Re:I Got the Fed to Release Its 2011 "Treasury Default" Play...
by HDThoreaun on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @05:11PM
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Thomas joined the court in 1991, so I'm not sure that the 1996 friendship date helps him much.
Re:I Got the Fed to Release Its 2011 "Treasury Default" Play...
by kurthr on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @05:45PM
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Giving and forgiving a $200k loan, buying his mom's house (while still allowing her to live there free for over a decade), and paying for his kid's private schooling while you have cases in front of a justice has the appearance of impropriety.
Re:I Got the Fed to Release Its 2011 "Treasury Default" Play...
by Arrath on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @08:09PM
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My corpo policy doesn't even allow me to accept $20 of gifts from friends or acquaintances if there is also a sniff of business relationship there as well. The goings on between the Justice and his friend sure don't smell right, to me.
Re:I Got the Fed to Release Its 2011 "Treasury Default" Play...
by hotnfresh on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @06:34PM
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The pertinent questions are, what are norms for this kind of thing in the rest of the federal court system, and is Thomas’ behavior in the same universe as those?
The answers are “you turn down gifts of far, far less, from much less-risky associates” and “not in the same multiverse, even”.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been friends with Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow for 27 years. Crow said that he and his wife have been friends with Thomas and his wife Ginni since 1996.
Is there proof they were bribes as opposed to the innocent explanation that they are just family friends, and it's not unusual for billionaires to offer a free ride to their non-billionaire friends on vacation?