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.
I wish we had public servants who did their fucking job for their base pay, just like the rest of us do.
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.
Best comment I’ve read this week.