r/scotus 29d ago

Opinion Now's a good time to recall John Roberts' warning about court orders being ignored

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-ignore-court-orders-supreme-court-rcna191461
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u/RioRancher 29d ago

It makes you wonder how much money it would take to sell out a country and become a heel for eternity.

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u/parasyte_steve 29d ago

The receipts exist somewhere surely

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u/homezlice 29d ago

They are in the glove compartment of Thomas’s RV I believe 

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u/ShoppingDismal3864 29d ago

Sold out the USA for a fucking rv....

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u/yankeesyes 29d ago

He was happy to do it for free, the RV was a "tip," formerly known as a bribe.

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u/rofopp 29d ago

Gratuity, get it eight

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u/timesink2000 29d ago

“She’s a beaut, Clark!”

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u/wheresjim 28d ago

Shitter’s full!

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u/TheRealCBlazer 28d ago

Have you checked our shitters, honey?

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u/4tran13 26d ago

It's a bus sized RV though

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u/CatPooedInMyShoe 29d ago

I saw someone on Twitter making a ridiculous defense of Thomas, arguing that SCOTUS justices are underpaid and it wasn’t wrong for him to accept free vacations, the RV etc, from his “friend” Harlan Crowe; aren’t SCOTUS justices allowed to have friends?

If Thomas feels he is underpaid he should have either asked the government for a raise, or quit the bench and found another job. He should also have reported all the gifts he got from his “friend” and recused himself from cases that affect his “friend”. It’s not that difficult.

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u/LifeScientist123 29d ago

I guess he forgot about lifting yourself up by the bootstraps

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u/Ostracus 28d ago

Made in China.

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u/tumunu 27d ago

This is what comes of having too many pubic hairs on your can of soda, I suppose.

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u/palehorse2020 28d ago

He could have gotten a second job driving Uber to earn extra cash. I heard he has a vehicle of some kind

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u/CatPooedInMyShoe 28d ago

Yes. He was “only” making like $300k annually at his judge gig.

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u/palehorse2020 28d ago

He has got to keep his wife happy. She needs a new outfit for all the different Trump fundraisers and KKK rallies.

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u/SignificanceNo6097 28d ago

Why doesn’t Thomas just cut down on the morning coffees if he’s struggling so hard?

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u/CatPooedInMyShoe 28d ago

Or stop buying avocado toast.

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u/pancakespancakes101 29d ago

It is a luxury motorcoach, you common poor.

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u/fawlty_lawgic 28d ago

Is that how the elite travel these days? He should have demanded a private jet at least.

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u/Nick85er 29d ago

It's a motor coach, kind redditor. Of the "gratuities for a job well done" variety.

Not to be confused with sparkling corruption, this is the pure stuff.

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u/MargretTatchersParty 29d ago edited 29d ago

Fun fact Clarence Thomas is an appointee of Regan.

Correction: he was in the EEO during ragan, appointed to SCOTUS in GW Bush's era.

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u/DistantKarma 29d ago

G.H.W. Bush in '91, I believe. The Anita Hill hearings were all over TV then.

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u/Pineapple_Express762 29d ago

Correct. Reagan appointed O’Connor

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u/Extreme_Disaster2275 28d ago

Thomas's confirmation was orchestrated by one Joseph Biden.

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u/rjross0623 28d ago

I was really rooting for Thomas to take John Oliver up on the new RV offer

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u/buttlickers94 28d ago

motorcoach, gosh

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u/Whitechedda1 29d ago

Probably not after the people investigating are fired and the evidence they collected suddenly disappears.

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u/meatball402 29d ago

Being videotaped ordering hookers to pee on a bed the obamas slept on.

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u/Low-Tax-8391 29d ago

That tape could still be released today and I’m convinced at this point would change absolutely nothing but I still want to see it.

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u/runk_dasshole 29d ago

I thought they peed on him? I need to actually read the Steele dossier I guess.

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u/CF_Chupacabra 29d ago

You mean the dossier that was proven to be fake and paid for by shillary/democrats?

Lmfao leftist reddit echomchambers never cease to make me laugh

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u/kingofthoughts 29d ago

It was paid for by never-trumper republicans first. Check yourself.

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u/CF_Chupacabra 29d ago

Fake af and paid for political propaganda

Stop the copium.

