Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated In Koch Network Donor Events

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This article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1469283
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Nobody can’t find nothing to say, and wouldn’t be no point anyhow,

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I gather the invitations include cover stories.

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Well Charles Koch is 87, sooo who will step into his shoes when he’s gone?

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Moreover, any criticism of Thomas would be ‘racist’, a ‘high tech lynching’, and ‘politicizing the justice system.’ And somehow, the First Amendment no longer applies Heads, Thomas wins, tails, we all lose!

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“What you’re seeing is a slow creep toward unethical behavior.

correction: The justices are racing towards the unethical behavior and - why yes, there it is - Thomas has crossed the finish line and is right there in the unethical behavior winner’s circle - extraordinary for a man his age.

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Musk, Zuck, Bezos, the Unilever family…there’s lots!

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Of course he did.

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The Uhleins from Milwaukee

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The fact that this was “secret” already tells us that Thomas and the Koch Network knew it was wrong.

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“What you’re seeing is a slow creep toward unethical behavior. Do it if you can get away with it,” Jones said.

“Slow creep” – yes. Yes, he is.

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It still bugs me no end that Thomas swore in Alito (if my memory is correct) in the private library of Harlan Crow.

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yes, that was the understatement of the year.

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Pro Publica must be surprised that they keep tripping over these stories that have been in plain view for years.

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HA HA! Get it? Because there are no ethics requirements! gosh, Leo, you’re so goddamn clever. :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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It appears Pro Publica understands the impossibility of getting a SCOTUS jurist removed and has carefully and over time laid out its evidence of his arrogant unethical behavior.

This should be enough to warrant removal. At the very least more calls for him to resign and SCOTUS to clean its act up.

Maybe Pro Publica has more. It should not be required.

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Technically, it was only secret to the people who didn’t know about it. Virtually every rich Republican donor knew. So, not really a “secret,” just some more bullshit.

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In response to questions about his travel to the Grove with Thomas, Crow said Thomas is “a man of incredible integrity”

“…because once you’ve bought him, he stays bought.”

(Which was how the much-missed Molly Ivins defined an honest Texas politician.)

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I’m nodding my head at the Uhleins just for the fact that their business interests or mostly their business interests are centered here in the US. While Musk, Bezos, and Zuck have global interests.

On one hand it would be interesting to see if someone else can pull off what the Koch brothers do/did here. On the other can one person/family deal with all the oligarchs worldwide? :thinking:

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Clarence Thomas, a degenerate among degenerates.

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