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The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.
Frankly this is embarrassing. Thomas should step down, and failing that the Court should impose ethics rules going forward. Why they’re fighting the proposal to subject Supreme Court justices to the same common sense rules as every other judge is beyond me. All judges are corruptible; even the Bible says so.
The worst part is that he didn’t break any rules because there aren’t any in place. Honestly, what he does is no worse than what any other judges do and the only way forward is through preventative measures.
That’s not true. Other judges in in other US courts have ethical codes of conduct. Other justices on the supreme Court that accept gifts report them through proper disclosures.
“The federal statute, the Ethics in Government Act, very clearly applies to the justices, and it very clearly requires disclosure of these gifts of travel. And so the law itself, for any textualist judge, which Alito and Thomas are, should make it clear to them that they have to disclose.”
Frankly this is embarrassing. Thomas should step down, and failing that the Court should impose ethics rules going forward. Why they’re fighting the proposal to subject Supreme Court justices to the same common sense rules as every other judge is beyond me. All judges are corruptible; even the Bible says so.
The worst part is that he didn’t break any rules because there aren’t any in place. Honestly, what he does is no worse than what any other judges do and the only way forward is through preventative measures.
That’s not true. Other judges in in other US courts have ethical codes of conduct. Other justices on the supreme Court that accept gifts report them through proper disclosures.
“The federal statute, the Ethics in Government Act, very clearly applies to the justices, and it very clearly requires disclosure of these gifts of travel. And so the law itself, for any textualist judge, which Alito and Thomas are, should make it clear to them that they have to disclose.”
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1193693798