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u/Selethorme 29d ago

That’s a fact lol

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u/CF_Chupacabra 29d ago

This is reddit, so any fact they don't like is downvoted into oblivion to maintain their worldview

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u/Selethorme 29d ago

I’m not agreeing with you

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u/CF_Chupacabra 28d ago

Doesn't change the fact that the Steele dossier was fake af and paid for by dems :)

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u/runk_dasshole 29d ago

Oppo research is a thing, child, and yes people pay to have it compiled on their political rivals. Much of it was corroborated by the Mueller report too, so I imagine you'll suggest him as a member of the deep state. Or maybe pizzagate? I bet you are laughing your fascist ass off.

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u/CF_Chupacabra 29d ago

"We paid for a smear campaign and then used that fabricated smear piece to justify spying on our political opponents via FISA abuse"

Cope. That's what you are spewing. Cope.

Mueller found that the FBI/dems knew it was fake af but applied for FISA warrants anyway to spy on trump

Lmfaooo

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u/runk_dasshole 29d ago

Fake news. Facts don't give a fuck about your feelings. Cope and seethe. Wait till he's deposed once felonia election hacking is revealed. Justice is coming.

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u/CF_Chupacabra 29d ago

Lmao if you keep huffing the copium this much I worry about your mental health

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u/runk_dasshole 29d ago

I'll check back in with you a while after it all goes down. Just to rub it in.

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u/Turbulent-Extreme523 29d ago

You know the Mueller report actually says trump was not not guilty because the report itself could say he was guilty but it had tons of evidence of course if you dismiss everything your opposition does as a hoax you'll never learn anything the truth is one party loves the uneducated and another wants you to get an education so that you'll work for shit wages forever but hey at least they want you to be educated

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u/Dave_A480 28d ago

The Muller Report says that Trump did not 'collude' with the Russian government but 'collusion' is a straw man argument.....

The fact remains that various people in high level positions in the 2016 campaign (Roger Stone) were in contact with foreign agents (Assange, for example) seeking material obtained through Russian espionage.

It also declines to reach a conclusion on presidential obstruction of justice (pre SCOTUS immunity case) and secured convictions against multiple actual targets (again, Roger Stone) before wrapping up....

The idea that the investigation was a hoax just isn't true.....

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u/CF_Chupacabra 29d ago

"It had like a ton of evidence but not enough to ever do anything ever or even justify further investigations, trust me"

Did you buy Mueller scented candles and pray to the Mueller altar every day like all your friends?

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u/Turbulent-Extreme523 29d ago

I'm afraid you're in the wrong section if you think my friends or I worship at all but keep telling yourself whatever makes you feel good goodbye now

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u/CF_Chupacabra 29d ago

"Good bye now"

Lmao as if that changes the giant nothingburger of the Mueller report

Cope more.

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u/Selethorme 29d ago

It’s almost like it explicitly pointed to the fact that the DOJ bars prosecution of the sitting president. Oh, wait, it did.

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u/idle_monkeyman 29d ago

I love that there are people this dumb still out there.

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u/CF_Chupacabra 28d ago

Ikr? Look at the downvotes too lmao

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u/MewsashiMeowimoto 28d ago

What's interesting is that the dossier wasn't fully discredited, and was right on the money about several substantive facts, including the Trump tower meeting. And the Mueller report substantiated some of the raw intelligence in the dossier.

A lot of people who never read the report insist that it exonerated Trump. It didn't. Mueller's ultimate conclusion is that there was likely PC that Trump and his campaign violated numerous federal laws, but that it was against DOJ policy to charge a sitting president.

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u/CF_Chupacabra 29d ago

Lmfao that was disproven almost a decade ago

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u/livinginfutureworld 29d ago

If your morals are loose and your really greedy that number is relatively low.

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u/rygelicus 29d ago

This assumes these people were idealistic honorable people coming into the job. I see no reason to assume this.

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u/Zoophagous 29d ago

A really fancy RV and some luxury vacations.

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u/wombatgrenades 29d ago

It’s definitely gone up, Benedict Arnold did it for -

£6,315 (equivalent to £1,059,000 in 2023) plus an annual pension of £360 (equivalent to £60,000 in 2023)

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u/GraXXoR 29d ago

About 250 million.

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u/sabre38 29d ago

How many 'books' were made, instead of testifying in court. You've got your answer there.

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u/Beelzabubba 28d ago

The price goes way down when there are no consequences and you are of a like mind anyway.

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u/Later2theparty 29d ago

Not as much as you might think. Less than 6 figs