Since 2004, Clarence Thomas has accepted more than $4 million in donations, much of it undisclosed.
  • @[email protected]
    55•6 months ago

    Honestly, at this point, he & Alito both are essentially throwing us the finger & daring anyone to really do anything about it.

    • @Got_Bent
      20•6 months ago

      It takes congressional impeachment to bring any consequences whatsoever, right? So basically it’s impossible for them to suffer anything. Of course they’re throwing the middle finger.

      Thomas looks like he enjoys a good cheese hamberder or twelve, so that’s pretty much the only thing that will stop him.

    • @Snowclone
      10•6 months ago

      It’s open corruption, we already have bought and sold judges who flat out lied in the legislator that they would respect established precident

  • @[email protected]
    20•6 months ago

    At this point, I’m assuming that that was actually counted as one of his qualifications - that back when they were vetting nominees, he got high marks in bribability.

  • @grueEnglish
    11•6 months ago

    Wait, wait, wait… How many bribes “gifts” are the other SCOTUS members getting? 'Cause I hadn’t heard of any 'til now and naturally assumed it was ≈0!

    • @[email protected]
      2•6 months ago

      See the thing is some of these could just be like very natural things that people have to register as gifts. Like if I had to register everything I did with my friends as gifts then maybe I’d have a non-zero sum of gifts, like my friends buy me lunch and sometimes they pick me up and drive me places. Now when your friends are millionaires that’s bigger. And it seems a little bit more unreasonable. That being said, there’s a difference between your friends having dinner with you and people blatantly giving you money under the table in so many ways

      • @grueEnglish
        1•6 months ago

        The government already has rules to quantify and account for that sort of thing in various contexts, such as this or (more strictly) this. Similar rules simply need to be imposed on SCOTUS.

  • @JeeBaiChow
    9•6 months ago

    If the other justices are aware of his behaviour (as they are now), and dont do anything about it, they’re complicit.

  • @niktemadur
    6•6 months ago

    “We want you to betray the people you swore an oath to protect.”
    “What’s in it for me?”
    “Money, of course. First class golfing trips with all the bells and whistles. Plus the everlasting title of Uncle Tom among the peasants… I mean populace.”
    “I’ll take it.”
    “Good. As expected. We knew you were weak.”

  • @njm1314
    5•6 months ago

    You have to think this is just the tip of the iceberg. With Thomas alone the number of times he’s “forgotten” to include something thst we learned of later means you just have to assume there’s so much more. What or how much who knows? But there is no way I believe Samuel Alito has accepted 170,000 dollars in gifts over the years. Not if his asshole buddy Thomas over here is bringing it at minimum 4 million.