Clarence Thomas threatened to quit SCOTUS unless he could get rich, so Republican politicians arranged for billionaires to start inundating him with money and gifts in exchange for his continued service. He gladly accepted the trade-off. www.propublica.org/article/clar...
Interviews and newly unearthed documents reveal that Thomas, facing financial strain, privately pushed for a higher salary and to allow Supreme Court justices to take speaking fees.
This feels like a very specific story to disprove my conjecture thomas believes its not bribery because he would strip peoples rights away for free
calling wealthy liberals: surely, one of you can find Ohtani money to get this guy into the private sector before November…
"If you don't find some way to pay me, I'll give Clinton a SCOTUS pick..."
If he'd only not bought that iPhone (perhaps that should be Ericsson or Nokia), and perhaps laid off those lattes, he wouldn't have been poor in the first place!
If you're short of money, aren't you just supposed to stop eating avocado toast or something?
Same Justice who voted against student debt cancellation. The hypocrisy is stunning.
Propublica has some wild sourcing. This is insane
Thomas clearly realized that if he cut out the daily Starbucks and avocado toast, he could live quite comfortably on a Supreme Court salary. Nothing else to see here.
The party that denies climate change and reproductive choices and loves authoritarians has had a permanent lock on one of our three branches of government since 1970. Why there's not more impetus to change this is befuddling.
Is this RICO? @kenwhite.bsky.social