Dark Money In The Supreme Court Is So Much Worse Than You Think
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- Use code LEEJA50 to get 50% off your first Factor box at bit.ly/3lJJNlZ! Clarence Thomas has been accepting gifts from billionaires for 3 decades. Should we have a code of ethics for the Supreme Court? How did we get here? And what about Brett Kavanaugh's mysterious debt payoff??
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It's so concerning that there isn't a code of conduct for the Supreme Count. They should be at least following the standards for federal judges
If you have the ultimate power, of colours you would not want rules you had to abide by. Those who make those rules, often do not follow or want to follow them.
I'm listening to this, remembering gifts and tips I turned down while working at Walmart, just thinking "wow, so Walmart workers have more integrity than the Supreme Court, that's comforting" 😅
It used to be that we didn't think there needed to be a law preventing a convicted felon from running for president, yet here we are in 2023...
@@petiteflower5259 to be fair, not all felonies are created equal. Felony drug possession cuz you got caught with pot before it was legal? I really don't care. Felony human trafficking? Yeah, that's gonna be a no from me dawg.
@@amandasunshine2 yes actually 😅
I work in a public library and can't even accept a cookie from grandma for helping her find a book. This is ridiculous.
I really wish people who work in libraries could take gifts, they are always the sweetest, most understanding people I interact with and always willing to help. I wish there were ways I could show my appreciation other than donating (which I do).
I worked in aged care and got chewed out by my supervisor for accepting a small box of cookies from a resident's husband for being nice to her. Like nurses can't have cookies, but the people at the top can have expensive holidays? Makes no sense
@@katesclabassi3857agree. Librarians, especially kid's librarians have made our lives special.... 📚
When I was in the USCG we sent a team of 3 aircraft mechanics to a maintenance competition where civilian mechanics and other service mechanics competed in multiple categories. Our team kicked ass and won prizes like tools, but we couldn’t accept the prizes because they were above the extremely low threshold for gifts that a military member is allowed to accept. So we hold service members to a higher standard than a SCOTUS member.
@@Donkor640 🌟
Anyone who spends that much money to buy Hitler’s paintings & an autographed copy of Mein Kampf is automatically 100% sus.
I just think he's neat. -a lot of republicans
Absolutely agree with your assumption. That individual needs to be watched and very closely.
Creepy.
Wait, who did this? Kavanaugh or Clarence?
@@clartblart3266Harlan Crow, Thomas's billionaire buddy.
It’s amazing to me that working class people are willing to be spoon fed the ‘for the people’ nonsense by these wealthy oligarchs.
For a very specific subset of people I guess
There’s been a very long tradition by very wealthy and corrupt individuals seeking to crack down on any kind of working class movements, especially unions. I’m trying to remember his name but there was a Supreme Court justice who was previously a corporate lawyer who was nominated by Nixon in the 70s I think. I’m so sick of these corporate pieces of shit.
How bad will it have to get?
All you have to do is say the right things...do whatever you want it doesn't matter as long as you talk the talk they'll eat it up and love you more.
The USA is fast becoming everything it rebelled against. Just sayin'.
As a non-American I already find it insane that the senior levels of the justice system are placed in position in a partisan way, but the fact that there's dark money sloshing around the justice system. No wonder things are so b@tsh!t over there.
bs indeed. it is like watching a train wreck in slow motion
It is bulshit isn't it?😢
It’s not the justice system. It’s the legal system. Calling it a justice system is just another mass brainwashing technique. The difference between what’s legal and what’s just is at least a country mile.
All this proves is - that America is a SCHITHOLE / the Schithole we've heard sooo much about....it stands for NOTHING it Proclaims too.....its' all Bluster , pretty words and empty platitudes..... just the idea that THAT scenario is even Possible - SHOWS a SCHITHOLE we Live in
It won't be long before they reinstall slavery in thus country.
The least relatable thing I’ve ever heard is, “I love Walmart” Walmart is not a pleasure, it’s a necessity of poor life and everyone hates it. Lol
i hear ya! I was thinking that preferring Walmart over the beach means he'd rather be a consumer than relax for free with nature. besides, as if he would ever shop at Walmart with us lowly commoners! --> when rich creeps try to be relatable and miss the mark completely!
