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“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” ― Thomas Paine
Particularly if they are in positions of power.
Wow, only $100,000 for 2 years of education to give this poor child a chance. How many really poor children could have been given a chance with this amount of money?
They’re trying to make it look like the Clarence and Gini really sacrificed to bring up this child on his measly SC salary.
Clarence is treating his position on the highest court in the land like an ATM machine. I hold SCJ’s to a much higher standard as we all should.
His freaking ‘friend’ is issuing a statement on his behalf?
WTF is up with that? Thomas is too pure and mighty and untouchable to issue his own statement?
Isn’t this Mark guy the same one who has been to the resort in the Adirondacks?
Clarence has several kinds of “friends”: the ones who bribe him, the ones who paper over the bribes, and Ginni, who necessitates the first two kinds.
Usually those “generous people that are willing to provide scholarships to poor kids every day in America” donate through a reputable charity such as the Catholic Charities inner cities scholarship fund or a host of others, not by literally paying for the tuition through a Supreme Court justice.
So, where is the sacrifice? They shipped the young nephew to Boarding school paid by someone else. I am sure summer camps were included. The public schools in the Thomas’ neighborhood would have provided and excellent education.
Since the Thoma$es don’t seem to pay their own expenses, I wonder who paid the tax on all the gifts and the money that Kellyanne gave to Ginny. Because they totally reported the gifts and income. Right?
Are there any courageous Dems willing to cut off the spigot funding? No clerks. No Supreme Court building maintenance and/or operations. No access to Westlaw. No taxpayers funded security protection. NO medical benefits. NO free vacations and hospitality arrangements.
Something drastic must be done to corral these six arrogant A-holes.
Clarence Thomas never raised his grand-nephew “like a son.” He shipped him off to boarding school.
Plausible deniability matters.
To me, Thomas is just the worst of a bad lot.
Ethically, there’s only a few dollars worth of difference among the “conservative 5” – they’re all on the take.
Quite a few years ago I heard a first hand account from a man, now dead, of course.
He heard the notoriously corrupt Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague, complain that he was “surrounded by crooks”. Why? Because one his bag men helped himself to $1,000 of a $5,000 bribe meant for Hague.
I can hear Thomas bitching to Ginni. Guy can’t make an honest living. We deserve this money.
As a bonus, shipping the brat off to school leaves the fat rat more time for free vacations.
When you’re on a mission from God, His largesse is your just reward.
If Thomas actually had a son he would most likely ship him off to boarding school. So “raising him like a son” in this instance might be valid.
Heck, my first thought when this issue came up was that he actually was Thomas’s son.
I’ve seen nothing so far to dissuade me.
This is the level of contempt. The ‘friend’ thinks he should be heard, and was heard. Literally some back room nobody who expects us to understand the superiority of his opinion.
That they can act with such high handed indifference is a petite malle let-them-eat-cake moment.
Dang. Even the man’s straight up, old fashioned corruption is a reactionary blast from the past.
Since the funds were funneled through Conway were any channelled to the Bowling Green massacre victims relief fund?