Thomas has accepted $4M in gifts during career: Watchdog

[Zincwarrior]

Well, now we know you can turn a SCOTUS seat into a going concern business. I am mightily impressed with his entrepeneurial spirit.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4708390-thomas-has-accepted-4m-in-gifts-during-career-watchdog/mlite/

Supreme Court justices have received nearly $5 million in gifts since the early 2000s, and one justice in particular, Justice Clarence Thomas, accounts for nearly all of it.

Data released Thursday by watchdog group Fix the Court unveils a list of gifts justices have received since January 2004. The dataset was released ahead of an expected release of the justices’ financial disclosure reports Friday.


Thomas, nominated to the high court by former President George H.W. Bush, made headlines last year after an investigation found he had taken dozens of trips paid for by separate billionaire friends.

According to the data compiled by Fix the Court, since 2004, Thomas has accepted $4,042,286, or 193 gifts. The group reported that, for Thomas, there’s an additional 126 “likely but not confirmed gifts.”

Of the nearly 200 gifts, the group said Thomas only reported 27 of the gifts on his financial disclosures.

The dataset included current and former justices dating back to 2004, tallying their gift totals, including Thomas’s, to be about $4.7 million.

“Supreme Court justices should not be accepting gifts, let alone the hundreds of freebies worth millions of dollars they’ve received over the years,” Fix the Court’s Gabe Roth said in a statement. “Public servants who make four times the median local salary, and who can make millions writing books on any topic they like, can afford to pay for their own vacations, vehicles, hunting excursions and club memberships.”

Roth continued, arguing that there is influence in who gives the justices gifts and what they are buying with their “generosity.”


“The ethics crisis at the court won’t begin to abate until justices adopt stricter gift acceptance rules,” he said.

The watchdog group acknowledged that the total gift calculations may be lower than what’s actually true. For example, the group was unable to verify a hunting lodge that Justice Antonin Scalia stayed in, and Scalia, along with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and William Rehnquist, died in office, so the numbers “might be undercounts.”

Scalia received the second-highest total in gifts, with $210,164 from Jan. 2004 to his death in 2016.

 

[progressive hunter]

Well, now we know you can turn a SCOTUS seat into a going concern business. I am mightily impressed with his entrepeneurial spirit.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4708390-thomas-has-accepted-4m-in-gifts-during-career-watchdog/mlite/

using democratic party logic this guys a lightweight,,

 

[rightwinger]

using democratic party logic this guys a lightweight,,

Give some similar examples

If George Soros was whining and dining Liberal Justices who were his “friends”………Conservatives would have a fit

 

[TNHarley]

Damn his billionaire friend sends him on trips. Crazy shit, man.

 

[BackAgain]

Well, now we know you can turn a SCOTUS seat into a going concern business. I am mightily impressed with his entrepeneurial spirit.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4708390-thomas-has-accepted-4m-in-gifts-during-career-watchdog/mlite/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fix-the-court-should-fix-itself-788170d8

Am suppose you would bought a leftist group peddles.

But, I’ll wait for actual data.

 

[excalibur]

The left continuing its racist attacks on Clarence Thomas.

 

[rightwinger]

Damn his billionaire friend sends him on trips. Crazy shit, man.

If you are a Supreme Court Justice trying to appear impartial……You do not accept “free stuff”

 

[BackAgain]

If you are a Supreme Court Justice trying to appear impartial……You do not accept “free stuff”

So proclaimeth a libtard.

 

[White 6]

Well, now we know you can turn a SCOTUS seat into a going concern business. I am mightily impressed with his entrepeneurial spirit.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4708390-thomas-has-accepted-4m-in-gifts-during-career-watchdog/mlite/

 

[Leweman]

People who are good at their job deserve accolades and bonuses.

 

[BackAgain]

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Absolutely baseless slander ^.

 

[TNHarley]

If you are a Supreme Court Justice trying to appear impartial……You do not accept “free stuff”

Yes, why accept gifts from your long time friend who just happens to be rich as fuck.

 

[Leweman]

Best retard ... retards can buy.

 

[TNHarley]

LOL
We have congress getting rich off the stock market by way of legislation, receiving millions for campaign cash, and even pay their fucking sexual harassment settlements. But the black guy has a rich friend and people freak the fuck out.

 

[Foxfyre]

Well, now we know you can turn a SCOTUS seat into a going concern business. I am mightily impressed with his entrepeneurial spirit.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4708390-thomas-has-accepted-4m-in-gifts-during-career-watchdog/mlite/

Pretty much ALL those 'gifts' were Justice Thomas and his family spending time with longtime friends Harland and Kathy Crow over a period of 25+ years. Nobody should have to distance themselves from a best friend in order to hold high office. Perhaps Thomas got bad advice that such circumstances did not have to be reported since Crow had no business before the court and Thomas extended no favors as Supreme Court Associate Justice, but anything sinister? No.

". . .In his most recent annual disclosure, Thomas checked the box indicating that he had no gifts to report. “Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable,” Thomas added Friday. . ."

Justice Clarence Thomas Accepted Luxury Trips: What to Know

Legal experts are debating the ethics of Thomas omitting the vacations from his financial disclosures

time.com

This is just another obvious malicious attempt to weaponize government against an individual for no other reason than he/she is not a leftist and most likely to divert attention from possible real crimes committed by Joe Biden and his family.

 

[Leweman]

If you are a Supreme Court Justice trying to appear impartial……You do not accept “free stuff”

Actually your opinions are what make you appear impartial.

 

[TNHarley]

Pretty much ALL those 'gifts' were Justice Thomas and his family spending time with longtime friends Harland and Kathy Crow over a period of 25+ years. Nobody should have to distance themselves from a best friend in order to hold high office. Perhaps Thomas got bad advice that such circumstances did not have to be reported since Crow had no business before the court and Thomas extended no favors as Supreme Court Associate Justice, but anything sinister? No.

This is just another malicious weaponization of government against an individual for no other reason than to divert attention from possible real crimes committed by Joe Biden and his family.

This shit was debunked a year or so ago when it first started coming up. These guys just hate the uncle tom. Thats it.

 

[rightwinger]

Yes, why accept gifts from your long time friend who just happens to be rich as fuck.

Because it gives the appearance that you are indebted to the wealthy Conservative donors

You turn down those lavish gifts
”Because it doesn’t look right”

 

[White 6]

Absolutely baseless slander ^.

Based on the OP. He isn't exactly the picture of propriety.
You think Supreme court justices should be accept a couple of million$ from Billionaire, and you're good with it?

 

[rightwinger]

This shit was debunked a year or so ago when it first started coming up. These guys just hate the uncle tom. Thats it.

No, it was never debunked and the Roberts Court did nothing to show they are not corrupted