Looks like Federalist Society conservatives are desperate to find anything untoward they can pin on liberal SCOTUS justices after revelations of a bribery scandal with Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.
Staffers asking college libraries to buy Sotomayer’s books is some weak sauce in comparison.
A person in an influential position using their status to enrich themselves? Shocking.
Though: was it actually Sotomeyer pushing her staff to boost book sales or the publisher, whose job it is to get books into reader’s hands?
It seems it was her clerics. Which, come on… Don’t do that.
They need oversite and an Inspector General for all this shit.
Pol. party affiliations shouldn’t matter. Investigate all of them and prosecute all who are found guilty.
I agree with you but we should hold ourselves to the same standard.
But how does encouraging schools to buy a book compare to someone who buying houses and payting tuitions for a justice and their family members, and bringing them on all expense paid vacations, all by someone who is sitting on cases in front of that justice?
I think the same standard would be if these schools had cases in front of the Supreme Court and then bought a ton of her books.
These reports are showing it’s not just a couple bad justices, it’s a systemic ethical failure.
I figured that out when all of the Supreme Court justices all released that joint statement pushing back on independent over sight, mandatory compliance with ethics rules, and greater transparency because their buddy Clarence Thomas was getting exposed. That really proved that the rot went deep.
It’s all above the board, yeah? Like she didn’t fucking lie about it on her disclosures?
This is just garden-variety rich liberal corruption. Less disgusting than Justice Thomas, but perhaps more pernicious
Et tu, Sonia? Do all nine of the justices need to be removed?
Let’s do congress next.
Congress members are elected, so you can blame the people for that one.
Yes and no. Gerrymandering heavily influences the outcomes of elections.
Gerrymandering makes some votes count more than others. That wouldn’t matter if there weren’t significant numbers of people voting right-wing.
blaming the people for corrupt practices keeping these old bigots in office isn’t productive in the slightest when the country is largely democratic if you look at raw numbers instead of the winning side of gerrymandered districts
Not to mention, the parties have a large amount of control over who is able to successfully run.
Weak sauce for sure. But the funny thing is, what exactly is their point? Are they saying that justices should be held to a higher standard and that perhaps they should not be trusted to police their own ethics?
Like if your answer to bombshell revelations of severe ethics violations by conservative justices is to point at a liberal justice and say “well she does it too, sort of”, you lost the argument.
We need ethics reforms that apply to ALL justices. I don’t give a fuck if they’re conservative or liberal.
Gorsuch? Or Alito?
Or is it Gorsuch too?
