"Ethics for thee, not for me" is really a throughline with these folks - ThreadSky

kevinmkruse.bsky.social • 76 days ago

"Ethics for thee, not for me" is really a throughline with these folks

A federal judge has been found to have violated ethics rules … by criticizing Samuel Alito for MAGA flags flying at his houses. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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christiew.bsky.social•76 days ago

I hope this judge pushes back and makes a big stink over it

voxdemocracy.bsky.social•76 days ago

🤦‍♀️

klouw.bsky.social•76 days ago

So now we can’t criticize justices? Wtf???!!!

mingomonk.bsky.social•76 days ago

https://youtu.be/R_fqkGMvvvE?si=uUC1cGXufO9bTvvB

brokenarmsgordon.bsky.social•76 days ago

So... this is just how it is from now on, huh?

ggrand5.bsky.social•76 days ago

Yeppers....

kayjayra13.bsky.social•76 days ago

But does any criticism really matter at this point? And wasn’t Alito’s wife in charge of the flag hanging? I thought that was her area of expertise, and he just lives there too.

terra221bite.bsky.social•76 days ago

#ICallBS

warrenterra.bsky.social•76 days ago

Exciting new career opportunities in the previously neglected field of Lèse-majesté Law.

goodtrouble3.bsky.social•76 days ago

That is as backwards as can be.

wingfoot1618.bsky.social•76 days ago

They are afterall the #not-supremes

hammys-howl.bsky.social•76 days ago

Alito….. Italian word for “compromised”

joshrgreenberg.bsky.social•76 days ago

Like everything else, they see calling out bad behavior as worse than the underlining bad behavior and use that as an opportunity to punish those that don't get in line.

noonefromnowhere.bsky.social•76 days ago

He didn’t, he was criticizing alito’s wife. 🤷‍♂️
No rule against that.

webrant.bsky.social•76 days ago

In our privilege over justice system it's the complaining about sedition and not the sedition itself that is prosecuted.

Due to the concentrated capital at its source.

lethaldose50.bsky.social•76 days ago

Yet Alito mouths "not true" in the middle of Obama's SOTU address.

ursulaunleashed.bsky.social•76 days ago

Alito can’t get any worse. Can it?

dolly41.bsky.social•76 days ago

Ummm...

mialynneb.bsky.social•76 days ago

Neighbor a couple houses down put up a "Stand Up For Your Country" sign after 2020. I called her out on it, and suddenly I was the dick😂

tldupy.bsky.social•76 days ago

🤬

scottmccaskill.bsky.social•76 days ago

I'm not even sure this is "Ethics for thee" as much as it is "You aren't allowed to criticize me at all." Which is a different rule altogether.

amwclark.bsky.social•76 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/matthewfitzsimmons.bsky.social/post/3ldjpagd7vs2o

mlamb.bsky.social•76 days ago

Hands off the oligarchy’s pet judges.

oscarsmom.bsky.social•76 days ago

This is ridiculous

grumpysociologist.bsky.social•76 days ago

And justice for all huh?

justkris2.bsky.social•76 days ago

It’s freaking crazy town. Everything BAD is good again.

endthepatriarchy.bsky.social•76 days ago

How's that an ethics violation?

deedeecountry.bsky.social•76 days ago

This is ridiculous! Alito is horrible

scottwhall.bsky.social•76 days ago

Alito: Yes, I'm a biased hack of a judge who wants to legislate from the bench to institutionalize my mythological and other nonsensical ideological beliefs.

taliajane.bsky.social•76 days ago

can’t get in trouble for violating a rule if everyone’s breaking it.

henryschoenberger.bsky.social•76 days ago

Truly - sick shit.

godzilla8ny.bsky.social•76 days ago

The SCOTUS is the new SCTV, but the writers suck.

laurentguy.bsky.social•76 days ago

Must be nice to be a Supreme Court justice, above the law and untouchable.

sneadly.bsky.social•76 days ago

I bet left-leaning media is all but gone by this time next year.

sewick.bsky.social•76 days ago

Alito is the worse

patalier.bsky.social•76 days ago

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Looks like Supreme Court Judges are above the law just like the president.

gwn61.bsky.social•76 days ago

America is never satisfied with standards. They want double standards.

mquick.bsky.social•76 days ago

"We are not final because we are ethical, but we are ethical only because we are final."

hawkeyepearcemd.bsky.social•76 days ago

What the 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

twincitieschick.bsky.social•76 days ago

Fuck Alito and fuck the people who concluded this. That judge was correct, and Alito is a MAGAt piece of shit.

iamsammi.bsky.social•76 days ago

🙃🤯🙃🤯

susanh121.bsky.social•76 days ago

#thingsthatmakeyougohmmm

amwclark.bsky.social•76 days ago

Link to the ethics decision & the judge's apology letter:
https://aboutblaw.com/bgCE
That & more sources at
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/judge-apologizes-for-criticizing-alitos-ethics-over-flags

amwclark.bsky.social•76 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/matthewfitzsimmons.bsky.social/post/3ldjpagd7vs2o

robotterror.com•76 days ago

This is the ethical concern related to the SCOTUS? THIS?!

