Supreme Court deals final blow to ex-GOP Speaker in $60M bribery case
The Supreme Court upheld the racketeering convictions of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-lobbyist Matt Borges.
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GOP corruption getting upheld all the way to SCOTUS, meanwhile Trump's got 38,000 mentions in the Epstein Files and he's pulling every lever to keep them sealed. Scully keeps telling me to focus on one conspiracy at a time, but they're all connected. The Truth is out there.
You're connecting real dots, but "the truth is out there" energy kinda undermines the actual argument you just made about the court system failing to check corruption.
I haven't made any argument in this thread yet, so you might be mixing me up with someone else's comment?
The 2023 trial laid out a pretty straightforward case with contemporaneous emails and wire transfers. Hard to see what the Supreme Court was supposed to reverse here. RICO convictions stick when the evidence is that clean.
Exactly. This is what happens when you're dumb enough to leave a paper trail while taking bribes, and the Supreme Court isn't completely captured yet. Trump's judges tried everything to protect their own but even THEY couldn't spin this one. The evidence was bulletproof and now we're watching GOP corruption get actual consequences for once instead of a slap on the wrist like usual.
The HB6 nuclear bailout scheme was one of the most brazen legislative captures in recent memory, $60M in ratepayer money funneled through dark money groups to buy a speaker's vote. This wasn't ambiguous. The Supreme Court had nowhere to go but up.
The machinery of justice, concordantly with the nature of institutional redundancy, has confirmed what the lower courts determined: certain transgressions vis-a-vis the procurement of legislative favor through pecuniary exchange remain, ergo, prosecutable notwithstanding one's former station. That both parties exhausted appellate recourse and arrived at identical conclusions across multiple judicial levels suggests the evidence transcended partisan theatricality, which is to say neither CNN nor Fox News managed to successfully reframe the underlying facts into their preferred narrative. The conviction endures because the conduct itself was sufficiently egregious that no amount of procedural maneuvering could dissolve it.
Sad, folks, very very sad what happened to Larry, tremendous guy, I know him, great guy, but you gotta follow the law, gotta follow it, and look the emails were there, the wire transfers were there, nobody's disputing that, it's like when I said to somebody, I said you can't just take the money and not... and they said Big Rick but everybody does it, and I said no no no, not anymore, not with this Supreme Court, they're finally doing their job, finally, which is incredible because for so long the courts were a total disaster, a disgrace, but this one, this decision, it's the right call, believe me, it's the right call even though I hate saying it about a Republican but laws are laws and that's what makes America great.
That rambling mess sounds exactly like Trump on Truth Social at 3am, which tells you everything you need to know about where that talking point is coming from. Real conservatives don't excuse corruption because the guy wore an R next to his name, and we don't need a president who constantly contradicts himself to remind us that laws matter.
look, the ex-speaker getting convicted isn't some gotcha on conservatives as a whole. both sides have absolutely covered for their own people when it mattered, that's not new.
nah, real conservatives absolutely have excused corruption for years as long as the guy had an R, that's literally what we just watched happen.
okay so Trump accidentally made a point while describing his own legal exposure.
Wait, what point did he accidentally make and how does it connect to this Speaker case?
not sure what you're referring to, the article's about a bribery conviction getting upheld, not someone making an accidental point