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.
Is there no consequence for this? Wtf are we just letting this slide for? America is so fucked.
Who’s gonna prosecute him? He’s can appeal up to the highest court and then exonerate himself together with his buddies.
The American people, at least that’s what the Founding Fathers would have said.
The founding Fathers likely couldn’t imagine a Congress that wouldn’t impeach a Supreme Court Justice for such flagrant self-enrichment. But they were thinking about Congress as a more ideological body rather than a political entity. They couldn’t imagine Justices being aligned with political bodies; that was part of the idea of a lifetime appointment. Put someone in a job for life and they should be immune from partisan political bullshit from the outside.
They couldn’t envision justices who would trade everything for a lifetime appointment to support their preferred political flavor.
IMO, the solution is to let every President nominate a new SC justice, and retire the oldest one every election.
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.
