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New #SCOTUS Disclosures Show 2023 Was a Good Year for Several Justice-Authors' Bank Accounts
June 7, 2024Is SCOTUS internalizing the lessons on #ethics? Maybe.
"Four Supreme Court justices supplemented their income with payments from their book deals, three accepted money for teaching, and only two accepted any reportable gifts in 2023, according to financial disclosures released Friday. Justice Alito was the only sitting justice to request an extension.
"These disclosures are the first to be released since the Court announced its adoption of a Code of Conduct (Nov. 2023) and the first since the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation from ProPublica was published (Apr. 2023&ff). Given the wide array of data in the reports, it’s difficult to ascertain whether recent ethics scandals have changed the justices’ behavior. In fact, there are some conflicting signs.
"According to #ClarenceThomas’ disclosure, he did not accept any gifts of private plane travel or resort stays from #HarlanCrow or any of his other prior benefactors in 2023. The only gift he accepted was $2,000 in 'photo albums' from the outgoing executive director of the Horatio Alger Association, Terry Giroux, and Giroux’s wife, Barbara. (Justice Jackson’s gifts are noted later in the release.)
"What’s more, Thomas wrote at the end of his report that his 2019 FDR “is hereby amended to include the following entries under the reimbursement section, which was inadvertently omitted at the time of filing,” and he lists a one-night stay at a hotel, with free food, in Bali and a four-day, three-night stay at #BohemianGrove (though he doesn’t write “Bohemian Grove”).
"On the one hand, amendments like these show growth and are appreciated. On the other hand, ProPublica reported that Thomas flew to Indonesia on a private plane for his summer jaunt, and from this omission in the appendix, it appears that either Thomas made another error or he believes neither travel on a private plane owned by a friend (though it’s really owned by his friend’s company, #HRZNARLLC) nor overnight stays on a yacht owned by a friend (really Crow Holdings, LLC) to be reportable."
#OligarchCamp #SCOTUSIsCompromised #ImpeachJusticeThomas
#ScotusIsCorrupt #ImpeachClarenceThomas #ErikPrince #Oligarchy #USPol -
So #CharlesKoch, #HarlanCrow et al. bought a Supreme Court (@scotus) that kept #Trump out of prison, granted him massively extended immunity and then pumped money into the @GOP campaign.
They own the horrors of the coming years (only 4, hopefully). https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/us/politics/trump-special-counsel-report-election-jan-6.html
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Customs & Border Protection records revealed that #ClarenceThomas & his wife, #GinniThomas, took a round trip between Hawaii & New Zealand in Nov 2010 on #HarlanCrow’s private jet. Sen #RonWyden, #Democrat of Oregon, writing to Crow’s lawyer, demanded that he supply more info about the #financial relationship between the 2 men.
#law #JudicialEthics #judiciary #corruption #ActivistCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform
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Justice #ClarenceThomas Failed to Reveal More Private Flights, Senator Says
Sen #RonWyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor #HarlanCrow’s lawyer after records showed [more] undisclosed flights between Hawaii & New Zealand w/the #SCOTUS justice in 2010.
#law #JudicialEthics #judiciary #corruption #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform #FarRight #Republicans
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/us/politics/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb -
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received millions in gifts over 20 years, group says
by Dan Morrison
June 7, 2024"#SupremeCourt #JusticeClarenceThomas has accepted more than $2 million in gifts over the last 20 years, according to a new analysis, far eclipsing the value of those received by his fellow justices.
"A report released Thursday by the advocacy group #FixTheCourt said the value of 93 gifts to all of Thomas’ fellow justices between 2004 and 2023 were totaled $248,000, while Thomas alone received 103 gifts worth $2.4 million.
"In addition to that haul, Fix the Court flagged another 101 'likely gifts' to Thomas worth nearly $1.8 million stemming from free luxury travel and lodging he received from #billionaire #HarlanCrow and others."
#ImpeachJusticeThomas
#ScotusIsCorrupt #SCROTUS
#SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas
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How #HarlanCrow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking #ClarenceThomas on Superyacht Cruises
In lavishing gifts on the #SupremeCourt #justice, the #billionaire #GOP #donor may have violated #TaxLaws
Tax data obtained by @ProPublica provides a glimpse of what congressional investigators would find if Crow were to open his books…. Crow’s voyages w/Thomas, the data shows, contributed to a nice side benefit: They helped reduce Crow’s tax bill.…
#SCOTUS #fraud #JudicialEthics
https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht -
Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Harlan Crow Gave $500,000 to Bari Weiss to Start 'Anti-Woke' Nonprofit https://jezebel.com/harlan-crow-gave-500-000-to-bari-weiss-to-start-anti-w-1850510031 #Jezebel #indigenouspeoplesofnorthamerica #regionsoftheunitedstates #nativeamericantribes #christopherrufo #andrewsullivan #socialissues #suzyedelman #harlancrow #megynkelly #crownation #bariweiss #elonmusk #centrism #fair
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Billionaire Harlan Crow, Benefactor to Justice Thomas, Rebuffs Senate on Ethics Probe
#BloombergNews #HarlanCrow #JusticeThomas #SenateEthicsProbe #PoliticalDonations #SupremeCourtJustices #Politics #News