Anonymous
Anonymous
07/14/2023 14:34
Subject: Re:Omnibus Corrupt SCOTUS Thread
Anonymous wrote:From a sitting U.S. District Court Judge:
“All my judicial colleagues, whoever has appointed them, run into situations like these regularly, and I expect they have responded in just the same way. You don’t just stay inside the lines; you stay well inside the lines. This is not a matter of politics or judicial philosophy. It is ethics in the trenches.
The recent descriptions of the behavior of some of our justices and particularly their attempts to defend their conduct have not just raised my eyebrows; they’ve raised the whole top of my head. Lavish, no-cost vacations? Hypertechnical arguments about how a free private airplane flight is a kind of facility? A justice’s spouse prominently involved in advocating on issues before the court without the justice’s recusal? Repeated omissions in mandatory financial disclosure statements brushed under the rug as inadvertent? A justice’s taxpayer-financed staff reportedly helping to promote her books? Private school tuition for a justice’s family member covered by a wealthy benefactor? Wow.”
I’m glad someone also on the bench is calling out this corrupt trash.
Anonymous
07/14/2023 14:29
Subject: Re:Omnibus Corrupt SCOTUS Thread
From a sitting U.S. District Court Judge:
“All my judicial colleagues, whoever has appointed them, run into situations like these regularly, and I expect they have responded in just the same way. You don’t just stay inside the lines; you stay well inside the lines. This is not a matter of politics or judicial philosophy. It is ethics in the trenches.
The recent descriptions of the behavior of some of our justices and particularly their attempts to defend their conduct have not just raised my eyebrows; they’ve raised the whole top of my head. Lavish, no-cost vacations? Hypertechnical arguments about how a free private airplane flight is a kind of facility? A justice’s spouse prominently involved in advocating on issues before the court without the justice’s recusal? Repeated omissions in mandatory financial disclosure statements brushed under the rug as inadvertent? A justice’s taxpayer-financed staff reportedly helping to promote her books? Private school tuition for a justice’s family member covered by a wealthy benefactor? Wow.”
“All my judicial colleagues, whoever has appointed them, run into situations like these regularly, and I expect they have responded in just the same way. You don’t just stay inside the lines; you stay well inside the lines. This is not a matter of politics or judicial philosophy. It is ethics in the trenches.
The recent descriptions of the behavior of some of our justices and particularly their attempts to defend their conduct have not just raised my eyebrows; they’ve raised the whole top of my head. Lavish, no-cost vacations? Hypertechnical arguments about how a free private airplane flight is a kind of facility? A justice’s spouse prominently involved in advocating on issues before the court without the justice’s recusal? Repeated omissions in mandatory financial disclosure statements brushed under the rug as inadvertent? A justice’s taxpayer-financed staff reportedly helping to promote her books? Private school tuition for a justice’s family member covered by a wealthy benefactor? Wow.”
Anonymous
07/14/2023 08:02
Subject: Omnibus Corrupt SCOTUS Thread
Anonymous wrote:Maybe we should increase their pay so they can be wealthy doing their regular job instead of having to add part time corruption to fit in with their peers.
Maybe we should fire corrupt people.
Anonymous
07/14/2023 07:05
Subject: Omnibus Corrupt SCOTUS Thread
Maybe we should increase their pay so they can be wealthy doing their regular job instead of having to add part time corruption to fit in with their peers.
Anonymous
07/13/2023 21:36
Subject: Omnibus Corrupt SCOTUS Thread
Anonymous wrote:Chris van Hollen is serious about this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/13/senate-appropriators-debate-supreme-court-ethics-proposal/
Is that enough to make them do something or would they just suspend paying clerks and custodians.
Anonymous
07/13/2023 20:11
Subject: Omnibus Corrupt SCOTUS Thread
Chris van Hollen is serious about this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/13/senate-appropriators-debate-supreme-court-ethics-proposal/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/13/senate-appropriators-debate-supreme-court-ethics-proposal/
Anonymous
07/12/2023 21:15
Subject: Omnibus Corrupt SCOTUS Thread
Seriously, not a single Republican has anything to say about a Thomas clerk just getting Venmo payments from people with business in the court? Nothing?
Anonymous
07/12/2023 17:31
Subject: Re:Omnibus Corrupt SCOTUS Thread
Anonymous wrote:The Venmo payments are wild! Imagine all the grift we don’t know about?
The conservatives on the court are very annoyed that people keep digging. And will keep digging.
Anonymous
07/12/2023 17:22
Subject: Re:Omnibus Corrupt SCOTUS Thread
The Venmo payments are wild! Imagine all the grift we don’t know about?
Anonymous
07/12/2023 16:58
Subject: Re:Omnibus Corrupt SCOTUS Thread
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:“Several lawyers who have had business before the supreme court, including one who successfully argued to end race-conscious admissions at universities, paid money to a top aide to Justice Clarence Thomas, according to the aide’s Venmo transactions.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/clarence-thomas-aide-venmo-payments-lawyers-supreme-court
So Clarence was just raking in money via his clerks?
I remember a time when I thought Republicans were decent people.
1978 was a long time ago.
Yes, yes it was.
How much money has Clarence received in pay outs?
Anonymous
07/12/2023 15:32
Subject: Re:Omnibus Corrupt SCOTUS Thread
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:“Several lawyers who have had business before the supreme court, including one who successfully argued to end race-conscious admissions at universities, paid money to a top aide to Justice Clarence Thomas, according to the aide’s Venmo transactions.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/clarence-thomas-aide-venmo-payments-lawyers-supreme-court
So Clarence was just raking in money via his clerks?
I remember a time when I thought Republicans were decent people.
1978 was a long time ago.