It’s Good To Be An Untouchable Supreme Court Justice

With lifetime tenure ending only with death, resignation, or impeachment (the last having never happened in the history of the Constitution).

Every picture tells a story.  This one tells the story of the corruption of Clarence Thomas, and of the Roberts Court.

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.

No shit, Sherlock.

During his three decades on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has enjoyed steady access to a lifestyle most Americans can only imagine. A cadre of industry titans and ultrawealthy executives have treated him to far-flung vacations aboard their yachts, ushered him into the premium suites at sporting events and sent their private jets to fetch him — including, on more than one occasion, an entire 737. It’s a stream of luxury that is both more extensive and from a wider circle than has been previously understood. 

Like clockwork, Thomas’ leisure activities have been underwritten by benefactors who share the ideology that drives his jurisprudence

It’s good to be an untouchable government employee with almost unparalleled power, answerable to no one.

Ain’t representative government grand? Especially if you get all the benefits of a singular government position, and none of the personal responsibility for your grift.

“In my career I don’t remember ever seeing this degree of largesse given to anybody,” said Jeremy Fogel, a former federal judge who served for years on the judicial committee that reviews judges’ financial disclosures. “I think it’s unprecedented.”

It’s good to be a Supreme.

The total value of the undisclosed trips they’ve given Thomas since 1991, the year he was appointed to the Supreme Court, is difficult to measure. But it’s likely in the millions.

Nobody could have foreseen that absolute lack of accountability would lead to absolute corruption. I mean, it’s not like we have a system of government set up to investigate and prevent such things! A government of laws and not of men! Or a government with 9 people who decide what the laws ultimately are, and which one do, or don’t, apply to them.

Right? Checks and balances all the way up and down, right?

Whatever did happen to that investigation into the leak of the Dobbs decision? I’m sure we can trust the same process will investigate Clarence Thomas and get to the bottom of this. After all, separation of powers, amirite?*

*I’m sure if I looked, I’d find that doctrine at the bottom of the argument for irrevocable lifetime tenure for Art. III judges. As established by the Court. Hem-hem.