Again: if Thomas was a judge on any court except SCOTUS, this would be a no-brainer. It's bribery. He and everyone involved, like Harlan Crow, would be indicted.
But we're supposed to pretend it's okay because it's SCOTUS.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-complaints-sparked-resignation-fears-scotus
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This is a story about a greedy fuck who thought SCOTUS would be a massive gravy train, or at least more than what it turned out to be for him.
Why isn't money speech for him? He did his job. Time frames suggest that was his benefit job.
Make "Friend of the Court" have $ub$tance.
The problem becomes, if a highly partisan Congress won't impeach and convict him, he can't be removed from office.
Arguably, to be impeached, a justice has to violate a law. Congress HAS the power to pass ethics laws which, if a SCOTUS Justice violates the law, would then be reasonable grounds for impeaching them.
But since Thomas rubber-stamps every extreme, actually-unconstitutional position of Republicans, they're never going to remove one of their most reliable votes on the court.
Democracy is the worst form of government. . . except for every other form that's ever been tried.
Well said.
I have one quibble with the title of the article. . . I, for one, have no fears about the prospect of Thomas resigning.
That sounds like an objectively good thing and an improvement of the state of the country to me.
Lesser judges have impunity as well. Corruption is common among US judges.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-judges-misconduct/
WOW. This is worth a read about the Supreme Court, and the amount of money that they make.
@maxkennerly I don't like Justice Thomas's legal philosophy, and from what I have been able to glean, I suspect I would not like him personally.
However, this article paints a far more nuanced portrait than you all seem to be crediting here.
Re-read the article substituting in a fictional liberal black justice and wealthy liberal contacts, and I think you will see what I mean.
Reform is needed. And he's a self-centered ass. But the underlying issues are not so simple.
My, my, my...Thomas took on being a Justice for the paycheck. Not the fact that it's a sacred trust, that he could be one of the most trusted and listened to solons in America, not that such an appointment would be an honor to his heritage and give him deep responsibilities to all Americans including his ethnic group.
Regardless of why he took the job, eventually wealth and power is what he has valued in it. Lying to get it no less, hiding material information to keep it, and now politically posturing to make it something that was not Constitutionally intended, a Super-legislature/Executive.
I pity one entity here. The horse Clarence Thomas rode in on. It doesn't deserve what's coming.
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