So #CharlesKoch, #HarlanCrow et al. bought a Supreme Court (@scotus) that kept #Trump out of prison, granted him massively extended immunity and then pumped money into the @GOP campaign.
They own the horrors of the coming years (only 4, hopefully). https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/us/politics/trump-special-counsel-report-election-jan-6.html
Justice #ClarenceThomas failed to disclose 2 additional trips from a #billionaire patron than have previously come to light, #Senate #Democrats revealed on Sat after conducting a 20-month investigation into #ethics practices at #SCOTUS.
The findings were part of a 93p report released by Democratic staff members of the #Judiciary Cmte along w/~800pgs of docs. It said the 2 trips, both…previously unknown…, took place in 2021 & were provided by #HarlanCrow…
#law #corrupt
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/us/politics/clarence-thomas-trips-disclosure-investigation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"Remember when John Kerry was Swiftboated by Chris LaCivita who is doing it to Tim Walz now? Guess who funded it? Harlan Crow, the billionaire who has been lavishing freebies on Clarence Thomas."
~ Jane Mayer as quoted by David Kurtz
#JDVance #TimWalz #swiftboating #media #HarlanCrow #ClarenceThomas #ChrisLaCivita
/12
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/jack-smith-wants-more-time-to-figure
As Chris Geidner says, Supreme justice Gorsuch dares to lecture the rest of us on how we deal with ethical issues when it comes out that his colleague Clarence Thomas has taken more expensive trips on Sugar Daddy Harlan Crow's tab, which he never disclosed, though he's required by law to do so.
Some ethics.
#SupremeCourt #ethics #corruption #ClarenceThomas #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy #Gorsuch
https://www.lawdork.com/p/gorsuch-be-careful-thomas-more-trips
The letter, part of an inquiry that #RonWyden, chair of the #Senate Finance Cmte, has opened into #HarlanCrow & #ClarenceThomas, comes as top #Democrats have urged major changes to #SCOTUS, including an #enforceable code of conduct.
Wyden said the latest revelation only increased his misgivings about the relationship between the justice & Crow. “I am deeply concerned that Mr. Crow may have been showering a public official w/extravagant gifts, then writing off those gifts to lower his tax bill”
Customs & Border Protection records revealed that #ClarenceThomas & his wife, #GinniThomas, took a round trip between Hawaii & New Zealand in Nov 2010 on #HarlanCrow’s private jet. Sen #RonWyden, #Democrat of Oregon, writing to Crow’s lawyer, demanded that he supply more info about the #financial relationship between the 2 men.
#law #JudicialEthics #judiciary #corruption #ActivistCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/3c289da6f36f0ab9/1e8cb898-full.pdf
Justice #ClarenceThomas Failed to Reveal More Private Flights, Senator Says
Sen #RonWyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor #HarlanCrow’s lawyer after records showed [more] undisclosed flights between Hawaii & New Zealand w/the #SCOTUS justice in 2010.
#law #JudicialEthics #judiciary #corruption #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform #FarRight #Republicans
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/us/politics/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
So let's get this straight. #JusticeThomas went to #russia, in secret, with #HarlanCrow. The trip included a helicopter ride to a palace in St. Petersburg. It took place in 2003. This is the first known yacht trip. Let's examine the implications. A thread:
First, a rich american with a #SCOTUS justice doesn't just show up unannounced and fly a helicopter into St. Petersburg
That sh*t requires advanced notice and clearance 
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1811828418503409910.html #US #News
After 4 decades of failed #Republican #TrickleDown, #RightWing #SCOTUS justices ruled #homelessness a crime.
Present conditions in America are disturbingly similar to those of pre-Revolutionary #France under #LouisXVI, whether it's #migrants (not same as #immigrants), #inflation, #poverty, or better-off people like #LeonardLeo, #HarlanCrow, corrupt #SupremeCourt #Justices and their spouses gaslighting us into believing that "all this is evidence of increasing #moralDepravity."
