Lawmakers have just added a provision to the Nat Def Auth Act protecting Supreme Court spouses ...

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Lawmakers have just added a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act protecting Supreme Court spouses from having to reveal any outside employer, in the name of security. If it passes, Ginni Thomas’s professional entanglements would effectively be state secrets.

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Judicial security measure catches ride on defense policy bill

Language would allow current and former federal judges to wipe their personal information from websites

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 7, 2022 at 6:16pm

Federal judges could soon demand their personal information be scrubbed from the internet, after negotiators included the provision in a must-pass defense policy bill released Tuesday.

Backers of the judicial privacy measure — named for Daniel Anderl, who was killed in an attack at the New Jersey home of his mother, federal Judge Esther Salas — praised its addition to the final, bicameral fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., called the bill “a huge step forward for judicial security” in a statement Wednesday.

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[ellie]

1. This is just

some bullshit.

[gab13by13]

3. Shameful.

Should have gone after Ginni a year ago. This is why waiting has consequences.

[ellie]

4. Exactly.

[mitch96]

2. Well at face value this sucks out loud.. Protecting their collective backsides?...

" If it passes, Ginni Thomas’s professional entanglements would effectively be state secrets."
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[Bettie]

5. So, the

"Ginni Thomas corruption protection act"? That's what it sounds like.

[marble falls]

6. Ginni Thomas' is soooo relieved about this.

[Autumn]

7. There is a place where the sun don't shine. The person who decided to add provision to this bill

can tuck it in that little crevice.

[sarisataka]

8. He is named in the article

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., called the bill “a huge step forward for judicial security” in a statement Wednesday.

“I made a promise to Judge Salas after her son's murder that we would do something to prevent this from ever happening to a federal judge again and we're now on the verge of achieving that,” Menendez said.

[Autumn]

9. And he ends up preventing any oversight into corruption. And this fucking SC court is corrupted

There are countless mothers who have had sons murdered. What's he doing to prevent that? I suppose they don't matter.

[llashram]

10. just under the radar

radar. Because it's protecting the powerful in this country and so recently 2 prominent repulikans. I just shake my head in confusion. At Democrats and their support of this provision.