Really? I'm from Australia, Walmart sounds amazing in sooo many ways lol
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 Good morning Australia! I am in Canada :) ya, Walmart is great at proving a large range of products under one roof - I tend to avoid big box stores because I find they assault my senses! (i leave feeling sick) I gravitate to small mom & pop shops, but Walmart has systematically closed the doors on such businesses because they just can't compete with Walmart's buying power. So, I am not a fan. But all y'alls can have at 'er lol
But I think the actual quote was about how he preferred “Walmart parking lots” which is super extra weird. That’s like trying to imagine what a poor American would get excited about and missing the mark. Was he imagining tailgating and discount shopping combined and it just came out that way?
@@donttrustthefey3777 idk but I kinda wanna grill out before I get my eyes checked and buy some discount jeans.
The obscenities that came out of my mouth during this video were severe enough that my husband thought either we were being audited or there was a giant spider in my office.
What if you were being audited by a giant spider?? 👀
@@emilyrlnwhy put that out there?!?! 😂😂
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 I'm sorry!!! 😭😂💀
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Your profile picture fits this comment surprisingly well.
24 years ago, my best friend and mentor was a retired DC lobbyist. He told me however bad an intelligent woman like me might think it is in Washington DC, it's a hundred times worse. I'm not surprised by any of it.
Why would your best friend accept a job as a DC lobbyist? I would logically assume that lobbyists would need to be a certain, detestable breed of people in order to engage in shameless corruption on a daily basis.
No entity should be able to investigate themselves. There needs to be someone on the outside that does it.
Like the police.
Sounds like the IRS. They have their own court. Only 3% win against them.
No entity should be as powerful that it falls out of balance with the 7 other entities in freely concepted nations and cultures. Freedom work, order and liberality have mighty defenders.
The highest court in the Land has the fewest guidelines.... that checks out. 🤦🏼♀️
I think what Thomas said about preferring going to Wal Mart on vacation rather than to the beach encapsulates his character perfectly. Not only is it a ridiculous lie, it also says a lot about how completely out of touch and insincere he is. Regular people don't go to Walmart for fun or to vacation. They go there because it's all they can afford. What Thomas did would be the same as a fat American going to rural Africa, finding a starving child and saying "look, I'm on a diet too! We're just the same." All it shows is just complete and total ignorance.
Excellent analogy!
He's just another ignorant 'pub that's SURE he can fool everyone else, cuz he be so damn smart...
One response from lawmakers that saddens me is when senators call for Justice Roberts to investigate Thomas. Like, do we really believe that Roberts had no idea whatsoever what Thomas was accepting over the years? He never heard or noticed anything about any of this?? Please.
Maybe he was too dazzled by his own lovely gifts.
Believe me when I tell you this. He knows. Just don't want his misdeeds discovered.
I worked for the 8th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. Another reason federal judges have to report all investments and income is that we would enter it into a database. Before being assigned to a case we had to check to make sure there would be no conflict to avoid having to recuse themselves from a case.
Not the rules for the elite Supremes. They're special. Impeach Thomas & Alito immediately. A stain on this country.
In 1970 a Michigan Representative named Gerald Ford introduced a bill of impeachment against Justice William O. Douglass because Douglass received a $100 payment from a magazine for an article he wrote, then later ruled on a First Amendment case involving that magazine. That was a hundred bucks Douglass did not disclose. Yes, he should have removed himself from that case. But our Wal Mart shopping working class hero and his wife were steeped in graft. Impeach Thomas.
If only i could follow Kavanaugh's example and find a rich sugar daddy/benefactor to pay off my debts whilst currently living comfortably in a $1.2 million home.
We could all be so privileged.
These same people are against student debt forgiveness but love others picking up their tab.
And get away with R___ is what he did‼️
Birthright my dear. Quaint old custom from the night of time, and there's no way you can get reborn to get in on it.
ALREADY INFECTED BY MONEYGREED !! SO SAD !!!
I'm a little surprised you didn't mention Citizen's United since it was the Supreme Court case that decided that money was speech in a 5-4 decision with Tomas joining Anthony Kennedy's opinion and laid the very foundation for what we're seeing today.
That would be the subject several videos all on its own. Coming soon?
“Everybody said it was ok” is NOT A REASON TO LET IT GO, Clar-Clar!
It’s a reason to investigate the rest of The Court
Jane Mayer brilliantly covered this topic in her 2016 book "Dark Money." Thanks for expanding on the role that the Federalist Society has played in the systematic destruction of American democracy.
