SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor — ProPublica

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7 minutes ago, squistion said:

I don't but Whitehouse will get the goods on Clarence. 

Go after the black guy!

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6 minutes ago, Mike Hunt said:

Go after the black guy!

Go after any member of the judiciary of any color who accepts bribes for making favorable judicial rulings. 

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Far Right AP News - Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books

 

“Sotomayor’s staff has often prodded public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children’s books, works that have earned her at least $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009. Details of those events, largely out of public view, were obtained by The Associated Press through more than 100 open records requests to public institutions. The resulting tens of thousands of pages of documents offer a rare look at Sotomayor and her fellow justices beyond their official duties.”

 

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8 minutes ago, Dizkneelande said:

Far Right AP News - Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books

 

“Sotomayor’s staff has often prodded public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children’s books, works that have earned her at least $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009. Details of those events, largely out of public view, were obtained by The Associated Press through more than 100 open records requests to public institutions. The resulting tens of thousands of pages of documents offer a rare look at Sotomayor and her fellow justices beyond their official duties.”

 

If true, that was improper and shouldn't have been done, but there is no suggestion these earnings influenced or bought any of her SCOTUS votes. 

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12 minutes ago, squistion said:

If true, that was improper and shouldn't have been done, but there is no suggestion these earnings influenced or bought any of her SCOTUS votes. 

 Now do the other guys douchelips 

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2 hours ago, squistion said:

If true, that was improper and shouldn't have been done, but there is no suggestion these earnings influenced or bought any of her SCOTUS votes. 

So somewhere in this thread there is evidence that Clarence Thomas was bought by these trips he took with his friends?  I haven't followed this that closely so there may be.  I assume there must be.  Otherwise,  you would be a huge hypocrite for using the line of reasoning quoted above but also posting the following:

 

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If Sotomayor or Kagan had done something like this I would be calling for their immediate resignation or removal from office. 

 

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1 minute ago, Strike said:

So somewhere in this thread there is evidence that Clarence Thomas was bought by these trips he took with his friends?  I haven't followed this that closely so there may be.  I assume there must be or you would be a huge hypocrite for using this line of reasoning or you wouldn't have posted the following:

For both Thomas and Alito, they ruled on cases involving their sugar daddies.

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5 minutes ago, dogcows said:

For both Thomas and Alito, they ruled on cases involving their sugar daddies.

Do you shower with your daughter like biden did with his?

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2 hours ago, Strike said:

So somewhere in this thread there is evidence that Clarence Thomas was bought by these trips he took with his friends?  I haven't followed this that closely so there may be.  I assume there must be.  Otherwise,  you would be a huge hypocrite for using the line of reasoning quoted above but also posting the following:

Well, he was given lavish vacations worth of hundreds of thousands of dollars and his host later had a case or cases before the court that he had an interest in that Thomas not only didn't recuse himself, but voted in favor of. Not proof that he was bought, but there is a strong inference that was the case.

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3 minutes ago, squistion said:

Well, he was given lavish vacations worth of hundreds of thousands of dollars and his host later had a case or cases before the court that he had an interest in that Thomas not only didn't recuse himself, but voted in favor of. Not proof that he was bought, but there is a strong inference that was the case.

This is a lie 

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2 minutes ago, Dizkneelande said:

This is a lie 

No actually, the dollar value is well documented. And Thomas doesn't deny it, just claims he thought it was legal, above board, and not worth mentioning. 

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2 hours ago, dogcows said:

For both Thomas and Alito, they ruled on cases involving their sugar daddies.

Didn’t happen loser 

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3 minutes ago, squistion said:

No actually, the dollar value is well documented. And Thomas doesn't deny it, just claims he thought it was legal, above board, and not worth mentioning. 

Did Ginsberg ever receive these “gifts”?

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3 minutes ago, squistion said:

No actually, the dollar value is well documented. And Thomas doesn't deny it, just claims he thought it was legal, above board, and not worth mentioning. 

Link to the case and involving Crow that was heard by the court. 

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24 minutes ago, squistion said:

No actually, the dollar value is well documented. And Thomas doesn't deny it, just claims he thought it was legal, above board, and not worth mentioning. 

