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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNow is the time to ask questions about the retirement of Anthony Kennedy from SCOTUS.
Putin's cronies apparently co-signed Deutsche bank loans for Trump, so it's time to shine on spotlight on the Kennedy SCOTUS retirement.
It's all connected folks, it's all deeply connected.
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-kennedy-son-loaned-president-trump-over-a-billion-dollars-2018-6
The son of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was leading a real-estate division of Deutsche Bank as it gave President Donald Trump over $1 billion in loans to finance his real-estate projects when other banks wouldn't, The New York Times reported Thursday.
Justin Kennedy, the former global head of Deutsche Bank's real-estate capital markets division, was one of Trump's close business associates, The Times reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter.
Because of Trump's inconsistent track record in business, which included multiple bankruptcy filings and frequent lawsuits, most other major banks would not lend to him. Deutsche Bank loaned Trump the funds to construct and renovate skyscrapers and other developments in New York City and Chicago, The Times reported.
After Trump's first address to Congress, in February 2017, he reportedly stopped to chat with Anthony Kennedy, saying: "Say hello to your boy. Special guy."
Snarkoleptic
(5,995 posts)Link to tweet
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ewagner
(18,964 posts)I never saw that video before!
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)Looks more like, "I've got a lot of dirt on your son."
Response to Snarkoleptic (Reply #1)
Bob Loblaw This message was self-deleted by its author.
Duppers
(28,094 posts)of evidence, of reasons to immediately IMPEACH this p.o.s.
What's it going to take?
Lonestarblue
(9,874 posts)Republicans will do nothing. Some of them most likely are also compromised by Russia (McConnell?) and may have been ordered by Putin to avoid any criticism of Trump. I dont remember which Republicans spent the July 4 holiday with Putin a year ago, but all of them are questionable.
The only possibility I see for Trump leaving earlier is if he resigns. If the press would accurately report his actions as irresponsible and irrational, and if they report every hearing in the Judiciary and other investigative committees every day to shine a light on Trumps corruption, he might be pressured to resign. As long as McConnell is in the Senate, though, no conviction and removal from office will be allowed to happen. I dont see the 25th being invoked either because Trump has filled his administration with incompetent toadies.
Snarkoleptic
(5,995 posts)calimary
(80,693 posts)Criminy - who do the Russians NOT own????
shanti
(21,670 posts)any Dems!
Duppers
(28,094 posts)I just posted this in another thread:
And the press has helped him by protecting the reichwing Republican party. They've thrown cover, used the "both-sides"/whataboutism empty arguments. They amount to Faux and Faux-light.
Most Americans remain sorely uninformed.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,536 posts)It's kind of like the "Second Amendment solution" he touted on the campaign trail, except it's a lot less messier and it's self-inflicted (unless they hold Ronald McDonald responsible).
Duppers
(28,094 posts)Response to Lonestarblue (Reply #6)
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LiberalFighter
(50,477 posts)But it puts them on the record with their vote. That is important!
Personally, I don't want him to resign. He does a Nixon when he should be removed.
McConnell doesn't get to decide whether the trial proceeds either. Any impeachment sent to the Senate must be acted on.
OMGWTF
(3,891 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,651 posts)That's a McConnell Operation, and it prorogued the Constitution!
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,536 posts)From vocabulary.com
Prorogue is a technical way of saying "put off" or "delay." Usually, it describes something a government body does: when a congress or parliament prorogues, it's putting off business for a while.
Prorogue comes from the Latin word prorogare meaning "to stretch out." When you stop a meeting and decide to meet again at a later time, this "stretches out" the work being done. Remember that prorogue is close to prolong, which means pretty much the same thing, but without a break.
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Thanks for proving once again, "You're never too old to learn."
ewagner
(18,964 posts)That whole episode was quickly swept under the rug.
Keep it up!
malaise
(267,784 posts)<snip>
After Donald Trump wrapped up his first speech to Congress and worked his way through the crowd, he lingered on his handshake with Anthony Kennedy, the 80-year-old Supreme Court justice.
The boom mics picked up their seemingly private conversation.
Say hello to your boy, Trump said, Special guy. Your kids have been very nice to him, Kennedy replied. Well, Trump said, they love him, and they love him in New York.
While the White House is focused this week on shepherding Trumps first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, through the Senate confirmation process, the president and his team are obsessed with the next possible vacancy.
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This is 'your boy'
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-kennedy-son-loaned-president-trump-over-a-billion-dollars-2018-6
Trump's business career is more connected to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy than we ever knew
world wide wally
(21,718 posts)Grins
(7,128 posts)Not new.
amywalk
(254 posts)Kavannaugh. Better late than never, I suppose, but this article is dated a year ago.
SayItLoud
(1,696 posts)Federal pardons will let the #TrumpCrimeFamily escape. NYC and NYS are the only hope to get these grifters. And, I hope for F's sake this isn't treated like so many white collar crimes...$$$ fine, no jail.
America has been sold out by the tRUMP crime family; they need to be help accountable.
Mersky
(4,969 posts)The firehosing of corrupt entanglement salad that defines the tRumpian years is a bit much for one person to track.
Thanks for posting this, Snarkopleptic. As has been the case countless times for me over the years, I'm better informed for reading DU.
pecosbob
(7,502 posts)'I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further."
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)FBaggins
(26,693 posts)Are we really supposed to believe that Kennedy wasn't going to retire? He was in his 80s with a Republican president and Senate and absolutely no guarantee that one or both wouldn't change in the next couple years?
mikeysnot
(4,755 posts)Sam Erman, an associate professor of law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, who clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens and then Kennedy, said its not uncommon for the justices to hire their law clerks for future terms this far in advance.
FBaggins
(26,693 posts)O'Connor retired in January after hiring three and retaining one from the prior year.
It may signal that... but that's just to avoid the clerk taking the prestigious job and then being left out in the cold. In the past, other justices have just taken on the orphans.
In this case, one of them was shared with Stevens and one with Alito... one shifted over to Ginsburg and the last shifted to Gorsuch. Plus they retain one in retirement.
mikeysnot
(4,755 posts)FBaggins
(26,693 posts)Conversely, we all knew that Kennedy was retiring if he got a Republican president and senate. The only question was which year he would decide to do it. There was zero chance that he was going to try to wait for a Democrat to replace him.
If you want more evidence... here's a piece from Kennedy's retirement
The orphaned Kennedy clerks. Inquiring minds want to know: whats happening to the four clerks that Justice Kennedy hired for OT 2018? In a story about them a few weeks ago, Tony Mauro predicted that if court tradition holds, the four wont be jobless for long and that prediction has come to pass.
Note that there is a "court tradition" for how to handle orphaned law clerks are handled? There wouldn't be one if the norm were to not hire clerks.
mikeysnot
(4,755 posts)sorry you misunderstood.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)her retirement had EVERYTHING to do with her husband's illness. It was thought that he had reached a plateau, but in a few short months, he deteriorated quicker than doctors had predicted. She felt that she had no choice but to retire.
kentuck
(110,947 posts)....thru the Deutsche Bank.
Amaryllis
(9,523 posts)by many, but not MSM. Anyone paying attention was suspicious. Many on this forum were.