Justice Thomas’ Quid Pro Quo with Extremist Billionaires Slammed by End Citizens United // Let America Vote Action Fund

End Citizens United // Let America Vote Action Fund President Tiffany Muller released the following statement on ProPublica’s report on the financial compensation Justice Clarence Thomas received from billionaire extremists in order to keep him on the Supreme Court: 

“Justice Clarence ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Thomas clearly struck a corrupt bargain with far-right billionaires: if they showered him with lavish gifts, he would stay on the Supreme Court and advance their extremist agenda. The return on investment has been great for his benefactors, but detrimental for the American people. He grossly traded the American people’s rights to pad his own pockets. This damning new evidence further proves that Justice Thomas must resign and Congress must take action to reign in this corruption.”

A sample of Justice Thomas’ Corruption:

• Thomas repeatedly violates federal law by failing to disclose luxury trips, gifts, and business transactions with billionaire benefactors who had business before the court

  • ProPublica: Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor

  • ProPublica: Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel

  • ProPublica: Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property from Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal

  • ProPublica: Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition

  • Bloomberg: Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Friend Did Have Business Before the Supreme Court

  • HuffPost:  Clarence Thomas Said His Billionaire Friend Didn’t Come Before The Court — But His Business Interests Did

• Thomas secretly helps fundraise for Koch dark money network and accepts free luxury travel

  • ProPublica: Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events

• Thomas gives access to the Court to his rich friends to enrich himself

  • NYTimes: Where Clarence Thomas Entered an Elite Circle and Opened a Door to the Court

• Thomas refuses to recuse himself in J6 cases even though his wife, Ginni Thomas, was a target of investigations

  • Business Insider: Clarence Thomas was the lone dissent in the Supreme Court’s January order rejecting Trump’s bid to withhold documents from the January 6 panel

  • Rolling Stone: The Supreme Court’s Clarence and Ginni Thomas Scandal Is Unprecedented

  • NPR: Text messages reveal Ginni Thomas urged Mark Meadows to overturning election results

• Ginni Thomas receives huge sums of money from Leonard Leo’s dark money network in their work to capture the judiciary. Justice Thomas fails to disclose his wife’s income and its sources.

  • Politico: What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement

  • Washington Post: Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’

  • Newsweek: Clarence Thomas Failing to Note Wife Ginni’s $680k Side Income Resurfaces

  • WaPo: Activist group led by Ginni Thomas received nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations

  • The Hill: Kellyanne Conway defends reported concealed Ginni Thomas payments

• Other Thomas Scandals

  • Jacobin: Influenced by Dark Money, Clarence Thomas Has Reversed His Position on a Landmark Legal Doctrine

  • The Atlantic: A Brief History of Clarence Thomas’ Ethical Entanglements

  • The Guardian: Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo

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