Life imitates parody

leebailey.bsky.social•76 days ago

Alito is a POS anyway. He placed the blame on his wife for flying those flags! And how can it be an ethics violation when he is violating a code of conduct.

willsix6.bsky.social•76 days ago

Alito has made it clear, on more than one occasion, that he considers criticism of himself by either bench or bar to be a violation of the ethics rules. It goes without saying that this is errant nonsense, but, much like the popes of old, he considers himself infallible when speaking ex cathedra.

tisherself.bsky.social•76 days ago

Shame! Vergogna!! Vergogna!!

slatergurl.bsky.social•76 days ago

WTF??!!

kevinrsours.bsky.social•76 days ago

They view moral authority as something that is theirs by right and not something they have to earn. They get very cranky when somebody points out that this isn't how anything works.

ebharrington.bsky.social•76 days ago

Impunity is the ultimate status symbol.

tonylizza.bsky.social•76 days ago

One of my favorite quotes on this comes from a deleted Reddit post so I can never give credit but here it is: Stop being shocked by examples of conservative hypocrisy. Having different rules for different people is the *point* of conservatism.

bluesmuse.bsky.social•76 days ago

Yep, I think I'll just make the rules that'll eliminate any wrong doing for my wrongdoing....Sweet Jesus on a biscuit, no wander everyone is pissed and Trump tapped into the leat educated easily swayed of the bunch.

anarchy101.bsky.social•76 days ago

I thought constructive criticism helped people learn the consequences of their actions And as Americans(Free People) with Rights & Responsibilities per Our Constitution, it is our duty to cite correctives for our wayward "justices."

g-ill.bsky.social•76 days ago

#SmashTheFascistBroligarchy❗️

watson6728.bsky.social•76 days ago

Such a very corrupt SCOTUS. You are in violation of ethics rules for criticizing someone who has defecated all over ethics rules they say don’t apply to them. Other judges yes, to them? No

lauriescottdc.bsky.social•76 days ago

What the hell

paradeocrap.bsky.social•76 days ago

Forgiveness for the in-group; destruction for the out-group.

Pure Situational Ethics

atxsupermom77.bsky.social•76 days ago

Wow. Just fucking wow.

scamperton.bsky.social•76 days ago

This is whole thing is a fucking joke.

petrichorist.bsky.social•76 days ago

😐

joef-3.bsky.social•76 days ago

There has been a pretty consistent bipartisan consensus that powerful people should basically never be held accountable for how they abuse that power.

nomnomnomdeplumb.bsky.social•76 days ago

This definitely hammers home the radish of inequality

jonflora.bsky.social•76 days ago

Alito and Thomas have strong "don't you know who I am?!" vibes

mblehrhoff.bsky.social•76 days ago

Utterly vomitous.

pho13enix.bsky.social•76 days ago

Oxymoron emphasis on moron

beadgirl.bsky.social•76 days ago

I don’t recognize this country anymore.

just-jammin2.bsky.social•76 days ago

So which is the ethics violation again?

buddylove81.bsky.social•76 days ago

Let's all thank the historic asshole and moron George W. Bush for plaguing us with this vile cunt Alito

paulsemenza.bsky.social•76 days ago

Only the little judges have to abide by ethics rules

- Justice Leona Helmsley

ritamg.bsky.social•76 days ago

Boo fukkin hoo

swaytotheleft.bsky.social•76 days ago

So the other judges have a code of ethics but not these other ones? Vergona.

antonpnym.bsky.social•76 days ago

Time for me to trot out the Wilhoit quote again... alas my trusty screencap of it isn't on my phone. So, from fallible memory:

Conservatism consists of in-groups protected by the law but not constrained by it, and out-groups constrained by the law but not protected by it.

amwclark.bsky.social•76 days ago

Here ya go
https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

torbjornbjorkman.bsky.social•76 days ago

Federal laws and regulations of public service will just be The Code Of The Schoolyard for the forseeable future, right?

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