{"id":14631,"date":"2023-04-13T18:06:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T01:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14631"},"modified":"2023-04-13T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T01:21:24","slug":"justin-pearson-reseated-in-tn-justice-thomas-still-corrupt-at-scotus-bradcast-4132023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=14631","title":{"rendered":"Justin Pearson Reseated in TN; Justice Thomas Still Corrupt at SCOTUS: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 4\/13\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_JustinPearson-Bullhorn-TN_041323.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">If you thought you might have heard the end of <strong>Clarence Thomas<\/strong>&#8216; year&#8217;s long crime spree as a lifelong Justice on the highest court in the land, think again. More stunning breaking news of his endless corruption on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, along with a whole bunch of other newsworthy stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Among that stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An incredible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2023\/04\/13\/fort-lauderdale-flood-airport-live-updates\/11655448002\/\">25 inches of rain<\/a> &#8212; most of it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/weather\/weather-news\/more-than-25-inches-of-rain-flood-fort-lauderdale-most-within-6-hours\">within a period of 6 hours<\/a> &#8212; fell in Fort Lauderdale, <b>Florida<\/b> and surrounding areas over the past 24 hours. Desi Doyen joins us to explain WTF is going on. (Got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/article\/news\/climate\/news\/2023-04-13-florida-flooding-fort-lauderdale-climate-change\">any guesses<\/a>?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Democratic state Rep. <b>Justin Pearson<\/b> was <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/justin-pearson-reinstated-to-tennessee-legislature-one-week-after-expulsion\/\">reseated<\/a> at the <b>Tennessee<\/b> State House on Thursday, after the Shelby County Commission in Memphis unanimously elected him to be a temporary replacement for himself after he was expelled last week by the out-of-control, racist, gerrymandered GOP majority. Both he and Rep. <b>Justin Jones<\/b> (who was reseated <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tennessee-expulsion-democracy-election-nashville-60e64c8c972d48cce64992b9e1f8f04c\">on Monday<\/a> after also being elected unanimously to do so by Nashville&#8217;s Metropolitan Council) were expelled last week after joining a protest at the state Capitol demanding gun safety measures after 3 children and 3 adults were murdered in a mass shooting at a Christian elementary school in Nashville. The white female Democratic legislator who joined the two Justins in the protest was allowed to remain in her seat. We share some of Pearson&#8217;s remarks after being selected in Memphis to fill his own seat, and after his return to the House today, where Republicans were debating a bill to censor free speech for college students in the state before they tossed out the rules to end all debate and voted for passage of the pro-Big Government, anti-free speech, racist measure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hey! <b>Texas<\/b> U.S. Sen. <b>Ted Cruz<\/b> has a great idea about how to prevent school shootings! Just arm them up with militarized security personnel! &#8220;You know, when you go to the bank, and you deposit money in the bank, there are armed police officers at the bank,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTedCruz\/status\/1641897167450263556\">declared<\/a> late last month when announcing his new federal bills to fund armed security guards at the nation&#8217;s public and private schools. &#8220;Why on earth do we protect a stupid deposit more than our children?,&#8221; he asked on Twitter. And, just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ted-cruz-schools-armed-guards-like-banks-mass-shooting-louisville-2023-4\">days later<\/a>, you&#8217;ll never guess what happened at the Old National Bank in Louisville, <b>Kentucky<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On the upside, all of this pro-murder, pro-Big Government, anti-free speech, anti-democracy GOP idiocy is being noticed by Americans, it seems. Our guest on <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14628\">yesterday&#8217;s <i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, <b>Simon Rosenberg<\/b>, one of the few who turned out to be right that last year&#8217;s midterms would <i>not<\/i> result in a &#8220;red wave,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwdc.substack.com\/p\/brutal-new-polling-for-congressional?utm_source=substack&#038;utm_medium=email\">draws our attention today<\/a> to some noteworthy new polling. After their first 100 days, the new U.S. House GOP majority has an abysmal approval rating of <i>negative<\/i> 24 points overall, and are a jaw-dropping <i>48 points<\/i> underwater among independent voters. Rosenberg observed that while he &#8220;could write a much longer analysis&#8221; of the new survey, &#8220;it isn&#8217;t necessary. These numbers are truly terrible [for Republicans], and they are in serious trouble.&#8221;  We&#8217;ll see if he turns out to be as right about  2024 as he was about 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of jaw-dropping. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus\">Today&#8217;s exclusive from ProPublica<\/a> about even more previously unknown corruption of <b>Clarence Thomas<\/b> may be even more mind-blowing than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow\">their exclusive last week<\/a> revealing that the corrupt U.S. Supreme Court Justice, &#8220;accepted luxury travel from [GOP megadonor <b>Harlan<\/b>] <b>Crow<\/b> virtually every year for decades, including private jet flights, international cruises on the businessman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s superyacht and regular stays at his private resort in the Adirondacks&#8221; while failing to report <i>any<\/i> of the hundreds of thousands of dollars in gift travel on his financial disclosure forms, as required by law, for all of those years.\n<p>And now today, we learn that Crow <i>directly<\/i> paid Thomas <i>actual cash money<\/i> to purchase the Justice&#8217;s mother&#8217;s home and several other lots on the same street that were owned by Clarence. His 94-year old mother is still alive, and still appears to live in the house (rent-free?)that Crow purchased before investing some $36,000 in renovations! Because that&#8217;s just what billionaire real estate tycoons and GOP megadonors do for their closest personal friends who happen to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>All of that, of course, meshes precisely with Clarence&#8217;s corruption that we reported on way back in 2011, detailing his unlawful <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8331\">failure to list his wife&#8217;s $120,000 annual salary<\/a> from the rightwing Heritage Foundation on his annual financial disclosure forms for some 20 years, and the sweet <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8561\">$500,000 in dark money<\/a> that his wife Ginni&#8217;s then-new, non-profit political advocacy group received from Crow back in 2009, just after the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7709\">infamous <i>Citizens United<\/i> case<\/a> was heard by her husband at SCOTUS, and just before Clarence and the other Republican Justices released their opinion in 2010, allowing unlimited dark money to political advocacy groups, like Ginni&#8217;s, to remain undisclosed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14629\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> with news on a massive toxic plastics fire still burning out of control in <b>Indiana<\/b>; 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