All summer long, we’ve seen a barrage of revelations about Supreme Court justices and their apparent inability to adhere to basic ethical rules and regulations. A comprehensive list of the justices’ alarming behavior would turn this letter into a novel, but here are some brief highlights:
Justice Clarence Thomas: Justice Thomas has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in lavish gifts and travel, school tuition for a family member, and rent payments for his mother, all from wealthy MAGA donors. Thomas’s financial entanglements were so numerous that his most recent disclosure form included a “corrections” section including millions of dollars worth of assets, insurance policies, spousal income, and gifts that he had previously failed to mention.