Of course left wing Justices are taking trips with billionaires....democrats only mention conservative justices...

[CrusaderFrank]

Saint Ruth, Ruth Bader Ginsberg took trips with a billionaire who actually had business before the court....

For example, in 2018, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took 14 reimbursed trips — the most of any justice that year — including one in which she was "provided transportation, food and lodging as a tourist and guest of billionaire Israeli businessman Morris Kahn" who "had business before the Supreme Court before" when SCOTUS "handed Kahn’s company Amdocs Limited a win in November 2017 when it declined to take up a patent-related case."

Additionally, "in 2012, Ginsburg traveled to New York to accept Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year award, which came with a gift bag valued at $2,500," according to The Washington Post. That is, receiving valuable items is hardly outside the realm of normalcy.
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From 2004 to 2018, former Justice Stephen Breyer — another liberal who was nominated by President Bill Clinton — held the record for the most reimbursed trips of any sitting justice at 219, according to OpenSecrets' report.

But, you may say, the issue that makes trips problematic is when they're not reported. Well, you're in luck because liberal Justice Sonio Sotomayor let covered travel expenses go unreported.

A 2020 public records request filed by Fix the Court revealed that Justice Sotomayor did not initially report free air travel and lodging she received to deliver the commencement address at the University of Rhode Island. That included a "$1,045 flight to Rhode Island in 2016...and the block of up to 11 rooms reserved for her, her friends and her security detail at one of the state’s nicest hotels."
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Despite the fact that liberal justices hold the records for most trips in a given year in recent memory, and the most trips in a 14-year period, and they've failed to disclose reimbursed travel expenses in the past, and have enjoyed trips covered by individuals who've done business before the Supreme Court, it's only conservative justices who face calls to resign. Funny how that works, eh?

Fix the Court subsequently found that Sotomayor's previous "trips to visit universities in Illinois, New Jersey, Alaska, Wisconsin and Minnesota were also omitted" from her disclosures. The Obama nominee subsequently had to amend her disclosures to note the six originally unreported situations.

Ethics? Hypocritical Dems Think You Won't Notice This About Liberal Supreme Court Justices

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There was another poster on another thread stating he applauded the leftwing justices for standing up for the conservative justices....and said I was wrong in pointing out that they obviously did the same things the conservative Justices did, and were simply trying to get ahead of the issue when it was finally revealed what they had been doing......he was wrong, I was right...

It’s not a crime when a democrat does it

 

[struth]

Fuck no!!

It's a ploy by the Dimm's to get their filthy mitts on SCOTUS in order to politicize this part of Gov't too!!

the demafasict counter parts in germany back in the 30s did the same thing with the German judical branch…setting up the so-called “People’s Court” once that happened death flowed

 

[B. Kidd]

It’s not a crime when a democrat does it

It came out in this morning's oversight hearing the RBG took 58 such trips while SCOTUS.

 

[rightwinger]

They can still be charged with bribery without an ethics structure.
Don't be stupid!

There is more to ethics than bribery

 

[struth]

There is more to ethics than bribery

and much like the legislative branch the court can make their own ethical canons

 

[B. Kidd]

There is more to ethics than bribery

In this atmosphere, imposing ethics is a drive-by shooting on Conservative Justices especially when considering our lying, propagandist media!

 

[Marener]

They are held to ethical standards, however since they are the highest court in the land, they have no one else to adjudicate any standards if there are violations. Thus they "police themselves", which isn't the best setup around, but besides creating a court greater than the Supreme Court (which isn't possible without an amendment) there would be no one to judge them.

SCOTUS justices are subject to congressional oversight who can be impeached and removed by Congress.

 

[martybegan]

SCOTUS justices are subject to congressional oversight who can be impeached and removed by Congress.

For high crimes and misdemeanors, just like the President.

So are you Dems looking to politicize another impeachment process?

 

[Marener]

For high crimes and misdemeanors, just like the President.

So are you Dems looking to politicize another impeachment process?

Impeachment is a political process and always has been.

