MrDollarBills wrote:Neutral 123 wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:
Are you okay with Clarence Thomas accepting millions of dollars in lavish gifts/trips from people whose cases were being heard before the court? Because that's what the code of ethics is referring to.
I am in support of anything that ends the current gerontocracy in our three branches of government.
Clarence Thomas adheres to the constitution with his rulings. He's an incredible supreme court judge. I've already made it clear that as long as a code of ethics means not accepting lavish gifts, then I'm for it. but you never know what will actually be proposed. This is why I can't go by just a headline.

Yeah, no. A judge who voted to declare a President to be above the law when committing "official acts" does not adhere to the constitution.
He is also openly corrupt, has accepted millions in bribes, and his wife is an insurrectionist. Thanks for the laugh, but nah man

$4,042,286 in "gifts" since 2004, to be exact. And keep in mind he was sworn in more than 10 years before that. So the exact total is undoubtedly even higher.
Seriously, this is just another example of how completely broken the system is. As a journalist they drilled into your head that you can't even accept a free lunch from anyone you're dealing with in a professional capacity. And yet, just because it isn't explicitly outlined in a specific code of ethics, somebody who is apparently intelligent enough to graduate from law school can't figure out that accepting lavish and expensive "gifts" from billionaires whose cases and causes he could rule on is deeply, deeply unethical?
Lol, right. Right.
And that's before you even get into his insurrectionist wife, whose activism based on illegal bullsht raises even more issues about his (severe lack of) ethics.
(Side note: This is a fun quote from one of her aunts from an old Washington Post article when he was first nominated -- "He treated her so well, all of his other qualities made up for his being Black." loooooooooooooooooooool. No wonder Samuel L. Jackson calls him Uncle Clarence.)