7 hours ago, paco said:

I get the pinkos are drooling at the idea of putting another non-biologist in the court, but this is the one place we cannot tolerate even a little corruption. 

Welp, I remember when Republicans refused to confirm Merrick Garland and kept a seat vacant, for over a year, after Scalia's death. It's already corrupt. 

14 hours ago, paco said:

I get the pinkos are drooling at the idea of putting another non-biologist in the court, but this is the one place we cannot tolerate even a little corruption. 

If he was impeached then there would still be a conservative majority on the court. 
 

If Biden were smart, he would communicate to the senate that if they impeached he would put in a young moderate conservative judge as an olive leaf.

That way everyone wins. 

1 minute ago, Bill said:

If he was impeached then there would still be a conservative majority on the court. 
 

If Biden were smart, he would communicate to the senate that if they impeached he would put in a young moderate conservative judge as an olive leaf.

That way everyone wins. 

Yeah, I saw that episode of The West Wing too

19 hours ago, paco said:

Yeah, I saw that episode of The West Wing too

A boy can dream. 

So now it turns out that the most corrupt Justice in Supreme Court History, friend did have business before the Court.

Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Friend Did Have Business Before the Supreme Court

Justice Clarence Thomas said he was advised he didn’t have to disclose private jet flights and luxury vacations paid for by billionaire Harlan Crow because, although a close friend, Crow "did not have business before the court.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/clarence-thomas-billionaire-friend-did-185438494.html

Care to revise your BS statement?

Slow drip of corruption continues.  All our friends pay our kids tuition, payoff our mothers home, and give us lavish vacations right?

Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition.

Crow paid for private school for a relative Thomas said he was raising "as a son.” "This is way outside the norm,” said a former White House ethics lawyer.

In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently told an interviewer he was "raising him as a son.”

Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow.

The payments extended beyond that month, according to Christopher Grimwood, a former administrator at the school. Crow paid Martin’s tuition the entire time he was a student there, which was about a year, Grimwood told ProPublica.

"Harlan picked up the tab,” said Grimwood, who got to know Crow and the Thomases and had access to school financial information through his work as an administrator.

Before and after his time at Hidden Lake, Martin attended a second boarding school, Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. "Harlan said he was paying for the tuition at Randolph-Macon Academy as well,” Grimwood said, recalling a conversation he had with Crow during a visit to the billionaire’s Adirondacks 

In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently told an interviewer he was "raising him as a son.”

Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow.

The payments extended beyond that month, according to Christopher Grimwood, a former administrator at the school. Crow paid Martin’s tuition the entire time he was a student there, which was about a year, Grimwood told ProPublica.

"Harlan picked up the tab,” said Grimwood, who got to know Crow and the Thomases and had access to school financial information through his work as an administrator.

Before and after his time at Hidden Lake, Martin attended a second boarding school, Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. "Harlan said he was paying for the tuition at Randolph-Macon Academy as well,” Grimwood said, recalling a conversation he had with Crow during a visit to the billionaire’s Adirondacks estate.

ProPublica interviewed Martin, his former classmates and former staff at both schools. The exact total Crow paid for Martin’s education over the years remains unclear. If he paid for all four years at the two schools, the price tag could have exceeded $150,000, according to public records of tuition rates at the schools.

Thomas did not report the tuition payments from Crow on his annual financial disclosures. Several years earlier, Thomas disclosed a gift of $5,000 for Martin’s education from another friend. It is not clear why he reported that payment but not Crow’s.

The tuition payments add to the picture of how the Republican megadonor has helped fund the lives of Thomas and his family.

"You can’t be having secret financial arrangements,” said Mark W. Bennett, a retired federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton. Bennett said he was friendly with Thomas and declined to comment for the record about the specifics of Thomas’ actions. But he said that when he was on the bench, he wouldn’t let his lawyer friends buy him lunch.

Thomas did not respond to questions. In response to previous ProPublica reporting on gifts of luxury travel, he said that the Crows "are among our dearest friends” and that he understood he didn’t have to disclose the trips.

ProPublica sent Crow a detailed list of questions and his office responded with a statement that did not dispute the facts presented in this story.

"Harlan Crow has long been passionate about the importance of quality education and giving back to those less fortunate, especially at-risk youth,” the statement said. "It’s disappointing that those with partisan political interests would try to turn helping at-risk youth with tuition assistance into something nefarious or political.” The statement added that Crow and his wife have "supported many young Americans” at a "variety of schools, including his alma mater.” Crow went to Randolph-Macon Academy.

 

Just now, Kz! said:

 

1 minute ago, mikemack8 said:

toss them both out, right ? 

1 minute ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

toss them both out, right ? 

I don't give two Fs - toss them all out at this point.  They're all corrupt scum

Just now, mikemack8 said:

I don't give two Fs - toss them all out at this point.  They're all corrupt scum

i agree, no way should they be lifetime appointments. 

Where's TEW to tell us how friends also pay for tuition and homes for each other? 

14 minutes ago, Paul852 said:

Where's TEW to tell us how friends also pay for tuition and homes for each other? 

the more evolved humans do that. unlike, well, you know. 

