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New #SCOTUS Disclosures Show 2023 Was a Good Year for Several Justice-Authors' Bank Accounts

June 7, 2024

Is 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."

Read more:
https://fixthecourt.com/2024/06/new-scotus-disclosures-show-2023-was-a-good-year-for-several-justice-authors-bank-accounts/

#OligarchCamp #SCOTUSIsCompromised #ImpeachJusticeThomas
#ScotusIsCorrupt #ImpeachClarenceThomas #ErikPrince #Oligarchy #USPol

I think a lot of shitty legislation revolves around political blackmail because politicians can't keep their dicks in their pants with wealthy people introducing them to people like Epstein. Partying with him. Riding on his child sex trafficking plane, the Lolita Express. Prince Andrew was mixed up in this.

Think for a moment about the global nature of this fascist movement.

The fascists are blackmailing the rapists.

This is why empathy is out. If you empathized with their victims, you'd be enraged.

Laws are the diktats of dictators with swords of Damocles over the heads of those without conscience and too much libido.

We're in the mess we're in because politicians rode the Lolita Express with their pants down.

Hey! I wonder if that good ol' Nazi boy with all of the Nazi memorabilia who hobnobs with SCOTUS ever rode the Lolita Express? He sure rides Clarence Thomas like a [insert sordid expression here].

#USpolitics #Clinton #Trump #PrinceAndrew #Epstein #LolitaExpress #congress #power #blackmail #America #billionaires #HarlanCrow #ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS #fraud #oaths

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

Justice #ClarenceThomas failed to disclose 2 additional trips from a #billionaire patron than have previously come to light, #Senate #Democrats revealed on Sat after conducting a 20-month investigation into #ethics practices at #SCOTUS.

The findings were part of a 93p report released by Democratic staff members of the #Judiciary Cmte along w/~800pgs of docs. It said the 2 trips, both…previously unknown…, took place in 2021 & were provided by #HarlanCrow…

#law #corrupt
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/us/politics/clarence-thomas-trips-disclosure-investigation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#Senate Dems #SCOTUS #ethics report highlights key findings but few result Senate #Judiciary Cmte 20-month probe in2 #SupremeCourt revealed unreported trips, gifts, potential conflicts of interest #ethical malfeasance. Political ops prevented lawmakers from making major strides toward holding justices accountable. benefactors #billionaires #HarlanCrow #RobinArkley #LeonardLeo “made career” of advancing conservative interests by facilitating access 2 justices #corruption https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25467331-an-investigation-of-the-ethics-challenge-at-the-supreme-court-report/

#Senate Dems #SCOTUS #ethics report highlights key findings but few result Senate #Judiciary Cmte 20-month probe in2 #SupremeCourt revealed unreported trips, gifts, potential conflicts of interest #ethical malfeasance. Political ops prevented lawmakers from making major strides toward holding justices accountable. benefactors #billionaires #HarlanCrow #RobinArkley #LeonardLeo “made career” of advancing conservative interests by facilitating access 2 justices #corruption https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25467331-an-investigation-of-the-ethics-challenge-at-the-supreme-court-report/

#Senate Dems #SCOTUS #ethics report highlights key findings but few result Senate #Judiciary Cmte 20-month probe in2 #SupremeCourt revealed unreported trips, gifts, potential conflicts of interest #ethical malfeasance. Political ops prevented lawmakers from making major strides toward holding justices accountable. benefactors #billionaires #HarlanCrow #RobinArkley #LeonardLeo “made career” of advancing conservative interests by facilitating access 2 justices #corruption https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25467331-an-investigation-of-the-ethics-challenge-at-the-supreme-court-report/

#Senate Dems #SCOTUS #ethics report highlights key findings but few result Senate #Judiciary Cmte 20-month probe in2 #SupremeCourt revealed unreported trips, gifts, potential conflicts of interest #ethical malfeasance. Political ops prevented lawmakers from making major strides toward holding justices accountable. benefactors #billionaires #HarlanCrow #RobinArkley #LeonardLeo “made career” of advancing conservative interests by facilitating access 2 justices #corruption https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25467331-an-investigation-of-the-ethics-challenge-at-the-supreme-court-report/

#Senate Dems #SCOTUS #ethics report highlights key findings but few result Senate #Judiciary Cmte 20-month probe in2 #SupremeCourt revealed unreported trips, gifts, potential conflicts of interest #ethical malfeasance. Political ops prevented lawmakers from making major strides toward holding justices accountable. benefactors #billionaires #HarlanCrow #RobinArkley #LeonardLeo “made career” of advancing conservative interests by facilitating access 2 justices #corruption https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25467331-an-investigation-of-the-ethics-challenge-at-the-supreme-court-report/

