Showing posts with label leak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leak. Show all posts

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Alito’s Hobby Lobby leak: The real problem with SCOTUS ethics rules right now.

And that is the crux of it. The fact that some of the justices believe that "casual" and "social" relationships with lobbyists, activists, and interested parties who have business before the court are appropriate and acceptable is the problem, because it means they cannot be trusted to avoid such contacts.
 The problem is that the same justices who keep blaming their colleagues and the press and the American public for broad declining trust in the institution seem to have no comprehension of what kinds of behaviors appear to be inappropriate because they actually areinappropriate. Traffic court judges in towns with four stoplights know better than to drink and vacation and shoot with interested parties before them, much less set aside choice seats for big ticket cases. Evidently it's different when the interested parties are rich...


Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Democrats demand details on response to new Supreme Court leak allegations | The Hill

The Times reported on Saturday that Rev. Rob Schenck, who formerly led an evangelical nonprofit, sent a letter to Roberts in July indicating he learned of the outcome of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby in 2014 from a wealthy donor, Gayle Wright, after she had dinner with Alito and his wife...


Sunday, November 20, 2022

Supreme Court leaked landmark case years before Roe was overturned, ex-abortion activist says in new report

Schenck's views on abortion have changed in recent years, according to the report, and he is working to establish himself as a more progressive evangelical figure. He said he feels regret about his actions and knowledge about the case, which is why he has decided to speak out...


Friday, November 4, 2022

COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab — ProPublica

…many large-scale cases of domestic and foreign safety incidents in recent years, and from the perspective of shouldering responsibility, standardizing operations, emergency planning, and inspecting hidden dangers one-by-one, [he] laid out a deep analysis, with many layers and taken from many angles, which vividly revealed the complex and grave situation currently facing [bio]security work… 
 China "didn't have the background of how to run [advanced laboratories] safely," says James LeDuc. "They were trying to do their best."…
 …By contrast, the interim Senate report concludes that "the hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption of accuracy." 
The available evidence doesn't fit the patterns of previous outbreaks, it states, including outbreaks of SARS in 2003 and avian influenza in 2013. Those outbreaks saw many independent spillover events in multiple locations, and those viruses "exhibited much greater genetic diversity than early SARS-CoV-2 strains." And within six months of the first known case of SARS, the report says, Chinese health officials found evidence of the virus in palm civets and raccoon dogs. 
 The interim report also points out that, "almost three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, there is still no evidence of an animal infected with SARS-CoV-2, or a closely related virus, before the first publicly reported human COVID-19 cases in Wuhan in December 2019." 
 Worobey said, "Our two recent papers establish that a natural zoonotic origin is the only plausible scenario for the origin of the pandemic."… 
 While the China CDC found no evidence of the virus in animals in the market, Pekar told Vanity Fair and ProPublica that the removal of animals from the market by the start of 2020 made it difficult to "actually sample the correct animals for SARS-CoV-2." 
 The Senate's interim report is no likelier than the Worobey and Pekar studies to close the book on the origins debate, nor does it attempt to. If anything, it seems destined to escalate the battle just as Republicans in Congress hope to retake the majority in the midterm elections. They aim to haul Dr. Anthony Fauci, the outgoing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, into Benghazi-style hearings.


COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab — ProPublica

China "didn't have the background of how to run [advanced laboratories] safely," says James LeDuc. "They were trying to do their best." 


The ProPublica-Vanity Fair report on Covid-19’s origins is explosive. Is it reliable?

Critics say the article is flawed. But that shouldn't discredit the lab leak theory…


Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Opinion | Damning new Pence leaks reveal a big truth about Trump — and the GOP - The Washington Post

Pence's allies are showing that some Republicans saw a better way. In contrast to Trump, Pence's conduct was informed by an understanding that government documents belong to the public, not to the man temporarily inhabiting the office at the voters' pleasure. In this light, lock-step GOP defenses of Trump seem even more ridiculous...


Friday, May 6, 2022

Right-wingers pathetically try to link Ketanji Brown Jackson to Roe v. Wade leak

On Wednesday, Greg Stinchfield, a host on the far-right network Newsmax, floated his ingenious theory that Jackson — who hasn't even been seated on the Supreme Court yet — was responsible for leaking the court's apparent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights ruling of 1973...


Friday, July 16, 2021








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