Opinion: The Supreme Court was enabling corruption well before the Clarence Thomas scandal (via latimesopinion )
, the court spared the aides behind former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s Bridgegate scandal the prison term a jury thought they richly deserved.
, extreme even for the Roberts court, that mere disclosure of the sources of money in politics somehow violates the 1st Amendment.that a wealthy Republican donor gave Thomas, his wife, his mother and his grandnephew a host of valuable gifts further illuminates the justice’s zest for undisclosed relationships between the rich and those in power. And the entire court has effectively rebuffed any attempt at oversight, issuing a defiantthat Roberts answer questions about the court’s ethics.
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