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#3060271 8-Apr-2023 08:57

quickymart: Were these rules in place when he became a judge? I got the impression they were a recent thing.

From the Washington Post story:

Thomas' failure to report the flights appears to violate a law passed after Watergate [50 years ago] that requires justices, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts, two ethics law experts said.

He also should have disclosed his trips on the yacht, these experts said.

This is in the statute itself and predates the recent (March) filing guidance update.

Apart from free transport / holidays, the Judge has received many extravagant gifts from Crow.

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In 2009, Crow donated US $500,000 to Liberty Central, a new branch of the far-right Tea Party, founded by Ginni Thomas.

Ginni received a generous salary (US $700,000 over 5 years) from Liberty Central.

see: wiki - Ginni Thomas

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#3060283 8-Apr-2023 10:10

Thanks for that. Apart from trying to overturn elections, I have no idea what Ginny Thomas actually does.

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#3061544 11-Apr-2023 15:57

No, this is not a scene from Citizen Kane ...

The Guardian - Justice Clarence Thomas’s megadonor friend collects Hitler memorabilia (08 April 2023)

Harlan Crow, closely linked to judge Clarence Thomas, has a signed copy of Mein Kampf and two of the dictator’s paintings.

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wiki - Harlan Crow

Art and memorabilia collections

Crow's Dallas residence is home to an extensive collection of Nazi memorabilia, including two paintings by Adolf Hitler and a signed copy of Mein Kampf.

Crow's backyard garden is home to at least 20 statues of authoritarian leaders and Communist icons, including Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong, Karl Marx, Hosni Mubarak, Josip Broz Tito, Nicolae Ceausescu, Walter Ulbricht, Gavrilo Princip, Bela Kun, and Che Guevara.

Crow acquired these former public monuments after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. ...

Crow also owns original paintings by Adolf Hitler, Claude Monet, Rembrandt Peale, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Winston Churchill, and Dwight Eisenhower. ...

Obviously a man of culture and refinement. 😶

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The Guardian - Senate Democrats urge supreme court investigation of Clarence Thomas

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The US Senate judiciary committee’s Democratic members on Monday unanimously urged the supreme court chief justice, John Roberts, to investigate luxury trips taken by associate justice Clarence Thomas that were paid for by a hugely wealthy Republican party donor.

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#3061562 11-Apr-2023 16:40

I wonder how many judges are in his collection?

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#3061567 11-Apr-2023 16:45

1 is 1 too many.

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#3061574 11-Apr-2023 16:54

I am surprised there has been so little mention of Anita Hill here and in mainstream media in reference to this. It made the news in a very big way at the time of the Thomas confirmation hearings and the parallels with Kavanaugh are fairly staggering. Biden is also a thread that runs through all this. Here is a good summary.

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#3061644 11-Apr-2023 19:52

Rikkitic: I wonder how many judges are in his collection?

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#3063324 13-Apr-2023 19:41

Mentioned in passing, Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who perpetrated the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children, injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

The bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism in the United States prior to the September 11 attacks. It remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

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#3063811 15-Apr-2023 09:46

The Washington Post - The 5-Minute Fix - What's going on with Clarence Thomas?

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s problems are mounting in the aftermath of yet another ProPublica report detailing his ties to conservative billionaire donor Harlan Crow.

While the outlet’s first report detailed how Thomas might have broken the law by failing to disclose luxury trips Crow paid for, its latest describes actual money exchanging hands in a real estate deal between Thomas and Crow. ...

The bare bones: ProPublica reported that, in 2014, Crow purchased the Savannah, Ga., home where Thomas’s mother lived, as well as two nearby lots - all three of which were co-owned by Justice Thomas - for around $133,000.*

Thomas, again, did not disclose this on his annual report. And unlike last week, when the story about the luxury trips broke, he hasn’t yet tried to explain himself.

The post-Watergate law at issue, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, seems pretty clear:

The law requires government officials to include in their annual reports “a brief description, the date, and category of value of any purchase, sale or exchange during the preceding calendar year which exceeds $1,000,” including, “in real property.”

EDIT: * This sounds cheap in 2023, but in 2014 this was three times their market value. 🙄

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#3063815 15-Apr-2023 10:08

What's the worst that could happen to him though? Disbarrment? Removal from the Supreme Court bench (that would be great)?

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#3063817 15-Apr-2023 10:26

quickymart:

What's the worst that could happen to him though? Disbarrment? Removal from the Supreme Court bench (that would be great)?

Nothing except an even more tarnished reputation. The only recourse is impeachment, which would fail.

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#3063942 15-Apr-2023 17:06

Answers to future questions:

This "Ultra right" beer video is not a parody.

The beer he's drinking doesn't even exist yet; only the beer name exists.

It'll cost US $35, NZD $56, or NZ $9.38 each.

It's 4% alcohol like nearly all of the most popular beers in America, such Bud light. Note the US has a complex set of laws about beer alcohol and even labelling. Foe example New York prohibits beer labels from including ABV.

He briefly shows Dylan Mulvaney who apparently is his nemesis.

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#3063945 15-Apr-2023 17:20

kingdragonfly: Answers to future questions:

What is even the point of this? I avoid rabid right sites because I don't want to have to slog through this sort of crap. I really don't want to see it on GZ, but if we absolutely must, can we not at least confine it to a dedicated forum for that purpose so it can be easily avoided by us more discriminating types?

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#3064062 15-Apr-2023 21:34

Regarding the perceived threat of "woke" companies running LGQTB+ ads, the title of this thread is "political deplorables."

Fox News has been beating the cultural war drums, for something that's been common for a long time. It's been pretty common for beer companies to have specialized marketing materials for gay bars since the 1980's. Just most Americans have never stepped foot in a gay bar, so they didn't know about it.

It's been big news in the US, across the entire political spectrum. I can't name any outlet that hasn't discussed it from Rolling Stones to Fox News, from the New York Times to the New York Post.

I've heard the deplorable, and frequent Trump buddy, "Kid Rock" discussed numerous times in the last few days. He posted a video using a machine gun to shoot up "Bud Light" in protest.

Now the right-wing is frantically searching for any marketing for any LGQTB+ ads, asking for boycotts.

Even the benign "RuPaul’s Drag Race" who had Jack Daniel's wiskey ads are now getting the same treatment as "Bud Light."

In all the news coverage, political deplorable have been busy calling for boycotts of "woke companies", like Disney, Anheuser Busch, and now Jack Daniel's.

There's going to be a lot of political deplorables drinking a lot less booze.

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#3064091 15-Apr-2023 23:08

A few deplorables in the news this week:

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3946131-100-days-in-power-house-gop-honeymoon-may-be-over/ >> the GOP deplorables aren't actually getting much traction with all their subpoenas

https://abovethelaw.com/2023/04/after-pissing-off-every-federal-judge-in-dc-peter-navarro-will-finally-have-to-cough-up-government-docs-he-stole/ >> one of Trump's fellow insurrectionists finally has to hand over his e-mails as per process to the National Archives ("but her e-mails...")

https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-faces-existential-challenge-181749400.html >> Fox News in trouble - what do they do about Trump? Tucker is a turncoat, basically.

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