#SCOTUS #justices #federal #judges on #lowercourts dont have 2 #publicly #disclose when they dine, stay @ someone's personal residence even 1 owned by business entity under revised #ethics #rule. Amended policy by US Judicial Conference's Comte on Financial Disclosure which sets rules followed by 9 justices. Critics said move #diluted ethics requirements. Cmte has been reviewing #allegations that #Thomas improperly failed 2 report gifts +luxury travel from #HarlanCrow https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-justices-other-judges-can-stay-corporate-owned-homes-without-2024-09-24/

The soup thickens...

Harlan Crow Rejects Senate Records Request in Thomas Inquiry

Finance Committee says records show additional undisclosed travel
Republican donor investigated for tax evasion

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/harlan-crow-rejects-senate-records-request-in-thomas-inquiry

#HarlanCrow #ClarenceThomas #USPol

"Remember when John Kerry was Swiftboated by Chris LaCivita who is doing it to Tim Walz now? Guess who funded it? Harlan Crow, the billionaire who has been lavishing freebies on Clarence Thomas."

~ Jane Mayer as quoted by David Kurtz

#JDVance #TimWalz #swiftboating #media #HarlanCrow #ClarenceThomas #ChrisLaCivita
/12

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/jack-smith-wants-more-time-to-figure

#ClarenceThomas needs to resign

The DOJ also needs to investigate Thomas for potential violations of the Ethics in Government Act.
https://www.alternet.org/clarence-thomas-doj/ #Ethic #SCOTUS #Corruption #Bribery #gifts #HarlanCrow

Gift article. [Washington Post]: Sen. Wyden says Thomas took two more undisclosed flights on donor’s jet
A letter from Sen. Ron Wyden to Harlan Crow’s lawyer says Justice Clarence Thomas took two flights on Crow’s private jet that have not been previously reported.

https://wapo.st/4cejEjV

#scotus #clarenceThomas #ginniThomas #harlanCrow #corrupt

As Chris Geidner says, Supreme justice Gorsuch dares to lecture the rest of us on how we deal with ethical issues when it comes out that his colleague Clarence Thomas has taken more expensive trips on Sugar Daddy Harlan Crow's tab, which he never disclosed, though he's required by law to do so.

Some ethics.

#SupremeCourt #ethics #corruption #ClarenceThomas #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy #Gorsuch

https://www.lawdork.com/p/gorsuch-be-careful-thomas-more-trips

Can we just acknowledge now #ClarenceThomas is just #HarlanCrow's personal bought and paid for Supreme Court Justice? I doubt Thomas takes a shit without Crow's say-so.

https://www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-busted-for-failing-to-disclose-more-private-flights-dem-senator/

#SCOTUS #corruption

Time For Them to GO! In letter to attorney representing #ClarenceThomas’ #billionaire benefactor #HarlanCrow, Senate Finance Committee Chair #RonWyden revealed new flights taken by Thomas aboard Crow’s private jet that Thomas has failed to disclose. Letter restated demands for travel, financial records pertaining to Crow’s yacht that would demonstrate whether Crow improperly used personal trips aboard yacht, including those to homes, to avoid or evade taxes. #corruption https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-uncovers-private-jet-travel-still-undisclosed-by-justice-thomas-demands-travel-records-from-thomas-benefactor-harlan-crow

The letter, part of an inquiry that #RonWyden, chair of the #Senate Finance Cmte, has opened into #HarlanCrow & #ClarenceThomas, comes as top #Democrats have urged major changes to #SCOTUS, including an #enforceable code of conduct.

Wyden said the latest revelation only increased his misgivings about the relationship between the justice & Crow. “I am deeply concerned that Mr. Crow may have been showering a public official w/extravagant gifts, then writing off those gifts to lower his tax bill”

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
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/3c289da6f36f0ab9/1e8cb898-full.pdf

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

HERE IT IS, w FOOTNOTES! (link is to their PDF) Citizens for Ethics (CREW; Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington), who has argued before SCOTUS,
today asks for Supreme Court Justice *Samuel Alito's resignation*, huzzah.
#compromised #SCOTUS #kangaroo #SupremeCourt #purchased #packed #stacked #millionaire #folly #Alito #Thomas #impeach #remove #recuse #Jan6 #cases #court #traitor #Ginny #ClearanceThomas #Clarence #Harlan #Crow #HarlanCrow #owns a #justice https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CREW-Alito-Resignation-Letter.pdf

