Things That Made You Frown But Were Not Surprising Today

[Seran]

Justice Clarence Graft is Speech Thomas accepted $2.4 million 'gifts' over the years, grossly exceeding that of all of his colleagues behind. This doesn't even include his luxury vacations with conservatives with cases before the court he was set to rule on.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted gifts worth millions of dollars over 20 years, analysis finds

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted millions of dollars’ worth of gifts over the past two decades on the bench, a total nearly 10 times the value of all gifts received by his fellow justices during the same time, according to a new analysis.

In contrast, Thomas’ fellow justices over the same period accepted a total of just 93 gifts worth a combined value of only about $248,000, according to the nonprofit group.


Thomas’ fellow conservative justice Samuel Alito accounted for the lion’s share of that value. Fix the Court’s analysis found that Alito accepted 16 gifts worth a combined $170,095.

Fix the Court identified another 101 “likely gifts” — with a total estimated value of almost $1.8 million —that Thomas received in the form of free trips and lodging from billionaire businessman Harlan Crow, and at the exclusive Bohemian Grove club.


Counting those gifts, Thomas’ total two-decade haul is valued at nearly $4.2 million.


Fix the Court’s analysis is largely based on investigative reporting by the media outlet ProPublica over the past year, which has been focused on Thomas and Alito and which has sparked calls for ethics reform at the Supreme Court.




Thomas received 103 gifts with a total value of more than $2.4 million between 2004 and 2023, the judicial reform group Fix the Court said in a report Thursday.

The group also factored in data from the Congressional Record, the justices’ annual financial disclosures, other news sources, and its own law clerk-led research.


The value and number of gifts Thomas received also eclipsed those accepted by eight retired or dead Supreme Court justices whose tenures overlapped his service on the court, which began in 1991.


The late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who served more than 34 years on the court, received 73 gifts until she retired in early 2006, putting her in second place behind Thomas in total number of gifts.


But the combined value of O’Connor’s gifts was less than $36,000.


Antonin Scalia, a conservative justice who died in 2016 while on the court, accepted 67 gifts worth about $210,000 during his tenure, which began in 1986.


The late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whose career on the court spanned 33 years until 2005, accepted just six gifts, with a total value of less than $13,000.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/supr...ce-thomas.html

[Parkbandit]

Justice Clarence Graft is Speech Thomas accepted $2.4 million 'gifts' over the years, grossly exceeding that of all of his colleagues behind. This doesn't even include his luxury vacations with conservatives with cases before the court he was set to rule on.

[Anebriated]

That's what happens when nobody no longer respects the legitimacy of your country.

When faggotry takes over your leadership:

So fun story about this. It happened 10 minutes from where I live, in a park where we take the kids because they have a great playground and lots of beach space that the tourists dont frequent. Theres a pin on google earth at that location named Biden Falls. There is no waterfall in the state park.

[Furryrat]

Justice Clarence Graft is Speech Thomas accepted $2.4 million 'gifts' over the years, grossly exceeding that of all of his colleagues behind. This doesn't even include his luxury vacations with conservatives with cases before the court he was set to rule on.

I am curious what you are trying to insinuate. He's been a life-long constitutional conservative, appointed by GHW Bush and has never waivered in his opinions.

Or are you saying that an educated black man cannot possibly be operating on his own merits and must be controlled by some sinister underlying non-black directive.

[~Rocktar~]

I am curious what you are trying to insinuate. He's been a life-long constitutional conservative, appointed by GHW Bush and has never waivered in his opinions.

Or are you saying that an educated black man cannot possibly be operating on his own merits and must be controlled by some sinister underlying non-black directive.

He is just a bitter, nasty, racist, Leftist that hates seeing a black man succeed. And let's not forget his propensity to support the rape and slaughter of Jewish children, women and men in their own homes because "it's complicated." He has always been a nasty piece of shit, never forget it.

[ClydeR]

I am curious what you are trying to insinuate. He's been a life-long constitutional conservative, appointed by GHW Bush and has never waivered in his opinions.

Or are you saying that an educated black man cannot possibly be operating on his own merits and must be controlled by some sinister underlying non-black directive.

Here's a chart showing the number and amount of gifts accepted by each Justice. As you can see, there is something amiss with Thomas' level of gifts. There's smoke. Is there fire?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/supreme-court-justices-millions-dollars-gifts-clarence-thomas.html



[Seran]

Here's a chart showing the number and amount of gifts accepted by each Justice. As you can see, there is something amiss with Thomas' level of gifts. There's smoke. Is there fire?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/supreme-court-justices-millions-dollars-gifts-clarence-thomas.html

Naw, the Conservatives would preferably use his race as a moral shield to pretend that a single Justice receiving more gifts (bribes) than the totality of other Justices in the past fifty years is ok. It would be Republicans that see a lifelong appointment as an opportunity to sell judicial influence.

[Methais]

Justice Clarence Graft is Speech Thomas accepted $2.4 million 'gifts' over the years, grossly exceeding that of all of his colleagues behind. This doesn't even include his luxury vacations with conservatives with cases before the court he was set to rule on.

Why do you hate black people?

[drumpel]

He is just a bitter, nasty, racist, Leftist that hates seeing a black man succeed. And let's not forget his propensity to support the rape and slaughter of Jewish children, women and men in their own homes because "it's complicated." He has always been a nasty piece of shit, never forget it.

Also, don't forget that he was hoping that more Republicans would die from the hurricane that went through Florida a couple years back.

[Suppressed Poet]

Naw, the Conservatives would preferably use his race as a moral shield to pretend that a single Justice receiving more gifts (bribes) than the totality of other Justices in the past fifty years is ok. It would be Republicans that see a lifelong appointment as an opportunity to sell judicial influence.

Stop trying to lynch successful black people Seran. It’s not a good look.

Your source for this information is from “Fix the Courts”. Their bias against conservatives is obvious and their data is questionable at best. https://fixthecourt.com