Governor Abbott is opening the door for MAGA sympathizers to harm Progressives. A Texas judge takes another right away from women. We must impeach our most crooked Supreme Court Justice.
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Governor Abbott is set to pardon a MAGA murderer.
Once again, the party that proclaims itself to be the party of law and order and one that believes in the sanctity of life proves all the talk is but hot air. The Texas Tribune reported the following.
Gov. directed the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider recommending a pardon for Daniel Perry on Saturday, one day after a Travis County jury convicted the U.S. Army sergeant in the 2020 murder of Austin protester Garrett Foster.
After 17 hours of deliberations and an eight-day trial, jurors Friday found Perry guilty of murder for shooting and killing Foster, who was armed with an AK-47 as part of a group protesting police brutality. Perry, an Uber driver, had encountered the protest a few blocks from the Capitol in downtown Austin.
Under pressure from conservatives, Abbott announced Saturday that he asked the parole board to review Perry’s conviction on an expedited basis. The Texas Constitution, he said, requires the parole board to recommend a pardon before a governor could act.
So who is this convicted murderer that Abbott is intent on freeing?
According to Austin police, Perry was driving for Uber when he stopped his car and honked at protesters as they walked through the street. Seconds later, he drove his car into the crowd, police said.
Foster, who was a 28-year-old white man and an Air Force veteran, had been seen openly carrying an AK-47 rifle at the time, which was legal. There are conflicting accounts as to whether Foster raised the rifle to the driver before Perry, who was also legally armed, shot and killed Foster and fled the area, police said. He called the police and reported what happened, claiming he shot in self-defense after Foster aimed his weapon at him. Perry is also a white man.
Perry’s defense argued that the shooting was justified under the state’s “stand your ground” law, which allows deadly force to be used by those who feel they are in danger.
Convicted murderer Daniel Perry previously wrote disturbing social media posts that indicate his violence was premeditated. The Texas Tribune reports the following.
In June, when President Donald Trump tweeted that “protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes” protesting in Oklahoma would face “a much different scene” than protesters in New York or Minneapolis, Perry responded from a now-deleted account with the username “@knivesfromtrigu.” The tweet read, “Send them to Texas we will show them why we say don’t mess with Texas.” That account was identified as being connected to Perry by Tribune of the People, which bills itself as a “revolutionary news service.” …
James Sasinowski, a protester who witnessed the Foster shooting, said core disconnects — and a lack of universal compassion for fellow people — have divided the country.
“It’s easy to be angry when reading … those past tweets in the current context,” he said in a text to the Tribune. “We have to ask ‘How did we get here? What led this person to feel this way?’…We can blame police and racists all day long, but until we change the system, there will be no real difference.”
In Texas and other Red States, it is clear that they want Progressives to remain silent. But worse, if it means murdering a Lefty to keep them in line, so be it.
Texas Judge takes away another right from all U.S. women.
It was not unexpected. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who is an appointee of Donald Trump, suspended the approval of the abortion pill Mifepristone. The AP reported the following.
The federal judge who on Friday suspended approval of the abortion pill mifepristone is a former Christian legal activist whose small courthouse in Amarillo, Texas, has become a go-to destination for conservatives challenging Biden administration policies.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump, had a long track record of opposing abortion and LGBTQ rights before the U.S. Senate confirmed him in 2019 to a life-tenured position as a federal judge.
Now on the bench, he has routinely ruled against Democratic causes. Since October alone, Kacsmaryk has blocked an end to Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” immigration program and ruled against Biden administration policies designed to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in the workplace and at doctors’ offices. …
Although his ruling on Friday was preliminary and not on the merits of the case, Kacsmaryk indicated he thought the challenge was substantially likely to succeed. He said that the FDA had ignored risks in approving the drug.
His ruling used language common in anti-abortion circles. Mifepristone, he said, is used to “kill unborn humans.” He disclaimed the use of the word “fetuses” as “inaccurately describing unborn humans,” noting they might be “persons” entitled to equal protection rights. He also described some of the defense arguments as supporting “eugenics.” …
Kacsmaryk called Roe v. Wade a ruling in which “seven justices of the Supreme Court found an unwritten ‘fundamental right’ to abortion hiding in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the shadowy ‘penumbras’ of the Bill of Rights, a celestial phenomenon invisible to the non-lawyer eye.”
Sadly, Texas and the other Red States are trying to return America to a patriarchal society where power is relegated to a select few males with power. This is how a wounded, dying animal behaves before its final moment. The Republican Party, unchanged, will die. Unfortunately, in the short term, the dying process will harm many. The lives of Progressives are in danger in the Red States. The financial, environmental, and healthcare well-being of Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and everyone in between are at risk.
Impeach SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas now!
One always wondered why Clarence Thomas voted the way in which he always has. He even supported rulings that could potentially harm his interracial marriage. Well, when you are on the take from the MAGA side of the plutocracy, it is not a hard thing to do. ProPublica recently released an expose that exposed Thomas’ corruption with MAGA billionaire Harlan Crow.
For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show. A public servant who has a salary of $285,000, he has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the globe. He flies on Crow’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet. He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas. And Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks.
The extent and frequency of Crow’s apparent gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Some of these vacations would have cost over half a million dollars. Many Democrats are starting to call for action against Clarence Thomas’ sale of his Supreme Court vote. Sixteen Democrats signed a letter that pointed out the following.
A proper investigation should inquire who accompanied Justice Thomas on these undisclosed trips. Current reporting shows at least one individual active before the Court: Leonard Leo, who played an instrumental role in the appointment of several members of the Court and whose darkmoney front groups funded ads for their confirmations and now appear before the Court. We have reason to believe that Mr. Crow himself is connected to multiple groups that have filed amicus briefs with the Court. Yet the public has no way of knowing who else with interests related to Justice Thomas’s official duties joined these trips.
Just last year, a right-wing activist admitted to coordinating a previously undisclosed 20-year, $30 million judicial lobbying campaign at the Supreme Court. As part of this operation, this activist reportedly “coached” wealthy donors “to wine, dine and entertain conservative Supreme Court justices” in an attempt to “embolden the justices” to write “unapologetically conservative” opinions. These donors apparently “financed numerous expensive dinners with [Justices] Thomas, Alito, Scalia and their wives at Washington, D.C. hotspots” and hosted at least one Justice at a private retreat. According to the activist who led this campaign, the donors involved in this lobbying effort were even able to secure advance notice from Justice Alito of the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in a pending case. While the Court called that concern “uncorroborated,” there was abundant corroboration that the activist knew in advance and communicated that knowledge.15 This episode too has never been investigated.
Over the course of the past year, Justice Thomas has participated in numerous cases implicating his wife’s activities related to the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.16 Justice Thomas’s failure to recuse in these cases raises questions about whether he violated both federal law and canons of judicial ethics regarding conflicts of interest and recusal. It has been said that he knew nothing of his spouse’s activities;17 that is an assertion of fact that can and should be investigated, and would be in the ordinary course for other judges and officials.
It is time to impeach Clarence Thomas.
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