No surprise - Clarence Thomas is completely corrupt

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Anonymous wrote:Harlan Crow paid private school tuition for Clarence Thomas’s kid.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus

Oh Clarence, what have you done?

He devoted time and attention to his great nephew.
You have an issue with that?

STATEMENT OF MARK PAOLETTA, FRIEND OF JUSTICE THOMAS

The Thomases have rarely spoken publicly about the remarkably generous efforts to help a child in need. They have always respected the privacy of this young man and his family. It is disappointing and painful, but unsurprising that some journalists and critics cannot do the same.

The Thomases—quietly and honorably—devoted twelve years of their lives to helping a beloved child in desperate need of love, support, and guidance. In 1997, Justice Thomas and his wife brought their great nephew to live with them. They agreed to take in this young child much as Justice Thomas’s grandparents had done for him and his brother in 1955. Justice Thomas’s grandparents changed the trajectory of his life, and the Thomases hoped to do the same for a child in need.

Justice Thomas and his wife made immeasurable personal and financial sacrifices and poured every ounce of their lives and hearts into giving their great nephew a chance to succeed. In the summer of 2006, the Thomases were struggling to find a school where they could send their great nephew. In discussing these challenges with their dear friends, Harlan and Kathy Crow, Harlan recommended that the Thomases consider one more option: sending their great nephew to Randolph Macon Academy. Harlan had attended Randolph Macon, and he thought the school would be a good fit.

Harlan had financially supported Randolph Macon since the 1980s, and funded scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Harlan offered to pay the first year of Justice Thomas’s great nephew’s tuition in 2006, and that payment went directly to the school. Harlan Crow’s Office confirmed that he did not pay the great nephew’s tuition for any other year at Randolph Macon.

After some time, Randolph Macon recommended the great nephew attend a boarding school in Georgia for one year. Harlan offered to pay the first year of tuition for their great nephew at the Georgia school, and again, those tuition payments went directly to the school.

By the next school year (2009), the Thomases’ great nephew returned to Randolph Macon. He moved back to Savannah in December 2009, after he turned 18. The Thomases love their great nephew. It is despicable that the press has dragged him into their effort to smear Justice Thomas.

This story is another attempt to manufacture a scandal about Justice Thomas. But let’s be clear about what is supposedly scandalous now: Justice Thomas and his wife devoted twelve years of their lives to taking in and caring for a beloved child—who was not their own—just as Justice Thomas’s grandparents had done for him. They made many personal and financial sacrifices to do this. And along the way, their friends joined them in doing everything possible to give this child a future.

Harlan Crow’s tuition payments made directly to these schools on behalf of Justice Thomas’s great nephew did not constitute a reportable gift. Justice Thomas was not required to disclose the tuition payments made directly to Randolph Macon and the Georgia school on behalf of his great nephew because the definition of a “dependent child” under the Ethics in Government Act (5 U.S.C. 13101 (2)) does not include a “great nephew.” It is limited to a “son, daughter, stepson or stepdaughter.” Justice Thomas never asked Harlan Crow to pay for his great nephew’s tuition. And neither Harlan Crow, nor his company, had any business before the Supreme Court.

This malicious story shows nothing except for the fact that the Thomases and the Crows are kind, generous, and loving people who tried to help this young man.

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The Thomases were the ones who wanted to send this child to a private school. The child wasn’t independently wealthy, so the Thomases would have been the ones to pay for his education. Crow paid for the tuition for two different years of the child’s education. Sure, the child benefited from the education, but it was the Thomases who benefited from the financial gift. Money is fungible; it doesn’t matter that Crow payed it directly to the schools because it wasn’t for the schools’ benefit. It was for the benefit of the Thomases. The fact that the child wasn’t considered a “dependent” for the purposes of reporting gifts is a red herring. Thomas is supposed to disclose gifts that he receives.

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Ironic that Thomas is about to rule against Biden's student loan forgiveness program.

