JamesGleick,
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If you become a Supreme Court Justice and your spouse embarks on a new line of work collecting more than $1,000,000 a year from law firms doing business before the Court—that’s corruption.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jane-roberts-chief-justice-wife-10-million-commissions-2023-4

lackattack,
@lackattack@mastodon.social avatar

@JamesGleick Damn the conservatives on the Supreme Court are dirty as hell. That institution is screaming out for massive reform. Let's start with removing lifetime appointments and adding invasive oversight.

xulxohari,
tomjennings,
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@JamesGleick

Not in the US it's not. Our corruption is usually legal.

BadExampleMan,
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@JamesGleick I do not like your version of the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QArPJoCBjS0

ginawilhelm,

@JamesGleick You'd think that would be obvious, but here we are

mike805,

@JamesGleick yup that's corruption all right. So is throwing some paint on a canvas and selling for six figures when your dad is President. So is living like a billionaire at someone else's expense while you're a justice. The whole system is rotten from the top down, but especially at the top.

RoguePlayer,
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@JamesGleick they just keep giving a democrat president more and more reason to fill it to 13 seats.

TheDinosaurDave,
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@JamesGleick the sad part is. The rightwing is so beyond corrupt that they just project it onto the left abd act like it's all the same. They both should be impeached, removed and indicated. But it won't happen because too many people think it's funny to pwn the other side or that both sides are as bad as each other. Y'all need to fix this shit.

bsonder,

@JamesGleick this is as bad if not worse than even Clarence

GatekeepKen,

@JamesGleick
So why are we just finding the truth now

Jeffrey_Smith,

@JamesGleick

Restaurants have tip jars for collecting gratuities: Supreme Court justices have wives. I wonder how big a jar one needs for a million dollars in tips?

markmacumber,

@JamesGleick Our Supreme Court is the opposite of supreme. It’s corrupt, bland and white.

AndyHarrison,

@JamesGleick

No wonder Roberts doesn't give shit about Thomas and Gorsuch, because he's in on the corruption.

generika,
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StillIRise1963,
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generika,
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@StillIRise1963 @JamesGleick @adriennelacava

This needs to become popular:
Demand an Enforceable Code of Conduct for the Supreme Court
https://chng.it/XWrtXZBZ9S

richardinsandy,
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@JamesGleick I think it’s adorable that anyone really thinks anything will be done about this.

walterdunham,

@JamesGleick
Nah ... that's just the usual American capitalism and entrepreneurship. Nobody's "getting hurt"!

video/mp4

WilderRose,

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  • JamesGleick,
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    @WilderRose Yes, it’s exactly a shakedown.

    PurePlay,
    AkaSci,
    @AkaSci@fosstodon.org avatar

    @JamesGleick
    That's business as usual, if you are a republican.

    kelvin0mql,

    @JamesGleick

    Oh, wouldn't it be just marvelous if a couple obviously corrupt SCOTUS members could be impeached & removed?

    But wait... it does no goddamned good now that a GOP-controlled Senate plays by new rules that didn't exist until we had a black POTUS.

    macbraughton,

    @JamesGleick i imagine this sung to the tune of “That’s Amore”

    todwest,

    @JamesGleick To be more specific, these are laundered bribes. Just how many right-wing judges are accepting bribe money from fascist billionaires? That's the question.

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