You won't get a constitutionally kosher new ethic guidelines to remove SCOTUS Justices, so this is clearly just about deligitimizing SCOTUS.

Weird how there's no similar sudden interest in legislative insider trading on pending legislation.

What, do we really think that deep down inside, Thomas is constitutionally a progressive and that he sold out his actual beliefs for a real estate sale?

Sure, he might have failed to report that properly, so go ahead and impeach him if you think it's that important.

The brothers “share a fortune worth at least $2.5 billion,” Forbes estimates, though it’s not clear how much of that is Harlan Crow’s alone.

Let’s say it’s $1 billion. Paying $6,000 a month for tuition, then, is the equivalent of someone worth $60,000 paying 36 cents. Buying a home for $133,000 is like someone worth $60,000 paying eight bucks.

In January 2005, the architecture firm Womack+Hampton Architects LLC filed a petition seeking over $25 million from Trammell Crow Residential Co., which was co-owned by Crow Holdings, for allegedly violating copyrighted building designs. But the court refused to review the appeal and Thomas was not noted to have recused himself or dissented in the one-sentence order issued, according to Bloomberg.

After all, what's a little arranging for a Supreme Court justice's wife to be secretly paid by an organization actively involved in multiple Supreme Court cases for no work done...between friends?

In December 2012, the Judicial Education Project submitted an amicus brief in Shelby County v. Holder, a case challenging a landmark civil rights law aimed at protecting minority voters. The court struck down a formula in the Voting Rights Act that determined which states had to obtain federal clearance before changing their voting rules and procedures. Clarence Thomas was part of the 5-to-4 majority.

Thomas issued a concurring opinion in the case, arguing that the preclearance requirement itself is unconstitutional. Thomas’s opinion, which was consistent with a previous opinion he wrote, favored the outcome the Judicial Education Project and several other conservative organizations had advocated in their amicus briefs. He did not cite the Judicial Education Project brief.

Legal ethics experts disagreed about whether the arrangement outlined by Leo and the payments from Conway should have led Thomas to recuse himself from the Shelby case.

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Thomas’s votes were aligned with the Judicial Education Project in six of the cases in which it filed briefs, including the Hobby Lobby case and two involving affirmative action at public universities. Thomas, a longtime critic of affirmative action, voted with the majority to uphold Michigan’s prohibition on race-based admissions at its public universities, and he dissented in a ruling that upheld admissions policies at the University of Texas.

Thomas’s votes did not align with the group’s position in three other cases, including one that largely upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. The court did not take up all the cases in which the Judicial Education Project filed briefs.

Thomas flew on Crow's private plane to the dedication of a statue to Thomas’s eighth grade teacher, Sister Mary Virgilius Reidy, at a cemetery in Mahwah, New Jersey. Crow also paid for the sculpture.

Alito, man.

https://www.propublica.org/article/samu ... reme-court