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jangillman · 2 months ago
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reality-detective · 2 months ago
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FBI have now ARRESTED NM Judge Juan Cano and his wife, who were caught harboring an illegal Tren de Aragua gang member in their home. 🤔
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highflyerwings · 5 months ago
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The Trauma Code is giving The Devil Judge, if Yohan, Jinjoo, and Gaon were all immediately on the same page. And Gaon was still having horny obsessed fantasies about Yohan, and Yohan was secretly asking Jinjoo for tips on how to woo Gaon, and Jinjoo was just so tired, and they were all messy quirky girls.
That’s The Trauma Code.
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agent-mcsweetheart · 5 months ago
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redemption fics but they’re just court transcripts of Harry getting breanna out of something that was absolutely her fault but it was for a good reason Harry i swear
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originalistideas · 3 months ago
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Morning blog! No wonder the judge wanted the planes turned around.
Ever wonder what drives a federal judge to order planes full of illegal immigrants, whom are gang members such as MS13 and Tren De Aragua, to turn back? Maybe it's because his wife runs an abortion NGO funded by USAID, and his daughter Katherine works for Partners for Justice - a group that serves legal support to those very same criminals, thanks to 76% of their cash flow coming from Uncle Sam!
This organization is like an anti-deportation cheer squad and even boasts about having knocked off 5,000 years of prison time since 2018.
So, when investigative journalist Laura Loomer started connecting these dots, the judges wife Katherine suddenly ghosted her social media accounts like linked in, faster than a bad Tinder date!
This raises a big, blinking ethical alarm. According to the U.S.
Judges' Code of Conduct, judges should recuse themselves if a close relative might benefit from their decisions. Yet here we are, with a judge whose rulings are practically aligned with his daughter's paycheck. National security? More like family vacation! Talk about mixing business with, uh, "personal" interests! Nothing to see here folks
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sagefrizzle · 2 months ago
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Fire these judges. Do as El Salvador has done, remove them all
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alwaysbewoke · 1 year ago
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loz-chainsofcorruption · 3 months ago
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Concept for Setsunir! She's the deity of Mount Hebra
I think I'm cooking but I also think I'm cooked because I have a feeling doing proper lineart and coloring with this concept is gonna be a nightmare
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thingstrumperssay · 2 months ago
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We are now at the point where judges are getting arrested for doing their jobs if their jobs prevents Trump from getting rid of people.
This is obviously scary, but anybody who's been paying attention knew that this administration was going to start arresting people just for getting in their way.
For the people who voted for this because they believed that this exact thing was going on during Biden's administration- how do you feel now? I assume that you're in denial of everything and that you'll be using racism to justify this unlawful arrest.
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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 2 months ago
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A judical tide overwhelms Trump.
April 25, 2025
Robert B. Hubbell
The plague of fantasy orders signed by Trump in his first 100 days in office has collided with reality. Reality is winning—big time. On Thursday, Trump's executive orders were overwhelmed by a rising tide of judicial decisions.
Trump's executive orders should be viewed as a mixture of propaganda and photo opportunities. Although we should treat the orders as serious statements of Trump's intent, we must also recognize that they violate the Constitution and laws of the US at every level.
Executive orders CANNOT
-Amend, suspend, or ignore the Constitution; -Supersede statutes enacted by Congress; -Cancel or impound congressional appropriations; -Shutter agencies created by statute; -Use mass layoffs to incapacitate agencies established by Congress; or -Overrule judicial decisions.
Because every executive order signed by Trump violates (at least) one of the above prohibitions, federal judges have enjoined the implementation of Trump’s orders at a scalding pace. Bewildered Trump supporters complain that no president has ever encountered such widespread judicial constraint. Trump's supporters ignore the obvious explanation—that no other president has acted in such a lawless manner.
One hundred days into Trump's second term, the courts have emerged as an essential bulwark in the defense of democracy. It is, of course, their duty to do so, but it could have been otherwise. Even the Supreme Court has dipped its toe into the emerging tide of opposition to Trump. We can only hope that the justices will read the winds and tides to help navigate our nation back to the safe harbor of the rule of law.
