Earlier this month, after ProPublica revealed that Justice Clarence Thomas frequently takes lavish vacations funded by billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow, Thomas attempted to defend himself by claiming that this sort of “personal hospitality from close personal friends” is fine because Crow “did not have business before the court.”

 

As it turns out, that’s not true. As Bloomberg reports, the Supreme Court — including Justice Thomas — did briefly consider a $25 million copyright dispute involving a company that Crow was a partial owner of in 2005. At that point, Crow had already given a number of gifts to Thomas, including a $19,000 Bible that once belonged to Frederick Douglass.

 

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The real reason is the selection of Justices on the basis of what it is hoped they will do in return for the person and organization that nominated them.

 

Over the past four years we’ve had pages of comments on this forum hopeful of recently appointed SCOTUS Justices coming to the aid of their nominator. 

 

It’s not a secret, it’s an overtly expressed expectation.

 

 

That’s corrupt no doubt about it Tomas needs to go he is unfit for the bench 

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The real reason is the selection of Justices on the basis of what it is hoped they will do in return for the person and organization that nominated them.

 

Over the past four years we’ve had pages of comments on this forum hopeful of recently appointed SCOTUS Justices coming to the aid of their nominator. 

 

It’s not a secret, it’s an overtly expressed expectation.

 

 

Bullseye.

 

It extends all the way down through the legal system.

 

I personally am starting to think that the US judicial system is fatally politically compromised.