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Clarence Thomas Lord have mercy
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88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
The Scandal of Clarence Thomas’s New Clerk
Crystal Clanton became notorious for sending outlandishly racist texts. Now she’s been hired to work for the Justice—and a dubious new story has surfaced to clear her name.www.newyorker.com
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How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk
Justice Clarence Thomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world.www.nytimes.com
Stepdad of the year
This should be a thread by itself.
sjankis630
Pro
Ya'll need to just stop. I am sure he is on "CP" time and will be in when he Gottdam feels like it......
LeVraiPapi
Redemption is Coming
Maybe you don’t get it. We don’t like that guy around here
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
AI completely screwed that handoff/handshake amalgam up.That said, the fool can not be serious.
ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
Justice Thomas Denounces ‘the Nastiness and the Lies’ Faced by His Family
The statement was among the few public remarks he has made since revelations that he had failed to report lavish gifts and travel from wealthy conservatives.
Justice Thomas Criticizes ‘Nastiness and the Lies’ He Faces
US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decried “the nastiness and the lies” he and his wife Ginni have “had to endure” in recent years.
www.bloomberg.com
He has made himself the poster boy for why permanent positions are a remarkably bad idea, particularly when they are coming from the right.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
You’re right, but there is no one in power that is willing to change things. The system is broken.
ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
Clarence Thomas criticizes Brown v. Board of Education. It comes at an awkward moment — USA TODAY
Justice Clarence Thomas' criticism of a piece of the landmark desegregation decisions came the week after the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
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Thomas has accepted $4M in gifts during career: Watchdog
BY LAUREN IRWIN - 06/06/24 3:17 PM ETSHAREPOST
Supreme Court justices have received nearly $5 million in gifts since the early 2000s, and one justice in particular, Justice Clarence Thomas, accounts for nearly all of it.
Data released Thursday by watchdog group Fix the Court unveils a list of gifts justices have received since January 2004. The dataset was released ahead of an expected release of the justices’ financial disclosure reports Friday.
Thomas, nominated to the high court by former President George H.W. Bush, made headlines last year after an investigation found he had taken dozens of trips paid for by separate billionaire friends.
According to the data compiled by Fix the Court, since 2004, Thomas has accepted $4,042,286, or 193 gifts. The group reported that, for Thomas, there’s an additional 126 “likely but not confirmed gifts.”
Of the nearly 200 gifts, the group said Thomas only reported 27 of the gifts on his financial disclosures.
The dataset included current and former justices dating back to 2004, tallying their gift totals, including Thomas’s, to be about $4.7 million.
“Supreme Court justices should not be accepting gifts, let alone the hundreds of freebies worth millions of dollars they’ve received over the years,” Fix the Court’s Gabe Roth said in a statement. “Public servants who make four times the median local salary, and who can make millions writing books on any topic they like, can afford to pay for their own vacations, vehicles, hunting excursions and club memberships.”
Roth continued, arguing that there is influence in who gives the justices gifts and what they are buying with their “generosity.”
“The ethics crisis at the court won’t begin to abate until justices adopt stricter gift acceptance rules,” he said.
The watchdog group acknowledged that the total gift calculations may be lower than what’s actually true. For example, the group was unable to verify a hunting lodge that Justice Antonin Scalia stayed in, and Scalia, along with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and William Rehnquist, died in office, so the numbers “might be undercounts.”
Scalia received the second-highest total in gifts, with $210,164 from Jan. 2004 to his death in 2016.
The list of gifts comes after Democrats called for Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from cases related to Jan. 6 and former President Trump currently before the court in light of reports that a “Stop the Steal” flag was flown outside his house after the attack on the Capitol.
Last week, Alito rejected the calls to recuse himself in the cases.
Alito received the third-most gifts, with $170,095 from his first day on Jan. 31, 2006, to present day, the data said.
