Sen Lemon Gogurt (I - Transit)Apr 6, 2023
Clarence Thomas's ideological purity dates directly to his first job out of law school and the glide path it gave him to access wealth and prestige in GOP circles.
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RT @The_Law_Boy
the reason you punish corruption isn't to ensure fairness in the micro, it's to combat a system where ideology and money and meaningfully intertwined. it doesn't matter if you think Thomas is too ideologically pure to be bought. he is being paid BECAUSE h…
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“the reason you punish corruption isn't to ensure fairness in the micro, it's to combat a system where ideology and money and meaningfully intertwined. it doesn't matter if you think Thomas is too ideologically pure to be bought. he is being paid BECAUSE he is ideologically pure”

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FLEABttnApr 6, 2023
Show threadSen Lemon Gogurt (I - Transit)
"I don't want to call it a bribe because clarence thomas is so sincere" is not the above-it-all realist take, pal. I have the above-it-all realist take, which is that he is now reaping the rewards of being purchased cheaply at the beginning of his career.
Apr 6, 2023 at 4:47pmWeb
Show threadSen Lemon Gogurt (I - Transit)Apr 14, 2023
here's another good way of expressing this
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RT @normative
So do I doubt that Thomas is sincere? No. Do I think his votes and opinions look at least a little different in the alternate 2023 where he hasn’t spent three decades getting fêted by billionaires for his unwavering ideological consistency? Yeah, I kinda do.
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“So do I doubt that Thomas is sincere? No. Do I think his votes and opinions look at least a little different in the alternate 2023 where he hasn’t spent three decades getting fêted by billionaires for his unwavering ideological consistency? Yeah, I kinda do.”

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Show threadSen Lemon Gogurt (I - Transit)Apr 14, 2023
see also
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RT @grylxndr
These aren't bribes. They're perks. Thomas isn't being influenced, his successors are. https://twitter.com/notelpmeTy_A/status/1646602370535641096
https://twitter.com/grylxndr/status/1646805944133734401
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“@golikehellmachi Do you really think his vote was influenced? I agree he did not follow one imperative which avoid the appearance of bribery. Bad enough. But actually “on the take” seems fanciful.”

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Show threadSen Lemon Gogurt (I - Transit)Apr 6, 2023
little ol' me with nothing but a law degree from yale and a patron in a senator from missouri, then met his wife, the heir to a fortune from her family of wacko birchers
Show threadSen Lemon Gogurt (I - Transit)Apr 6, 2023
incorrect! why would you possibly think this! we do not need to do brain scans to determine the "true feelings" of high ranking public officials who receive expensive gifts and especially when they fail to disclose them before we condemn them as bribes.
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RT @ASFleischman
@molly_knight You know, the tricky part is disentangling whether the dude votes conservative because he's bought and paid for, or whether he's bought and paid for …
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“@molly_knight You know, the tricky part is disentangling whether the dude votes conservative because he's bought and paid for, or whether he's bought and paid for because he votes conservative. I'm not sure, under Caperton, that you could recuse a judge from just the facts we have now.”

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Show threadSen Lemon Gogurt (I - Transit)Apr 6, 2023
i mean, it might be correct under caperton (need to read it again) but who cares!
Show threadSen Lemon Gogurt (I - Transit)Apr 6, 2023
needed the reminder myself but ... Caperton was about the WV SupCt justice who voted on the side of the coal billionaire who was his financially responsible for his WV SupCt campaign. It was a 5-4 decision requiring recusal, with CT voting with the pro-bribe minority.