The Supreme Court justice used wealthy connections through the Horatio Alger Association, a scholarship organization, to benefit himself and his wife.
I wish I was surprised. What a sham court
And we’re stuck with it for the foreseeable future.
I remember learning in high school about the corruption under Herbert Hoover’s administration and the entire federal government at the time. They made it out to seem like those days are behind us. The curriculum needs updating because those days never ended.
Must be nice to be openly corrupt and not have any consequences.
I know right. It’s like the meme of “nothing ever happens” but for real. People get fired for having weed in their piss and this dude is manipulating a whole country based on who gives him the most money
Guy from the Navy came for a demonstration and he wouldn’t let us buy him a McDonald’s cheeseburger.
Meanwhile at work I can’t take a gift over five dollars and if I get like a box of chocolate I leave it in the break room.
Amazing how much integrity you must show is inverse to the amount of damages not showing it will cause.
An oft-repeated admonition in legal circles is that lawyers should avoid even so much as the appearance of impropriety. And that’s before taking the bench. Any suggestion that any of this was done unknowingly is preposterous.
I mean I assumed what we found out wasn’t the end of his corruption and I assume this isn’t either. I don’t trust him so I’ll never know. He needs to be impeached.
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Is there a legislative mechanism or body that has the power to investigate the SCOTUS? Or are they beyond punitive measures? Honestly asking for an experts opinion here
Since the Supreme Court is at the top of their branch of the government, it would have to be another branch, either legislative or executive.
The US congress has the power to impeach (i.e. charge with a crime / misdemeanor / transgression) a justice, and send that case to the senate for a trial.
Unfortunately, the US congress is Republican-controlled, so you’d have to convince a very significant fraction of the Republicans to vote to investigate and charge the guy whose corruption is leading to so many wins for their side.
The other option is a criminal investigation by the FBI, which is part of the executive branch. But, that would require that what Thomas did violated federal laws. I doubt he actually broke bribery laws, or would be stupid enough to break them while he suspected he might be under a federal investigation.
If only the founding fathers had any background in game theory. This system of “checks and balances” only works when the majority of the people involved have noble, self-sacrificing ideals.
More reasons we need to end lobbying and update disclosure rules to include anything they didn’t buy themselves.
If Biden wanted an excuse to stack the court then this is it.
Are they corrupt? Absolutely. Will anything happen to them? Absolutely not. The shit these people get away with would put your average joe in prison for 10,000 years if not just straight up hung.
yeah bruh the repub sc is illegitimate and openly corrupt. fuck ‘em.
These “justices” are a national disgrace and make a mockery of our justice system. They must be impeached and removed and ethics and honor restored. (This requires a 2/3 vote in the Senate which is unlikely to happen since many senators are equally corrupt and need to be removed as well.)
At this point just investigate the entire SCOTUS and let the cards fall where they may. If all need removed when the dust settles, so be it.
Shocking. Just absolutely shocking!
/s in case that needs to be stated.
These guys have no shame.
They can’t even spell shame. As soon as they get to S-H- they go I-T-Y-E-A-H-I-L-L-T-A-K-E-T-H-E-M-O-N-E-Y-F-U-C-K-E-M!!!
