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Even if Crow funneled this money to Thomas purely out of friendship, it's simultaneously outrageous and completed expected that Thomas is involved in this situation.

Here is how this will play out.

  • Thomas will submit amended financial reports. If he does this, you know Roberts somehow made him do it.
  • maybe, maybe have some level of public rebuke from Roberts.

Roberts will make some comment in the somewhat near future that the judicial branch must err of the side of caution in reporting financial transaction to maintain public trust. But he won't mention Thomas specifically in that remark.

On top of it, this situation and experience could very well make Thomas go even further in wanting to destroy more American freedoms.

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  On 4/14/2023 at 12:45 PM, ChiTownDoc said:

I mean going back to what the founding fathers put together.  Many of the concepts and definitively the terms you listed didn’t exist back then.  This one they should have seen coming as a potential disaster.  
 

‘The Judiciary Act of 1789 is passed by Congress and signed by President George Washington, establishing the Supreme Court of the United States as a tribunal made up of six justices who were to serve on the court until death or retirement.’

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Fair.   

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What is amazing to me is we are still talking about disclosure rather than ethics of act itself. Sure, Thomas not disclosing it is a red flag he knew how unethical it was. But disclosing it doesn’t cure the problem.

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Another thing about Thomas to remember: when he received criticism for accepting gifts about 20 years ago, he STOPPED publicly reporting all gifts. We have no idea that this scandal stops with the Harlan Crow money and gifts. And does anyone not believe that plenty of money has been (legally?) funneled to Thomas via his wife's political activities?

 

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  On 4/14/2023 at 1:05 AM, jimmyjazz said:

Some might ask why a billionaire real estate mogul might want scrap property worth roughly their low-risk investment gains PER DAY.  I'm pretty sure Crow is way past the "buying up low income rental property" stage of his career.

This is so fucking obvious.

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Nothing screams interest in residential property in a black neighborhood like billionaire real estate mogul.

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  On 4/14/2023 at 7:24 PM, Captainant said:
[twice]yeah but since thomas didn't explicitly say he was giving judgements in exchange for gifts, there's absolutely nothing we can do about it because the judiciary is without fault[/horn]

Do you think that statement (the first part) is incorrect?
Fuck, the courts have backed up that politicians can profit from their positions as long as they don’t exchange “official acts” for compensation. (See Governor McDonnell.). Acknowledging the fucked up system is a necessary precursor to changing it.
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  On 4/14/2023 at 7:56 PM, wildcat09 said:

 

 

It's just an administrative stay, but I'm sure Alito hated doing this. 

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I’m sure he did, too, but that underlying ruling is a huge huge mess. I don’t see how there are more votes than just Alito and Thomas on the standing issue alone. 

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  On 4/10/2023 at 3:17 PM, YChang said:

Mmmm… I dunno, rich people collection by nature are different than normal people collections. I’m sure there’s a certain amount of, prestige among his buddies that he paid $$$ for a signed copy of the book. 

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That's because his buddies are also grade-A shitheads.

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I'm just a simple man.

So, help me understand here; why would you claim income from a firm over the past two decades that has been defunct for [checks notes] since 2006?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/16/clarence-thomas-ginger-financial-disclosure/

 

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Over the last two decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has reported on required financial disclosure forms that his family received rental income totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a firm called Ginger, Ltd., Partnership.

But that company — a Nebraska real estate firm launched in the 1980s by his wife and her relatives — has not existed since 2006.

That year, the family real estate company was shut down and a separate firm was created, state incorporation records show. The similarly named firm assumed control of the shuttered company’s land leasing business, according to property records.

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Since that time, however, Thomas has continued to report income from the defunct company — between $50,000 and $100,000 annually in recent years — and there is no mention of the newer firm, Ginger Holdings, LLC, on the forms.

The previously unreported misstatement might be dismissed as a paperwork error. But it is among a series of errors and omissions that Thomas has made on required annual financial disclosure forms over the past several decades, a review of those records shows. Together, they have raised questions about how seriously Thomas views his responsibility to accurately report details about his finances to the public.

