Fix the court? The court is fixed!
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This guy doesn't say a word for decades. Now he can't stop being an ass.
He didn't even have to hide gold bars in his underwear like Menendez.
Wait a second, my friends have never given me anything close to a million dollar gift. What assholes
There is no point in following the rules when the people in power clearly don't.
Sure there is. Unlike them, if you break the rules you go to jail.
There's a big point. A gun point.
The difference between you and Clarence Thomas is simply what each of you can get away with. Cops won't come knocking on Thomas's door for this. In fact, they'll guard his door.
All that GOP complaining about activist judges was just another example that every accusation is an admission. They were stacking all the courts with activist judges so they could throw out elections and install a christofascist dictatorship. Trump's reelection is the final step. They kill him off once he's elected along with whatever simpleton sycophant he chooses as his running mate and install the christofascist speaker of the house at president. They telegraphed that when they claimed that the Democrats were going to kill of Biden to install Harris as president. Every single accusation is an admission.
Annnnnnd the party of law and order will want to do something about this right? RiiiiIiightt?
I wish we had public servants who did their fucking job for their base pay, just like the rest of us do.
You're assuming this isn't the job of the nation's highest court.
Take the money, legitimize the misconduct, channel people's rage into impotence.
It's so easy to forget that a certain Senator from Delaware voted Clarence Thomas out of committee in 1989, rather than killing the nomination, because his own corporate bosses told him to.
30 years later, Thomas is doing exactly what he was put on the bench to accomplish. And Biden's response is to shrug helplessly and tell you that you should have voted harder.
Best comment I’ve read this week.
appointing like 90 more supreme court justices would make this cost prohibitive
Gotta make it an even 100. Two for each state o_0
Uncle Tom's Courtroom.
Wait so all the justices recieved $3M in gifts, and $2.4M of that was to Thomas? That's like 80% of the gifts.
Maybe a better approach would be to distribute the gifts equally amongst the justices. That way they could all graft equally. Equal graft under the law!
From each according to their corruption, to each according to their greed
That he's reported. Who knows what else isn't on the radar yet, because that corrupt fucker keeps "misremembering" to report gifts like private school tuition, RV loans that get forgiven, and several vacations a year.
I'm mostly just annoyed that democracy was sold that cheaply.
Cheaply? There aren't enough guys going to home Depot and not enough lube for me to earn that much over 3 lifetimes if that's all I did.
Every single time dude. Every time I see what a politician was paid to worsen their constituents' lives, the dollar amount tied to it is just never that remarkable, especially in the context of a world where Elon Musk gets a $56bn pay package for nothing in return.
Obvious corruption.
Straight to jail for corruption
lol that isn’t shit. The corporations buy and sell this guy like a slave. 2.4M are pennies to these people. That money is nothing to them. Fuck you Clarence Thomas.
Nothing wrong with working for the highest pay - just let your employer know who you are really working for.
That's only the starterpack compared to high profile politicians and CEOs.
Everyone must know that we are only seeing the tiniest tip of the actual iceberg.
For sure, or he would have taken up John Oliver on his offer.
2.4 million, so far.
Not just so far. That we know of so far.
I'd be amazed if the real number wasn't many times this.
so why can't anybody do anything? why does he still get to wear the robe and have such a say in the world? maybe the good guys should start breaking rules as well to get things done since the right has already established that precedent. they're not gonna just start playing nice because the democrats are.
Because all US politicians do this. Including all the ones on the Supreme Court. The entire system is corrupt. That’s why Roberts wont go before anyone and discuss it or why no one is really pushing too hard to do anything to him about it. They all do the same thing in one form or the other.
the good guys should start breaking rules
The rich right supports people like their Proud Boys, Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers to keep people in line but not so much on the left and they are dealt with much more harshly by law enforcement for the similar crimes.
so be smart about it. all it takes is one lone wolf that doesn't keep a cell phone to study movements of these figures.
At this point, you really haven't learned the answer to this question? Like, the real answer? Even though this comes up in every article on this for the last year at least?
This is how the American system works. He's just not being classy about it.
Congressmembers do insider trading all the time and move into industry positions after they leave, having helped those exact industries (following the requests of their lobbyists). Congressmembers go straight to the top of boards for weapons manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, etc.
Regulators and other officials do the same thing. They cycle back and forth between the industries they're supposed to reign in and supposedly the job where they do reign them in. Work for the FCC -> work for a telecom -> FCC -> telecom.
In terms of the Supreme Court itself, it is an illegitimate body that has legitimacy only because the other two branches give it to them. Their major powers are not in the constitution and they have very few rules to follow.
You are right that gaining power to establish justice is what really matters, not "the rules" (which are always selectively applied). But it really depends on what you mean by the "good guys". If you mean Democrats, unfortunately they are also deeply embedded in this system and are not champions against it. They maintain power through the same kinds of industry connections and exit strategies and insider training. Their electoral apparatus is built on getting donations from companies and their executives so that they can buy ads and canvassers and phone bankers and data nerds to reach out and drive likely voters to turn out for them.
I've been in high-ish level Dem offices on various occasions. They put a lot of effort into shmoozing with donors and doing everything they can to get more money from likely donors. Big and small, though big get the most attention. The idea of building their base of power from the action of motivated grassroots individuals is rejected. And that's the only real base of power that is likely to reflect justice.
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