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>But I think all the justices can see what Thomas was doing was pretty awful and I doubt any of the other justices, even those whose views I find abhorrent, wou
by ImJamal 3y ago
>But I think all the justices can see what Thomas was doing was pretty awful and I doubt any of the other justices, even those whose views I find abhorrent, would have gone that far.
I'm not sure that is the case. Ginsburg got a trip from a person and then the court declined to take up a case against said person.[1] The whole article is quite good so I would recommend reading the whole thing.
>This ethics code very clearly brings in consideration of the judge’s spouse’s activities as well, something which, once again is a major problem with Thomas, and none of the other judges as far as I can tell.
If his wife had wanted to give a speech and Thomas told her no, how many articles would there have been about the mean, misogynist, conservative man controlling his wife? It was a lose lose for Thomas on this so long as his wife wanted to do it.
I think this is on his wife, not him. Justice Breyer defended Thomas on this [2] as well.
There are examples of other justices' spouses doing similar things. Roberts' wife for example [3]. I'm sure there are more cases as well.
[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/scotus-justices-rack-up-trips/ https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/scotus-justices-rac...
[2] https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-breyer-defends-ginni-thomas-freedom-pursue-political-activism-1745761 https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-breyer-defends-ginni-thomas...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/john-roberts-jane-sullivan-roberts.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/john-roberts-jane-sull...