4 hours ago, mikemack8 said:

Nope. Investigate and penalize both of them as much as allowed by law if true.

 

See how easy that was?

4 hours ago, Tweek said:

Slow drip of corruption continues.  All our friends pay our kids tuition, payoff our mothers home, and give us lavish vacations right?

Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition.

Crow paid for private school for a relative Thomas said he was raising "as a son.” "This is way outside the norm,” said a former White House ethics lawyer.

In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently told an interviewer he was "raising him as a son.”

Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow.

The payments extended beyond that month, according to Christopher Grimwood, a former administrator at the school. Crow paid Martin’s tuition the entire time he was a student there, which was about a year, Grimwood told ProPublica.

"Harlan picked up the tab,” said Grimwood, who got to know Crow and the Thomases and had access to school financial information through his work as an administrator.

Before and after his time at Hidden Lake, Martin attended a second boarding school, Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. "Harlan said he was paying for the tuition at Randolph-Macon Academy as well,” Grimwood said, recalling a conversation he had with Crow during a visit to the billionaire’s Adirondacks 

In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently told an interviewer he was "raising him as a son.”

Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow.

The payments extended beyond that month, according to Christopher Grimwood, a former administrator at the school. Crow paid Martin’s tuition the entire time he was a student there, which was about a year, Grimwood told ProPublica.

"Harlan picked up the tab,” said Grimwood, who got to know Crow and the Thomases and had access to school financial information through his work as an administrator.

Before and after his time at Hidden Lake, Martin attended a second boarding school, Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. "Harlan said he was paying for the tuition at Randolph-Macon Academy as well,” Grimwood said, recalling a conversation he had with Crow during a visit to the billionaire’s Adirondacks estate.

ProPublica interviewed Martin, his former classmates and former staff at both schools. The exact total Crow paid for Martin’s education over the years remains unclear. If he paid for all four years at the two schools, the price tag could have exceeded $150,000, according to public records of tuition rates at the schools.

Thomas did not report the tuition payments from Crow on his annual financial disclosures. Several years earlier, Thomas disclosed a gift of $5,000 for Martin’s education from another friend. It is not clear why he reported that payment but not Crow’s.

The tuition payments add to the picture of how the Republican megadonor has helped fund the lives of Thomas and his family.

"You can’t be having secret financial arrangements,” said Mark W. Bennett, a retired federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton. Bennett said he was friendly with Thomas and declined to comment for the record about the specifics of Thomas’ actions. But he said that when he was on the bench, he wouldn’t let his lawyer friends buy him lunch.

Thomas did not respond to questions. In response to previous ProPublica reporting on gifts of luxury travel, he said that the Crows "are among our dearest friends” and that he understood he didn’t have to disclose the trips.

ProPublica sent Crow a detailed list of questions and his office responded with a statement that did not dispute the facts presented in this story.

"Harlan Crow has long been passionate about the importance of quality education and giving back to those less fortunate, especially at-risk youth,” the statement said. "It’s disappointing that those with partisan political interests would try to turn helping at-risk youth with tuition assistance into something nefarious or political.” The statement added that Crow and his wife have "supported many young Americans” at a "variety of schools, including his alma mater.” Crow went to Randolph-Macon Academy.

The rapid redefinition of "corruption" is what's changing.  

 

 

25 minutes ago, The_Omega said:

The rapid redefinition of "corruption" is what's changing.  

 

 

Here we go 

twisting himself into a pretzel to make obvious corruption okay.   

C'mon guys. Justice Thomas didn't have a child in private school, it was a great-nephew. And Crow didn't pay tuition. Only the first year of tuition at two different schools. So it's all good, right!?

 

the partisan hacks on this board are something else. too scared to admit there's sheet in their own backyards. 

So they take in their great nephew, their friend offers to pay for a year at his old school, that they can't afford, and they take him up on it. That's what you guys are so desperate to call "corruption"?  And I'm the one twisting myself into pretzels.  Stay desperate losers.

right on time. cuck gonna cuck. 

10 minutes ago, The_Omega said:

So they take in their great nephew, their friend offers to pay for a year at his old school, that they can't afford, and they take him up on it. That's what you guys are so desperate to call "corruption"?  And I'm the one twisting myself into pretzels.  Stay desperate losers.

It's a clear conflict of interest that at a minimum should've been disclosed and he should've recused himself from any case related to anything Crow was involved with. Same standard applies to Sotomayor or any other judge in a similar situation.

1 hour ago, The_Omega said:

The rapid redefinition of "corruption" is what's changing.  

 

 

So it's less corrupt to have a billionaire friend pay for a nephew than a "dependent," and fail to disclose this gift? 

This is the defense you're proffering?

I'd just like to be sure. 

17 minutes ago, The_Omega said:

So they take in their great nephew, their friend offers to pay for a year at his old school, that they can't afford, and they take him up on it. That's what you guys are so desperate to call "corruption"?  And I'm the one twisting myself into pretzels.  Stay desperate losers.

It's still a gift. That they should disclose.

Why didn't they feel compelled to disclose it?

Despite Thomas being one of the worst SC Justices of the modern era, ignorance of the law is not a defense.