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John Oliver offers to pay Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he resigns from supreme court
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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Which he will turn down. If you watch the episode you'll see all the perks he enjoys from being who he is. Which of course he'd stop being invited to, if he retired from the position.
True (and I watched the episode), but it doesn't take away from the fact it is a sweet deal. I bet you Thomas considers it, even if he chooses not to take it.
It was scary seeing the stark difference between when he was begging his legislative colleagues that they need to raise their pay and his more recent interviews about how they are paid.
It's clear as day that even though he isn't getting paid more, he's getting paid plenty.
The funny thing was that I almost couldn't get a security clearance because I had so much debt in my early career days. The fact that there is zero oversight over the Supreme Court is just baffling.
Yup.
Rules for thee, not for me. Maybe that should become part of the swearing in oath so they can be honest at least once.
Conservatives would counter 10M to stay on the court and consider it a deal.
At least it would make the point of whomever pays more gets to own the judges completely moot.