"It’s also notable that neither Justice Clarence Thomas nor Justice Samuel Alito, both of whom have accepted expensive gifts from politically active Republican billionaires, recused themselves from the case. Thomas and Alito both joined Kavanaugh’s opinion reading the anti-corruption statute narrowly."
~ Ian Milhiser
#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/5
https://www.vox.com/scotus/357170/supreme-court-snyder-united-states-corruption
"Bow wow wow and yippie-yo-yippie-yay, whip open those checkbooks, boys! If you billionaires liked the way your Justices ruled this year, or appreciate how your governor or mayor steered contracts your way, it sure would be nice if you left them an appreciative tip so they can buy extra beer this summer, just saying!
Disgusting."
~ Marcie Jones
#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/4
"As long as the justices accept obscene 'gratuities' after they issue decisions that overturn decades of settled precedent, it is not a bribe, according to the majority. …
The opinion in Snyder v. US was made possible by the support of two justices implicated in bribery. The opinion stinks of corruption!"
#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/3
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-bizarre-day-in-the-supreme-court
"This decision that officials can accept 'gifts' so long as they are not 'bribes' might have something to do with the fact that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have accepted significant gifts from donors—Thomas’s count is upward of $4 million—and it doesn’t relieve the sense that this Supreme Court, with its three right-wing Trump-appointed justices, is untrustworthy."
#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/2
"By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court today blessed the practice of taking 'gratuities' as a gift for past behavior by an official, distinguishing them from 'bribes,' which require proof that there was an illegal deal in place."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/1
"The price the rest of us pay for Clarence living high on the Harlan hog is more gun carnage, more government-mandated births, and more women dying from lack of medical care. He is, for all intents and purposes, jeopardizing 333 million American lives to make money he doesn’t need.
To again quote Martha-Ann Alito: VERGOGNA."
~ Greg Olear
#ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt #corruption #ethics #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy #guns #abortion
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/clarence-thomas-the-gordon-gekko
#Durbin also announced action on another #oversight issue, which pleased progressive activists including Aronson. The #Judiciary Cmte had issued subpoenas for #Texas #billionaire #HarlanCrow & #conservative activist #LeonardLeo in Nov related to their interactions w/the justices, but had not enforced them. The Cmte reached a deal w/Crow on Thurs in which he disclosed he paid for an additional 3 trips on a private jet by #ClarenceThomas.
#NRA executive director #RandyKozuch celebrates the #SCOTUS #BumpStock ruling:
“The Supreme Court has properly restrained executive branch agencies to their role of enforcing, & not making, the law. This decision will be pivotal to NRA’s future challenges of ATF regulations.”
#HarlanCrow’s political spending started long BEFORE #CitizensUnited opened the floodgates for anonymous money…in 2010. 1977—2009, Crow & his cos gave >$2.4M to fed candidates, parties, PACs, & other pol entities.
SINCE Citizens United, he’s REPORTED spending $13.8M on federal #politics. But that’s not all. While it’s impossible to track Crow’s #undisclosed political giving, public info shows longstanding ties to the biggest figures & groups in #Republican #DarkMoney.
#SCOTUS #law #ActivistCourt
#HarlanCrow is more than #SCOTUS Justice #ClarenceThomas’s secret patron—he’s also deeply intertwined w/the shadowy world of #Republican #DarkMoney. Crow personally took part in the creation of the post- #CitizensUnited dark money system & secretly helped bankroll some of the groups.
- @CREW 2023
#law #ActivistCourt #ClarenceThomas #Alito #JohnRoberts #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo
https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/analysis/harlan-crows-deep-dark-money-connections/
Clay Bennett's cartoon commentary on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' relationship with Harlan Crow.
#ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt #corruption #ethics #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy #JusticeforSale #LawandOrder
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/14/2246273/-Cartoon-Postcard-from-Clarence-Thomas
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