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Justice Thomas raked in staggering $2.4 million in gifts, watchdog says

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.

mdurell ,

Fix the court? The court is fixed!

GiddyGap ,

This guy doesn’t say a word for decades. Now he can’t stop being an ass.

profdc9 ,

He didn’t even have to hide gold bars in his underwear like Menendez.

RagingRobot ,

Wait a second, my friends have never given me anything close to a million dollar gift. What assholes

Travelator ,

It wasn’t his “friends” paying him off, it was (is) rich bastards buying influence. He’s a star grifter, probably being trained by the sleazy orange cheeto himself. Trailer trash, every single one of them.

Suavevillain ,
@Suavevillain@lemmy.world avatar

There is no point in following the rules when the people in power clearly don’t.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

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.

spirinolas ,

Sure there is. Unlike them, if you break the rules you go to jail.

MapleEngineer ,
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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.

Corigan ,

Annnnnnd the party of law and order will want to do something about this right? RiiiiIiightt?

Wahots ,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

I wish we had public servants who did their fucking job for their base pay, just like the rest of us do.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

You’re assuming this isn’t the job of the nation’s highest court.

Take the money, legitimize the misconduct, channel people’s rage into impotence.

It’s so easy to forget that a certain Senator from Delaware voted Clarence Thomas out of committee in 1989, rather than killing the nomination, because his own corporate bosses told him to.

30 years later, Thomas is doing exactly what he was put on the bench to accomplish. And Biden’s response is to shrug helplessly and tell you that you should have voted harder.

TokenBoomer ,

Best comment I’ve read this week.

Skates , (edited )

Shoot the fucker.

fukurthumz420 ,

the actual answer. this comment needs as many upvotes as possible before it gets removed.

Fedizen ,

appointing like 90 more supreme court justices would make this cost prohibitive

Chewget ,

Gotta make it an even 100. Two for each state o_0

Furbag ,

Uncle Tom’s Courtroom.

ALoafOfBread ,

Wait so all the justices recieved $3M in gifts, and $2.4M of that was to Thomas? That’s like 80% of the gifts.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

That he’s reported. Who knows what else isn’t on the radar yet, because that corrupt fucker keeps “misremembering” to report gifts like private school tuition, RV loans that get forgiven, and several vacations a year.

profdc9 ,

Maybe a better approach would be to distribute the gifts equally amongst the justices. That way they could all graft equally. Equal graft under the law!

ALoafOfBread ,

From each according to their corruption, to each according to their greed

chrishazfun ,

Guys a sellout and not even a good one.

awesome_lowlander ,

I’m mostly just annoyed that democracy was sold that cheaply.

WhyDoYouPersist ,

Every single time dude. Every time I see what a politician was paid to worsen their constituents’ lives, the dollar amount tied to it is just never that remarkable, especially in the context of a world where Elon Musk gets a $56bn pay package for nothing in return.

werefreeatlast ,

Cheaply? There aren’t enough guys going to home Depot and not enough lube for me to earn that much over 3 lifetimes if that’s all I did.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Obvious corruption.

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