Yea .."Yikes" about says it all. Justice is blind, unless there is money. Then it just winks ;-)
Justice is blind. Injustice is cheap, and has an eye for trinkets.
Justice can smell the money 💀
You forget that blind means "I didn't see it".
In the US there is a long history of making money wherever you can make it. Some of us just didn’t perceive the court was so skilled at this too. In hindsight, it was naive of us.
If they know about him ,what about the other judges of the Supreme Court. They are focusing on him now, but what about all the other judge's?? That's what I would like to know.
Your channel should be mandatory viewing for anyone eligible to vote. Your breakdowns of the machinations of law and government are so directly pointed and crystal clear. Great stuff!
Shame on the other justices for not saying anything, too. The ideal of them being "beyond reproach" is so absurd.
This is so depressing, but I appreciate you breaking it down for everyone so simply. This video deserves way more views!
To Brett K's $225/year finances, That's $18,750/month. Before we enter taxes taken away, he would've had to save $8K/month for a full year JUST FOR THE COUNTRY CLUB FEES. I'd be saving that and paying down my $53,651 of student loan debt, WHICH HE COULD AFFORD TO PAY in a couple of years where it'll take me a decade MINIMUM to pay off after the freeze melts if nothing is forgiven, which, let's be honest, won't happen. I can't truly trust ANY politician, SCOTUS judge, VPOTUS, or POTUS until every dollar they get outside of their salary is transparent OR they are legally required to use only a set pool of money for campaigning or whatnot.
"Are politicians/judges corrupted by billionaires [paraphrased]?" Duh. It's kinda like we all knew priests were diddling kids but no one did anything about it until recently... kinda.
Religion and government have always found ways to be mutually beneficial to each other. Too bad it's rarely been in the interest of the common (people's) good and so often to its outright detriment.
@Cath' J J I mean, since the beginning of people, people have needed some sort of governance in order to... take over the planet, I guess? Lol. Religion originally filled that purpose. If the hoi poloi hadn't started to question that "God" wanted people to act in a certain way, governing would have stopped at religion. Kings and queens are just ancient military industrial complex CEOs and generals. The rules really came from the head priests(esses). I see both bodies as the same, or, at least, religion is the grandfather (or grandmother for my Wiccan friends) of modern government. Also, whereas the govt/church hasn't always been for the benefit of the people, they both have been catastrophic for the planet, no matter what EPA defenders (and the like) say.
@@sethsmith8638 The problem with this line of thought is that it's historically inaccurate. People took over the world just fine without religion.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 not really. Religion has always (until recently) been central in peoples' lives, at least insofar as it provided the rules a society is required to follow.
@@sethsmith8638 If by always you mean there was a period of time in the past where this was true, which was both preceded and succeeded by periods where this was false, then sure. Though, that's not what always means. The more accurate phrasing would be "Religion occasionally is important to people".
"As friend's do, we have joined Crow and his wife on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them"
So he's been "friends" with Crow for around about 25 years. Clarence joined the Supreme Court in 1991, 32 years ago...
He's making it sound like it's an innocent friendship that has stood the test of time, when it's obviously a symbiotic business arrangement - unless you expect me to believe a billionaire who donates exclusively to GOP organisations just happened to become BFFs with a GOP-backed Supreme Court judge organically??
It was ✨kismet✨
They really do think we're that stupid.
Bingo
Yeah, right. Thomas & Ginni are such personable individuals. And, so fun. They have been bought. Plain & simple.
I work for pretty large American corporation, and we have to take an annual course that explains in great detail what I as an employee can or must not accept, and have to confirm I fully understood and adhere to those rules as part of my employment. Maybe something we should introduce for a number of public folks as well. Ah yes, and hold them accountable.
Thank you for making this super important video. It lays out a number of dark money organizations that any American who cares about actual freedom needs to know about and have on their radar.
Does the US have any sort of Ethics Commissioner? In Canada we have all these rules against shit like this.
No the supreme Court does not. I wonder why.... >_>
I dunno, that sounds an awful lot like communism to me 😂
We in the Netherlands everyone has to follow the rules. Wether your a poor commoner, or the minister-president. It's insane that the supreme court has no rules to adhere.
So I could give $20 million to Brett's dad for him to give to Brett for me and it would be legal?
