Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reported three 2022 trips on the private jet of a Texas billionaire in a financial disclosure form released Thursday, and for the first time detailed the businessman’s purchase of three properties from the justice’s family years earlier.
In his required annual financial report, Thomas said he opted to fly on the private plane of his friend and benefactor, Harlan Crow, for one of the trips on the advice of his security detail. The justices faced heightened security risks, Thomas noted, after the May, 2022 leak of the court’s majority opinion to eliminate the nationwide right to abortion and overturn Roe v. Wade.
Thomas also acknowledged prior mistakes and omissions in past reports, involving bank accounts, a life insurance policy and the name of his wife’s real estate company.
Thomas also acknowledged prior mistakes and omissions in past reports, involving bank accounts, a life insurance policy and the name of his wife’s real estate company.
This guy is just corruption made flesh.
So… a conservative then.
Or “fleash,” if you’re playing it on a Sega Saturn.
I realize he’s full of shit but if Supreme Court justices truly can’t safely fly commercial, they should use military aircraft like the president and VP. This is America. We got plenty jets.
Must be nice to be able to go “Oh, sorry, my bad, that legal filing I made 9 years ago was ‘incorrect’, here, let me ‘amend’ it…”
I’m sure I would TOTALLY be allowed to do that in our non-two-tiered justice system…
I’m just waiting for someone to cite Clarence Thomas when dealing with the IRS. I mean a Supreme Court justice failed to disclose similar for many years without any apparent violations, so why should Joe Dirt have any consequences?
Appeal it right up to the same court and let’s see them justify throwing out the entire basis of consequences for failing to disclose things to the government properly.
Ah yes, the “it’s your fault I’m a bad person” excuse, loved by abusers everywhere.
Republican has to receive favors from donor due to… political actions of his Republican co-workers.
Gosh it’s just too bad we leaked the opinion, now I need to fly on my friend’s private jet.
Darlin’ I had to sleep with your sister since you kicked me out of the house for sleeping with your other sister!
Thomas embodies everything wrong with the SCOTUS.
He always has. Since day one.
Lying liar lies.
And, lying flyer flies.
If he “had” to fly on private jets this year due to the Dobbs decision, what’s his justification for “having” to fly private for the past ?20-odd? years, before Dobbs? Oh, that’s right, he’s just a corrupt piece of shit for sale to the highest bidder.
It’s from the Star Trek TNG episode where tasha yar fights on a jungle gym with a spiked cestus. It is AWFUL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a49K-uzKMZQ
But is it worse than having an openly corrupt Supreme Court?
What about finding a pubic hair on your Diet Coke?
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Clarence Thomas refuses to abide by a… code of honor.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In his required annual financial report, Thomas said he opted to fly on the private plane of his friend and benefactor, Harlan Crow, for one of the trips on the advice of his security detail.
The justices faced heightened security risks, Thomas noted, after the May, 2022 leak of the court’s majority opinion to eliminate the nationwide right to abortion and overturn Roe v. Wade.
Thomas also acknowledged prior mistakes and omissions in past reports, involving bank accounts, a life insurance policy and the name of his wife’s real estate company.
The annual reports have drawn increased attention in recent years, amid pressure from Congressional Democrats and outside legal experts for the justices to strengthen disclosure requirements for travel and gifts, and adopt specific ethics guidelines.
In his report Thursday, Thomas said he prepared his 2022 form with guidance from the Supreme Court’s legal office, the counselor to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., staff of the Judicial Conference’s financial disclosure committee and an attorney.
Thomas’s lawyer, Elliot S. Berke, said in a statement that the justice also worked with an accountant to comply with the updated disclosure rules and review past reports for errors.
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