$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!
If all someone’s decisions are obviously best for the least amongst us, I might be okay with whatever (disclosed!) gifts
Is there no consequence for this? Wtf are we just letting this slide for? America is so fucked.
This is how it always been, internet made it impossible to hide.
The people in power don't even really care, what about overworked and underpaid wage slaves going to do about it?
Make a shit post, maybe do a protest then lay down and take it anyway?
Asking for a friend.
The ruling class of the United States has always been like this. This is a country founded by and for slaveowners that gladly governed in their own favor.
Who’s gonna prosecute him? He’s can appeal up to the highest court and then exonerate himself together with his buddies.
If the system was working as it should congress can impeach him. But that's not going to happen we know that he knows that.
I also think that he is using this GOP congressional firewall to keep doing it because why not?
And I'm glad I don't live there
Much like the Mullahs of Iran, the Mullahs of America can do whatever they want and you have to do what they say.
funny how America mocks Iran's undemocratic clown house but we have too worship this shit at home...
the sad part is that the NPC culture accepted it, everyone is for it as along as it is "their" team who gets to make shots
we got what we deserves really at this point. sucks to suck.
That is not that much money to sell out the American people
Those are just the "gifts" we know about. There have probably been dozens of envelopes full of cash or gold coins as well.
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.
This is how the American system works. He's just not being classy about it.
Congressmembers do insider trading all the time and move into industry positions after they leave, having helped those exact industries (following the requests of their lobbyists). Congressmembers go straight to the top of boards for weapons manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, etc.
Regulators and other officials do the same thing. They cycle back and forth between the industries they're supposed to reign in and supposedly the job where they do reign them in. Work for the FCC -> work for a telecom -> FCC -> telecom.
In terms of the Supreme Court itself, it is an illegitimate body that has legitimacy only because the other two branches give it to them. Their major powers are not in the constitution and they have very few rules to follow.
You are right that gaining power to establish justice is what really matters, not "the rules" (which are always selectively applied). But it really depends on what you mean by the "good guys". If you mean Democrats, unfortunately they are also deeply embedded in this system and are not champions against it. They maintain power through the same kinds of industry connections and exit strategies and insider training. Their electoral apparatus is built on getting donations from companies and their executives so that they can buy ads and canvassers and phone bankers and data nerds to reach out and drive likely voters to turn out for them.
I've been in high-ish level Dem offices on various occasions. They put a lot of effort into shmoozing with donors and doing everything they can to get more money from likely donors. Big and small, though big get the most attention. The idea of building their base of power from the action of motivated grassroots individuals is rejected. And that's the only real base of power that is likely to reflect justice.
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.
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.
I'm mostly just annoyed that democracy was sold that cheaply.
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.
Everyone must know that we are only seeing the tiniest tip of the actual iceberg.
For sure, or he would have taken up John Oliver on his offer.
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.
Obvious corruption.
Straight to jail for corruption
Wait so all the justices recieved $3M in gifts, and $2.4M of that was to Thomas? That's like 80% of the gifts.
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.
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!
appointing like 90 more supreme court justices would make this cost prohibitive
Gotta make it an even 100. Two for each state o_0
You're misspelled BRIBE.
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.
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.
So? It's not like the people who showered Him in gifts have cases in front of the Court!
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.
Wait a second, my friends have never given me anything close to a million dollar gift. What assholes
I wish we had public servants who did their fucking job for their base pay, just like the rest of us do.
Wish I could get two mill to fuck over my employer
Tip of the iceberg.
That's only the starterpack compared to high profile politicians and CEOs.
Nothing wrong with working for the highest pay - just let your employer know who you are really working for.
He didn't even have to hide gold bars in his underwear like Menendez.
This guy doesn't say a word for decades. Now he can't stop being an ass.
Fix the court? The court is fixed!
Uncle Tom's Courtroom.
Annnnnnd the party of law and order will want to do something about this right? RiiiiIiightt?
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