Let’s take a look at some of the judicial decisions issued on Thursday that are slowing or reversing Trump's efforts to overturn the Constitution and circumvent the rule of law.
Multiple court decisions halt the implementation of Trump's executive orders.
Republicans are attempting to push the SAVE Act through the Senate. The SAVE Act would require proof of citizenship for newly registering or re-registering voters. Trump understands that the SAVE Act will be blocked in the Senate by the filibuster rule, so he issued an executive order attempting to implement the SAVE Act by presidential fiat.
On Thursday, a federal judge told Trump that the president has no role in federal elections. See Democracy Docket, Judge Halts Trump’s Anti-Voting Executive Order.
The case was brought by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) against the Trump administration. The Complaint is here: LULAC v. Executive Office of President.
On Wednesday, the US district judge overseeing the case, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, issued an order blocking implementation of Trump's executive order. In her ruling, Judge Kollar-Kotelly noted that the president has no constitutional or statutory role in the administration of elections:
Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States—not the President—with the authority to regulate federal elections. Consistent with that allocation of power, Congress is currently debating legislation that would effect many of the changes the President purports to order. See SAVE Act, H.R. 22, 119th Cong. (2025). And no statutory delegation of authority to the Executive Branch permits the President to short-circuit Congress’s deliberative process by executive order.
Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s order is here: Memorandum Opinion | LULAC v. EOP | 4/24/25.
The 119-page opinion rests on a simple but powerful point: The Constitution grants power to regulate to the states and to Congress. Trump's bloviating executive orders are propaganda, nothing more.
To a similar effect, a trio of decisions held that Trump's executive order prohibiting public schools from teaching or using “DEI” is unconstitutional. A “Dear Colleague” letter sent to schools across the nation threatened to cut off federal funding to schools that taught or utilized “DEI” in their curricula or operations. See CNN Politics, Department of Education policy targeting DEI and other race-related school programs is likely unconstitutional, judge rules.
Three US District Court judges, two of whom were appointed by Trump, wrote in three separate cases that the “Dear Colleagues” letter sent by the Department of Education to schools across the nation (a) constituted “viewpoint discrimination” under the First Amendment, (b) violated the Fifth Amendment due process guarantee, or (c) violated the Administrative Procedures Act.
The three orders are set forth below:
Order | NEA v. Department of Education (D. N.H.)
Oral Ruling | NAACP v. Department of Education (D. D.C.)
Memorandum Opinion | American Federation of Teachers v Department of Education | (D. MD).
The judges relied on three different judicial approaches in enjoining the implementation of the threats in the Dear Colleague letter. The various judicial approaches are explained by the legal theories asserted and remedies sought by the plaintiffs.
The fact that three jurists arrived at the same conclusion via three legal pathways underscores the breathtaking substantive illegality and procedural impropriety of the administration’s ham-fisted tactics. Trump's executive orders are performative in nature, unmoored from presidential authority and constraints set forth in the Constitution.
In another loss for Trump, a federal judge in the Northern District of California ruled that Trump's executive order that attempted to defund “sanctuary cities” is unconstitutional. See Order Granting Injunction | San Francisco v. Trump (N.D. Cal.).
US District Judge William H. Orrick issued an emergency order preventing implementation of an executive order that withheld federal funds from so-called “sanctuary jurisdictions.” Judge Orrick issued an identical injunction against a similar order issued by Trump in 2017. Judge Orrick noted that his ruling in the 2017 case was upheld by the Ninth Circuit.
There were other legal developments (all bad for Trump), but losing five cases in a day is likely a record for any president in US history. You have to work hard to be so wrong that you lose cases at their inception, when the burden of proof is stacked against the plaintiffs.
Pressure mounts for law firms to resist Trump's hostile takeover attempt
There were several significant developments in the efforts to oppose Trump's assault on the independence and integrity of the legal profession. First, Lawyers Defending American Democracy (LDAD), published a statement calling on lawyers at top law firms to end their silence in the face of Trump's hostile takeover attempt. See LDAD, Elite Lawyers Must End Their Silence and Unite to Protect the Justice System.
Although 21 major firms have chosen to take a public stand against the administration’s assault on the legal profession, 170 of the 200 largest firms have remained silent. LDAD has called upon those 170 law firms to speak out and declare their fealty to the rule of law.
