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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in 2018 took a trip to Israel compliments of billionaire Morris Kahn, who had business before the court just a year earlier.“

Retired Justice Stephen Breyer, took at least 225 subsidized trips between 2004 and 2016. They include a 2013 trip to the exclusive island of Nantucket compliments of private-equity billionaire David Rubenstein, Gabe Roth, executive director of the group Fix the Court, reported.

There were 1,309 trips Supreme Court justices took compliments of others between 2004 and 2019, according to a list compiled by the watchdog group Open Secrets. That’s nine trips per justice, per year, and it’s unlikely they stayed at the Holiday Inn on most of them.”

And those are just the ones that justices have disclosed. It’s unclear how many — like decades of Thomas’ travels — have been unreported, or whether the justices will suffer any consequences for not reporting them.”

—Ohio Capital Journal

Looks like it’s endemic.  New laws?[/quote]
YES NEW LAWS. Why are Republicans so stupid that they don’t get that that’s what we want, we want money out of politics!! John Roberts, he of citizens united infamy, has no problem with money in politics. Republicans don’t either, evidently, as evidenced by the Wall Street Journal op ed that tries and fails to claim that sane people have a problem with the regressive court members’ corruption because of “sour grapes” rather than a desire to not live in a banana republic.

I’d be curious if your weirdly lopsided (really, dude? She’s dead. Not a super relevant example) example’s Open Secrets source breaks it down. “Nine trips per justice” sounds like a right wing rewording to avoid the fact that Alito and Thomas probably took the lion’s share of trips and probably more political and fun trips whereas the liberal justices probably took more educational/teaching trips. [/quote]

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