Ethics and Hot Tubs

The Supreme Court issued a “code of ethics” which is a first for the the highest court in the land but doesn’t actually insert a new ethics policy or guideline for the justices to follow.

The “code” doesn’t place any new guidelines on corrupt justices like Clarence Thomas, who has taken luxury vacations, loans for recreational vehicles, and tuition costs for family members, from billionaire buddies, with one of them also buying his mother’s house. They also don’t place guidelines on Samuel Alito who took a very expensive fishing excursion on the dime of a billionaire.

The justices wrote in the introduction of this code, “For the most part these rules and principles are not new. the absence of a Code has led in recent years to the misunderstanding that the Justices of this Court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rule.” But don’t they though?

Clarence seemed pretty unrestricted when he accepted a $500,00 yacht cruise. According to ProPublica, Clarence’s unrestricted gifts included at least 38 destination vacations, including a previously unreported voyage on a yacht around the Bahamas; 26 private jet flights, plus an additional eight by helicopter; a dozen VIP passes to professional and college sporting events, typically perched in the skybox; two stays at luxury resorts in Florida and Jamaica; and one standing invitation to an uber-exclusive golf club overlooking the Atlantic coast.

If the “code” allowed Clarence to accept all that, what the fuck did it restrict? A ride on Jeff Bezos’ rocket? No, it would allow that.

The new code was created “to dispel” this supposed “misunderstanding,” the justices write, and it “largely represents a codification of principles that we have long regarded as governing our conduct.” It codifies corruption.

So basically, the justices only created this “code” to clear up our misunderstanding, not to change anything. And since I’m “misunderstanding” this, then I wish the justices could explain it to me more simply. Explain it to me as though I view taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from billionaire assholes with interest and often cases before the court… as bribes.

Explain to me how Clarence taking an interest-free $267,000 loan without any payment schedule from a Republican benefactor instead of a bank isn’t a bribe.

There is no enforcement of any rules in this “code.” For example, it states that justices are to decide when they need to recuse themselves from a case. For example, if the goon who gave Sammy a $100,000 fishing vacation in a lodge that costs $1,000 a night and treated him with $1,000 bottles of wine has a case before the court, it’s up to Sammy to decide if he should recuse himself.

Ginni Thomas, Clarence’s wife, was involved in Donald Trump’s attempt to illegally steal the election he lost to President Joe Biden. When that case came before the Supreme Court, it was left to Clarence to decide if he should recuse himself or not. Guess what he didn’t do.

Clarence didn’t recuse himself from hearing the case involving his wife’s attempt to steal an election because there’s no real code that would have forced him to do the right thing.

If these guys can’t clearly see when they need to recuse themselves from cases involving people they literally sleep with (assuming Clarence sleeps with Ginni…ew), or that taking bribes is wrong, then they shouldn’t be on the court. If any of these justices believe the problem is our “misunderstanding,” then they shouldn’t be on the court.

And while Thomas and Alito are the most corrupt members of the court, all nine are guilty with this excuse of a code that allows any of them to be corrupt. All nine, yes, even the liberals, signed this.

Who do these corrupt justices think they are to receive bribes while they’re in office, Donald Trump?

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