LDAD published an open letter to those 170 firms, warning them of the consequences of capitulating to Trump.
LDAD writes,
Your firm will forever be redefined. Your rival firms will point to you as a portrait of cowardice and ask how any client could trust you after succumbing to powerful interests without a fight. You will forever be joined with a small group of the most privileged firms in this country who betrayed the principles that lawyers and clients must be free to choose one another; that all people appearing in our courts are entitled to the best advocacy their counsel can offer; and that the rule of law requires lawyers and their firms to stand up for it, even when it is not in their own personal or financial interest. Reputations take decades to build and only one fateful decision to destroy.
A coalition of law students has joined the effort to stiffen the backbones of leaders at elite law firms. The leaders of the effort are asking current law students to refrain from working for law firms that have capitulated to Trump. See Law Student Firm Pledge.
The Law Student Firm Pledge reads, in part,
Our democracy is under attack, and it is time for lawyers to choose sides. As the future of the legal profession, who have committed to defending the rule of law, we cannot stand for capitulation to tyranny. [¶] The response from too many firms has been either silence or collaboration, with some of the most powerful law firms in the world committing to the elimination of diversity programs and openly agreeing to set amounts of money in pro bono work to support Trump's lawless agenda.
We, the undersigned, refuse to work for any firm that gives in to Trump administration demands regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion or the types of cases handled by the firm.
In another courageous action, a law firm in Tennessee has served public notice of its withdrawal from the Tennessee Bar Association (TBA) because of the TBA’s silence in the face of Trump's lawlessness. See Memphis Flyer, Memphis Law Firm Leaves Tennessee Bar Association for Its Silence on Trump.
The law firm, Donati Law, announced its resignation from the TBA in a letter that stated, in part, as follows:
It is with great sadness that we feel obligated to leave the TBA due to its refusal to take a stand consistent with the ideals of the Rule of Law and an independent judiciary in the face of extreme threats from the executive branch.
Kudos to Donati Law for serving as examples for other law firms.
Finally, fourteen Democratic representatives in the US House have sent letters to the Capitulating Law Firms asking for voluntary responses to pointed questions. See 4/24/25 Letters to Brad Karp (Paul Weiss) et al.
The letters make the point that the agreements may have violated multiple federal and state anti-bribery statutes as well as ethics rules of the New York and D.C. bar associations. Ouch, double ouch, and triple ouch!
Each of the firms that received the above letter must have notified its malpractice carrier of a potential claim, loss, or alleged illegal act. And insurers for large law firms are busily drafting exclusions from insurance coverage for future “deals” with the Trump administration.
It is truly breathtaking that a handful of the largest, most sophisticated firms in the nation have placed themselves in such jeopardy to protect marginal profitability. What were they thinking?
Trump's corruption on full display—and Republicans shrug their shoulders.
Republicans pursued the “Hunter Biden laptop” with unrelenting zeal because they believed that it might somehow show that Joe Biden attempted to profit from holding the office of the Vice President.
Donald Trump is openly auctioning off dinners with the President and VIP tours of the White House, and Republicans are nowhere to be found. To be clear, Trump is not selling access to the president for his campaign coffers or those of other Republicans. Trump is funneling the money into his personal bank account.
Here’s the scam: Trump has started a cryptocurrency. He owns the initial “coin” of the currency. Subsequent purchasers of the cryptocurrency are purchasing the coin directly from Trump. Trump is offering White House dinners and tours to those who make the largest purchases of Trump's cryptocurrency. See Mother Jones, Trump Crypto Coin Buyers Offered VIP Tour of White House.
At the very moment that Trump is selling access to the Office of the Presidency to the highest bidder, he has directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to begin an investigation of ActBlue, the major Democratic fundraising arm. See Democracy Docket, Trump Orders Probe Against Democratic Fundraising Platform ActBlue.
Trump falsely claims that ActBlue has illegally accepted contributions from foreign donors. But as explained in Democracy Docket, ActBlue discovered attempted contributions by foreign donors and blocked them:
The president left out the fact that ActBlue took actions in response to those detections. It caught and rejected fraudulent donations . . . [and] banned contributions made from foreign IP addresses using domestic prepaid cards, according to House Republicans.
