The level of corruption on the modern GOP is breathtakingly vast in scope.
With all due respect to the top-notch TPM staff, Pro Publica is doing the best (and some of the only) investigative reporting today. We all owe them a debt of gratitude and whatever subscription requests they may have!
On July 8 of the following year, Singer took Alito to Alaska on the private jet, according to emails, flight data from the Federal Aviation Administration and people familiar with the trip.
The group flew across the country to the town of King Salmon on the Alaska peninsula. They returned to the East Coast three days later.
I’m intrigued by the length of time spent in Alaska vs the 9+ hours spent traveling to the destination. Time zones I get, but still.
Well at least there were no dogs strapped to plane. 
This reminds me of police shooting unarmed people in the back. It’s been happening since forever but only recently to we have the internet, pocket cameras and sleuthing ability to flush it out. Flushing them**out will take a few more, long years.
As a study in contrasts, Wikipedia on Justice David Souter:
According to Jeffrey Toobin’s 2007 book The Nine , Souter has a decidedly low-tech lifestyle: He writes with a fountain pen, does not use e-mail, and has no cell phone or answering machine. While serving on the Supreme Court, he preferred to drive back to New Hampshire for the summer, where he enjoyed mountain climbing.[6] Souter has also done his own home repairs[62] and is known for his daily lunch of an apple and yogurt.[63]
Former Supreme Court correspondent Linda Greenhouse wrote of Souter: “to focus on his eccentricities—his daily lunch of yogurt and an apple, core and all; the absence of a computer in his personal office—is to miss the essence of a man who in fact is perfectly suited to his job, just not to its trappings. His polite but persistent questioning of lawyers who appear before the court displays his meticulous preparation and his mastery of the case at hand and the cases relevant to it. Far from being out of touch with the modern world, he has simply refused to surrender to it control over aspects of his own life that give him deep contentment: hiking, sailing, time with old friends, reading history.”[64]
In early August 2009, Souter moved from his family farmhouse in Weare to a Cape Cod-style single-floor home in nearby Hopkinton, New Hampshire, a town in Merrimack County northeast of Weare and immediately west of the state capital of Concord. Souter told a disappointed Weare neighbor that the two-story family farmhouse was not structurally sound enough to support the thousands of books he owns and that he wished to live on one level.[65]
And little did we know that said David Souter was running the largest bitcoin mining server farm and largest sub-Reddit.
Never judge a book by its cover, kids.
Souter, a Republican, went out of the Roberts Court fighting:
As David Kurtz notes in today’s Morning Memo…
(I should note that ProPublica reporter Justin Elliott is a TPM alum.)
Leo did not address detailed questions about the trip, but he said “no objective and well-informed observer of the judiciary honestly could believe that they decide cases in order to cull favor with friends, or in return for a free plane seat or fishing trip.”
No Leo, every objective observer knows that this is a textbook example of currying favor.
a huntin’ dinner just like their ancient forefathers who flew on private jets and had servants attend them in lodges and wore clothes worth hundreds of dollars to ketch their supper
hear, hear
His intended audience knows perfectly well where all that “dark money” is coming from. Rootless cosmopolitans, ya know.
Can we please get back to Hunter Biden? The man is a direct threat to our way of life, not some judge on the Supreme Court.
Well everyone knows that Conservative Justices don’t like curry flavor.
Oh you said favor:
I spit out my coffee at the “as far as I knew, the seat on the private jet would have been empty, so basically it didn’t cost anything for me to sit in it” defense.
Looking forward to trying this out in the upcoming “Teammjs vs. United Airlines/Delta Airlines/American Airlines, et al” SCOTUS case where I argue the fraud charge for hacking into their systems and creating free tickets needs to be dismissed due to no financial damage to the airlines given I sat in an unsold seat.
Short Answer
SAMMY THE SNAKE - IS A CROOK.
he knows that he’s a crook - and has self-justified and granted himself permission - by contorting his ethics into a toxic knot.
I believe that is a different “David Souter.”
The real tragedy of Alito’s trip, is that the fishing picture was apparently not immortalized into a photo-realistic painting.
The art world will never be the same, when leading museums won’t be able to put on “Boondoggles of Insanely Conservative SCOTUS Justices” exhibits in the future due to this sad lack of commissioned works.
This is why they love 5 Deferment Don. Their, and his, manly crap is only make believe.
Leo did not respond to questions about his organizing the trip but said in a statement that he “would never presume to tell” Alito and Scalia “what to do.”
Leo added, “Ask them to do it like, you know, ‘a favor for a favor,’ sure. But tell them? Never!”
I know some of these guys, finance space-farts. They kiss my arse and I am legend among them, for the drinking and wildness and squalor, but it is the same thing. All working out a lot, a lot into MMA.
I have a great line that scares the shit out of them, delivered immediately after they describe their fight training: You know what we do in Glasgow to a guy like you? Stuff a beer glass in his face.
To watch an already pale man’s visage come to a gray-blue, and under it the real shock, the inability to fathom a savagery they have been insulated from - priceless.