"How awesome would it be if that mystery donor were the president himself?"
* According to recently released tax records, a mystery donor gave more than $28 million to the Wellspring Committee to keep Justice Antonin Scalias Supreme Court seat in Republican hands and help get Neil Gorsuch confirmed. How awesome would it be if that mystery donor were the president himself? {Law Newz}
* The DOJ says Trump can appoint the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Federal Vacancies Act, but the Dodd-Frank Act says the deputy director will head the agency in the absence of a permanent director. Now we have two dueling CFPB directors, AND theres a lawsuit. Yay! {The Hill; CNN}
* FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel is so against Chairman Ajit Pais lousy plan to do away with net neutrality that she wrote an op-ed to plead for help: Im on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality. She encourages us to make a ruckus about this and we really, really should. {Los Angeles Times}
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* Start placing your bets: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in New Jerseys sports betting case next week, and is expected to issue a ruling in June. Whats the over/under on the high court overturning the federal ban on sports betting? Come on, SCOTUS, make Atlantic City great again! {NJ.com}
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,783 posts)1. Ideology means nothing to him, and he's not going to spend money to get a Supreme Court justice appointed. This is also because:
2. He's cheap. He doesn't spend money on anybody but himself and he even lies about donating money to charities.
3. And he's also probably broke. All his money goes to pay off the Russians who hold his loans.
unblock
(52,277 posts)donnie's key business talent is getting others to pay for things.
quite possibly by breaking an agreement, but still....
rurallib
(62,432 posts)why can an organization like that even have "mystery" donors?
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Trump won't bribe you. He'll straight-up lie to your face. And if you don't believe him, he'll walk away and trie his luck somewhere else.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)illegal uses he made of other people's donations to the Trump Foundation, and the only way he would have done anything like this would have been with other peoples' money.