AB: April 2023 Propublica reported on the largesse of outsiders and their beneficiant nature of their present giving to SCOTUS. June 2024 and we’re once more listening to of the propensity of the present givers to SCOTUS and particularly Justice Clarence Thomas. If solely they acted in the identical approach with a lot of the inhabitants who might use $6 million in support to exist.
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“Fix the Court” unveiled an inventory of the items the justices have acquired over the 12 months. The numbers make one surprise in regards to the legitimacy of the courtroom’s choices. At a sure level, the query of whether or not there’s affect because of the numbers of and worth of the items comes into query. As Repair the Courtroom has documented from information during the last twenty years (Jan. 2004-Dec. 2023), the justices have accepted 344 items valued at $2,993,036.
If one contains one other 101 items that Justice Thomas seemingly acquired over these 20 years principally comprising free journeys to and free stays at Bohemian Grove and Topridge value $1,787,684) the quantity jumps to 445 items valued at ~$4,780,720. See the chart beneath as taken from Repair the Courtroom or right here.
All advised, the variety of items FTC recognized that have been accepted by the present 9, plus the eight who’ve left the courtroom since 2004 (Justices Rehnquist, Stevens, O’Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer) is 546, valued at $4,755,147. Including in Thomas’ 126 seemingly items since his affirmation, that tally involves 672 items valued at $6,592,657.
These numbers are largely primarily based on final 12 months’s groundbreaking work by ProPublica and contains information from tales within the New York Instances, L.A. Instances, the congressional report, annual disclosures and FTC’s personal analysis, led by regulation clerks Olivia Rae Okun-Dubitsky and Ashley Alarcon.
And Propublica’s report was nonetheless not sufficient to boost eyebrows and lead to motion by the courtroom or Congress?
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