Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal

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My,my,my, my.

At market value?

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So many high-tech lynchings!!

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I would lose my job for not disclosing a transaction like this to my employer. But then, I’m not a Supreme Court Justice.

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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.

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So…can DOJ investigate this? The Senate? Who can investigate this utterly corrupt Justice?

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“The transaction marks the first known instance of money flowing from the Republican megadonor to the Supreme Court justice.”

Clarence is gonna go through some things.

(These GOP justices know we can see them, right?)

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We’re at Trump level real estate scammery now.

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Roberts investigated the Dobbs leak, and look at the results of that!

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ProPublica doing an incredible job. They deserve a donation, and I would love to know how they got these financial transactions.

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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?

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They’re public records, aren’t they? Anyone should be able to look them up online.

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$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.

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Michael Chertoff will get to the bottom of this.

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But they’re all such “dear friends”.

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The DOJ can investigate, yes.

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.

Again, yes.

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The corruption of Thomas and the GOP in general is boundless. It is a feature, not a bug, for the Right.

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It’s always the sleepy ones.

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CT got careless

Yes he did…

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So Clarence sold his mom’s house to this douche?

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