You’re a piece of sh!t

Altogether, Sotomayor earned $3.6 million from Penguin Random House and its subsidiaries for agreeing to let them publish her 2013 memoir, “My Beloved World,” and numerous children’s books since then, the Daily Wire reported on Thursday. 

The same year that her memoir came out, Sotomayor voted on whether the high court should take up Aaron Greenspan v. Random House. 

Her liberal colleague at the time, Justice Stephen Breyer, recused himself from the case, having also received money from Penguin Random House. 

In 2020, Sotomayor also took part in deciding on a petition filed by fellow children’s author Jennie Nicassio, who argued that Penguin Random House was selling a book nearly identical to one she had already written and published. On the same day that the petition was delivered to the justices, Penguin Random House cut Sotomayor a check for $10,586, according to the Daily Wire. 

 

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24 minutes ago, Dizkneelande said:

Didn’t happen loser 

Right out of the MAGt playbook: When confronted with facts you don't want to discuss, call it a lie and skip the rebuttal. 

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1 minute ago, gas said:

Right out of the MAGt playbook: When confronted with facts you don't want to discuss, call it a lie and skip the rebuttal. 

Show proof sh!tlib. Show the facts of they are so overwhelming. You can’t because you suck like most authoritarian leftist. 

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11 minutes ago, Dizkneelande said:

You’re a piece of sh!t

Altogether, Sotomayor earned $3.6 million from Penguin Random House and its subsidiaries for agreeing to let them publish her 2013 memoir, “My Beloved World,” and numerous children’s books since then, the Daily Wire reported on Thursday. 

The same year that her memoir came out, Sotomayor voted on whether the high court should take up Aaron Greenspan v. Random House. 

Her liberal colleague at the time, Justice Stephen Breyer, recused himself from the case, having also received money from Penguin Random House. 

In 2020, Sotomayor also took part in deciding on a petition filed by fellow children’s author Jennie Nicassio, who argued that Penguin Random House was selling a book nearly identical to one she had already written and published. On the same day that the petition was delivered to the justices, Penguin Random House cut Sotomayor a check for $10,586, according to the Daily Wire. 

 

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7 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

It’s amazing how often we make them look stupid and they sit right back at the counter to eat another stupid sandwich. 

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NBC News @squistion you’re a hunk of sh!t

 

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1 hour ago, squistion said:

Well, he was given lavish vacations worth of hundreds of thousands of dollars and his host later had a case or cases before the court that he had an interest in that Thomas not only didn't recuse himself, but voted in favor of. Not proof that he was bought, but there is a strong inference that was the case.

It"s ok buddy.  We know you're a hypocrite and a liar. 

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Fawking NERDs

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1 hour ago, Dizkneelande said:

Show proof sh!tlib. Show the facts of they are so overwhelming. You can’t because you suck like most authoritarian leftist. 

Show proof?   How focking stupid are you?   (Narrator: Pretty focking stupid indeed.)  The proof is in your post.

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Cuuum dumpster phags 

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Best thing about this is: you guys know you're focking dumber than dirt.   You were dumb in school, dumb on the job, and your families treat you like you're focking stupid, which you are.

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Racist phaggot

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7 hours ago, gas said:

Show proof?   How focking stupid are you?   (Narrator: Pretty focking stupid indeed.)  The proof is in your post.

Which cases involving Harlan Crow were reviewed by the scotus?

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10 hours ago, squistion said:

Well, he was given lavish vacations worth of hundreds of thousands of dollars and his host later had a case or cases before the court that he had an interest in that Thomas not only didn't recuse himself, but voted in favor of. Not proof that he was bought, but there is a strong inference that was the case.

Which case?

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1 minute ago, Voltaire said:

Which case?

This is all they have. 
 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/04/24/supreme-court-did-review-case-involving-harlan-crow-contradicting-clarence-thomass-claim/amp/

“Crow’s office told Bloomberg Trammell Crow Residential operated “completely independently of Crow Holdings with a separate management team and its own independent operations” in 2004 and that neither the company nor Harlan Crow “had knowledge or involvement in the case.”

