Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is acknowledging that he took three trips last year aboard a private plane owned by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow.

It’s the first time in years that Thomas has reported receiving hospitality from Crow. In a report made public Thursday, the 75-year-old justice said he was complying with new guidelines from the federal judiciary for reporting travel.

The filing comes amid a heightened focus on ethics at the high court that stems from a series of reports revealing that Thomas has for years received undisclosed expensive gifts, including international travel, from Crow, a wealthy businessman and benefactor of conservative causes. Crow also purchased the house in Georgia where Thomas’s mother continues to live and paid for two years of private school tuition for a child raised by Thomas and his wife, Ginni.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Clarence Thomas is still a corrupt asshole.


    The original article had a shitload of words, my summary only has seven. I’m an actual human, I swear!

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    Corrupt piece of shit member of a corrupt piece of shit club continues to reaffirm just how corrupt, and just what a piece of shit he is.

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    https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/04/24/supreme-court-did-review-case-involving-harlan-crow-contradicting-clarence-thomass-claim/?sh=6218ac166c74

    Harlan Crow, the owner of Justice Thomas, has had cases before the court that Thomas failed to recuse himself from even after accepting these extraordinarily lavish gifts from Crow and after he denied ever sitting for a case Crow was involved in. The criminal Thomas defended himself by saying that it wasn’t Crow’s company on the case, it was a company owned by Crow’s company. This is after he denied receiving gifts from Crow at all, but eventually changed his stance on that and admitted to being bathed in money by the person he is meant to regulate impartially.

    Dissolve the court. Arrest Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Alito. Investigate every other sitting justice and if they so much as took a piece of chewing gum from someone who had business before the court arrest them too. You want your word to be law and the only oversight to be literal Death? Then you have to be fucking flawless.

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    Lol the audacity to blame one of the private jet flights on the abortion decision leak. As if that was the reason for all the other private flights gifted to him.

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      It’s nice for them how a Republican justice corruptly leaking a draft of a Supreme Court decision is justification for Republican justices to engage in even more corruption.

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      Instead Hillary hired the asshole who went after Anita Hill to run her presidential campaign. David Brock is useless. One of many idiot moves Clinton made to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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        Don’t know about that but it was evident that Spector browbeating Hill and Thomas mentioning lynching got the the committee to pass him through. The same sort of thing happened with Brett Kavanaugh

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    Accepting gifts is wrong. Failing to report accepting gifts is wrong. He’s still self-admittedly guilty of the worst of it.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is acknowledging that he took three trips last year aboard a private plane owned by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow.

    The filing comes amid a heightened focus on ethics at the high court that stems from a series of reports revealing that Thomas has for years received undisclosed expensive gifts, including international travel, from Crow, a wealthy businessman and benefactor of conservative causes.

    The Associated Press reported in July that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, aided by her staff, has advanced sales of her books through college visits over the past decade.

    The other two trips were to Dallas, where he spoke at conferences sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

    Thomas noted that court officials recommended that he avoid commercial travel for one of the trips, in mid-May, because of concerns about the justices’ security following the leak of the court’s draft abortion opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade.

    The justice also belatedly acknowledged that Crow had purchased the home in Savannah, Georgia, where Thomas’ mother still lives.


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    Dudes face looks like a grumpy stuck up white guy. Well maybe not his nose… He has KRS-Ones nose.