The Supreme Court corruption scandal pertaining to Justice Clarence Thomas just keeps getting worse and worse.
Previously, Justice Thomas failed to disclose a number of gifts and flights paid for by Dallas billionaire corporate heavyweight Harlan Crow.
One flight went all the way out to Indonesia, another went to the Bohemian Grove. The Grove is a summer camp for the political and corporate elite. Detractors say the camp is a secretive, globalist front.
More information came out about Crow. His office was littered with Nazi memorabilia, including a signed copy of Hitler’s Mein Kempf. Crow said he hated everything the tyrant stood for, but had this memorabilia as a reminder of what can happen when you let someone with power go too far. I’ll let you analyze that one for yourself.
Now, Crow admitted to paying for the tuition of Thomas’s great-nephew.
Accepting these gifts are actually all perfectly legal. Not disclosing them isn’t.
Needless to say, the tuition gift wasn’t disclosed. A close friend of Thomas, Mark Paoletta, is sort of playing unofficial, defacto attorney for him. In a statement Paeletta said that the rules said that a 1978 states that a gift must be disclosed if it benefitted their direct child or step child. Some interesting parsing of words here. Below is the statement, which you’ll see Paoletta shoots himself in the foot with:
STATEMENT OF MARK PAOLETTA, FRIEND OF JUSTICE THOMAS
The Thomases have rarely spoken publicly about the remarkably generous efforts to help a child in need. They have always respected the privacy of this young man and his family. It is disappointing and painful, but unsurprising…
— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) May 4, 2023
“Justice Thomas and his wife brought their great nephew to live with them. They agreed to take in this young child much as Justice Thomas’s grandparents had done for him and his brother in 1955,” the statement says.
How interesting. So, emotionally speaking, isn’t the kid essentially Thomas’s son? He was raised by the guy. The exact law states a son or daughter cannot receive outside gifts without disclosure. It doesn’t officially stipulate that the child must be biological. In essence, Thomas’s great nephew is his de-facto son. And that’s an argument that can be made in court.
If this is the legal defense Thomas will try to use as the scandal grows bigger and bigger, good luck. Something smells rotten in the state of the Supreme Court.
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