The evidence of inappropriate behavior is mounting: Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas not only attended an expense-paid strategy retreat with the Koch brothers and their corporate friends before the Citizens United ruling; it turns out that back in 1991 Citizens United spent $100,000 to support Thomas’ nomination to the Supreme Court. As recently as December 2010, Scalia conferred in secret with Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party Caucus, a group formed largely to fight healthcare reform. Asks Robert Reich, “Can you imagine the firestorm if Justice Sonia Sotomayor met in secret with the House Progressive Caucus?” Reich points out that Thomas’ wife is earning large sums for working with rightwing organizations, including lobbying against healthcare reform. Thomas has failed to disclose her earnings for years, in violation of Supreme Court rules, and Reich wonders if he’ll recuse himself when the challenge to the healthcare law hits the Court, as he should have with the Citizen United case. Common Cause keeps pressing for better information, despite attempts to tarnish its motives.
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The mere fact that Clarence Thomas has the nerve to say that legitimate requests for explanations “undermine” the court is itself proof that the court would be better off without him.
Nice. Now we have not only the best congress money can buy, but the best justice system money can buy.