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May 5 • 3 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
To fill in the blanks here, the Judicial Education Project is the corporate 501c3 twin of the 501c4 Judicial Crisis Network, which funneled anonymous donations into ads for Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett.
It has a fellow “fictitious name” group (in effect same entity) that filed amicus brief with Supreme Court as “Honest Elections Project,” without discussing the de facto corporate identity of them all as Leonard Leo front groups.
Confirming the link between Leo’s largesse and Harlan Crow’s largesse to the Thomases is this painting of Leo, Thomas and Crow. Unbelievable.

Better still:  Another figure in the painting is the lawyer Paoletta who today defended Crow secretly paying Thomas family tuition. Image

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May 2
Justice Thomas is a repeat offender on disclosure issues. In 2011, Thomas’s undisclosed private jet/yacht trips from Republican billionaire Harlan Crow were forwarded to the Judicial Conference’s Financial Disclosure Cmte for review – same step taken recently re: new allegations.
This @nytimes story from 2011 lays out the billionaire-funded perks Justice Thomas was enjoying at that time:

nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/…
What became of that referral? I’ve asked the Judicial Conference for answers. It’s relevant to what is happening now with the newest allegations.

whitehouse.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
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May 2
Worth keeping this nefarious tangle in mind as we consider the Supreme Court’s ethics mess today in @JudiciaryDems hearing.

Remember the portrait of Leo, Clarence Thomas and the right-wing billionaire. 
 
politico.com/news/2023/05/0…
In case you need a refresher: Image
This article supports my thesis that the Trump “Federalist Society list” was not the Federalist Society’s at all — there were no proceedings developing or approving the list. Which raises the question: whose list was it?
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May 1
Sure would be nice if the Department of Justice did some due diligence about bringing its own, complementary suit rather than sitting this out. It’s somewhat important.

eenews.net/articles/supre…
DOJ has done something similar to good effect under other presidents — witness the successful Clinton/Bush-era tobacco lawsuit.
The judge in that case in a 1600-page decision found the tobacco industry’s conduct fraudulent and ordered it to stop lying. Boom.
Read 4 tweets
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Apr 26
News: Unreported gifts to Clarence Thomas of private jet and yacht trips from Harlan Crow cause his disclosure failure to be sent for action to the Financial Disclosure Committee of the Judicial Conference!!
nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/…
News: That news is from 2011, not today’s news.

Same players, Crow & Thomas; similar gifts, jet & yacht travel; same response, sent to same Financial Disclosure Committee (plus, then, also undisclosed income to Mrs. Thomas from right-wing advocacy groups). Lots of similarities!!
Read 6 tweets
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Apr 14
Last week, news broke that Justice Thomas wasn’t disclosing free luxury vacations paid for by Harlan Crow, a GOP megadonor, because he considered it “personal hospitality.”

Today, we’re learning about an even more brazen disregard for disclosure laws.⬇️⬇️
propublica.org/article/claren…
New reporting from @propublica found that Crow purchased several properties from Justice Thomas in 2014. Justice Thomas did not disclose the sales on his financial disclosure forms as *clearly* required by law.
The Supreme Court has an obvious ethics problem, which is why @RepHankJohnson and I sent a letter last week calling on the Chief Justice to investigate these and other allegations against Justice Thomas.
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Apr 6
A picture worth a thousand words.

propublica.org/article/claren… Image
Here’s just one example. Leonard Leo, featured in the “cigar boys” painting in the story, runs this constellation of front groups: Image
The “fictitious name” organization Judicial Crisis Network raised anonymous money in checks as big as $17 million to fund political ads for Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett.
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