More Corruption Of Clarence Thomas Revealed But No Investigations In Sight

ProPublica has uncovered even MORE corruption by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, revealing dozens of trips that the Justice took that were paid for by billionaires and millionaires that were benefiting from his decisions. The corruption is overwhelming at this point - but not as overwhelming as the lack of investigations happening. While the Senate is "looking into it," there are no FORMAL investigations into the corruption of the court happening within agencies that have the power to do something about it, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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ProPublica has continued to follow up on their reporting on the corruption of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with a massive new report out this week, detailing 38 vacations that they know of, uh, by well-connected billionaires along with 34 private flights and a dozen v i p passes to sporting events. And most of these billionaire benefactors to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, have in fact benefited from decisions he has made from the bench. They may not have all had business directly in front of the court, some of them did, but nearly all of them benefited from decisions he made by owning, you know, industries where he would hand down favorable rulings. So, just 'cause it wasn't their particular case, doesn't mean they didn't benefit because they did. So here we are now. I mean, ProPublica keeps banging this stuff out. It's amazing. The folks at ProPublica, by the way, phenomenal work. It is a nonprofit organization. If you can support them in any way financially, I do encourage everybody to do that, by the way, they're awesome. But here's the thing, how much more evidence of corruption do we need before something happens? Okay? Right Now, think about this. Right now, there is no formal investigation into the corruption of Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, not one. Oh, the Senate's looking at it.

They're looking at it, you know, well, we, we, we, we've asked, you know, uh, John Roberts to come in and talk to us, but he says he is not gonna talk to us. So, Hmm. Oh, well, I guess that's it. He doesn't want to talk about the corruption of his own conservative justices. So there's nothing we can do. And for the most part, that's kind of right, because to play devil's advocate, actually against myself for a moment, let me point this out. All of this alleged corruption that's been pointed out by Clarence Thomas, it's technically not illegal. So while I'm sitting here saying like, why do we not have investigations? I also know the answer to that because an investigation is seeking to find illegal activity. And because we do not have rules governing, governing how a Supreme Court justice has to recuse themselves from certain cases, there are no rules, there's no crime, there's no potential conflicts of interest because there's no rules, barring conflicts of interest if conflicts of interest are allowed. There are no such things as conflicts of interest. Therefore, we cannot have a real investigation in Clarence Thomas because there's no rules prohibiting the activity that he's engaging in. He can take all the trips he wants from all the billionaires he wants, and we can't do a thing about it. Now, if we had the numbers

In the house, in the Senate, we could impeach him and can, uh, remove him from office. Sure. But we're never gonna have those kind of numbers, not, you know, within the next 10 years at least. So I don't think he'll be on the court 10 years from now. So nothing, we don't have investigations because we don't have rules for these people. And if you ask me like the corruption, we get it. We understand it. Now, ProPublica's gonna keep banging these pieces out, and we're gonna get more and more of it probably against other justices too. They've already uncovered some with other justices, but at the end of the day, we can't do anything about it because there's no rules really governing these people.