Posted on 04/05/2016 1:34:52 PM PDT by BagCamAddict
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request from a lawyer who once represented a woman known as the "DC Madam" to release records from her famous escort service.
Those records include such sensitive information as customer names, Social Security numbers and addresses— information the lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, has said could affect the 2016 presidential election. The so-called DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey ran a high-priced escort service in the Washington D.C.-area for a number of years before her eventual conviction. She died in 2008.
Sibley wanted the Supreme Court to lift a lower court order, in place since 2007, that bars him from releasing any information about her records.
"Time is of the essence," Sibley wrote in his latest Supreme Court filing. "Given the significance of the upcoming political primaries and caucuses, in the looming Republican and Democratic conventions on July 18th and July 25th respectively, and given the impact of the presently sealed from the public record that this attorney seeks to release, upon those electoral deliberations, expedited resolution to this application is incumbent upon this court."
His application was directed to Chief Justice John Roberts, the justice assigned to emergency appeals from the Washington, D.C. area. Roberts denied it without seeking a response from any other party, a sign of how little merit Roberts found in the application.
SCOTUS Denies Request from D.C. Madam's Attorney to Release Info
His application was directed to Chief Justice John Roberts, the justice assigned to emergency appeals from the Washington, D.C. area. Roberts denied it without seeking a response from any other party....
Hmmmmm.
Check out the judge who originally put the gag order on.
Maybe because it contains the names of quite a few of the ruling elite?
It can only mean Democrats or “their” Republicans could be adversely affected.
Remember how important it was to unseal Seven of Nine’s divorce record for the Fraud’s ascension to godhood?
Why protect criminals? They wouldn’t be protecting themselves now, would they? Or their friends?
Redact SSN & CC info. Release the info.
Nailed it.
Or it could mean that some judges or parties within the justice system could be adversely affected.
Possibly members of the supreme court.
Who on earth would give their SS# to an escort service? I have a super hard time giving it to anyone and only in extreme circumstances over the phone.
A question I have for fellow Freepers:
It is thought by some that certain parties have leverage against Justice Roberts due to some adoption issues related to his children. Will that leverage go away when the children turn 18 and become legal adults?
Or it could be the answer to the question we've all been asking since the Obamacare ruling....and we thought it was about adoption...hah!
Roberts is in someone’s pocket.
When the fate of the country is at stake?
Hell...to hell with the corrupted court...release the names and all hell be damned!
or something like that?
The SSN is just the cover story. The SSNs could easily be redacted.
The answer is obvious. Gag order protects the powerful.
I think the leverage is that he’s a closet mo.
“It’s a Big Club....and you ain’t in it.” - George Carlin
Just put all the information on an unsecure server in the bathroom.
Simply sly-release, then.
Again.
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