It’s hard to believe but—no, actually, it’s not hard to believe. Justice Alito, palling around and accepting private junkets from billionaires with business before the Court? Another scandal rocks SCOTUS. I break it down in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/scotus-has-alito-problem?sd=pf
SCOTUS Has Alito Problem
In some ways it was bound to happen. For months the public focus has been on Justice Clarence Thomas. Per excellent reporting by ProPublica, Thomas had secretly accepted myriad unreported gifts from billionaire-with-an-archvillain’s-name Harlan Crow: lavish private flights, luxury trips, years of private tuition for a family member, and money for the sale and renovation of his mother’s home (where she still lives rent free). With all that rotting out in the open, it was naturally time to look at the records and practices of other justices who seem to operate outside ethical rules.
