Thomas has accepted $4M in gifts during career: Watchdog

[BackAgain]

You really got nothing Skippy

When faced with an argument you can’t refute, you just cover your ears and deny, deny, deny

You are a one trick pony

You’ve proved to be devoid of thought and unable to defend any of your claims.

So, in summary, you’ve failed yet again.

 

[Foxfyre]

Exactly. I understand the amount is high, but his best friend is a billionaire. I mean, duh.
Gotta get the token black!

And what's worse, a white billionaire. Harlan Crow and Thomas are about the same age and met at some function I think in Dallas. If there was any quid pro quo going on, the criticism of the friendship might have some validity but there just isn't any.

 

[rightwinger]

And what's worse, a white billionaire. Harlan Crow and Thomas are about the same age and met at some function I think in Dallas. If there was any quid pro quo going on, the criticism of the friendship might have some validity but there just isn't any.

Again, the man is a Supreme Court Justice.
He needs to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.
Harlan Crow is a major conservative donor.
Causes any Thomas decision to be in question

 

[rightwinger]

If Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas are just “good friends” and Harlan buys him gifts.

Can Thomas show any gifts he has provided Crow during their friendship?
Thomas is a millionaire.
I’m sure he must have bought him something

 

[Zincwarrior]

Folks like you can toss that word around. But you cannot prove it or even show any rational basis for the snide empty claim.

If any of us took $4mm in bribes we'd be fired from our jobs. If he were a lower level federal judge he would be violating the ethics code.

 

[Foxfyre]

If Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas are just “good friends” and Harlan buys him gifts.

Can Thomas show any gifts he has provided Crow during their friendship?
Thomas is a millionaire.
I’m sure he must have bought him something

If Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas are just “good friends” and Harlan buys him gifts.

Can Thomas show any gifts he has provided Crow during their friendship?
Thomas is a millionaire.
I’m sure he must have bought him something

What business is it anybody's but theirs if he did? I'm sure he has given gifts to good friends. Don't you? Is that any business of anybody but you?

Democrats have been accusing Clarence Thomas--maliciously and with no merit to their accusations--ever since he was nominated for the high court. Anybody who has ever studied the track record of the man, anybody who has ever listened to him speak, knows how mean spirited and unethical those accusations have been. This new charge is nothing more than a politically motivated attack probably to divert attention from the Hunter trial.

What is to be looked at is whether the friend is benefitting from any decision by the High Court that in any way looks like repayment for favors/gifts between friends. There is nothing there. God forbid Clarence Thomas has a close friend who turns out to be rich.

Supreme Court justices are allowed to have friends

Supreme Court justices are allowed to have friends, even if a particular friend is rich and a particular justice is conservative.

thehill.com

 

[Zincwarrior]

What business is it anybody's but theirs if he did.

Its called bribery. Thats the business.

 

[Foxfyre]

Its called bribery. Thats the business.

There has to be a bribe in order for there to be bribery. Nobody but NOBODY has turned up a single instance in which the friend has benefitted in any way from the friendship. If there was a decision that came up regarding Crow, Thomas of course would have to recuse himself. But otherwise there is no quid pro quo that anybody has identified ever.

 

[Zincwarrior]

There has to be a bribe in order for there to be bribery.

They have issues before the court.
He received financial support.
That is bribery and at least worthy of recusal.

 

[Foxfyre]

They have issues before the court.
He received financial support.
That is bribery and at least worthy of recusal.

Post your evidence which I'm pretty sure you don't have for that. Not even any of the most anti-Trump, anti-Thomas sources have reported any benefit to Crow coming from his friendship with Thomas.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Post your evidence which I'm pretty sure you don't have for that. Not even any of the most anti-Trump, anti-Thomas sources have reported any benefit to Crow coming from his friendship with Thomas.

How on earth would that NOT violate impropriety? How would it look if Fauci took $4mm?

 

[BackAgain]

If any of us took $4mm in bribes we'd be fired from our jobs.

The operative word is “bribes.” But you gloss over actual meaning.

If he were a lower level federal judge he would be violating the ethics code.

Link?

 

[Zincwarrior]

The operative word is “bribes.” But you gloss over actual meaning.

Link?

Lawyers Walk Ethical Tightrope With Gifts, Hospitality to Judges

Stinson’s Mark Hinderks writes that while US Supreme Court justices draw controversy for accepting gifts without repercussions, practicing lawyers will more likely face discipline if they don’t follow gifting rules that apply to relationships with state and federal judges.

news.bloomberglaw.com

https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/vol02c-ch06.pdf

 

[BackAgain]

Lawyers Walk Ethical Tightrope With Gifts, Hospitality to Judges

Stinson’s Mark Hinderks writes that while US Supreme Court justices draw controversy for accepting gifts without repercussions, practicing lawyers will more likely face discipline if they don’t follow gifting rules that apply to relationships with state and federal judges.

news.bloomberglaw.com

https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/vol02c-ch06.pdf

Not really responsive.

The use of the word “bribe” is flatly wrong

 

[Zincwarrior]

Not really responsive.

The use of the word “bribe” is flatly wrong

Gifts bribes, its all unethical and against the Fed's own legal standards. No one just gives someone $4mm. COme on Man!

 

[BackAgain]

Gifts bribes, it’s all unethical and against the Fed's own legal standards. No one just gives someone $4mm. COme on Man!

Nope. Gifts aren’t bribes. Bribes are bribes. I keep having to remind all the folks on the left that words have meaning.

License federal “standards?”

And if a billionaire gifts his long time friend over the course of a couple decades vacations and rides etc then your last assertion is flatly wrong. Biased. But wrong.

Come on man.

 

[Zincwarrior]

And if a billionaire gifts his long time friend over the course of a couple decades vacations and rides etc then your last assertion is flatly wrong. Biased. But wrong.

Nope. It violates the ethics rules. No one just gives someone $4MM in gifts.

 

[BackAgain]

Nope. It violates the ethics rules. No one just gives someone $4MM in gifts.

Repeating your unsupported contention doesn’t support it.

And yes. A billionaire apparently did gift someone — over the course of a long time — things that amount to a few million.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Repeating your unsupported contention doesn’t support it.

And yes. A billionaire apparently did gift someone — over the course of a long time — things that amount to a few million.

Thats not a gift. Thats a lease with an option to buy.

 

[BackAgain]

Thats not a gift. Thats a lease with an option to buy.

Link? Or are you just substituting your own biased preconceived notions for “facts” again?