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@mott-the-hoople said
what you mean is…if a conservative judge goes against liberal wishes you libs attack with anything you can drag up

lets just be truthful for a change
Abe Fortas was forced out of SCOTUS for undisclosed financial relationships with his rich friends.... 50 years ago.

Spoiler alert: he was a Libbie. It was the right call then, and it's the right call now. Ideology is irrelevant.

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@shavixmir said
Dude, nobody need have benefitted from it.

The point is, is that it is dubious behaviour.
When you’re a public employee or a judge or a politician you declare things. Even minor things, so that everything you do is above board and clean.

This is so blatantly dodgy, not declaring it is a complete lack of integrity.

If the man is unable to judge that, how the hell can you expect him to judge anything else?
Next you are going to call him a Nazi just because he has two paintings by Hitler and a signed copy of Mein Kampf.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11983003/Billionaire-Republican-mega-donor-Harlan-Crow-calls-Clarence-Thomas-stories-political-hit-job.html

Black people are not Nazis except for Ye. He likes Hitler.

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@techsouth said
What is the actionable part of "should be skeptical"?

From where I'm sitting, I would guess that Thomas has legitimate friends that are wealthy and also would be approached by different wealthy people who are NOT friends that may want to influence him.

If he and his wife vacation with someone wealthy, I can choose to be skeptical or not, but I don't see what is going ...[text shortened]... that this matters. Since my friend's house has come up a few times, I just wanted to clarify that.
How about his "friend" Crow paying the private school tuition of a child Justice Thomas and his wife raised? https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus

Any of your friends offered to do that?

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@no1marauder said
How about his "friend" Crow paying the private school tuition of a child Justice Thomas and his wife raised? https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus

Any of your friends offered to do that?
It'd probably be a different conversation if George Soros paid for the private school tuition of ketanji Jackson's daughter.

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