Just pointing out that even justices aren’t untouchable. The Congress sets the standards and can remove them for failure to live up to those standards.

It must be fun being a SCOTUS judge and having rich donors wanting to be your friend.

 

[martybegan]

Impeachment is a political process and always has been.

Just pointing out that even justices aren’t untouchable. The Congress sets the standards and can remove them for failure to live up to those standards.

It must be fun being a SCOTUS judge and having rich donors wanting to be your friend.

No one ever said they were. What dems want is some oversight committee that can force them to resign, only the conservative ones of course.

SC cases take so damn long to work their way through the system, and any influence would be so obvious in its nature that any attempt at swaying a justice would be difficult, and probably moot as you would have to get more than 1 to guarantee the risk.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Saint Ruth, Ruth Bader Ginsberg took trips with a billionaire who actually had business before the court....

For example, in 2018, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took 14 reimbursed trips — the most of any justice that year — including one in which she was "provided transportation, food and lodging as a tourist and guest of billionaire Israeli businessman Morris Kahn" who "had business before the Supreme Court before" when SCOTUS "handed Kahn’s company Amdocs Limited a win in November 2017 when it declined to take up a patent-related case."

Additionally, "in 2012, Ginsburg traveled to New York to accept Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year award, which came with a gift bag valued at $2,500," according to The Washington Post. That is, receiving valuable items is hardly outside the realm of normalcy.
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From 2004 to 2018, former Justice Stephen Breyer — another liberal who was nominated by President Bill Clinton — held the record for the most reimbursed trips of any sitting justice at 219, according to OpenSecrets' report.

But, you may say, the issue that makes trips problematic is when they're not reported. Well, you're in luck because liberal Justice Sonio Sotomayor let covered travel expenses go unreported.

A 2020 public records request filed by Fix the Court revealed that Justice Sotomayor did not initially report free air travel and lodging she received to deliver the commencement address at the University of Rhode Island. That included a "$1,045 flight to Rhode Island in 2016...and the block of up to 11 rooms reserved for her, her friends and her security detail at one of the state’s nicest hotels."
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Despite the fact that liberal justices hold the records for most trips in a given year in recent memory, and the most trips in a 14-year period, and they've failed to disclose reimbursed travel expenses in the past, and have enjoyed trips covered by individuals who've done business before the Supreme Court, it's only conservative justices who face calls to resign. Funny how that works, eh?

Fix the Court subsequently found that Sotomayor's previous "trips to visit universities in Illinois, New Jersey, Alaska, Wisconsin and Minnesota were also omitted" from her disclosures. The Obama nominee subsequently had to amend her disclosures to note the six originally unreported situations.

Ethics? Hypocritical Dems Think You Won't Notice This About Liberal Supreme Court Justices

townhall.com

There was another poster on another thread stating he applauded the leftwing justices for standing up for the conservative justices....and said I was wrong in pointing out that they obviously did the same things the conservative Justices did, and were simply trying to get ahead of the issue when it was finally revealed what they had been doing......he was wrong, I was right...

And the difference is those justices reported the trips as they are required to do.

 

[martybegan]

And the difference is those justices reported the trips as they are required to do.

Some of them missed a few too. Are you saying Thomas reported nothing?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Some of them missed a few too. Are you saying Thomas reported nothing?

He is really good about going back and amending his disclosures after what he missed is found by others.

 

[martybegan]

He is really good about going back and amending his disclosures after what he missed is found by others.

And again, none of the other justices did this in similar ways or amounts?

Have the other justices disclosures been looked at with this much scrutiny?

Has any actual wrongdoing besides paperwork been found?

Confirmation bias, selection bias, attention bias.......

 

[evenflow1969]

Saint Ruth, Ruth Bader Ginsberg took trips with a billionaire who actually had business before the court....

For example, in 2018, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took 14 reimbursed trips — the most of any justice that year — including one in which she was "provided transportation, food and lodging as a tourist and guest of billionaire Israeli businessman Morris Kahn" who "had business before the Supreme Court before" when SCOTUS "handed Kahn’s company Amdocs Limited a win in November 2017 when it declined to take up a patent-related case."

