Kansas Crimson

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 11:51 am

Sparko wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 10:13 am What is the appropriate redress for corrupt rulings shown to have been ethically impermissible? We need to build a list and find some way to get relief. Extraordinary corruption.

There is none. That’s exactly why all of this is so scary. There is no redress for the parties to the cases. There is no consequence to the justice or the patron(s).

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 11:51 am

Sparko wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 10:13 am What is the appropriate redress for corrupt rulings shown to have been ethically impermissible? We need to build a list and find some way to get relief. Extraordinary corruption.

There is none. That’s exactly why all of this is so scary. There is no redress for the parties to the cases. There is no consequence to the justice or the patron(s).

Overlander wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 12:14 am Ted Cruz is a turd.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 2:08 pm smells very deep-stateish

Feral wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 2:18 pm

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 2:08 pm smells very deep-stateish

Not when "small government" fascists do it.

Feral wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 2:02 pm Did someone mention Anne M. Gorsuch?

Not long ago I mentioned that I had been boycotting Coors beer since the 1970s. Among the original reasons was because the Coors Brothers were known as Libertarian fascists who strongly supported the John Birch Society, (which can be thought of as an early "militia"-type group of the day), they had a reputation for discriminating against Mexican-Americans, and they were ardent anti-environmentalists.

As detailed in the article below from 1981, Anne M. Gorsuch was among the people from Colorado who gained positions in the Reagan Admin., along with her future boss, Interior Sec. James Watt.

When he was tapped for Interior, Mr. Watt was president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a public interest group that has intervened on behalf of energy developers seeking to open public land to private development. Mr. Coors founded the organization in 1977 and has subsidized it heavily. The Mountain States Legal Foundation was notorious for filing lawsuits against any and all environmental measures in an effort to delay and ultimately end efforts to protect and preserve the environment in their area of influence. That area grew substantially as a result of Watt, Gorsuch, et al ascending to the federal government, thanks to Saint Ronald Reagan, who was nothing if not totally willing to do whatever the already rich wanted him to do, just like republicans today. (Recalling the time and typing their names makes me want to turn my head and spit.)

THE 'COLORADO MAFIA' PUTS ITS STAMP ON THE GOVERNMENT

By William E. Schmidt
Sept. 6, 1981

WHEN Ronald Reagan began putting together his Administration last year, many were surprised by the number of appointments going to Colorado Republicans. First there was James G. Watt, the Denver lawyer picked as Interior Secretary. Then Mr. Reagan tapped Bob Burford, a third-generation rancher, to serve under Mr. Watt as director of the Bureau of Land Management. Finally, there was Anne M. Gorsuch, a Denver attorney who had served with Mr. Burford in the state legislature. She was named to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

Not only were they all from the same sparsely populated state, but the trio Mr. Reagan had chosen to oversee the management and protection of natural resources, public lands and environment were ideological soulmates: fiercely conservative proponents of less Federal intervention, more power to state and local governments and a freer hand for private enterprise. Indeed, the three were quickly dubbed ''the Colorado mafia'' and it's widely believed that the man behind the scenes was none other than Joseph Coors, the conservative brewer from Golden, Colo., who is one of Mr. Reagan's closest confidants. ''If there is such a thing as a C olorado mafia,'' said a Republican politician in Denver, ''then there is no doubt that Joe Coors is the godfather.''

But even Mr. Coors will have little power to influence the controversy surrounding Mr. Watt. Last week, there was yet more potential trouble bubbling up, with the disclosure that Mr. Watt was considering reversing a Carter Administration ruling and allowing strip mining on land adjacent to Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. Environmentalists feared that such a decision could lead to much more extensive development all over the West. Mrs. Gorsuch may also be increasingly thrust into the spotlight. Democratic Congressmen and environmentalists charged last week that, despite her assurances to the contrary, her agency is drafting legislation that would severely weaken the Clean Air Act. An agency spokesman denied the charges, but Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who heads the subcommittee that will consider revisions in the law, accused the Administration of ''talking out of both sides of its mouth.''

Mr. Coors, for his part, generally avoids publicity. He politely declines to discuss a role in the elevation of Mr. Watt and the others; rather, he has noted through a spokesman that he was pleased at Colorado's getting three of its own into such jobs. But most Colorado observers believe that Mr. Watt was a clear first choice of Mr. Coors. When he was tapped for Interior, Mr. Watt was president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a public interest group that has intervened on behalf of energy developers seeking to open public land to private development. Mr. Coors founded the organization in 1977 and has subsidized it heavily. While the ties between Mr. Coors and Mrs. Gorsuch and Mr. Burford are less clear, both appointees were allied with a rock-ribbed conservative faction in the Colorado legislature that wrested control from more moderate Republicans in 1978.

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