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Post by librarylady on May 4, 2023 15:07:54 GMT
In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently told an interviewer he was “raising him as a son.” Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow. The payments extended beyond that month, according to Christopher Grimwood, a former administrator at the school. Crow paid Martin’s tuition the entire time he was a student there, which was about a year, Grimwood told ProPublica. “Harlan picked up the tab,” said Grimwood, who got to know Crow and the Thomases and had access to school financial information through his work as an administrator.
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Post by femalebusiness on May 4, 2023 15:19:41 GMT
He's been dirty and a liar from day one. It thrills me that all this info is becoming public and only the surface of his has been scratched. More will come out as time goes by. Now if only he would be removed from the court.
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Post by epeanymous on May 4, 2023 15:47:15 GMT
When my dad died last year, my law students (I had 150 of them) were unspeakably kind -- I got cards, emails, you name it. One student who had lost his mother a few years prior left me a $25 DoorDash card with a note about how he remembered what it was like to not be able to get it together to grocery shop and cook.
I seriously thought about giving the card back and asked some of my colleagues if I should -- I was incredibly touched by the gesture and didn't want to be weird and awkward, but I was also worried it would create an appearance of impropriety if I accepted a gift from a current student (and I want to be clear, this was a class where the exams are graded blindly so I couldn't reward him even if I wanted to).
I am just absolutely gobsmacked by all of this.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 4, 2023 16:03:28 GMT
He's been dirty and a liar from day one. It thrills me that all this info is becoming public and only the surface of his has been scratched. More will come out as time goes by. Now if only he would be removed from the court. I agree 100% and I’m glad all of these skeletons are being pulled out into the light. They sure are piling up! I wonder what (if anything) it would take to finally tip the scales enough that he could be ousted? He’s corrupt as hell. |
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Post by lizacreates on May 4, 2023 16:09:21 GMT
Roberts refuses to even adopt an ethics code! Senate Dems want a bill to impose some sort of accountability, but how do you that with an evenly-split chamber? By this time, there should already be articles of impeachment against Thomas, but in a House with GOP majority how is that going to happen?
I’ve known judges on the take (not a lot, just some), the pay-to-play schemes where the corruption is so obvious you’d have to be willfully blind not to see it. Not in the federal courts from what I’ve experienced, but definitely in state court (IL, specifically Cook County). Ever heard of Operation Greylord? IME, when it comes to judges, even with a code of conduct, unless there’s a mechanism to enforce it and the political will to do so, it’s practically useless.
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Post by papersilly on May 4, 2023 18:35:47 GMT
kavanaugh must be relieved to have the spotlight off of him but his time will come. oh, it will come and all of his dirty laundry will be aired too.
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Post by hop2 on May 4, 2023 21:09:46 GMT
kavanaugh must be relieved to have the spotlight off of him but his time will come. oh, it will come and all of his dirty laundry will be aired too. I can’t deal with his blubbering again. He is the weakest thing under pressure. Poor baby. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 4, 2023 21:50:41 GMT
kavanaugh must be relieved to have the spotlight off of him but his time will come. oh, it will come and all of his dirty laundry will be aired too. I really want to watch that documentary on him. Just waiting for it to come to one of the streaming channels I already pay for. |
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