Additionally, "in 2012, Ginsburg traveled to New York to accept Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year award, which came with a gift bag valued at $2,500," according to The Washington Post. That is, receiving valuable items is hardly outside the realm of normalcy.
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From 2004 to 2018, former Justice Stephen Breyer — another liberal who was nominated by President Bill Clinton — held the record for the most reimbursed trips of any sitting justice at 219, according to OpenSecrets' report.

But, you may say, the issue that makes trips problematic is when they're not reported. Well, you're in luck because liberal Justice Sonio Sotomayor let covered travel expenses go unreported.

A 2020 public records request filed by Fix the Court revealed that Justice Sotomayor did not initially report free air travel and lodging she received to deliver the commencement address at the University of Rhode Island. That included a "$1,045 flight to Rhode Island in 2016...and the block of up to 11 rooms reserved for her, her friends and her security detail at one of the state’s nicest hotels."
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Despite the fact that liberal justices hold the records for most trips in a given year in recent memory, and the most trips in a 14-year period, and they've failed to disclose reimbursed travel expenses in the past, and have enjoyed trips covered by individuals who've done business before the Supreme Court, it's only conservative justices who face calls to resign. Funny how that works, eh?

Fix the Court subsequently found that Sotomayor's previous "trips to visit universities in Illinois, New Jersey, Alaska, Wisconsin and Minnesota were also omitted" from her disclosures. The Obama nominee subsequently had to amend her disclosures to note the six originally unreported situations.

Ethics? Hypocritical Dems Think You Won't Notice This About Liberal Supreme Court Justices

townhall.com

There was another poster on another thread stating he applauded the leftwing justices for standing up for the conservative justices....and said I was wrong in pointing out that they obviously did the same things the conservative Justices did, and were simply trying to get ahead of the issue when it was finally revealed what they had been doing......he was wrong, I was right...

Lol, don't care what party you are from you break the rules ya get canned. There should be bi partisan support for golding the supreme court to the same ethics provisions of lower courts maybe even more astringent ethics provisions. Ya break the law ya end up in D block.

 

[struth]

SCOTUS justices are subject to congressional oversight who can be impeached and removed by Congress.

yes this is true…which further proves all the latest propaganda and moaning from the left is only intended to try and undermine the Judicial branch

 

[AZrailwhale]

They are held to ethical standards, however since they are the highest court in the land, they have no one else to adjudicate any standards if there are violations. Thus they "police themselves", which isn't the best setup around, but besides creating a court greater than the Supreme Court (which isn't possible without an amendment) there would be no one to judge them.

"who guards the guardians" is a question as old as government. Also "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely". Congress already holds a check on SCOTUS, it can impeach and remove any Justice whose conduct it finds abhorrent.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Impeachment is a political process and always has been.

Just pointing out that even justices aren’t untouchable. The Congress sets the standards and can remove them for failure to live up to those standards.

It must be fun being a SCOTUS judge and having rich donors wanting to be your friend.

As much fun as being a Congressperson, Senator or President with the same benefits. D.C. is an incestuous craphole of improper relationships where open bribery of "public servants" is acceptable and normal conduct.
One of the few things about Trump that I found acceptable was that he was so rich, he couldn't be bribed by free vacations or stays at billionaire donor's estates in places where normal taxpayers weren't allowed. He's the first President since Reagan that I can think of with that status. At least Reagan took his most of his vacations at his own ranch in Santa Barbara County. I believe George Bush did pretty much the same at his ranch in Texas.

 

[pknopp]

What this continues to show is the Supreme Court needs strong enforceable ethic rules. Roberts continues to argue they do not. The Supreme Court deserves zero respect over this.

 

[struth]

What this continues to show is the Supreme Court needs strong enforceable ethic rules. Roberts continues to argue they do not. The Supreme Court deserves zero respect over this.

what was unethical about this? until you can. point to something you got nothing