Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[rick49]

Biden judicial nominee refuses to say whether racial discrimination is wrong

hotair.com/headlines/2022/02/02/biden-judicial-nominee-refuses-to-say-whether-racial-discrimination-is-wrong-n445744

[flatandy]

Clarence Thomas has been a very naughty boy. He's been getting flights and superyacht trips and hotels and glam meals from a right-wing billionaire for years, which certainly looks like influence peddling and bribery. But is apparently sort-of-allowed. Except he was meant to declare those things and didn't.

Now, much naughtier, he seems to have "sold" some property to this billionaire, for well over the amount that he valued it at (and while his mum still lives in that house that's had massive improvements done to it by the billionaire), without declaring that, either.

Nothing will probably come of this, but he's clearly completely rotten and corrupt.

www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus

[mids]

Good for him. Of course any criticism of him is massively racist.

[ootlg]

Which one's which?

[mids]

He sounds like a soul singer. His name I mean, I don't know if he actually does.

[ootlg]

Clarence? Frogman Henry?

[voice]

While he's massively corrupt there's no consequences' for it, all the time he ruled in the billionaires favour, all the dosh, gifts, backhanders, all of it, consequence free.

[flatandy]

There are some distant questions about whether there are consequences to the property sales because that seems to move into criminal law rather than civil crimes.

Odds are that it won't, though. The most likely change is the increased chance of a more formal complaints process, but even that's doubtful because Roberts wants to keep the superficial appearance of good order and m\the mystery behind the veil.

[unclejunior]

so as I asked elsewhere ....can you be "friends " with a rich person & accept his hospitality??

[flatandy]

Yes. But you need to declare it so the public can see if anything appears suspicious, like you always making rulings that exactly benefit the person who's shovelling cash your way. Of course, nobody can do anything about it.

Of course, in the US you can do it completely corruptly and take straight up bribes but because membership of the supreme court is permanent, there are literally no consequences to whether you just happen to like the rich person who's giving you millions of dollars worth of stuff, or whether you're just taking his stuff in order to vote for his principles.

[Repat Van]

Apr 14, 2023 15:58:49 GMT unclejunior said:

so as I asked elsewhere ....can you be "friends " with a rich person & accept his hospitality??

Can you be a Supreme Court judge and accept bribes? I am positive you cannot….

[unclejunior]

Apr 14, 2023 18:46:08 GMT Repat Van said:

Apr 14, 2023 15:58:49 GMT unclejunior said:

so as I asked elsewhere ....can you be "friends " with a rich person & accept his hospitality??

Can you be a Supreme Court judge and accept bribes? I am positive you cannot….

So if your friend asks you to stay with him and his family for a holiday , that is in your book a hideous crime..?

Yes , interesting🤔

[flatandy]

If you try and hide the fact that you’re repeatedly taking massive gifts from a very rich person secret it is (a) a crime and (b) incredibly suspect.

[flatandy]

If a very rich person gives you $130000 for something you previously claimed was worth $15000, and then lets you keep that thing so effectively gave you the money, then spends more hundreds of thousands on improving that thing that you still are in possession of, it looks like both tax fraud, and someone just giving you lots of money for something.

[voice]

and if you constantly make ruling that favour that very rick person, it puts your accepting his largesse in a different category to just him being nice and taking you on holiday.

and if you think its acceptable that judges do this then I suspect you don't really want to live in a free and fair democracy where the rule of law is respected and equally applied, but that you'd just want a one party state where everything 'your side' does is excusable.

no wonder the far right now lionise Putin

[mids]

It is, of course, significant that the far far extreme left are attacking a black.

[voice]

not as significant as the racists bringing in this blokes skin colour, as if everyone else is as obsessed by such trivialities as they are.

[perrykneeham]

Yeah, so much less important than the colour of a Victorian child's doll.

[Repat Van]

Apr 14, 2023 19:26:28 GMT unclejunior said:

Apr 14, 2023 18:46:08 GMT Repat Van said:

Can you be a Supreme Court judge and accept bribes? I am positive you cannot….

So if your friend asks you to stay with him and his family for a holiday , that is in your book a hideous crime..?

Yes , interesting🤔

You’re not allowed to accept bribes as a Supreme Court judge. What part of this are you struggling with?

[unclejunior]

So why is accepting an offer to stay on holiday with your friend a crime ??
Should he have asked him & his wife to have brought a tent & pitched it the car park of their house