CBC CalgaryMar 5
Calgary Party more than doubled other political parties in 2025 election spending
Newly publicized financial disclosures for the 2025 municipal election show The Calgary Party far outspent other parties, despite electing just one candidate to council, while Sonya Sharp was the highest spender in a mayoral race where she finished second.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/2025-municipal-election-finances-9.7114359?cmp=rss
beSpacificJun 8, 2024
#ClarenceThomas's #Corruption Finally Has A #PriceTag - he got just under $6M in gifts while on #SCOTUS. It’s easy to miss the details of the lavish gifts and splashy #luxe travel accommodations and not grasp the scope of the gifts #SCOTUS has been getting. Well, the good folks at Fix the Court (FTC) have compiled the gifts bestowed upon the justices over the last 20 years https://abovethelaw.com/2024/06/clarence-thomas-corruption-finally-has-a-price-tag/ #democracy #courts #SupremeCourt #financialdisclosures #ethics #legalresearch
Clarence Thomas’s Corruption Finally Has A Price Tag

Thomas got just under $6 million in gifts while on the Court.

Above the Law
Show threadNonilexJun 7, 2024

Propublica’s “Friends of the Court” reporting:

#SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #law #FinancialDisclosures #SCOTUSstench #ethics #judiciary #JudicialEthics #bribes #bribery #IdeologicalPayOff
https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-scotus

Friends of the Court

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong friendship with real estate tycoon Harlan Crow and Samuel Alito’s luxury travel with billionaire Paul Singer have raised questions about influence and ethics at the nation's highest court.

ProPublica
Show threadNonilexJun 7, 2024

via #FixTheCourt

#SCOTUS Justice #ClarenceThomas racked up $4,189,994 in gifts.

Other justices $248k.

#law #FinancialDisclosures #SCOTUSstench #ethics #judiciary #JudicialEthics #bribes #bribery #IdeologicalPayOff
https://fixthecourt.com/2023disclosures/

The Justices' Latest Disclosures (2023), Plus Links to Earlier Ones - Fix the Court

Chief Justice John Roberts Justice Clarence Thomas Justice Samuel Alito: extension requested Justice Sonia Sotomayor Justice Elena Kagan Justice Neil Gorsuch Justice Brett Kavanaugh Justice Amy Coney Barrett Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Justice Stephen Breyer (ret.): extension requested Justice Anthony Kennedy (ret.): extension requested Justice David Souter (ret.) Links to previous years’ disclosures obtained by […]

Fix the Court
NonilexJun 7, 2024
#SCOTUS Justice #ClarenceThomas has #disclosed for the first time trips to Bali & to a private club in California in 2019 paid for by his friend & *#benefactor*, #Texas #billionaire #HarlanCrow, acc/to #FinancialDisclosures released Fri for 8 of the 9 justices.

The required annual reports, covering activity in 2023, also show 3 justices — Brett #Kavanaugh, Neil #Gorsuch & #KetanjiBrownJackson — received 6-figure book payments.

#law #ethics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/07/supreme-court-financial-disclosures-gifts-thomas/
Justice Thomas discloses two 2019 trips paid for by Harlan Crow

2023 financial disclosure reports for Supreme Court justices also show six-figure book payments for Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The Washington Post
Show threadbeSpacificMay 17, 2024
@sadele2 There is a federal statute which requires all federal judges, including #SupremeCourt justices, to #recuse themselves from any case “in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned,” but there is no effective enforcement mechanism to apply this vague law to a Supreme Court justice. #Democracy #FederalJudiciary #SCOTUS #broken not subject to law #corruption continues #financialdisclosures are a fraud. We have for years now been witnessing real time the unraveling of rule of law
Show threadNonilexFeb 3, 2024

…Rejected by #banks & #lenders over the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection & his long history of &bankruptcies & #business #failures, #Trump had approved the merger of his company w/a #SPAC as a way to raise money in the months after he lost the WH. Often called “blank check” firms, SPACs promise access to public stock investors w/fewer #FinancialDisclosures than a traditional corporate listing requires.

#criminal #law #SEC #FederalSecurities

beSpacificJan 5, 2024
#House #Democrats ask #ClarenceThomas to #recuse from #SupremeCourt review of #Colorado ballot #14thAmendment case. "Your wife was one of 9 board members for a #conservative political group that helped lead the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement, a movement which culminated in the #Jan6 attack.." Of course he will not do so. #democracy #constitution #ethics #legalresearch #corruption #financialdisclosures #insurrection #GinniThomas
beSpacificDec 15, 2023
ProPublica: The #Judiciary Has Policed Itself for Decades. It Doesn’t Work. The secretive #JudicialConference is tasked with self-governance. The group, led by #SupremeCourt’s #chiefjustice, has spent decades #preserving #perks, defending judges and thwarting outside #oversight. #democracy #ethicsreform #SCOTUS #corruption #FinancialDisclosures #perks #govdocs #legalresearch #recuse #clarencethomas #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #amy coney barrett #BrettKavanaugh #federalistsociety #legalresearch
beSpacificDec 1, 2023
#SandraDayOConnor, First #Woman on the #SupremeCourt, Is Dead at 93. During a crucial period in #Americanlaw — when #abortion, #affirmativeaction, sex #discrimination and #votingrights were on the #docket — she was the most powerful woman in the country. read free https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/us/sandra-day-oconnor-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ck0.NAXc.SIEONPlYtH5o&referringSource=articleShare #SCOTUS #ethics #ethicscode #FinancialDisclosures #integrity #leadership #pioneer #RespectWomen
Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 93

During a crucial period in American law — when abortion, affirmative action, sex discrimination and voting rights were on the docket — she was the most powerful woman in the country.

The New York Times