Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas's wife, urged 'no mention of Ginni'

[aggiesal]

Source: Washington Post

Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work just over a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

In January 2012, Leo instructed the GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill a nonprofit group called the Judicial Education Project and use that money to pay Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the documents show. The same year, the Judicial Education Project filed a brief to the Supreme Court in a landmark voting rights case.

Leo, an adviser to the Judicial Education Project and a key figure in a network of nonprofits that has worked to support the nominations of conservative judges, told Conway that he wanted her to "give" Ginni Thomas "another $25K," the documents show. He emphasized that the paperwork should have "No mention of Ginni, of course."

https://wapo.st/3nBT0y3 (No paywall)

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

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Is anyone surprised?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Not the teeny tiniest bit!

[Alexander Of Assyria]

23. Shocked. Everyone decent should be shocked, surprise is irrelevant.

[TomCADem]

2. Wow. Bribery and Money Laundering

This is just disgusting how blatantly corrupt the Supreme Court has become. Of course, this corruption was facilitated by Republicans, because the right wing judges on the court know that they are untouchable since Republicans will never impeach their own. Power over principle.

[COL Mustard]

6. Thomas and his cronies

Are dirty. I don’t think there’s any other way to say it. They’re dirty. Money and power have corrupted them. If I as a civil servant had done anything close to what they’ve been accused of, I’d be out on my ass. It’s disheartening to see how far and how fast our ethical standards have fallen.

[bluestarone]

3. BIG trouble for US!

They can rule on anything their way, and there ain't a fucking thing we can do about it. Scary part is NOW the do it in broad daylight!

[louslobbs]

4. Americas "Extreme (activist) Court"

A court without ethics oversight and “absolute power.” Which as they say, “corrupts absolutely.”

Dark money and a court of partisan hacks with a political ideology that denotes an intersection between fascism and Christianity. Oh, and they all lied to get seated on this corrupt court. Think about all the corrupt maneuvering that went into forcing these right wing hacks onto this corrupt court. Makes me sick 🤢

[aggiesal]

5. ... intersection between fascism and Christianity. ...

Also known as Christofascists.

[rubbersole]

8. Unapologetic Christofascists.

The worst is yet to come.

[Fla Dem]

7. Oh good, Kellyanne is complicit in this particular fraud. God, so much corruption.

[Lonestarblue]

9. The corruption of Republicans on the Court is astounding.

Thomas should be hanging his head in shame. And his wife should be under investigation for seditious conspiracy for asking Republican officials in the states to overturn their elections by sending fake slates of electors, which they did.

[SunSeeker]

10. Wow, there really is no bottom to the Thomas pit of corruption. nt

[moniss]

11. Garland

needs to act. If they don't want this to go deeper then Roberts needs to be told to go tell Cash-n-Carry Clarence that it's time to go. If not then DOJ has to open an investigation because this is way too out of hand with the crookedness.

[republianmushroom]

12. Ethics ?

[bahboo]

13. ok...what if anything, can be done about this shit....

[IronLionZion]

14. Any consequences for this?

For Clarence or anyone else involved?

[Marius25]

15. Is the DoJ going to investigate this?

[gab13by13]

19. They should, but don't hold your breath.

[msfiddlestix]

28. shoulda, coulda... woulda if only the instituion of the DOJ and Congress had any interest

and the where with all to carry out their own responsibilities and duty.

it wouldn't have taken so long to uncover this mass of corruption, and likely so much more.

[evolves]

16. Rotten to the core.

Corruption run rampant.

[dchill]

17. That sounds crooked!

[dalton99a]

18. Kick

[gab13by13]

20. Just curious if the IRS should also investigate?

Wondering if Clarence claimed his adopted kid as a deduction?

[pfitz59]

21. Garland can go after everyone but Clarence

Money-laundering, tax evasion, bribery.... get them!

[cstanleytech]

22. For Sale signs seem to be rather popular with some of the SCOTUS judges.

[aggiesal]

24. Here you go ...

[TomCADem]

26. Maybe The Should Have a Tip Jar at the Bench

After oral argument, a lawyer can just Venmo Judge Thomas.

[bluestarone]

25. Not much can be done here

I kinda wish the Senate would hold hearings and subpoena all the people involved, (except Clarence Thomas of course) Ginni needs to be the FIRST then EVERYONE else that this story leads to. Our democracy depends on it. Hell the SC of today can decide anything, anyway they decide it. We cannot let this go on with no response!

[lostnfound]

27. 'Leonard Leo directed fees to Clarence Thomas's wife, urged no mention of Ginni"

Leonard Leo Should be a HOUSEHOLD NAME by now
The fact that he isn’t, is either a failure of the free press or the lack of civics education and literacy.

These puppet masters names are not repeated enough.

A quick experiment
152,000 google results for “Leonard Leo”
7.8 million for “George Soros”

Which one has had the most outsized influence and power in the US?

[NullTuples]

29. Leo, an adviser to the Judicial Education Project - also head of the Federalist Society...

...You know, the group that placed the current batch of conservative federal judges.

[ffr]

30. This is why we should expand the court to 12 justices. So that the other three can be bought too

[ck4829]

31. Kick