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Anonymous wrote:Ironic that Thomas is about to rule against Biden's student loan forgiveness program.

All those stupid people who took out loans should have just had their billionaire “friend” pay tuition for them.

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Did Clarence and Ginni ever claim this child who lived with them for 13+ years as a dependent?

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I think even Scalia would be for impeachment of this criminal.

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Anonymous wrote:Did Clarence and Ginni ever claim this child who lived with them for 13+ years as a dependent?

I assume this isn't one of those Ted Nugent deals where you pretend to be a parent so you can do sex stuff with the minor; but it would be irresponsible not to ask the question. Why hasn't Clarence denied it???

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Dems just keep screwing up. Anyone with half a brain knows that the digging into the Thomases personal affairs is because Democrats desperately want another seat on SCOTUS. No one is fooled by this grandstanding and false piety. I have no doubt Thomas has taken advantage of his position, as many justices before him have, and as many justices and judges all over America are doing right. Unless Democrats intend to fully investigate every sitting justice, including democratic justices, this is a politically-motivated witch hunt and it will backfire. The fact that I am turned off as a Democrat who can’t stand Thomas tells you something. This is opening the door to using witch hunts of sitting supreme court justices as a score-settling measure between the parties. The country is wracked by partisanship enough as it is. Give it a freaking rest.

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Anonymous wrote:Dems just keep screwing up. Anyone with half a brain knows that the digging into the Thomases personal affairs is because Democrats desperately want another seat on SCOTUS. No one is fooled by this grandstanding and false piety. I have no doubt Thomas has taken advantage of his position, as many justices before him have, and as many justices and judges all over America are doing right. Unless Democrats intend to fully investigate every sitting justice, including democratic justices, this is a politically-motivated witch hunt and it will backfire. The fact that I am turned off as a Democrat who can’t stand Thomas tells you something. This is opening the door to using witch hunts of sitting supreme court justices as a score-settling measure between the parties. The country is wracked by partisanship enough as it is. Give it a freaking rest.

Lol it’s the “I’m a Democrat” gaslighter.

Why can you just leave the corrupt SC alone? Everyone does it!

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Anonymous wrote:Dems just keep screwing up. Anyone with half a brain knows that the digging into the Thomases personal affairs is because Democrats desperately want another seat on SCOTUS. No one is fooled by this grandstanding and false piety. I have no doubt Thomas has taken advantage of his position, as many justices before him have, and as many justices and judges all over America are doing right. Unless Democrats intend to fully investigate every sitting justice, including democratic justices, this is a politically-motivated witch hunt and it will backfire. The fact that I am turned off as a Democrat who can’t stand Thomas tells you something. This is opening the door to using witch hunts of sitting supreme court justices as a score-settling measure between the parties. The country is wracked by partisanship enough as it is. Give it a freaking rest.

I don't believe you're a democrat who dislikes Thomas. I'm shocked that you think it's okay to do these things. I believe there should be an actual code of ethics they must follow rather than norms. I also believe all the justices should be checked out. If they're all doing this stuff, let's put a stop to it and make some actual rules with actual consequences. If it's a one side issue, that's legit corruption, and I feel like that should be handled differently, but I don't know how. If it's Thomas only, I think he should step down or be removed. I don't see how anyone can look at this and say honestly that they think this is fair and should be condoned.

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Anonymous wrote:Dems just keep screwing up. Anyone with half a brain knows that the digging into the Thomases personal affairs is because Democrats desperately want another seat on SCOTUS. No one is fooled by this grandstanding and false piety. I have no doubt Thomas has taken advantage of his position, as many justices before him have, and as many justices and judges all over America are doing right. Unless Democrats intend to fully investigate every sitting justice, including democratic justices, this is a politically-motivated witch hunt and it will backfire. The fact that I am turned off as a Democrat who can’t stand Thomas tells you something. This is opening the door to using witch hunts of sitting supreme court justices as a score-settling measure between the parties. The country is wracked by partisanship enough as it is. Give it a freaking rest.