HERE IT IS, w FOOTNOTES! (link is to their PDF) Citizens for Ethics (CREW; Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington), who has argued before SCOTUS,
today asks for Supreme Court Justice *Samuel Alito's resignation*, huzzah.
#compromised #SCOTUS #kangaroo #SupremeCourt #purchased #packed #stacked #millionaire #folly #Alito #Thomas #impeach #remove #recuse #Jan6 #cases #court #traitor #Ginny #ClearanceThomas #Clarence #Harlan #Crow #HarlanCrow #owns a #justice https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CREW-Alito-Resignation-Letter.pdf

HERE IT IS, w FOOTNOTES! (link is to their PDF) Citizens for Ethics (CREW; Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington), who has argued before SCOTUS,
today asks for Supreme Court Justice *Samuel Alito's resignation*, huzzah.
#compromised #SCOTUS #kangaroo #SupremeCourt #purchased #packed #stacked #millionaire #folly #Alito #Thomas #impeach #remove #recuse #Jan6 #cases #court #traitor #Ginny #ClearanceThomas #Clarence #Harlan #Crow #HarlanCrow #owns a #justice https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CREW-Alito-Resignation-Letter.pdf

HERE IT IS, w FOOTNOTES! (link is to their PDF) Citizens for Ethics (CREW; Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington), who has argued before SCOTUS,
today asks for Supreme Court Justice *Samuel Alito's resignation*, huzzah.
#compromised #SCOTUS #kangaroo #SupremeCourt #purchased #packed #stacked #millionaire #folly #Alito #Thomas #impeach #remove #recuse #Jan6 #cases #court #traitor #Ginny #ClearanceThomas #Clarence #Harlan #Crow #HarlanCrow #owns a #justice https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CREW-Alito-Resignation-Letter.pdf

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Five years ago, #JusticeThomas was just arriving off the private jet paid for by #HarlanCrow in Santa Rosa for the two-week all male #BohemianGrove party…right on the heels of his trip #yachting around #Indonesia, also paid for by Crow.

If past summers are any indication, #JusticeClarenceThomas is in a summer full of travel on private jets paid for by billionaire friends–he never disclosed any of this until this year. That’s much too late, and it’s illegal.

:twitter: #DirkSchwenk

🔴 So let's get this straight. #JusticeThomas went to #russia, in secret, with #HarlanCrow. The trip included a helicopter ride to a palace in St. Petersburg. It took place in 2003. This is the first known yacht trip. Let's examine the implications. A thread:

ℹ First, a rich american with a #SCOTUS justice doesn't just show up unannounced and fly a helicopter into St. Petersburg

That sh*t requires advanced notice and clearance ⤵

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1811828418503409910.html #US #News

Things that a lot of people are increasingly talking about:

— #ClarenceThomas accepted and knowingly failed to disclose millions of dollars in gifts from Harlan Crow, who had business before the Court.

Things we aren't hearing NEARLY ENOUGH about:

— #HarlanCrow suborned a Supreme Court justice. Why isn't HE facing investigation and prosecution?

https://news.yahoo.com/news/clarence-thomas-took-free-trip-215006676.html

Buried deep in a letter Democratic senators sent to #AGGarland requesting a #specialprosecutor to investigate Supreme Court Justice #ClarenceThomas’s potential federal ethics and tax violations is something shocking: Democrats claim that the #SupremeCourt justice accepted a 2003 yacht trip to Russia and a helicopter flight to Yusupov Palace in St. Petersburg, Putin’s hometown—both paid for by Republican billionaire donor #HarlanCrow.

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."

Read more:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/07/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-gifts-millions/74012846007/

#ImpeachJusticeThomas
#ScotusIsCorrupt #SCROTUS
#SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas
#ScrotusSunday #ErikPrince

"It’s also notable that neither Justice Clarence Thomas nor Justice Samuel Alito, both of whom have accepted expensive gifts from politically active Republican billionaires, recused themselves from the case. Thomas and Alito both joined Kavanaugh’s opinion reading the anti-corruption statute narrowly."

~ Ian Milhiser

#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/5

https://www.vox.com/scotus/357170/supreme-court-snyder-united-states-corruption

"Bow wow wow and yippie-yo-yippie-yay, whip open those checkbooks, boys! If you billionaires liked the way your Justices ruled this year, or appreciate how your governor or mayor steered contracts your way, it sure would be nice if you left them an appreciative tip so they can buy extra beer this summer, just saying!

Disgusting."

