Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million.

Supreme Court justices received $3million in gifts throughout the last two decades, a watchdog group revealed on Thursday - with controversial Justice Clarence Thomas accounting for nearly 80 percent.

Thomas, who has come under fire for accepting gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow, led the group of justices with the highest value of gifts accepted at $2.4million, according to Court News Service.

Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million.

  • Suavevillain
    123 months ago
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    There is no point in following the rules when the people in power clearly don’t.

    • spirinolas
      103 months ago
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      Sure there is. Unlike them, if you break the rules you go to jail.

    • UnderpantsWeevil
      53 months ago
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      There’s a big point. A gun point.

      The difference between you and Clarence Thomas is simply what each of you can get away with. Cops won’t come knocking on Thomas’s door for this. In fact, they’ll guard his door.