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Speaking to the Clarence Thomas corruption scandals this Sunday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin told CNN's Jake Tapper, "This is the Roberts Court and history will judge him by the decisions he makes with this."
That's not enough. Subpoenas are needed.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse reiterated to MSNBC's Jen Psaki what he first announced on a Zoom call with PCCC members -- that the Judiciary Subcommittee he chairs will holding hearings to investigate, “the mechanism and what was the motive of directing these payments to Justice Thomas.”
Whitehouse also told Psaki he wants Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo to testify. Crow and Leo are the powerful conservative activists at the center of the corruption scandal. Hauling them in to testify would likely require subpoenas from the full committee Sen. Durbin chairs.
Chief Justice John Roberts REFUSED a request from senators to testify about the future of ethics and the Supreme Court. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin didn't issue subpoenas and the first (and so far only announced) hearing had no big witnesses.
Meanwhile, the ethics, corruption, and undue influence allegations at this Supreme Court are piling up:
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted millions of dollars of luxury travel and accommodations from conservative billionaire Harlan Crow. Crow also bought Thomas’ mother's house and paid private school tuition for Clarence Thomas' grandnephew. None of it was reported on Thomas' financial disclosure forms.
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and his business partners sold a multi-million dollar property to a rich lawyer whose firm frequently has cases before the Supreme Court, just 9 days after he was sworn in -- and Gorsuch appears to have failed to properly report it.
Conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' wife was paid over $10 million in commissions from elite law firms. At least one of those firms argued a case before Chief Justice Roberts after paying his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars. Roberts did not recuse himself -- and voted in favor of that law firm’s client.
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was the subject of a long-term influence campaign orchestrated by a right-wing activist and a network of wealthy donors that allegedly resulted in, among other things, one of the donors being told in advance about an upcoming Supreme Court decision.
Supreme Court Justices do not live by the same ethics rules as other federal judges. Meaning, if a judge gets elevated to the highest court in the land, the ethical standards they’re held to go down.
Business Insider reports on the ongoing memos we send to congressional offices about Supreme Court corruption. We are letting them know that the public is outraged.
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