Hillary and Soros
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We could put a stop to this, we just don't want to 
Hijinx
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We? We? We can do nothing. Soros owns politicians like Hillary, Bill, Pelosi ,Schumer he owns Attorney generals all over the United States.
Money talks and Bullshit walks, George Soros has the money and it's, Bullshit to think there is anything WE can do about it.
When this old Nazi dies his son is just as bad as he is. No. George Soros owns the Democrat party and a good portion of the democrats.
He and his rich friends are running our country now and only the 2nd Amendment holdsthem in check.
That is why they want to do away with it.
Money talks and Bullshit walks, George Soros has the money and it's, Bullshit to think there is anything WE can do about it.
When this old Nazi dies his son is just as bad as he is. No. George Soros owns the Democrat party and a good portion of the democrats.
He and his rich friends are running our country now and only the 2nd Amendment holdsthem in check.
That is why they want to do away with it.
StmarysCity79
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Instead of fake Boogeymen like Soros why don't you guys care about a real billionaire buying the vote of a supreme court jsutice and showering him with luxury trips, buying his properties and putting him on the payroll?
Thomas has accepted luxury trips from Republican billionaire mega-donor Harlan Crow. Thomas and his wife, Virginia, traveled on Crow’s private jet and yacht to far-flung locations, and each summer stayed at his private resort in the Adirondacks, where they hobnobbed with other influential right-wingers.
One 2019 trip alone was valued at $500,000. Thomas did not report the lavish junkets on his financial disclosures, which appeared to violate a law requiring judges and elected officials to disclose most gifts.
The Texas billionaire, heir to a real estate fortune, was an early donor to the Club for Growth, an anti-tax group. He is on the board of the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank.
Crow has made more than $10 million in political contributions and given to “dark money” groups whose donors are not publicly disclosed. He also donated millions of dollars to organizations committed to tort reform and conservative jurisprudence, including the Federalist Society, the breeding ground for conservative judges.
In addition to the trips, Crow gave Thomas a Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass valued at $19,000 and donated $105,000 to the “Justice Thomas Portrait Fund” at Yale Law School, where Thomas graduated. Crow also gave $500,000 to a tea party group founded by Thomas’ wife, which paid her a salary of $120,000.
Thomas’ lack of integrity was already on view last year when he failed to recuse himself from cases that touched on his wife’s involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
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Thomas has accepted luxury trips from Republican billionaire mega-donor Harlan Crow. Thomas and his wife, Virginia, traveled on Crow’s private jet and yacht to far-flung locations, and each summer stayed at his private resort in the Adirondacks, where they hobnobbed with other influential right-wingers.
One 2019 trip alone was valued at $500,000. Thomas did not report the lavish junkets on his financial disclosures, which appeared to violate a law requiring judges and elected officials to disclose most gifts.
The Texas billionaire, heir to a real estate fortune, was an early donor to the Club for Growth, an anti-tax group. He is on the board of the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank.
Crow has made more than $10 million in political contributions and given to “dark money” groups whose donors are not publicly disclosed. He also donated millions of dollars to organizations committed to tort reform and conservative jurisprudence, including the Federalist Society, the breeding ground for conservative judges.
In addition to the trips, Crow gave Thomas a Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass valued at $19,000 and donated $105,000 to the “Justice Thomas Portrait Fund” at Yale Law School, where Thomas graduated. Crow also gave $500,000 to a tea party group founded by Thomas’ wife, which paid her a salary of $120,000.
Thomas’ lack of integrity was already on view last year when he failed to recuse himself from cases that touched on his wife’s involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Clarence Thomas makes a mockery of ethical standards | Editorial
With public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court fading, the justices should follow the same ethical standards required of lower-court judges.
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Explain EXACTLY what case this billionaire had before the Supreme Court that Thomas passed Judgement On.
you cannot, because there is NO CASE there is NO illegal activities
you are LYING Again
The Truth About Clarence Thomas’s Disclosures
He reported carefully on his inherited real estate. ProPublica’s reporting was slipshod and incurious.