I don't believe you're a democrat who dislikes Thomas. I'm shocked that you think it's okay to do these things. I believe there should be an actual code of ethics they must follow rather than norms. I also believe all the justices should be checked out. If they're all doing this stuff, let's put a stop to it and make some actual rules with actual consequences. If it's a one side issue, that's legit corruption, and I feel like that should be handled differently, but I don't know how. If it's Thomas only, I think he should step down or be removed. I don't see how anyone can look at this and say honestly that they think this is fair and should be condoned.

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Anonymous wrote:Dems just keep screwing up. Anyone with half a brain knows that the digging into the Thomases personal affairs is because Democrats desperately want another seat on SCOTUS. No one is fooled by this grandstanding and false piety. I have no doubt Thomas has taken advantage of his position, as many justices before him have, and as many justices and judges all over America are doing right. Unless Democrats intend to fully investigate every sitting justice, including democratic justices, this is a politically-motivated witch hunt and it will backfire. The fact that I am turned off as a Democrat who can’t stand Thomas tells you something. This is opening the door to using witch hunts of sitting supreme court justices as a score-settling measure between the parties. The country is wracked by partisanship enough as it is. Give it a freaking rest.

Lol it’s the “I’m a Democrat” gaslighter.

Why can you just leave the corrupt SC alone? Everyone does it!

Heaven help us. This is kind of knuckle dragging response that Democrats produce nowadays. We’re supposed to be the smart people, the clear thinkers, the people who can see the forest beyond the trees.

Have you clerked?

I have!

I clerked for two federal judges in major jurisdictions — both Democratic appointees. During my three year is clerking, I saw lots of goings on among judges on the district and COA level that anyone could make something of if they felt like being spiteful. You have no freaking clue. And everyone I’m talking about is a Dem.

You are completely batshit if you think any justice can go through the kind of scrutiny we are putting Thomas through right now and come out clean. The ethics rules are very subjective, very vague, poorly enforced, and intentionally so because the idea is to give justices latitude in the conduct of their affairs.

You might not like that, but using them as a pretext for this witch hunt is going to blow back on us. When right wing nut jobs turn the same scrutiny on our justices AND our federal judges it’s going to be a bloodbath. They’re combing financials right now and already making noises about Sotomayor. At some point, a republican will return to the presidency and then you’ll see. Our base isn’t going to shrug and the heads of good Democratic judges will roll.

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Anonymous wrote:Dems just keep screwing up. Anyone with half a brain knows that the digging into the Thomases personal affairs is because Democrats desperately want another seat on SCOTUS. No one is fooled by this grandstanding and false piety. I have no doubt Thomas has taken advantage of his position, as many justices before him have, and as many justices and judges all over America are doing right. Unless Democrats intend to fully investigate every sitting justice, including democratic justices, this is a politically-motivated witch hunt and it will backfire. The fact that I am turned off as a Democrat who can’t stand Thomas tells you something. This is opening the door to using witch hunts of sitting supreme court justices as a score-settling measure between the parties. The country is wracked by partisanship enough as it is. Give it a freaking rest.

As a middle of the road member of the Proud Boys and Kari Lake supporter, I think Thomas is obviously corrupt and should resign in disgrace.

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You get extra scrutiny when your wife has cozied up to people who plotted to overturn a presidential election. Thomas should keep better company or have a lower profile position if he doesn’t like scrutiny.

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Anonymous wrote:You get extra scrutiny when your wife has cozied up to people who plotted to overturn a presidential election. Thomas should keep better company or have a lower profile position if he doesn’t like scrutiny.