“Crow Holdings and Harlan Crow’s name do not appear on the 2004 court filings, according to Bloomberg, raising the possibility that Thomas may not have recognized their connection to Harlan Crow, Arthur Hellman, a judicial ethics expert at University of Pittsburgh School of Law, told the outlet.”

Meanwhile -

Justice Sonia Sotomayor didn’t recuse herself from cases involving publisher that paid her $3M: report

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6 minutes ago, Dizkneelande said:

This is all they have. 
 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/04/24/supreme-court-did-review-case-involving-harlan-crow-contradicting-clarence-thomass-claim/amp/

“Crow’s office told Bloomberg Trammell Crow Residential operated “completely independently of Crow Holdings with a separate management team and its own independent operations” in 2004 and that neither the company nor Harlan Crow “had knowledge or involvement in the case.”

“Crow Holdings and Harlan Crow’s name do not appear on the 2004 court filings, according to Bloomberg, raising the possibility that Thomas may not have recognized their connection to Harlan Crow, Arthur Hellman, a judicial ethics expert at University of Pittsburgh School of Law, told the outlet.”

Meanwhile -

Justice Sonia Sotomayor didn’t recuse herself from cases involving publisher that paid her $3M: report

Assuming Thomas was accepting gifts from Harlan Crow in 2004 and earlier, he should have recused himself from that case. Not that they even heard the case, they refused to hear an appeal, which is what happens to 99.8% of appeals.

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13 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Assuming Thomas was accepting gifts from Harlan Crow in 2004 and earlier, he should have recused himself from that case. Not that they even heard the case, they refused to hear an appeal, which is what happens to 99.8% of appeals.

Sure but that’s not what is going on here. It’s a full fledged lefty campaign to destroy the Supreme Court. They destroy everything they can’t control. 

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4 minutes ago, Dizkneelande said:

Sure but that’s not what is going on here. It’s a full fledged lefty campaign to destroy the Supreme Court. They destroy everything they can’t control. 

It's grasping at straws. The court gets ~5000 appeals a year and hears maybe 80 of them. This is one of the ~4920 that never landed on the docket in 2004. And we'll toss in for free assuming Thomas was hanging out with Harlan Crow pre-2004, which may or may not be true.

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On 5/15/2023 at 12:19 PM, squistion said:

 

Maybe he'll appeal it to himself. 

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Oh no. Not luxury trips. 

 

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Top lawyers who argued cases before the Supreme Court were exposed for making payments to Justice Thomas’s aide.

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The payments to Rajan Vasisht, who served as Thomas’s aide from July 2019 to July 2021, seem to underscore the close ties between Thomas, who is embroiled in ethics scandals following a series of revelations about his relationship with a wealthy billionaire donor, and certain senior Washington lawyers who argue cases and have other business in front of the justice.

Vasisht’s Venmo account – which was public prior to requesting comment for this article and is no longer – show that he received seven payments in November and December 2019 from lawyers who previously served as Thomas legal clerks. The amount of the payments is not disclosed, but the purpose of each paymentis listed as either “Christmas party”, “Thomas Christmas Party”, “CT Christmas Party” or “CT Xmas party”, in an apparent reference to the justice’s initials.

However, it remains unclear what the funds were for.

The lawyers who made the Venmo transactions were: Patrick Strawbridge, a partner at Consovoy McCarthy who recently successfully argued that affirmative action violated the US constitution; Kate Todd, who served as White House deputy counsel under Donald Trump at the time of the payment and is now a managing party of Ellis George Cipollone’s law office; Elbert Lin, the former solicitor general of West Virginia who played a key role in a supreme court case that limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions; and Brian Schmalzbach, a partner at McGuire Woods who has argued multiple cases before the supreme court.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/clarence-thomas-aide-venmo-payments-lawyers-supreme-court

 

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Focking stupid MAGAts will never understand that the swamp controls them.

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22 minutes ago, squistion said:

 

It is gratifying the people are concerned about the back corridor behaviors....of some people I guess....

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28 minutes ago, squistion said:

 

We'll call in affirmative action and can move along.

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14 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

We'll call in affirmative action and can move along.

Are we allowed to use that here?  He isn't ideologically aligned with Democrats, so I think that excuse is off the table, isn't it?