Senate control could come down to Alaska. Can Republicans really refuse to certify or seat Mary Peltola if she wins? Probably not. But they sure can gum things up.
Joel Kaplan served in the Whitehouse and then was instantly hired by Zuckerberg to “engender ties to conservatives” right as Obama took office.
Kaplan is one of the people who drove 2020, by exempting right wing disinfo sites from Facebook’s news truthfulness standards, and by putting his thumb on the scales of the algorithm to promote right-wing content.
And Bush’s lead attorney in the recount battle was a well-connected young Republican lawyer named John Roberts.
Within only five years of the Brooks Brothers Riot, and with less than two years of experience on the bench as a judge, he was made CHIEF Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
O’Connor was retiring anyway, and Rehnquist was already sick, but these days I often wonder if Rehnquist wasn’t given a tiny push in the same quiet way George V had been sixty years earlier, because goddamn was that some convenient timing.
From mere attorney to Chief Justice of SCOTUS in only five years. Imagine that. “Rewarded” indeed.
People in the Brooks Brothers riot - 20 years prior - later served in the W admin.
They were rewarded for their fuckery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
Three of W’s lawyers from Bush v. Gore are now Supreme Court justices.
Another one of those was Ted Cruz.
Joel Kaplan served in the Whitehouse and then was instantly hired by Zuckerberg to “engender ties to conservatives” right as Obama took office.
Kaplan is one of the people who drove 2020, by exempting right wing disinfo sites from Facebook’s news truthfulness standards, and by putting his thumb on the scales of the algorithm to promote right-wing content.
And Bush’s lead attorney in the recount battle was a well-connected young Republican lawyer named John Roberts.
Within only five years of the Brooks Brothers Riot, and with less than two years of experience on the bench as a judge, he was made CHIEF Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
O’Connor was retiring anyway, and Rehnquist was already sick, but these days I often wonder if Rehnquist wasn’t given a tiny push in the same quiet way George V had been sixty years earlier, because goddamn was that some convenient timing.
From mere attorney to Chief Justice of SCOTUS in only five years. Imagine that. “Rewarded” indeed.