As noted above, Trump's executive orders are a mixture of propaganda and photo opportunities. The investigation ordered by Trump in Thursday’s executive order is duplicative of existing congressional investigations into fundraising by ActBlue—investigations that have yet to discover any illegal conduct by ActBlue.
[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]
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jangillman · 2 months ago
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Not one single red blooded, patriotic, American can defend this! Absolutely disgusting and traitorous to America and all Americans!
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reality-detective · 3 months ago
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Unleashes Legal Hellfire — Deep State Lawyers Are Being Hunted Like Criminals
Trump just greenlit the most aggressive legal crackdown in U.S. history — and the targets aren’t street thugs or cartel bosses. They’re lawyers. The Deep State’s legal assassins. The elite who thought the courtroom was their war room.
It’s over.
From Clinton fixer Marc Elias to billion-dollar firms that coached illegals to lie and drown America in chaos — Trump’s DOJ and DHS are coming for all of them. No more hiding behind robes and law degrees. No more immunity for traitors in ties.
For years, these people launched legal warfare on America — fake lawsuits, border sabotage, classified leaks, election interference. All while smiling for cameras and cashing checks. They weren’t defending democracy. They were destroying it.
Now, it’s payback.
Trump 47 isn’t interested in speeches or subpoenas. He’s using the same legal system they corrupted — and turning it into a weapon of truth, exposure, and punishment.
Marc Elias? The man behind fake Russia hoaxes and swing-state chaos? He’s being dissected. Every filing. Every fraud. Every lie. Trump’s DOJ is building the case to take him down — legally, publicly, and permanently.
Big Law traitors? Their seven-figure treason is under federal microscope. They used federal cash to help illegals invade, undermined elections, and buried border agents in lawsuits. Now they’ll face audits, disbarments, criminal referrals.
Lawfare is DEAD. The court system will no longer be their playground. It’s now a battlefield — and they’re on the losing side. Trump is doing what no president dared to do. Not Bush. Not Reagan. Certainly not Biden, who needs a GPS to find the podium. Only Trump had the guts to rip the mask off the legal-industrial complex. And now it’s bleeding. 🤔
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raelynnlynn · 18 days ago
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⚠️ This fic is purely self indulgent. This is also a CANON x OC post. However, you’re free to self-insert whilst reading if you’d like :>
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The Rose’s Lament
Chapter 00: Prologue
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・ Chapter 1 >>>
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“Dearest Fount, do you ever permit yourself a moment's respite?" The Songstress' voice drifted like petals on a spring breeze as she settled gracefully beside the Scholar beneath the old wisteria tree. Her fingers absentmindedly traced patterns in the soft earth as she spoke, the golden light of dusk filtering through the leaves to dance across her delicate features.
The Scholar barely glanced up from the arcane scroll hovering before him, its glowing runes casting shifting shadows across his sharp features. A wry smile tugged at his lips as he responded, "My precious Songstress, you chide me as though you aren't guilty of burning through midnight oil yourself—composing ballads until the stars fade, all for those who adore you." His quill continued scratching across parchment even as he spoke, ink blooming like dark roses with every stroke.
Her laughter danced through the air like the delicate chime of silver bells caught in a summer breeze—light, melodic, and brimming with warmth. With effortless grace, she levitated just inches above the ground, her ethereal presence shimmering with a soft, rosy glow before she draped her arms around her husband's broad shoulders in a tender embrace.
"Music is my respite," she murmured, nestling her head against him, breathing in the familiar, comforting scent of sweet milk and ripe blueberries that clung to him—a fragrance as soothing as the lullabies she composed. "But you, my love... you carry the weight of the world upon yours."
At last, he turned to face her, the arcane scroll that had consumed his attention moments ago now drifting gently onto his lap, its glowing runes dimming as if in deference to the quiet intimacy of the moment. A sigh escaped him, heavy with unspoken burdens, yet he did not—could not—deny the truth in her words.
