“ProPublica reports that Thomas was in debt, frustrated with his salary, and implying he’d resign from the Supreme Court if his financial situation didn’t change—just before Harlan Crow and other conservatives started lavishing him with expensive gifts and luxury vacations.”
Dude basically held the SCOTUS hostage from Conservatives unless they paid up.
And they did.
Once you start hearing about a republican scandal, it’s a safe bet you’re going to keep hearing as it keeps unraveling and we find out about it. It’s like a Billie Mays ad: “But wait, there’s more!”
The best part of this is the realization that everyone who said this man was a creep and a fool during his confirmation hearing, was 100% correct…this man is a terrible human and should NOT sit in judgement of anyone or anything.
And yet, there is no way to hold him to account for his blatant corruption. He can just continue forever in his position with no mechanism to remove him or penalize him.
The GOP SCOTUS is a fucking joke.
What do you mean I don’t get to live a lifestyle that resembles the people I made decisions for ??
Crazy that law students have to pass a lengthy character investigation to even sit for the Bar but this is the standard for the highest court in the land…
Beer boy, on the other hand, got his debts erased when he joined.
The SCOTUS has lost all credibility IMO. It’s probable that Thomas is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Supreme Court needs a major revamp, it’s been slowly twisted over the decades into a weapon to enforce minority rule for conservatives. Unfortunately we can’t do that until we also revamp the broken and outdated method of selecting House of Representatives that also encourages minority rule from conservatives. Hopefully we can fix these major problems in my lifetime before Trump 2.0 moves in and dismantles democracy entirely.
How does a Supreme Court justice being in a billionaires back pocket look better?
Screw Clarence Thomas
Whatever. Dude has been taking bribes for years.
$180K isn’t that much in DC, especially if you’re rubbing elbows with m/billionaires. So Thomas is a play-for-pay justice. If he was a liberal justice this would end him. But … he’s not.
So if he is taking money shouldn’t that just invalidate a number of decisions. I mean who else is taking bribes?
$285k a year isn’t enough??
Even more of a reason to lock this bastard up!
>At the time of his conversation with Stearns in 2000, Thomas made $173,600 annually but was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
Dude can’t make it on $173K a year? Didn’t he get the memo about the avocado toast?
If he refuses to resign, I’ll take slow drip of humiliating revelations as a consolation prize.
This court is illegitimate.
Is now clear why he ruled that to be convicted of bribery, you have to prove the quid pro quo
He’s totally corrupt
He has clearly taken bribes, but no AG would ever dare act against a Republican Justice, certainly not Republican First Merrick Garland.
Who reimbursed the donors? Please, please, somebody leak that.
Can we just impeach him already?
Supreme Court is bullshit
Time to expand the Supreme Court
Me: This is as low as they can go!
Republicans: hold my beer.
How this isn’t called bribery just baffles my mind
What really sucks is that nothing is going to happen. 100 million people could march on Washington tomorrow and he will still be the same.
It’s looking so terribly that nothing will happen.
Bought and purchased. What is that called in your country?
How the fuck do make near 200k a year and still be in debt
Hang this on Roberts, how he has led one of the most corrupt courts in history. Make sure the reps of Roberts, Thomas, and Alito are thoroughly tarnished to the point no one sees their rulings as legitimate. Wipe their rulings out of the law books with a legit court in the future. They ignored precedent, so no one should hesitate to overturn their rulings.
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“ProPublica reports that Thomas was in debt, frustrated with his salary, and implying he’d resign from the Supreme Court if his financial situation didn’t change—just before Harlan Crow and other conservatives started lavishing him with expensive gifts and luxury vacations.”
Dude basically held the SCOTUS hostage from Conservatives unless they paid up.
And they did.
Once you start hearing about a republican scandal, it’s a safe bet you’re going to keep hearing as it keeps unraveling and we find out about it. It’s like a Billie Mays ad: “But wait, there’s more!”
The best part of this is the realization that everyone who said this man was a creep and a fool during his confirmation hearing, was 100% correct…this man is a terrible human and should NOT sit in judgement of anyone or anything.
And yet, there is no way to hold him to account for his blatant corruption. He can just continue forever in his position with no mechanism to remove him or penalize him.
The GOP SCOTUS is a fucking joke.
What do you mean I don’t get to live a lifestyle that resembles the people I made decisions for ??
Crazy that law students have to pass a lengthy character investigation to even sit for the Bar but this is the standard for the highest court in the land…
Beer boy, on the other hand, got his debts erased when he joined.
The SCOTUS has lost all credibility IMO. It’s probable that Thomas is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Supreme Court needs a major revamp, it’s been slowly twisted over the decades into a weapon to enforce minority rule for conservatives. Unfortunately we can’t do that until we also revamp the broken and outdated method of selecting House of Representatives that also encourages minority rule from conservatives. Hopefully we can fix these major problems in my lifetime before Trump 2.0 moves in and dismantles democracy entirely.
How does a Supreme Court justice being in a billionaires back pocket look better?
Screw Clarence Thomas
Whatever. Dude has been taking bribes for years.
$180K isn’t that much in DC, especially if you’re rubbing elbows with m/billionaires. So Thomas is a play-for-pay justice. If he was a liberal justice this would end him. But … he’s not.
So if he is taking money shouldn’t that just invalidate a number of decisions. I mean who else is taking bribes?
$285k a year isn’t enough??
Even more of a reason to lock this bastard up!
>At the time of his conversation with Stearns in 2000, Thomas made $173,600 annually but was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
Dude can’t make it on $173K a year? Didn’t he get the memo about the avocado toast?
If he refuses to resign, I’ll take slow drip of humiliating revelations as a consolation prize.
This court is illegitimate.
Is now clear why he ruled that to be convicted of bribery, you have to prove the quid pro quo
He’s totally corrupt
He has clearly taken bribes, but no AG would ever dare act against a Republican Justice, certainly not Republican First Merrick Garland.
Who reimbursed the donors? Please, please, somebody leak that.
Can we just impeach him already?
Supreme Court is bullshit
Time to expand the Supreme Court
Me: This is as low as they can go!
Republicans: hold my beer.
How this isn’t called bribery just baffles my mind
What really sucks is that nothing is going to happen. 100 million people could march on Washington tomorrow and he will still be the same.
It’s looking so terribly that nothing will happen.
Bought and purchased. What is that called in your country?
How the fuck do make near 200k a year and still be in debt
Hang this on Roberts, how he has led one of the most corrupt courts in history. Make sure the reps of Roberts, Thomas, and Alito are thoroughly tarnished to the point no one sees their rulings as legitimate. Wipe their rulings out of the law books with a legit court in the future. They ignored precedent, so no one should hesitate to overturn their rulings.