Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million.
Supreme Court justices received $3million in gifts throughout the last two decades, a watchdog group revealed on Thursday - with controversial Justice Clarence Thomas accounting for nearly 80 percent.
Thomas, who has come under fire for accepting gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow, led the group of justices with the highest value of gifts accepted at $2.4million, according to Court News Service.
Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million.
Wait a second, my friends have never given me anything close to a million dollar gift. What assholes
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I’m mostly just annoyed that democracy was sold that cheaply.
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.
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.
Is there no consequence for this? Wtf are we just letting this slide for? America is so fucked.
This is how it always been, internet made it impossible to hide.
The people in power don’t even really care, what about overworked and underpaid wage slaves going to do about it?
Make a shit post, maybe do a protest then lay down and take it anyway?
Asking for a friend.
Who’s gonna prosecute him? He’s can appeal up to the highest court and then exonerate himself together with his buddies.
If the system was working as it should congress can impeach him. But that’s not going to happen we know that he knows that.
I also think that he is using this GOP congressional firewall to keep doing it because why not?
The American people, at least that’s what the Founding Fathers would have said.
The founding Fathers likely couldn’t imagine a Congress that wouldn’t impeach a Supreme Court Justice for such flagrant self-enrichment. But they were thinking about Congress as a more ideological body rather than a political entity. They couldn’t imagine Justices being aligned with political bodies; that was part of the idea of a lifetime appointment. Put someone in a job for life and they should be immune from partisan political bullshit from the outside.
They couldn’t envision justices who would trade everything for a lifetime appointment to support their preferred political flavor.
IMO, the solution is to let every President nominate a new SC justice, and retire the oldest one every election.
The ruling class of the United States has always been like this. This is a country founded by and for slaveowners that gladly governed in their own favor.
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.
Fix the court? The court is fixed!
$120K/yr in gifts seems perfectly reasonable. I just haven’t pulled on my bootstraps hard enough to find such nice friends.
Maybe next year!
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.
Everyone must know that we are only seeing the tiniest tip of the actual iceberg.
appointing like 90 more supreme court justices would make this cost prohibitive
This guy doesn’t say a word for decades. Now he can’t stop being an ass.
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.
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
2.4 million, so far.
Tip of the iceberg.
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.
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.
