He attended an all-expenses paid junket to a conference in August 2008 sponsored by a Libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.
This Conference had the all-too-delicious acronymn of -- get ready -- 'FREE' (' Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment'). I swear you can't make this shit up.
I'd love to see the Senate Judiciary Committee haul this shithead before it and under penalty of perjury get him to explain how he has avoided any conflicts of interest in his judicial conduct since then. Go over every case one by one in the harsh glare of media scrutiny while this shitbird justifies his parasitism.
Can you say 'Corrupt'????? I know what I'm going to be calling Senator Boxer and Maxine Waters about on Monday. (I'm guessing Feinstein's number will still be busy, as it was when I called today.)
http://www.publicintegrity.org/...
Fri Jun 07, 2013 at 9:52 PM PT: They've decided to make the law an enemy of the people and so they should reap the whirlwind.
Fri Jun 07, 2013 at 10:04 PM PT: Nice work if you can get it: "Vinson, a senior-status judge, also attended a 2009 economics seminar hosted by Northwestern University and sponsored by the conservative Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, among others." reported as an update in the PublicIntegrity.org URL in the diary proper