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Georgia Republican pleads not guilty to wire fraud charge in Ponzi scheme

Federal prosecutors have charged Edwin Brant Frost IV with wire fraud for allegedly running a $156 million Ponzi scheme

The Independent UK

Investors impatient to recover $140M from alleged Georgia Ponzi scheme

Seven months after an alleged $140 million Ponzi scheme collapsed, investors are impatient to recover their money

The Independent UK

The First Liberty Institute Is A Defender Of The Jewish People

Unfortunately, FLI is being lumped in with another group that made an unfair and uninformed attack on Rebecca Taibleson's rabbi.

Reason

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Banker accused in $140 million Ponzi scheme bought a Patek Philippe watch, jaunts to Kennebunkport, and put millions on his credit cards, SEC says

The sudden implosion of First Liberty Building & Loan has roiled Georgia’s conservative political network.

Fortune

Judicial Misconduct Complaint Against Judge Vaden For Columbia Boycott Referred to Seventh Circuit's Judicial Council

The Fifth and Eleventh Circuits already dismissed similar complaints, but the Chief Judge of the Court of International Trade asked the Chief Justice to refer it to another circuit, and Roberts did so.

Reason

The Maga legal networks that could topple Planned Parenthood and gut women’s healthcare

Revealed: outcome of coming election may determine staying power of hard-right activist Leonard Leo’s crusade to reshape US courts

The Guardian - US

The Latest ProPublica Story About Ginni Thomas

ProPublica obtained a recording of a call that the First Liberty Institute held with donors. [For full disclosure, I have spoken at several First Liberty events.] As readers of this blog likely know, First Liberty has litigated landmark religious liberty cases before the Supreme Court, including Kennedy v. Bremerton School…

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Ginni Thomas supported group working against Supreme Court reform: report

Wife of Supreme Court justice says religious rights group has ‘filled the sails of many judges’

The Independent UK

Ginni Thomas praises anti-reform group

In call with donors, First Liberty Institute’s Kelly Shackelford read the supportive email he said came from Thomas

Salon

An emboldened Ken Paxton returns to a battered attorney general’s office

The impeachment proceedings, and the events that precipitated them, have left the Texas Office of the Attorney General in turmoil. Can Paxton steady the ship of an institution vital to the conservative cause?

The Texas Tribune

Part 3: Under Trump, Texas’ foot soldiers became federal judges, securing a conservative stronghold in the courts

A federal judiciary full of ideological allies is helping Texas block Democratic priorities and advance right-wing legal doctrines. But the bigger prize is conservative control of the rule of law itself.

The Texas Tribune

Another Judicial Ethics Story About Judge Kacsmaryk Falls Apart

Editors should withdraw any unpublished stories about judicial ethics to get a grip on reality.

Reason

Abortion judge may have hid law article

"Why did Judge Kacsmaryk mislead the American people during his confirmation hearing?" congressman questions

Salon

Federal judge at center of FDA abortion drug case has history with conservative causes

U.S. District Matthew Kacsmaryk was once deputy counsel for the First Liberty Institute, the Plano-based conservative Christian law firm.

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A High School Football Coach, His Covenant and the Separation of Church and State

The Supreme Court is expected to side with a public school football coach who prayed on the field. Many fear the decision will erode a bedrock of American democracy.

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