When a Supreme Court justice is caught flying MAGA battle flags at his houses, it’s a pretty dazzling transgression. 🧵
But not a solitary one. It is worsened by the billionaire-funded gifts program for Thomas and Alito that rewards them with Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
It is worsened by secrecy in not disclosing these extravagant gifts, and by warping laws and rules to protect that secrecy, and very possibly by tax law violations around those gifts.
It is worsened by Alito offering his opinion denying Congress’s right to examine these gifts, in an “interview” with the lawyer defending his buddy and fixer Leonard Leo in our investigation about Alito’s gifts.
It is worsened when the pretense of legitimacy puts Alito and Thomas on cases from which they should have been recused or offered legitimate, official explanations.
It is worsened by their adherence to instruction delivered to them by the billionaires via front groups that file “amicus” briefs at the Court in coordinated flotillas, without disclosing their connections. The pattern is stunning.
It’s worsened when the billionaires behind the gifts and flotillas are the billionaires who orchestrated putting these justices on the Court, using more front groups and gobs of dark money and their spidery organizer Leonard Leo.
It is worsened by omertà from all their colleagues, and utter administrative failure to rein in the rogue justices, virtually no matter what. Impunity breeds arrogance and corruption. Silence becomes complicity.
And it is dramatically worsened when the Court, uniquely in the land, allows no inquiry or investigation about what the facts are, so that these justices can just call themselves safe on base when it’s plain to all that they are out, out, out.
No facts; no justice. Just fog and tap dance. Enough.
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