ProPublica released a new report on Friday detailing Justice Clarence Thomas’ close relationship with the Koch brothers with previously undisclosed and extraordinarily damning new details.
According to ProPublica, the justice developed a friendship with the Kochs as they were funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into right-wing causes, many of which ended up before the Supreme Court. The brothers then used Thomas to raise money for their sprawling network, inviting him to speak at “donor events” that brought in millions of dollars.
He disclosed none of these activities on his annual disclosure forms, an obvious violation of federal ethics law.
If he’s the deciding vote, which he was on Citizen’s United IIRC, then yes, he’s got a LOT to answer for because apparently he should have been recusing himself on quite a number of cases where he basically voted the way he’d been paid too.
The crazy thing is that he’s enough of a right wing shitbird that they probably didn’t even need to pay him.
When is meat going to be back on the menu?
When the first orc is axed by an urkhai
That decision was 5-4, and Kennedy gave that opinion out, not Thomas
Yes, it was 5-4, but Thomas had a conflict of interest (non-disclosed)