@jackhutton

Yeah stonewalling, here the idea that private matters should be private, and the legislature branch should not violate judicial independence at the same time as they want to engage in political grandstanding over private matters.

Really the guy just called out congresspeople for going off the rails.

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@volkris @politico Harlan Crow bought himself a Supreme Court justice. He should at least pay taxes on his purchase.

@jackhutton

There are so many reasons that is a stupid thing to say.

Bought a Supreme Court Justice? As if that makes any sense at all, one of many justices, with the checks and balances in place already to make sure that no justice can be bought and impact the rest of the legal system? Not to mention the role of the judicial branch in the US system of government?

No. That doesn't make any sense at all. It is idiotic to even suggest such a thing, and I'm not mincing words here because, seriously, that is an idiotic thing to say.

That conspiracy theory makes no sense considering the design of the US government, and anybody who believes such a thing does not know how the US government functions.

And I'm just sad for you that you would buy into such a idiotic theory.

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@volkris @politico he bought his mothers house & the houses nearby - Harlan Crow spent millions to buy the Thomases. Thomas needs to resign. — there are no checks and balances. The justices police themselves. And they aren’t. Vacations. We need to know what else bought for them. Harlan Crow owns Clarence Thomas—he bought himself Supreme Court decisions. It was worth it to him. Paid off handsomely.

@jackhutton

I mean you can say there are no checks and balances until your face goes blue, but it cannot change the fact that there are checks and balances.

You are spouting conspiracy theories here. And it does no good.

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@volkris @politico https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/110344544955119626

@jackhutton

It's funny to see a statement that the Thomases offer an example of malfeasance when I'm still waiting for anybody to offer an actual example of the Thomases committing malfeasance with regard to their actual jobs.

It's amazing that with all of the sensationalist headlines, the thing I never ever see is an actual reference to a place where the actual decision of Thomas was wrong. That is the job of the Supreme Court, to issue opinions, but no one ever actually talks about places where the opinions were actually wrong.

It's all this reality TV drama that just distracts from anything that could be seen as actual malfeasance.

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