Corruption in the SCOTUS

More examples of buying and nurturing ideology.


“The multi-pronged billionaire-funded scheme to influence the judiciary includes flying amenable judges to luxury resorts to bathe them in the latest fantastical right-wing legal theories,” he said in a statement to HuffPost. “At the very least, the public ought to know when judges are attending lavish ‘seminars’ promoting the agenda of partisan special interests. The Judicial Conference should take a close look at tightening its rules to ensure transparency around such junkets.”

Legal corpus linguistics is not inherently ideological. Nevertheless, as the right-wing legal movement increasingly insists that courts must interpret the law based on “history and tradition,” conservatives have seized on corpus linguistics as a useful source of legitimacy.

“History,” as described by the conservatives who dominate the federal courts these days, has an uncanny way of mirroring the political beliefs of the modern GOP on issues like gun laws, school prayer, organized labor and abortion rights. Corpus linguistics, the thinking goes, with its air of big data, offers a potential retort to the accusations that judges are simply cherry-picking their view of the past.

 

Bought and paid for.

 

keeps getting more and more disturbing. dems should make judicial ethics reform a plank in their platform. let maga be against it

 

Corpus linguistics is interesting. Can be a good tool if it's not used disingenuously or as the end all be all. BYU actually has corpuses from early America available online that you can search.
BYU Law & Corpus Linguistics

 

what is it going to take to get a code of ethics? Thomas and Alito combined to get 2.57M of the 2.65M in gifts accepted. Surprise, the two maga supporters blow the rest of the justices out of the water


Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted gifts worth millions of dollars over 20 years, analysis finds (msn.com)

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted millions of dollars' worth of gifts over the past two decades on the bench, a total nearly 10 times the value of all gifts received by his fellow justices during the same time, according to a new analysis.

Thomas received 103 gifts with a total value of more than $2.4 million between 2004 and 2023, the judicial reform group Fix the Court said in a report Thursday.

In contrast, Thomas' fellow justices over the same period accepted a total of just 93 gifts worth a combined value of only about $248,000, according to the nonprofit group.

Thomas' fellow conservative justice Samuel Alito accounted for the lion's share of that value. Fix the Court's analysis found that Alito accepted 16 gifts worth a combined $170,095.

 

And that's just what they declared. Likely the tip of the iceberg for Thomas.

 

but only in favor of right wing causes.

 

This is insane. He needs to be investigated and in reality should be impeached. This is entirely inappropriate.

 

Oh yeah, forgot all about that trip of a lifetime to Bali and those other trips too. Was that wrong?

Clarence Thomas discloses trips with GOP donor as justices file new reports — CBS News

The report, which was filed by Thomas on May 15, included an amendment to his disclosure form for 2019 to list two trips he took with Crow in July of that year. The first, to Bali, lists Thomas as a guest of Harlan and Kathy Crow. The justice reported receiving food and lodging at a hotel.

The second trip, to Monte Rio, California, across three days in July 2019, again lists Thomas as a guest of Crow's. He said he received food and lodging at a private club.

The information was "inadvertently omitted at the time of filing," according to Thomas' latest annual disclosure form. It notes that the justice "sought and received guidance from his accountant and ethics counsel" when preparing his report for 2023.

 

Ginni.

 

SMH - Uhhh tell me again about "Banana Republics" and corruption?

 

^ Btw, their wine appears to fall in a roughly $500 - $30,000 per bottle price range.

 

Not Insane - Just business as usual in the corrupt USA.

 

So these clowns are above the law or accountability too. Good to know.

 

Another example of how partisan politics has broken our constitutional system of checks and balances. The two impeachments were the first two when the senate refused to do their job and now when there are no viable options to impeach such a corrupted judge

 

SCOTUS is now joining the rest of the corrupted agencies in the US GOVT. If you get inside the beltway you will begin to smell a distinct odor that gets stronger as you near the Potomac

 

Up to $6 million, and to says that makes the USSC like agencies is ignorant

 

Salary for a Supreme Court Justice is ~$225k so that means he accepted more in gifts than he earned in salary.

 

Samuel Alito Rejects Compromise, Says One Political Party Will ‘Win’

Unbelievable. A complete disregard for the separation of church and state.