Clarence Thomas secretly accepted luxury vacations from GOP donor without disclosing

I’ve mostly seen it abbreviated as just Roe.

Maybe a hijack…what happened in Wisconsin? Last I saw the liberal supreme court justice won.

What did I miss?

(Please be brief if this is a hijack.)

I’ve only been half following the thread so this might not be what you’re referring to, but republicans in WI have already started discussing impeaching her (she won’t even be sworn in for a few months yet).

I feel ya.

Every holiday season, some law offices would send fruit baskets and boxes of chocolates to the court staff, just to express their appreciation for our work.

There was a local business, famous for its pastries, that would send groaning containers of all their goodies.

One law firm gave $50 gift certificates to a wonderful restaurant in the area to every person who worked for the judges, from the lowliest file clerk to the most senior court attorney.

We couldn’t accept any of it. (Probably saved my waistline, but that’s beside the point.)

I once turned down a chocolate orange from a lawyer. He brought it after the lunch break when I stayed in to prep his exhibits for the trial afternoon session. He meant well, but “no gifts” meant no gifts!

Completely agree. But then, I always detested him.

Thanks…very disturbing news. For another thread though.

I’d suggest joining the discussion on the What Comes After Trump thread for an appropriate option @Whack-a-Mole.

He must have read the article I saw recently about making effective charitable contributions, subtitled “How to do the most good with the money you give”. The man is obviously a pragmatist who knows how to get the most out of everything he gives! :wink:

What makes it doubly frustrating is that Thomas is the most intransigent of the far-right nutjobs on the court, with Alito a close second. As I noted over here with yet another example, Thomas and Alito can be relied on for a consistent lunatic vote on almost every issue, making even the Trump appointees look almost sane by comparison. Neither should ever have been nominated, let alone confirmed, but in the case of Thomas that fact was blatantly obvious right from the start. The absolute worst of a bad lot.

Apologies for continuing the hijack…

There have been Wisconsin Republicans threatening this, yes, but according to this article, the Senate Majority Leader (a Republican) has said that they won’t be pursuing that in order to overturn the election, and actually achieving an impeachment and removal from office would be challenging, anyway.

Yeah, I read that as well, and while it made me feel a bit better, it’s not like republicans, at least as a whole, have all that much integrity.
I could easily see someone saying that to keep everyone calm, but doing it anyway. Or being convinced to do it later.

“My friend told me it was okay”. Maybe he had a flashback and thought he was being called before the principal in grade school. That’s some weak shit for a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE! He might as well have said “IANAL” :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Turns out the the guy that bought Thomas is also a huge fan of Adolf Hitler. Cool.

Now, now. He says he has Hitler’s paintings and a signed copy of Mein Kampf in a special Nazi memorabilia room because he hates fascism. Who could doubt that explanation?

If he was really dedicated to hating fascism, he’d have the complete set of memorabilia from the Il Duce and Generalissimo Franco collections. Weak!

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I hear he has a train schedule. Does that count?

“Worse: the signature reads, ‘Dear Harlan, Big fan. - Adolf’”

Does a garden count?

Somehow less alarming but still strange is the “Garden of Evil” in Crow’s backyard, where statues of infamous despots like Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito, and Russia’s Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin reside.

I just assumed he asked Ginni Thomas if it was OK.

That just…makes him seem like a Bond villain.

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