Harlan Crowe insisted that he would never “think about talking about matters that relate to the judiciary with Justice Clarence Thomas.”
from Thomas and his family have underscored the urgent need for stronger ethical and transparency standards at the high court, whose justices enjoy lifetime appointments and awesome power over their fellow citizens. But Chief Justicehe is unwilling enact such standards — and Republicans, who built the Supreme Court’s current conservative supermajority, have stood in the way of Democrats’ efforts to enact legislation to address the issue.
Perhaps Crow is telling the truth and nothing about this is as untoward as it looks from the outside. But as it stands, there appears no way — beyond what journalists and Democratic investigators have been able to shine a light on — for the public to know that. We are just expected to trust that all these rich ideologues, hanging out together on private yachts and in private clubs, are people of such “good character” that they wouldn’t dare mix the personal and professional.
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