newly adopted #ethics code in a recent public appearance. He said that such an ethics code would “destroy the independence of the judiciary.” (This past weekend, Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson said she too was open to an enforceable ethics code for #SCOTUS.)

#FarRight #extremism #law

Justice #Alito reported receiving concert tickets from Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, a European socialite nicknamed “Princess TNT” by Vanity Fair. …It’s unclear where the concert was located or how the trip to the venue was funded.

The NYT reported in 2018 that the princess’s castle in Regensburg, Germany, has become a hub for #disgruntled #RightWing #Catholic #elites & cardinals like German cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller.

#FarRight #hate #LGBTQ #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #law #ethics

#Alito reported that he sold up to $15k worth of stock in #AnheuserBusch, the parent company of #Budweiser & #BudLight, in late Aug, & purchased stock in Molson Coors Beverage Company, which owns Coors & Coors Light.

#FarRight #hate #LGBTQ #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #law #ethics
https://www.nytimes.com/article/bud-light-boycott.html

Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, Müller & Brian S. Brown, a prominent anti-#LGBTQ+ rights activist, visited #Alito & Justice Brett M. #Kavanaugh at #SCOTUS in 2019, acc/to a photo Brown posted on…[social media].

#FarRight #hate #LGBTQ #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #law #ethics
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/world/europe/princess-gloria-von-thurn-und-taxis-francis.html

“An anti-corruption charity says it has identified significant concerns in contracts worth over £15.3bn awarded by the Conservative government during the Covid pandemic, equivalent to one in every £3 spent”

#uk #tories #greed #corruption #dishonesty #incompetence #ukpolitics #brexit #rejoineu #covid #partygate #sleaze #conservatives #tory #rightwing #farright #weird #farright #migration #economy #refugees #BorisJohnson #sunak

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevj3y7n33vo

Corruption review finds 'red flags' in more than 130 Covid contracts

An anti-corruption charity finds significant concerns in £15.3bn worth of contracts awarded during the pandemic.

^{Andy Verity (BBC News)}