Steve Simpson
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News Anchor,Twin Cities Local SAG-AFRTA Board Member. Retweets are not necessarily an endorsement 🌈
Samuel Alito’s son has worked as a lawyer inside Trump’s Treasury Department since early last year. The administration hid it. No public resume, no LinkedIn, no mention on the Treasury website, outdated bar listings. Four former officials confirmed it. The public was never told. Here is why that matters. Philip Alito served as an attorney-adviser in Treasury’s general counsel office, briefed on department matters across the board, while the Supreme Court took up a case in which the Treasury Department was a named defendant. The department never disclosed the connection in court. Justice Alito did not recuse. The federal recusal law is plain. A justice must step aside in any case where his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. That is the test. Not whether anyone can prove influence but whether a reasonable person looking at this would doubt it. A justice ruling on cases involving the very agency that employs his son fails that test on its face. And Treasury sits at the center of many upcoming issues, including the fight over Trump’s $1.776 billion dollar fund to reward the January 6th rioters he pardoned. That fight could be headed to the Court too. This is exactly why the honor system has failed. The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no enforceable code of conduct. I support withholding funding from the Court until the justices adopt a binding code with real recusal review. Congress holds the power of the purse. We should use it. notus.org/us-news/samuel…
Breaking news: Trump administration officials have pressed the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a $250 bill featuring the president’s portrait, in what would be the first appearance of a living person on U.S. currency in more than 150 years. wapo.st/4dQNsGj
New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr. “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved. propublica.org/article/donald…
There was only one thing that surprised me about the Jubilee with MAGA die-hards. It wasn't that some people scream and refuse to stop talking. It wasn't that these were mostly young people cheering and finding purpose in wars but never fighting in them. It wasn't that their politics is more of a cult of personality. All expected and found in all factions. It was that, despite being political junkies, they had no idea about Trump's enormous corruption scandals because the corporate and independent media they consume doesn't mention it. They had no idea it existed:
