Clarence Thomas

Comedian John Oliver is offering Clarence Thomas $1 million a year and a luxury motor coach to resign his post on the Supreme Court. The wild — and Oliver claims, “somehow legal” — offer was made at the end of the 11th-season premiere of Last Week Tonight, the long-running HBO comedy series.  Oliver spent much of the show lampooning the corruption of the Supreme Court. Investigations over recent months — in particular, painstaking reporting by ProPublica — have revealed that conservative justices are living…

Justice Clarence Thomas once told a member of Congress that “one or more justices will leave soon” if lawmakers did not raise their salaries, ProPublica reports. At the time, Thomas was taking on large amounts of debt to finance his lifestyle, and would soon begin cultivating financially beneficial — and ethically dubious — relationships with some of the nation’s most prominent wealthy conservatives.  According to documents obtained by ProPublica, Thomas spoke to Republican Florida Rep. Cliff Stearns while on a…

Image: Erin Schaff-Pool (Getty Images)While the rest of us were Venmo-ing our friends for the dinner check, an aide to conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was apparently receiving payments on the app from lawyers that appeared before the high court.Gizmodo's Favorite New EmojisThe Guardian reports that the aide, Rajan Vasisht, served Thomasfrom July 2019 to July 2021 and received at least seven payments from lawyers via Venmo during November and December 2019. One of the lawyers in question is Patrick…

The United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to a lawsuit attempting to hold Reddit liable for allegedly letting sexually explicit images of minors run amok on its site. Tuesday’s decision marks the third time in less than a month the court has danced around high-profile cases that could open Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—tech companies’ top liability shield—up to new scrutiny. By declining to hear the case, SCOTUS left in place a lower court ruling which said Reddit cannot be held liable for…

Billionaire Harlan Crow took Clarence Thomas on lavish trips and more, and that’s shining a spotlight on U.S. gift taxes for everyone. ‘It’s not a gift, it’s a party,’ one tax pro says. Billionaire Harlan Crow took Clarence Thomas on lavish trips and more, and that’s shining a spotlight on U.S. gift taxes for everyone. ‘It’s not a gift, it’s a party,’ one tax pro says. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s…

It may not reach the level of Clarence Thomas being buddies with a guy who owns a garden full of dictator statues, but there are plenty of other scandals to be had on the Supreme Court. Politico reported this week that Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has found himself in a small ethics conundrum—one tied to the oil and gas industry.Bees Are Fish Now, I Guess?In 2017, a 40-acre property co-owned by Gorsuch and two other parties under an LLC was up for sale in Colorado. Brian Duffy, the CEO of Greenberg Traurig, one of…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)Supreme Court justices whipped out their dictionaries and a deep bucket of metaphors Wednesday in a cumbersome attempt to understand whether or not social media companies can be held legally liable for promoting ISIS videos under anti-terrorism laws. Stolen jewelry, banks, imaginary burglars, and a young Osama bin Laden were all invoked in a testy two-hour oral argument.The historic hearing came just one day after justices heard arguments for and against removing liability protections for…

Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of Prince (left) was used to create a series of 16 silkscreen prints by Andy Warhol.Screenshot: Collection of the Supreme Court of the United StatesIn 1981 the photographer Lynn Goldsmith took a portrait of Prince. He sits alone on a white background, wearing a blank expression with a glint of light in his eyes. In 1984 Andy Warhol used that photo to create art. Warhol altered the image, adjusting the angle of Prince’s face, layering on swaths of color, darkening the edges, and adding hand-drawn…

Many conservatives have decried Section 230 for limiting their ability to restrict apps from content moderation, but any change in the law could have unexpected consequences for the billions of accounts across social media.Photo: TY Lim (Shutterstock)On Monday, the Supreme Court announced nine cases it intends to hear in its upcoming term, including Renaldo Gonzalez v. Google. The case directly questions the protections afforded by Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which limits the legal liability of…

New York is adding new restrictions to the state’s gun applicant screening laws. Among them is a rule that any person applying for a concealed carry handgun permit will need to submit a list of all of social media accounts for review. The legislation goes into effect starting September 1, and is part of a large package of laws that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed last week.The bill (SB S51001) specifically states that—in addition to contact information for themselves and others in their household, character references,…