"Perhaps," he conceded, his voice a low, velvety hum as he pulled her fully onto his lap, his arms encircling her with a possessiveness born of deep devotion. His heterochromatic eyes—one as deep and endless as the night sky, the other as vibrant as a sunlit sapphire—twinkled with rare, unrestrained affection as they met hers. "But what else is a Scholar to do with his time, if not seek answers to the universe's endless questions?"
The Songstress gave an airy shrug, her delicate shoulders rising and falling with exaggerated nonchalance before fixing him with a look that sparkled with mischief. A coy smile played upon her lips—one that he knew all too well—as she twirled a lock of hair around her finger.
"Oh, I don't know," she mused, her voice lilting like a melody half-remembered from a dream. "Perhaps spend the afternoon with his wife~?" The words dripped with playful suggestion, her grin widening when she saw the way his eyes flickered with amusement, his usual composure threatening to crack.
The Fount pressed his lips together in a futile attempt to stifle his laughter, but it was no use—she had always been able to unravel him with nothing more than a glance, a smile, the slightest tilt of her head. A deep, warm chuckle rumbled from his chest as he pulled her tighter against him, his arms encircling her waist with possessive affection.
"Insufferable," he murmured, though the word carried no bite—only adoration. He buried his face in the crook of her neck, breathing in the familiar sweetness of lychee and roses that clung to her skin. "How is it that you, of all things, are the one mystery I cannot solve?"
She laughed again—bright and unrestrained—and the sound alone was enough to make the very air around them hum with warmth. The afternoon stretched before them, golden and unhurried, and for once, the weight of knowledge and duty could wait.
After all, what was time, when measured against the joy of being loved by her?
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A/N: This is the first fic I posted online, I apologize if it’s not well thought of
Thank you for taking the time to read! Have a beautiful day ahead (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.゚
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jackassdemocrats · 2 months ago
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What if past presidents had to deal with treasonous activist judges?
As always, never buy anything made in china. Don't ever trust a democrat and NEVER leave your child alone with one.
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libertarianlibrarian · 4 months ago
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would you look at that. who wouldve thought that the people blocking DOGE’s audits are in on the fraud
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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 years ago
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One of America’s most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself
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Today (Oct 16) I'm in Minneapolis, keynoting the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Thursday (Oct 19), I'm in Charleston, WV to give the 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities. Friday (Oct 20), I'm at Charleston's Taylor Books from 12h-14h.
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"I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one." The now-famous quip from Robert Reich cuts to the bone of corporate personhood. Corporations are people with speech rights. They are heat-shields that absorb liability on behalf of their owners and managers.
But the membrane separating corporations from people is selectively permeable. A corporation is separate from its owners, who are not liable for its deeds – but it can also be "closely held," and so inseparable from those owners that their religious beliefs can excuse their companies from obeying laws they don't like:
https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2014/10/13/hobby-lobby-and-closely-held-corporations/
Corporations – not their owners – are liable for their misdeeds (that's the "limited liability" in "limited liablity corporation"). But owners of a murderous company can hold their victims' families hostage and secure bankruptcies for their companies that wipe out their owners' culpability – without any requirement for the owners to surrender their billions to the people they killed and maimed:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed
Corporations are, in other words, a kind of Schroedinger's Cat for impunity: when it helps the ruling class, corporations are inseparable from their owners; when that would hinder the rich and powerful, corporations are wholly distinct entities. They exist in a state of convenient superposition that collapses only when a plutocrat opens the box and decides what is inside it. Heads they win, tails we lose.
