In case you missed it, there was another recent ProPublica story about Clarence Thomas, documenting how he dangled his need for money early in the year 2000, essentially inviting rich benefactors to send him the big bucks or he would resign from the court.
Thomas should resign, of course, though he won't. But there's at least recusal.
As the Trump/Colorado case heads toward SCOTUS, that question comes to a head. A Twitter user named Lindy Li put it this way:
Let me get this straight
Clarence Thomas will get to decide whether his own wife’s cult leader engaged in an insurrection of which his wife was also a conspirator
And for which his own clerk (Eastman) wrote the blueprint
And which his own billionaire donors support?
Ginni Thomas collected $680,000 from ultra right-wing Heritage Foundation for unspecified services
Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo sent her secret cash payments via Kellyanne Conway
Thomas himself got millions in lavish vacations and private jet rides from Crow
SCOTUS is a SCAM.
There's no need to say that Thomas (and almost all Republicans these days) are shameless, but sometimes you just have to put it all in writing and look at it.
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My painful naïveté: I never understood why these people gave Thomas so much money. It’s not as if he would vote the wrong way otherwise. But of course: he was floating the idea that he might resign because he wasn’t making enough money. What a piece of work.
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