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It’s crazy that he isn’t in prison for this level of corruption. Crazier that he is still actively serving on the highest court in the U.S. His corrupt decisions are actively screwing us.
If these are the bribes that can prove, how many more has he taken that we can’t?
Just an educated guess… 69 morbillion.
Is any of it actually illegal?
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I’ve never had 38 vacations in my life and I’m 49yo
I haven’t had half that many and I’m 70.
Honest question for a 70 yo… how did you discover lemmy? Did you migrate with reddit or from the before times?
I’ve had five vacations and I’m almost 40. Only three as an adult.
In the US, bribery is legal for the ruling class, illegal for everyone else.
Insider trading is legal for the ruling class, illegal for everyone else.
Embezzlement is legal for the ruling class, illegal for everyone else.
if it’s just a fine… well, you know the rest :\
Are you really a public servant if you live like royalty?
Unelected… appointed for life… no ethics rules…
Yeah this is some real anti-democratic bullshit.
I never understood why we can elect local judges but not our Supreme Court. I understand why people say it’s to keep it from being a political position that people run for like the president, but there has to be some harsher regulations on the Supreme Court judges becuase they keep doing shit like this. All the weird shit is to keep them “unbiased” but it’s clearly that’s just lie we tell the people to keep them placated.
If anyone believes the Supreme Court judges are unaffiliated with political parties, they are willingly ignorant.
It’s horrific that we’ve arrived at a place where you can read about any conservative in power being caught red-handed committing any crime, and without even looking, you can be 100% sure that Republicans will ignore or deny the problem.
Zero integrity.
As all this stuff comes out and gets verified, I keep naively thinking that we will see these people face consequences soon. Eventually someone will have to take action and remove him from his position, but as time passes, nothing happens. The news cycle moves on, and the general population forgets.
It’s shit like this that further drives me into nihilism.
I hope they are doing this for all of the Justices.
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I’ve heard that the simplest explanation is daddy.
Daddy Kavanaugh wouldn’t warrant a complete refusal to answer. “My father paid my debts” isn’t a scandalous statement at all and would put to bed a cloud that’s been hanging over him since confirmation. That they’re not saying such suggests the truth would be a worse look than just leaving the question open.
Like I said, it’s just what I’ve heard because a family gift wouldn’t require disclosure and not admitting it was daddy is basically trolling.
It’s not just about whether these people has cases before the court. It’s also about their access to influence and instill a political mindset within the Justices that could sway them to decide one way or the other on any issue.
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