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Old 04-07-2023, 04:52 PM
 
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Even my little local government people I worked for years ago knew that you couldn't accept gifts.

Of course Thomas knew he wasn't supposed to do that. But he thinks he's above everyone else.

 
Old 04-07-2023, 04:52 PM
 
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He’s a decent justice, leave him alone
 
Old 04-07-2023, 04:53 PM
 
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sounds like some people here are jealous they don't have any rich friends. He broke no law. He was friends with these people long before he was a Justice. He's lifetime, focus on another angle.
That is incorrect. Clarence Thomas met Harlan Crow five years after he became Supreme Court Justice.

Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991. Harlan Crow says he met Clarence in 1996.

In a statement Crow provided to ProPublica, Crow said he and his wife Kathy have known Clarence and Ginni Thomas since 1996, describing them as “very dear friends.”

In 2011, the New York Times reported that Crow had done favors for Thomas and his wife, specifically financing a multimillion-dollar restoration of a cannery in Pin Point, Ga., which was a pet project of the justice. The Times also reported that Crow financed a library dedicated to Thomas in Savannah, Ga., and presented him with a Bible that had belonged to Frederick Douglass. It also reported that Crow had provided $500,000 for Ginni Thomas to start a political organization.


Who is Harlan Crow, the GOP megadonor who vacations with Justice Thomas?
The Texas billionaire is at the center of a ProPublica report, which describes lavish trips across the globe with the associate justice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...-thomas-kkfaq/
 
Old 04-07-2023, 04:54 PM
 
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That is incorrect. Clarence Thomas met Harlan Crow five years after he became Supreme Court Justice.

Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991. Harlan Crow says he met Clarence in 1996.

In a statement Crow provided to ProPublica, Crow said he and his wife Kathy have known Clarence and Ginni Thomas since 1996, describing them as “very dear friends.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...-thomas-kkfaq/
So what? He stays on the court
 
Old 04-07-2023, 04:59 PM
 
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If someone says Harlan Crow knew Thomas before he became a Supreme Court Justice, and I show that NO, he met Thomas five years AFTER he became a Supreme Court Justice, what has that to do with your response?
Its not worth mentioning one way or the other, he is staying on the court.
 
Old 04-07-2023, 05:09 PM
 
Location: TUS/PDX
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Can you cite to the reporting requirement? And not some post on CD.
Ethics and Government Act of 1978. SCOTUS no longer enjoys exemption.
 
Old 04-07-2023, 05:54 PM
 
Location: The High Desert
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If there is no (or few) restrictions on what gifts a judge can receive, then Trump is really stupid.
 
Old 04-07-2023, 06:03 PM
 
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It appears, these days, that integrity is a dirty word.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/new...d8830a58&ei=10

It wasn't illegal when he accepted the travel. Now, the court must declare


So, his integrity is still intact regardless what the libs say
 
Old 04-07-2023, 07:21 PM
 
Location: Lost in Montana *recalculating*...
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This just proves the court is indeed politicized and in some cases, like this, feel above reproach.
 
Old 04-07-2023, 07:24 PM
 
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It wasn't illegal when he accepted the travel. Now, the court must declare

So, his integrity is still intact regardless what the libs say
Look, I remember Colonel Hogan and Sergeant Shultz, and it seems to me that Hitler would never accept a candy bar gift, and woe it be to whomever would make such an offer.

Integrity is supposed to a hierarchical thing (usually), and Shultz never offered a gift to Hogan.

I also don't think Hitler would have been influenced by a French cook, either.

Me, though, I actually did offer wage raises to any of my employees would increase their cleaning quality and speed.

And, I got to tell ya, the local communists (in Helena, MT) hated me for it.

Apparently, it was because my employees made more money than their employees made.

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