~ Marcie Jones

#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/4

https://www.wonkette.com/p/supreme-court-it-aint-bribery-if

"As long as the justices accept obscene 'gratuities' after they issue decisions that overturn decades of settled precedent, it is not a bribe, according to the majority. …

The opinion in Snyder v. US was made possible by the support of two justices implicated in bribery. The opinion stinks of corruption!"

#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/3

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-bizarre-day-in-the-supreme-court

"This decision that officials can accept 'gifts' so long as they are not 'bribes' might have something to do with the fact that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have accepted significant gifts from donors—Thomas’s count is upward of $4 million—and it doesn’t relieve the sense that this Supreme Court, with its three right-wing Trump-appointed justices, is untrustworthy."

#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/2

"By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court today blessed the practice of taking 'gratuities' as a gift for past behavior by an official, distinguishing them from 'bribes,' which require proof that there was an illegal deal in place."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-26-2024

"The price the rest of us pay for Clarence living high on the Harlan hog is more gun carnage, more government-mandated births, and more women dying from lack of medical care. He is, for all intents and purposes, jeopardizing 333 million American lives to make money he doesn’t need.

To again quote Martha-Ann Alito: VERGOGNA."

~ Greg Olear

#ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt #corruption #ethics #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy #guns #abortion

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/clarence-thomas-the-gordon-gekko

#NRA executive director #RandyKozuch celebrates the #SCOTUS #BumpStock ruling:

“The Supreme Court has properly restrained executive branch agencies to their role of enforcing, & not making, the law. This decision will be pivotal to NRA’s future challenges of ATF regulations.”

#law #SCOTUSstench #DarkMoney #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #ClarenceThomas #Alito #JohnRoberts #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #HarlanCrow

#HarlanCrow’s political spending started long BEFORE #CitizensUnited opened the floodgates for anonymous money…in 2010. 1977—2009, Crow & his cos gave >$2.4M to fed candidates, parties, PACs, & other pol entities.
SINCE Citizens United, he’s REPORTED spending $13.8M on federal #politics. But that’s not all. While it’s impossible to track Crow’s #undisclosed political giving, public info shows longstanding ties to the biggest figures & groups in #Republican #DarkMoney.
#SCOTUS #law #ActivistCourt

Clarence Thomas sends his best!

#SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #HarlanCrow #SupremeCorruption #JohnRoberts #SamAlito

#Durbin Reveals #Omissions of #Gifted Private #Travel to Justice #ClarenceThomas from #HarlanCrow https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/releases/durbin-reveals-omissions-of-gifted-private-travel-to-justice-clarence-thomas-from-harlan-crow #SCOTUS #MAGA #courts #ethicsreform #Senate #judiciary #legalresearch #recuse #corruption

#Durbin Reveals #Omissions of #Gifted Private #Travel to Justice #ClarenceThomas from #HarlanCrow https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/releases/durbin-reveals-omissions-of-gifted-private-travel-to-justice-clarence-thomas-from-harlan-crow #SCOTUS #MAGA #courts #ethicsreform #Senate #judiciary #legalresearch #recuse #corruption

#Durbin Reveals #Omissions of #Gifted Private #Travel to Justice #ClarenceThomas from #HarlanCrow https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/releases/durbin-reveals-omissions-of-gifted-private-travel-to-justice-clarence-thomas-from-harlan-crow #SCOTUS #MAGA #courts #ethicsreform #Senate #judiciary #legalresearch #recuse #corruption

#Durbin Reveals #Omissions of #Gifted Private #Travel to Justice #ClarenceThomas from #HarlanCrow https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/releases/durbin-reveals-omissions-of-gifted-private-travel-to-justice-clarence-thomas-from-harlan-crow #SCOTUS #MAGA #courts #ethicsreform #Senate #judiciary #legalresearch #recuse #corruption

#Durbin Reveals #Omissions of #Gifted Private #Travel to Justice #ClarenceThomas from #HarlanCrow https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/releases/durbin-reveals-omissions-of-gifted-private-travel-to-justice-clarence-thomas-from-harlan-crow #SCOTUS #MAGA #courts #ethicsreform #Senate #judiciary #legalresearch #recuse #corruption

#HarlanCrow Provided #ClarenceThomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, #Senate Probe Finds

The #SCOTUS justice flew to Montana & other destinations on the #billionaire #GOP #megadonor’s dime. Crow’s lawyer revealed these flights to the Senate #Judiciary Committee, whose ongoing investigation was sparked by #ProPublica’s reporting.

#law #ethics #ActivistCourt
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet-flights-senate-investigation-scotus