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Okay, now we’re in to fill-on bribery. Real estate transactions are a common way of doing this. The fancy vacations were probably worth more over time, but I’m sure the goal here was to continue Crow’s patronage of our most corrupt Justice. Thomas, like most GOPers, sees nothing wrong with leveraging public trust and access to enrich himself.
Thomas needs to resign immediately and Roberts needs to come clean on what he knows and when he learned, if he did, of this. Thomas is corrupt beyond words. The SCOTUS has no legitimacy left. Further questions that need to be addressed. Was Thomas mother still alive at the time? Did Crow charge rent to her?
$38,000 in improvements, buying Thomas and his family out, most likely free rent for mom and he built a house down the street and gave it to a cop. My my.
Attorneys for the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center wrote in a detailed letter on Tuesday to the Judicial Conference, the principal policymaking body for federal courts. The Judicial Conference could trigger an investigation by referring the case to the Justice Department. […]
If the Judicial Conference were to refer the case to the Justice Department, it could lead to a remarkable historical moment. One of the few instances of a federal investigation into a sitting Supreme Court justice occurred in 1969, when Justice Department officials signaled an inquiry into outside payments that Justice Abe Fortas had been accepting.