Forty years later, ProPublica has taken a different kind of interest in those properties. ProPublica describes itself as “an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force.” It promises “deep-dive reporting” dedicated to “exposing corruption, informing the public about complex issues, and using the power of investigative journalism to spur reform.”
Give ProPublica credit for admitting its journalism has an agenda. So does mine, as the word “opinion” atop this page should make clear. But ProPublica’s acknowledgment that it’s in the opinion business doesn’t excuse it from the obligation to report facts accurately, carefully and thoroughly.
ProPublica has at least three reporters working the Clarence Thomas beat—Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski. Their story, published last Thursday, is titled “Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.” The troika write that the lack of disclosure “appears to be a violation of the law, four ethics law experts told ProPublica.” That statement is equivocal because it’s a legal theory based on incomplete facts. Justice Thomas didn’t respond to ProPublica’s questions or to mine.
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But my review of Justice Thomas’s disclosures and other documents convinces me that any failure to disclose was an honest mistake. On all other matters involving his scanty real-estate inheritance, he followed the Filing Instructions for Judicial Officers and Employees, prepared by the Committee on Financial Disclosures of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Those instructions don’t make clear the statutory obligation to disclose the 2014 transaction.
Further, the ProPublica troika made a sloppy reporting error, the effect of which is to cast Justice Thomas’s disclosures in a falsely unfavorable light—to make them look shambolic or perhaps even dishonest when in fact they followed the filing instructions without fail.
The reporters’ error involves a confusion about what Justice Thomas did disclose. “By the early 2000s,” ProPublica reports, “he had stopped listing specific addresses of property he owned in his disclosures. But he continued to report holding a one-third interest in what he described as ‘rental property at ## 1, 2, & 3’ in Savannah.” It’s worth noting—ProPublica doesn’t—that the filing instructions (on page 32) prescribe disclosing rental properties in precisely this manner.
The story continues: “Two of the houses were torn down around 2010, according to property records and a footnote in Thomas’ annual disclosure archived by Free Law Project.” That footnote in Justice Thomas’s 2010 disclosure states in full: “Part VII, Line 2 - Two of the Georgia rental properties have been torn down. The only remaining property is an old house in Liberty County.”
Liberty County is where our journey began, but the ProPublica troika somehow missed it on the map. Their story leads the reader to think that the “remaining property” was the Savannah house where Justice Thomas’s mother lived. A Friday letter from the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington—co-signed by Virginia Canter, the first of ProPublica’s “four ethics experts”—expressly says so and accuses Justice Thomas of deceptively disclosing (rather than failing to disclose) the property’s disposition.
The footnote makes clear that this is wrong. There’s a fourth property. Justice Thomas’s 2009 disclosure listed three rental properties in “Sav., GA.” Beginning in 2010, he listed only one, in “Liberty Cty, GA.” Savannah is in Chatham County, not Liberty. But Liberty County is in the Savannah area, roughly a 45-minute drive from the city. For someone living hundreds of miles away, it would have been reasonable to describe the three rental properties collectively as being “in Savannah.”
That implies that Justice Thomas never disclosed his interest in the Savannah house where his mother lived. But he didn’t need to. “Information pertaining to a personal residence is exempted from reporting, unless the property generates rental income,” the filing instructions say on page 33. Nor was there any requirement to disclose the ownership of the other two Savannah properties after the houses were demolished. Who wants to rent an empty lot in Savannah?
When an asset isn’t sold but stops being reportable—in this case because it is no longer capable of generating rental income—page 50 of the filing instructions directs the filer to “insert ‘(Y)’ after the asset description in Column A and leave Columns B-D blank, or include an explanatory note in Part VIII.” Justice Thomas did exactly that for the Savannah rental properties in 2010, and for the Liberty County property in 2015. The latter footnote reads simply: “Line 1: The asset listed on line 1 does not receive any rental income for this property.” This is the disclosure Ms. Canter and her co-signers mistake for a deception.