Key to corporate impunity is the rigged bankruptcy system. "Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid," so every successful civilization has some system for discharging debt, or it risks collapse:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/bankruptcy-protects-fake-people-brutalizes-real-ones/
When you or I declare bankruptcy, we have to give up virtually everything and endure years (or a lifetime) of punitive retaliation based on our stained credit records, and even then, our student debts continue to haunt us, as do lawless scumbag debt-collectors:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/12/do-not-pay/#fair-debt-collection-practices-act
When a giant corporation declares bankruptcy, by contrast, it emerges shorn of its union pension obligations and liabilities owed to workers and customers it abused or killed, and continues merrily on its way, re-offending at will. Big companies have mastered the Texas Two-Step, whereby a company creates a subsidiary that inherits all its liabilities, but not its assets. The liability-burdened company is declared bankrupt, and the company's sins are shriven at the bang of a judge's gavel:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/01/j-and-j-jk/#risible-gambit
Three US judges oversee the majority of large corporate bankruptcies, and they are so reliable in their deference to this scheme that an entire industry of high-priced lawyers exists solely to game the system to ensure that their clients end up before one of these judges. When the Sacklers were seeking to abscond with their billions in opioid blood-money and stiff their victims' families, they set their sights on Judge Robert Drain in the Southern District of New York:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/23/a-bankrupt-process/#sacklers
To get in front of Drain, the Sacklers opened an office in White Plains, NY, then waited 192 days to file bankruptcy papers there (it takes six months to establish jurisdiction). Their papers including invisible metadata that identified the case as destined for Judge Drain's court, in a bid to trick the court's Case Management/Electronic Case Files system to assign the case to him.
The case was even pre-captioned "RDD" ("Robert D Drain"), to nudge clerks into getting their case into a friendly forum.
If the Sacklers hadn't opted for Judge Drain, they might have set their sights on the Houston courthouse presided over by Judge David Jones, the second of of the three most corporate-friendly large bankruptcy judges. Judge Jones is a Texas judge – as in "Texas Two-Step" – and he has a long history of allowing corporate murderers and thieves to escape with their fortunes intact and their victims penniless:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-4193/#shoppers-choice
But David Jones's reign of error is now in limbo. It turns out that he was secretly romantically involved with Elizabeth Freeman, a leading Texas corporate bankruptcy lawyer who argues Texas Two-Step cases in front of her boyfriend, Judge David Jones.
Judge Jones doesn't deny that he and Freeman are romantically involved, but said that he didn't think this fact warranted disclosure – let alone recusal – because they aren't married and "he didn't benefit economically from her legal work." He said that he'd only have to disclose if the two owned communal property, but the deed for their house lists them as co-owners:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24032507-general-warranty-deed
(Jones claims they don't live together – rather, he owns the house and pays the utility bills but lets Freeman live there.)
Even if they didn't own communal property, judges should not hear cases where one of the parties is represented by their long term romantic partner. I mean, that is a weird sentence to have to type, but I stand by it.
The case that led to the revelation and Jones's stepping away from his cases while the Fifth Circuit investigates is a ghastly – but typical – corporate murder trial. Corizon is a prison healthcare provider that killed prisoners with neglect, in the most cruel and awful ways imaginable. Their families sued, so Corizon budded off two new companies: YesCare got all the contracts and other assets, while Tehum Care Services got all the liabilities:
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/prominent-bankruptcy-judge-david-jones-033801325.html
Then, Tehum paid Freeman to tell her boyfriend, Judge Jones, to let it declare bankruptcy, leaving $173m for YesCare and allocating $37m for the victims suing Tehum. Corizon owes more than $1.2b, "including tens of millions of dollars in unpaid invoices and hundreds of malpractice suits filed by prisoners and their families who have alleged negligent care":
https://www.kccllc.net/tehum/document/2390086230522000000000041
Under the deal, if Corizon murdered your family member, you would get $5,000 in compensation. Corizon gets to continue operating, using that $173m to prolong its yearslong murder spree.
The revelation that Jones and Freeman are lovers has derailed this deal. Jones is under investigation and has recused himself from his cases. The US Trustee – who represents creditors in bankruptcy cases – has intervened to block the deal, calling Tehum "a barren estate, one that was stripped of all of its valuable assets as a result of the combination and divisional mergers that occurred prior to the bankruptcy filing."
This is the third high-profile sleazy corporate bankruptcy that had victory snatched from the jaws of defeat this year: there was Johnson and Johnson's attempt to escape from liability from tricking women into powder their vulvas with asbestos (no, really), the Sacklers' attempt to abscond with billions after kicking off the opioid epidemic that's killed 800,000+ Americans and counting, and now this one.
This one might be the most consequential, though – it has the potential to eliminate one third of the major crime-enabling bankruptcy judges serving today.
One down.
Two to go.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/16/texas-two-step/#david-jones
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My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!
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