Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million.

Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million.

Supreme Court justices received $3million in gifts throughout the last two decades, a watchdog group revealed on Thursday - with controversial Justice Clarence Thomas accounting for nearly 80 percent.

Thomas, who has come under fire for accepting gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow, led the group of justices with the highest value of gifts accepted at $2.4million, according to Court News Service.

Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million.

    • sunzu@kbin.run
      66·
      5 months ago

      This is how it always been, internet made it impossible to hide.

      The people in power don’t even really care, what about overworked and underpaid wage slaves going to do about it?

      Make a shit post, maybe do a protest then lay down and take it anyway?

      Asking for a friend.

    • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
      231·
      5 months ago

      The ruling class of the United States has always been like this. This is a country founded by and for slaveowners that gladly governed in their own favor.

    • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.worldM
      161·
      5 months ago

      Who’s gonna prosecute him? He’s can appeal up to the highest court and then exonerate himself together with his buddies.

      • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
        13·
        5 months ago

        If the system was working as it should congress can impeach him. But that’s not going to happen we know that he knows that.

        I also think that he is using this GOP congressional firewall to keep doing it because why not?

        • BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          The founding Fathers likely couldn’t imagine a Congress that wouldn’t impeach a Supreme Court Justice for such flagrant self-enrichment. But they were thinking about Congress as a more ideological body rather than a political entity. They couldn’t imagine Justices being aligned with political bodies; that was part of the idea of a lifetime appointment. Put someone in a job for life and they should be immune from partisan political bullshit from the outside.

          They couldn’t envision justices who would trade everything for a lifetime appointment to support their preferred political flavor.

          IMO, the solution is to let every President nominate a new SC justice, and retire the oldest one every election.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      51·
      5 months ago

      Much like the Mullahs of Iran, the Mullahs of America can do whatever they want and you have to do what they say.

      • sunzu@kbin.run
        4·
        5 months ago

        funny how America mocks Iran’s undemocratic clown house but we have too worship this shit at home…

        the sad part is that the NPC culture accepted it, everyone is for it as along as it is “their” team who gets to make shots

        we got what we deserves really at this point. sucks to suck.