Corruption in the SCOTUS

Pretty dead on. Should have also mentioned Bill Barr and Pat Cipillone, at a minimum, and Scalia, including Family, and Saint Catherine of Siena in Great Falls

 

The Onion does it again lmao:
Clarence Thomas Promises To Adopt Code Of Ethics For The Right Price

 

The Onion never misses

 

do you think he will respond truthfully or risk investigation by the committee?

Senators asks billionaire for list of gifts to Supreme Court Justice Thomas | Reuters

WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee has asked Texas billionaire Harlan Crow to detail gifts he or his companies have made to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the panel said on Tuesday.

"Recent investigative reporting has identified multiple instances in which you or entities you own or control have made payments, purchased real estate, or provided gifts, travel, or other items of value to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and members of his family," read the letter from committee Democrats including its chairman, Senator Dick Durbin.
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Similar letters, dated Monday, were sent to the holding companies that own Crow's private jet and private yacht.
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It asked him to provide the information to the committee by May 22 as the panel works to craft legislation strengthening ethics rules and standards for Supreme Court justices.

 

The reference to "craft[ing] legislation" is a signal they will issue a subpoena if he does not voluntarily cooperate

 

Your kidding....right? Thomas is the lowest of the low.
IMO he is right up there with Bernie Madoff in terms of decency and legitimacy.

This guy and his wife are disgusting beyond the pail. They sold out to wealthy GOP backers so they could have the ultra good life. Trump in Blackface is the way I picture those 2.

 

They are asking Crow for records. Thomas is just the dumbest and most blatant, there are other much more destructive forces on the court and in the senate that have ceded power to this cabal

 

will that compel him or just begin a legal battle that he hopes to sustain until the senate changes house and justice is sold?

 

I see NOTHING happening to Clarence and Ginny other than some GOP donors buying them a new Lear Jet to tool around and fomet another Trump revolution.

 

Suspect the latter. Hard Senate Map for Dems in 2024. OTOH, if he wants to help his friend(s), may not want the issue before USSC and force possible recusal(s)

 

He has no legitimate reason to refuse to comply. There's no arguable privilege. But he's rich, so he may well try to go to the courts. Of course, that only makes him and Thomas look worse. "What are they hiding?"

 

A reminder of the size of the slush fund Leo has

 

Subpoena him.

 

Think that's next. Think looks better in litigation if you create this record first. Equivalent of civil demand letter.

 

Crow hired Gibson Dunn, not a Trump type lawyer. Very different sounding letter. Still wrong, but more likely to delay

 

The claim that separation of powers protects him from having to go before Congress is just wild.

 

Wrong again Libby!

He purchased the Court, so he has successor in interest Article III status. Didn't you see the portrait showing the backyard firepit where the US Judicial power is vested and exercised?

Acknowledge your error!

You must agree in a de facto sense, there is merit to my point. Told you I was cynical.

 

This whole thing is just one more example of the lefty libtards inventing wrongdoing by Clarence Thomas. Thomas has done nothing wrong. He is entitled under the law to monetize his name, image, and likeness through the full term of his eligibility, which doesn’t end until he drops dead.

 

Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas changed his position on one of America’s most significant regulatory doctrines after his wife reportedly accepted secret payments from a shadowy conservative network pushing for the change. Thomas’s shift also came while he was receiving lavish gifts from a billionaire linked to other groups criticizing the same doctrine — which is now headed back to the high court.​

The so-called “Chevron deference” doctrine stipulates that the executive branch — not the federal courts — has the power to interpret laws passed by Congress in certain circumstances. Conservatives for years have fought to overturn the doctrine, a move that would empower legal challenges to federal agency regulations on everything from climate policy to workplace safety to overtime pay.

Thomas wrote a landmark Supreme Court opinion upholding the doctrine in 2005, but began questioning it a decade later, before eventually renouncing his past opinion in 2020 and claiming that the doctrine itself might be unconstitutional. Now, Thomas could help overturn the doctrine in a new case the high court just agreed to hear next term.
Groups within the conservative legal movement funded by Leonard Leo’s dark money network and affiliated with Thomas’s billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow have organized a concerted effort in recent years to overturn Chevron. That campaign unfolded as they delivered gifts and cash to Thomas and his family in the lead-up to his shift on the doctrine.
Influenced by Dark Money, Clarence Thomas Has Reversed His Position on a Landmark Legal Doctrine