ProPublica released a new report on Friday detailing Justice Clarence Thomas’ close relationship with the Koch brothers with previously undisclosed and extraordinarily damning new details.
According to ProPublica, the justice developed a friendship with the Kochs as they were funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into right-wing causes, many of which ended up before the Supreme Court. The brothers then used Thomas to raise money for their sprawling network, inviting him to speak at “donor events” that brought in millions of dollars.
He disclosed none of these activities on his annual disclosure forms, an obvious violation of federal ethics law.
I’ve seen Alito come up a time or two, especially in the context of his insistence that there are no checks on the judicial branch. But he’s been in some comprimising ethical situations like Thomas has, too.
People are only able to post here about news that is reported. The dominos are falling fast on Thomas. I’d bet that there is some kind of investigation already going on into Thomas’ and other SCOTUS justices around unethical payments, and that so much is being discovered about Thomas that the presumed investigation will become public quite soon. The other justices? Maybe they’re being looked at very closely, too, but their dominos aren’t falling as fast.
We don’t know exactly why so many details about Thomas’ receiving payments under the table are reaching the media to be reported on, but somebody is digging, and they’re digging like it’s their job, because it very likely is. There’s a lot that is not publicly known, so quit acting like randos on the internet should be posting news stories that don’t exist. Or if they do exist, post them your fucking self.
Clarence had like a 15 year head start on the supreme Court. It’s going to take Sam a little while to catch up.