Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million.
Supreme Court justices received $3million in gifts throughout the last two decades, a watchdog group revealed on Thursday - with controversial Justice Clarence Thomas accounting for nearly 80 percent.
Thomas, who has come under fire for accepting gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow, led the group of justices with the highest value of gifts accepted at $2.4million, according to Court News Service.
Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million.
$120K/yr in gifts seems perfectly reasonable. I just haven’t pulled on my bootstraps hard enough to find such nice friends.
Maybe next year!
Ignoring that they shouldn’t be getting any of these ‘gifts’, could you imagine being one of the others only recieving a few thousand a year. I’d be rather annoyed.
That is not that much money to sell out the American people
so why can’t anybody do anything? why does he still get to wear the robe and have such a say in the world? maybe the good guys should start breaking rules as well to get things done since the right has already established that precedent. they’re not gonna just start playing nice because the democrats are.
the good guys should start breaking rules
The rich right supports people like their Proud Boys, Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers to keep people in line but not so much on the left and they are dealt with much more harshly by law enforcement for the similar crimes.
so be smart about it. all it takes is one lone wolf that doesn’t keep a cell phone to study movements of these figures.
Because all US politicians do this. Including all the ones on the Supreme Court. The entire system is corrupt. That’s why Roberts wont go before anyone and discuss it or why no one is really pushing too hard to do anything to him about it. They all do the same thing in one form or the other.
At this point, you really haven’t learned the answer to this question? Like, the real answer? Even though this comes up in every article on this for the last year at least?
lol that isn’t shit. The corporations buy and sell this guy like a slave. 2.4M are pennies to these people. That money is nothing to them. Fuck you Clarence Thomas.
appointing like 90 more supreme court justices would make this cost prohibitive
Gotta make it an even 100. Two for each state o_0
So? It’s not like the people who showered Him in gifts have cases in front of the Court!
There is no point in following the rules when the people in power clearly don’t.
Sure there is. Unlike them, if you break the rules you go to jail.
There’s a big point. A gun point.
The difference between you and Clarence Thomas is simply what each of you can get away with. Cops won’t come knocking on Thomas’s door for this. In fact, they’ll guard his door.
Tip of the iceberg.
Wait a second, my friends have never given me anything close to a million dollar gift. What assholes
He didn’t even have to hide gold bars in his underwear like Menendez.
2.4 million, so far.
Not just so far. That we know of so far.
I’d be amazed if the real number wasn’t many times this.
Guys a sellout and not even a good one.
Annnnnnd the party of law and order will want to do something about this right? RiiiiIiightt?
All that GOP complaining about activist judges was just another example that every accusation is an admission. They were stacking all the courts with activist judges so they could throw out elections and install a christofascist dictatorship. Trump’s reelection is the final step. They kill him off once he’s elected along with whatever simpleton sycophant he chooses as his running mate and install the christofascist speaker of the house at president. They telegraphed that when they claimed that the Democrats were going to kill of Biden to install Harris as president. Every single accusation is an admission.
Uncle Tom’s Courtroom.