He’s not resigning, but the democratic justices who get exposed might be a different story. We’ll see when Kagan’s entanglements come out. Make sure to come out swinging against her too.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dems just keep screwing up. Anyone with half a brain knows that the digging into the Thomases personal affairs is because Democrats desperately want another seat on SCOTUS. No one is fooled by this grandstanding and false piety. I have no doubt Thomas has taken advantage of his position, as many justices before him have, and as many justices and judges all over America are doing right. Unless Democrats intend to fully investigate every sitting justice, including democratic justices, this is a politically-motivated witch hunt and it will backfire. The fact that I am turned off as a Democrat who can’t stand Thomas tells you something. This is opening the door to using witch hunts of sitting supreme court justices as a score-settling measure between the parties. The country is wracked by partisanship enough as it is. Give it a freaking rest.

As a middle of the road member of the Proud Boys and Kari Lake supporter, I think Thomas is obviously corrupt and should resign in disgrace.

And?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dems just keep screwing up. Anyone with half a brain knows that the digging into the Thomases personal affairs is because Democrats desperately want another seat on SCOTUS. No one is fooled by this grandstanding and false piety. I have no doubt Thomas has taken advantage of his position, as many justices before him have, and as many justices and judges all over America are doing right. Unless Democrats intend to fully investigate every sitting justice, including democratic justices, this is a politically-motivated witch hunt and it will backfire. The fact that I am turned off as a Democrat who can’t stand Thomas tells you something. This is opening the door to using witch hunts of sitting supreme court justices as a score-settling measure between the parties. The country is wracked by partisanship enough as it is. Give it a freaking rest.

I don't believe you're a democrat who dislikes Thomas. I'm shocked that you think it's okay to do these things. I believe there should be an actual code of ethics they must follow rather than norms. I also believe all the justices should be checked out. If they're all doing this stuff, let's put a stop to it and make some actual rules with actual consequences. If it's a one side issue, that's legit corruption, and I feel like that should be handled differently, but I don't know how. If it's Thomas only, I think he should step down or be removed. I don't see how anyone can look at this and say honestly that they think this is fair and should be condoned.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dems just keep screwing up. Anyone with half a brain knows that the digging into the Thomases personal affairs is because Democrats desperately want another seat on SCOTUS. No one is fooled by this grandstanding and false piety. I have no doubt Thomas has taken advantage of his position, as many justices before him have, and as many justices and judges all over America are doing right. Unless Democrats intend to fully investigate every sitting justice, including democratic justices, this is a politically-motivated witch hunt and it will backfire. The fact that I am turned off as a Democrat who can’t stand Thomas tells you something. This is opening the door to using witch hunts of sitting supreme court justices as a score-settling measure between the parties. The country is wracked by partisanship enough as it is. Give it a freaking rest.

Lol it’s the “I’m a Democrat” gaslighter.

Why can you just leave the corrupt SC alone? Everyone does it!

Heaven help us. This is kind of knuckle dragging response that Democrats produce nowadays. We’re supposed to be the smart people, the clear thinkers, the people who can see the forest beyond the trees.

Have you clerked?

I have!

I clerked for two federal judges in major jurisdictions — both Democratic appointees. During my three year is clerking, I saw lots of goings on among judges on the district and COA level that anyone could make something of if they felt like being spiteful. You have no freaking clue. And everyone I’m talking about is a Dem.

You are completely batshit if you think any justice can go through the kind of scrutiny we are putting Thomas through right now and come out clean. The ethics rules are very subjective, very vague, poorly enforced, and intentionally so because the idea is to give justices latitude in the conduct of their affairs.

You might not like that, but using them as a pretext for this witch hunt is going to blow back on us. When right wing nut jobs turn the same scrutiny on our justices AND our federal judges it’s going to be a bloodbath. They’re combing financials right now and already making noises about Sotomayor. At some point, a republican will return to the presidency and then you’ll see. Our base isn’t going to shrug and the heads of good Democratic judges will roll.

When the SCOTUS is held to significantly less scrutiny than minor locally appointed officials, it is a serious problem.