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Thomas’s disclosure history is in the spotlight after ProPublica revealed this month that a Texas billionaire took him on lavish vacations and also bought from Thomas and his relatives a Georgia home where his mother lives, a transaction that was not disclosed on the forms. Thomas said in a statement that colleagues he did not name told him he did not have to report the vacations and that he has always tried to comply with disclosure guidelines. He has not publicly addressed the property transaction.

In 2011, after the watchdog group Common Cause raised red flags, Thomas updated years of his financial disclosure reports to include employment details for his wife, conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas. The justice said at the time that he had not understood the filing instructions. In 2020, he was forced to revise his disclosure forms after a different watchdog group found he had failed to report reimbursements for trips to speak at two law schools.

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  On 4/16/2023 at 3:37 PM, jimmyjazz said:

Similar names.  I'm not saying it's not sketchy but it could just be a dumb error.

Nah.

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Agree. Thomas from all appearances takes offense that he is expected to file disclosure statements and this could be a clerical error. Still I would question how these real estate firm is making income. Is Harlan Crow renting their buildings at 5x market value?

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All 3 branches are bought and paid for, no shame, no morality. Does anyone think this will change? I don't they are all on $$ tit

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  On 4/17/2023 at 6:55 PM, Smax said:

All 3 branches are bought and paid for, no shame, no morality. Does anyone think this will change? I don't they are all on $$ tit

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I'd be pretty surprised if any of Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, or Ketanji Brown Jackson were secretly in a billionaire's pocket.

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  On 4/17/2023 at 8:24 PM, wildcat09 said:
I'd be pretty surprised if any of Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, or Ketanji Brown Jackson were secretly in a billionaire's pocket.
Maybe maybe not but I asked up thread about Thomas's comment about consulting colleagues about the gifts and trips and was advised it was ok not to report. Where these colleagues other scjs? Maybe
We don't see any of the names you listed speaking out about any of this have we? I view that as being complicit, similar to how good cops don't speak up about dirty cops
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  On 4/17/2023 at 9:19 PM, Smax said:

Maybe maybe not but I asked up thread about Thomas's comment about consulting colleagues about the gifts and trips and was advised it was ok not to report. Where these colleagues other scjs? Maybe
We don't see any of the names you listed speaking out about any of this have we? I view that as being complicit, similar to how good cops don't speak up about dirty cops

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Maybe pigs fly, Jesus. 

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  On 4/17/2023 at 9:19 PM, Smax said:

Maybe maybe not but I asked up thread about Thomas's comment about consulting colleagues about the gifts and trips and was advised it was ok not to report. Where these colleagues other scjs? Maybe
We don't see any of the names you listed speaking out about any of this have we? I view that as being complicit, similar to how good cops don't speak up about dirty cops

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Sure Jan GIF

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  On 4/17/2023 at 9:19 PM, Smax said:

Maybe maybe not but I asked up thread about Thomas's comment about consulting colleagues about the gifts and trips and was advised it was ok not to report. Where these colleagues other scjs? Maybe
We don't see any of the names you listed speaking out about any of this have we? I view that as being complicit, similar to how good cops don't speak up about dirty cops

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It was almost certainly Scalia and possibly Rehnquist too.

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Your periodic reminder that John Roberts is also a huge piece of shit:

 

Because it's totally cool and normal to cherry-pick a few of the less obviously threatening messages out of thousands to make fun of a stalking victim for being too sensitive.

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  On 4/10/2023 at 3:14 PM, Brisketexan said:

Yes….IF I OR SOMEONE IN MY FAMILY CAPTURED IT. A war trophy is really freaking different than buying it as a “collectible.” Fuck buying any evil Hitler shit.
Seriously, what kind of shit human do you have to be when you have the kind of money that will fund college tuition for an entire urban school district, and you instead use it to buy Nazi artifacts that you keep in your study and show-off to other rich people?
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  On 4/22/2023 at 3:46 PM, tchookem said:

Seriously, what kind of shit human do you have to be when you have the kind of money that will fund college tuition for an entire urban school district, and you instead use it to buy Nazi artifacts that you keep in your study and show-off to other rich people?

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A Republican?

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