Originally published at: Appeals court blocks X's attempt to expose Media Matters donors - Boing Boing
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Emphasising that the 5th Circuit Court found his ruling unacceptable. That’s how bad O’Connor is.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Is Spearheading a Judicial Power Grab
The rogue 5th Circuit Court has helped undermine the separation of powers, established precedent, and principled legal reasoning to accomplish right-wing policy goals; the Supreme Court continuing to follow suit would strip power away from elected representatives and American voters.
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I did mention last week that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is not yet quite as bad as some of the district judges in the 5th Circuit. This ruling is a good example of that. If Trump wins, though, it won’t be long before the 5th Circuit is full of people like O’Connor. Probably including O’Connor, actually.
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Depending on how an upcoming Supreme Court case goes it may by more difficult in the future for businesses to get their cases heard in that usually-corporate-friendly court.
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Why haven’t the companies come forward - the ones who quit advertising on the walls of lone skum’s xitter b/c nazi BS next to their ads?
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“Republicans buy sneakers, too.” Making their brand into a culture-war lightning rod is probably not on Corporate’s to-do list?
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FFS. Okay, why haven’t actual people come forward with their screenshots of this BS?
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That ship sailed when they stopped buying ads. Musk called them out then, and they didn’t suffer any ill effects, and quite frankly a Nazi boycott won’t do much to them at the moment.
Why didn’t the judge toss this when Media Matters filed a motion to dismiss, as this is an obvious SLAP sui…. Oh. Right. The judge has an obvious conflict of interest.
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‘Space Caligula’ tho 
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Amazing what you can get away with when you have judges and high-level politicians on speed-dial.
Yet another ethically challenged judge.
Clarence Thomas has set a pretty high (or low, depending on your POV) bar for that sort of thing.
If only there was an administration with an agenda dedicated to clearing out corruption in government; this is an example why the Judiciary should be first.
A large number of Congresscritters (past & present, National & State level) could be RICO’d… and not a few Governors, as well.
One can dream.
Not likely.
Like a lot of his ilk, this guy is shameless.
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