Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.

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@mmasnick Thanks?
@ProPublica @mmasnick You must get that all the time...
@ProPublica @mmasnick This painting holy shit
@TradingPlacesResearch @ProPublica @mmasnick that visual plus paean to the Walmart parking lot
@swoody @ProPublica @mmasnick I prefer Costco parking lots, which tags me as elitist.
@TradingPlacesResearch @ProPublica @mmasnick yeah you don’t come from regular stock obviously
@TradingPlacesResearch @ProPublica @mmasnick Proposed caption: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
@ProPublica @mmasnick Didn't know ProPublica was here - followed!
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The corruption runs so deep it is going to be nearly impossible to remove without extracting it like a rotten tooth.
@mmasnick but is anyone truly surprised? i am only surprised in that we are finally learning about it.
@mmasnick wow you can buy supreme court justices now!
@mmasnick Fuck, I am tired of this!
@mmasnick it's cartoon-villain level behavior
@mmasnick but I thought he was such a reputable individual 🤣
@mmasnick What's particularly stunning to me, is how we're only learning this now. Maybe he wasn't reporting it, but it doesn't feel like he was making much effort to conceal it, either. With all the doubts about him going all the way back to his confirmation, why was this investigation so long in coming?
@mmasnick a lot of this has been known for close to a decade though. There's new stuff for sure though. I think this is being pushed out now because they are trying once again to establish some ethics laws for SCOTUS. So that makes this refresh of older news a requirement to get people invested in that once again.

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How this can actually shock anyone is beyond me.

He routinely manages to forget mentioning the cash his wife earns on his disclosures, like every year.

In the pic in the middle its nice to see they let him out of the cabin so he could come up to the house.

@mmasnick Sadly nothing is surprising with Thomas or his wife.
@mmasnick Abe Fortas was forced off the Court for a similar offense.
@mmasnick now multiply that by 8 and that's what Ginny gets.
@mmasnick it's ok though, he prefers the Walmart parking lot as a vacation spot just like us regular folks