The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.
What a disgrace, how is this not penalized is so fucking blatant
they did it out of the kindness of their heart, and not to try to bribe him, of course.
ProPublica is easily the best U.S. news source I’ve ever seen.
For me The Atlantic is also very good. Hart hitting well investigated pieces.
Yeah but they also said the author of the Shakespearen plays was a women writing in secret. Because the plays have some strong female characters.
They might get it right sometimes but they also indulge in conspiracy theories.
It’s good to be the king, isn’t it?
The moment his marriage goes on the rocks will be the moment Loving V. Virginia gets overturned.
Do this but for every elected and appointed government official. Strong news reporting needs to point out these blatant interest conflicts about all the scum and people need to clean them out.
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C’mon Ginny, you aren’t fooling anybody the jig is up
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Can’t help but feel that all attacks on him are racially motivated. Gives me the ick
because it can’t possibly be that this man has received millions of dollars worth of gifts from extremely wealthy individuals who would absolutely have an interest in owning a justice of SCOTUS.
from the article:
Perhaps even more significant, the pattern exposes consistent violations of judicial norms, experts, including seven current and former federal judges appointed by both parties, told ProPublica. “In my career I don’t remember ever seeing this degree of largesse given to anybody,” said Jeremy Fogel, a former federal judge who served for years on the judicial committee that reviews judges’ financial disclosures. “I think it’s unprecedented.”
“Unprecedented” is an understatement. and if you think Clarence Thomas isn’t for sale… ask yourself why it is that his “good friends” only came around after Thomas was appointed to SCOTUS?
yeah. Great friends… who want something. And Thomas is willing to sell Americans out to give it to them.
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Best part about Lemmy is the extensive block tools that mean I don’t have to look at your idiotic posts anymore.
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Sooooo…you’re trolling, then. Good to know.
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What strikes me is that you don’t even seem to care that there’s an ethical and moral dilemma of having a court justice being offered multi million gifts from billionaires. You only argue that people attack him based on his skin color.
So you think people (of color or not) that hold high power in the US judicial system should be able to enjoy the benefits of having rich friends and it should not be a concern to anyone? They should be held accountable for it?
Ill put it like this: do you see any of the white judges facing the same extent of backlash? I am not saying that personal relationships between him and his benefactors is a not problem, it’s just that the one black judge is being dog piled, which seems to be racially motivated
Honest questions:
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Are there allegations as strong against them (the white judges)?
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Who would benefit from the hate/racial crime against the black judge? (Certainly not the rich friends who are probably white)
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So you wanna give him a pass simply because he’s black? You’re the racially motivated one here.
Dont twist my words buddy. I said he was being targeted more than any other SC judge
I would argue that he has a bit more visibility/scrutiny due to his wife’s connection to Jan 6th and MAGA. Not so say the other judges shouldn’t have as much scrutiny, they should, but that is at least my take on why.
Ya know? Of course not that doesn’t make make sense nothing what he said was racially motivation. In fact the only racially motivated thing here is your defensiveness.
William Howard Taft didn’t take bribes when he sat as Chief Justice. I’d say Taft was much more hard working and deserving of constant vacation, but he understood why it meant to be an impartial judge.
idiot
