The Supreme Court: Clarence & Ginni Thomas Jet Set Edition

boredsocial · May 4, 2023, 4:44pm

Very obviously. Merrick Garland isn’t doing shit.

riverman · May 4, 2023, 4:45pm

Also this

pvn · May 4, 2023, 4:57pm

ah yes the “if we frown hard they will self-regulate” theory

VoteForSocialists · May 4, 2023, 5:50pm

lol twitter is shit

let’s see why she’s trending

let’s check in with the blue checks

d10 · May 4, 2023, 7:29pm

I want to say this is a bad strategy because the only possible play we can make with the conservatives corruption is to erode the legitimacy of the entire court. In a logical world sacrificing the liberal Justices for the cause would be well worth it. But this is not a logical world, conservatives will use the both sides argument to say let’s just stop looking under these rocks and move on.

TheDuker · May 4, 2023, 7:31pm

If you’re going to claim no official ethics rules are needed because the justices will police themselves and hold themselves to the highest standards (presumptively avoiding even the appearance of misconduct!), you can’t turn around and make hyper technical excuses like “but there’s nothing in the guidelines specifically about grand-nephews!”

TheDudeAbides · May 4, 2023, 8:01pm

it’s not cowardice. they’re in on it.

eyebooger · May 4, 2023, 8:07pm

Impeach Sotomayor for this imo.

She’s almost 70 and diabetic. Her father died when he was 42. Democrats are very very likely to lose the Senate next cycle. Might as well get a 40 year old in there that can be confirmed while we can.

McTrollson · May 4, 2023, 8:19pm

Breyer is SWEATING right now worrying that some reporter will discover the office supplies and silverware he stole from the SCOTUS cafeteria.

pvn · May 4, 2023, 10:58pm

Guys how can this private school thing be corruption? They did a nice thing for a kid AND a it’s not specifically outlined in the rules.

(Actual argument advanced by a guy I lived with in college)

pvn · May 4, 2023, 10:59pm

Fwiw I considered this guy a George will type republican before trump appeared.

goofy · May 4, 2023, 11:37pm

lol now we got Leonard Leo just shoveling money directly to Ginni and trying to hide it:

Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

I’m on my phone but throwing an archive.ph in front of the link is usually good for getting around the paywall

Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work just over a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

In January 2012, Leo instructed the GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill a nonprofit group called the Judicial Education Project and use that money to pay Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the documents show. The same year, the Judicial Education Project filed a brief to the Supreme Court in a landmark voting rights case.

Leo, an adviser to the Judicial Education Project and a key figure in a network of nonprofits that has worked to support the nominations of conservative judges, told Conway that he wanted her to “give” Ginni Thomas “another $25K,” the documents show. He emphasized that the paperwork should have “No mention of Ginni, of course.”

riverman · May 5, 2023, 12:03am

Absolutely nothing will happen

goofy · May 5, 2023, 12:59am

goofy · May 5, 2023, 1:11am

commonWealth · May 5, 2023, 1:28am

This, because eDems love this SCOTUS.

pvn · May 5, 2023, 3:20am

m_reed05 · May 5, 2023, 11:30am

Could they even get a SCOTUS justice confirmed right now with Feinstein?

pvn · May 5, 2023, 12:26pm

manchin will block it until democrats agree to reduce medicaid benefits for poor kids (they ain’t workin!)

pvn · May 5, 2023, 12:26pm

oh shit they can’t even get out of committee lol democrats