Hey guys I know it’s wild but there might be some corruption going on in the Supreme Court.
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2024
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Lucky for us there is a system of checks and....oh wait...
Bribery. Checks and bribery.
A system of checks and money orders. And cash.
And luxury vacations. And forgiven "loans." And property purchased as "gifts." And free flights on private jets. And...
These fuckers. These absolutely amoral fuckers.
Bank checks and account balances.
A solid line you got there.
The supreme court makes a mockery of democracy (intentionally) and should be treated with scorn instead of reverence.
I'd like to take a moment to remind y'all that Clarence "I'm For Sale" Thomas turned down a FREE RV offered by Last Week Tonight. So he's not corrupt. He's selective.
Let's wait and see how he votes on repealing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
I'm sure he'll vote his conscience
but he already has a free RV,
I think Oliver also offered him $1 million a year from Oliver’s personal moneys. Which is not an insignificant amount of money for a justice who isn’t corrupt.
In the past, he signaled he'd retire because he wasn't getting paid enough, meaning he needed to be bribed to keep a conservative justice on the SCOTUS.
If you take it at face value, then he should have jumped at John Olivers' offer.
Why take a bribe from John Oliver, who would immediately turn around and disclose that Thomas accepted it on his television program, when he could just go ask Daddy Harlan Crow for an identical RV and then not disclose it?
The Supreme Court is corrupt to the core. There's an inability to hold them accountable for anything. The system of checks and balances functionally doesn't exist for this "apolitical" branch.
I say..."And?"
Like anything will come of it.
“I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers analysis differently,” Roberts wrote to his Supreme Court peers, according to a private memo obtained by the Times.
That's all the Times is gonna give us? One sentence of a memo relating to one of the most questionable Supreme Court decisions of all time? The voters should know everything about how they got to this decision.
Yeah that's not even enough for me to know if it's controversial. I, also, think SCOTUS will have different opinions on separation of powers.
I am shocked...shocked to find corruption going on in the Supreme Court!
I'm shocked that they kept the records of the corruption
I'm GLAD that these LAWMAKERS are UNELECTED and Appointed for a LIFETIME!
Term limits won't help with systemic corruption, because replacing corrupt judges with new corrupt judges would be the natural response.
Enshrining impeachment as a regular and viable strategy for actual corruption would be.