Yup
Harlan Crow has the kind of name a fictional version of himself would have. Probably in a Garth Ennis comic.
Bond villain energy.
@@RankinMsP Or Faulkner
It is weird that these tax exempt orgs are being investigated for money laundering and structuring.
Hey Leeja, thanks for breaking all this down. It's really important for people to know and understand eve if it's hard to picture anything changing.
And they're still SEATED in these judicial appointments, AND there's nothing to be done about it (!?)
This June they are going to be hearing "Moore V.S. Harper".
I am a SCOTUS watcher. Thomas replaced one of my faves. Justice Marshall.
Having Leo playing with our lives is insane.
Corporations are people.
Soylent Green?
Thomas should feel shame for sitting in the same seat as Marshal did. He's a stain upon the robes he wears.
Same to Barret and RBG.
Corporations being people would be fine if they had to follow the same laws as people.
With the family loophole does that mean anyone can give a judges (or other official) family member money to then gift to the judge?
Probably Clarence Thomas’ mother lives in a house Harlen Crowe owns rent free so yes gifts to close family members is fine.
Just as an aside, I want to say how thoroughly impressed and...dare I say proud of how this channel has grown and evolved over the past year or so. I came for the Bussy Queen contract breakdown video and have been inspired and entertained ever since. You motivate me Ms. Miller and I greatly appreciate your wit, expertise, and lovely green eyes. Toodles!
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I love your channel, but this stuff just makes me feel like, we’ll never be able to get these people out of there. Pretty depressing.
As a human, Thomas seems like a despicable person. His work sexual harassment as just one of them. I'm glad I personally do not fall under laws he has any power over.
There was a time when the judges serving on the SCOTUS served with honor and dignity. They consider themselves above the fray, wouldn't do anything to bring shame on the court. But I guess the Robert's court doesn't hold such notions.😂
In the corporate world, lavishing gifts are considered completely unacceptable and covered by anti-bribery laws. SCOTUS and Congress follow different rules and seem unaffected by the same laws regular citizens do. Insider trading is another clear example of how corrupt our government is. Regular citizens would be in jail but government members get richer.
It gets worse. He bought his mothers house as well and let her live there for free
Yes, paid for Thomas's adoptive daughters education which I heard was 6,000.00 a month.
I was not surprised by hearing that even judges can be bought. Not surprised AT ALL
That's so weird I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that Australian Judges aren't really allowed to receive gifts, and must requese themselves from any case they, or a family member have an interest in.
I daydream about having one of these high profile positions, accepting one of these "gifts" that "is totally not intended to sway you in your position," and then legitimately not letting it sway my position. Which, given my political leanings and the leanings of the typical benefactor, would have them upset with me, leading (in these daydreams) to me calling them out in public. "I thought you said this was a free gift; why are you upset? This wasn't a bribe, was it? You weren't trying to buy my vote, were you?"
I just love the term 'donations'... Like in any other country in the world those are called bribes and they're illegal, but the US found the perfect solution to end corruption: make it legal!
You are an excellent communicator. Thank you for doing this work ✊🏽🔥
I'm so glad I found you on youtube here. Your videos are awesome, they were good before and have gotten even better. I really liked this one. it was relevant and interesting the entire time, and I was caught off guard when it was over (in a good way). By now you must have felt the summer weather already here.... it like skipped 60 and went straight to 80 so that's neat :)
This is why wealth is so difficult to measure. Financial capital is just one way to measure wealth. There’s also social capital (who you know) and cultural capital (what you know). Someone like Brett Kavanaugh may not be “wealthy” based on his salary, but if his parents are wealthy and they bought him his house, or he inherited wealth from his family, his own personal salary becomes disposable income. Through his familial connections, maintaining lucrative friendships with other wealthy people in the DC area, and attending fancy private schools and Ivy League institutions like Yale, Brett can access the lifestyle of a multi-millionaire without being one himself. The same goes for Clarence Thomas.
I get why you would want to keep judges out of electoral politics, but if you're going to do that, there should be a limit, say 20 years, on a federal judge/justice's tenure. That will also prevent the temptation of nominating a 43-year-old to the bench with the cynical goal of keeping that person there for 40 or 50 years.
Lawyer: " lawyers are willing to argue anything, they are discusting"
This gets worse. Thomas' mother lives in a house owned by that same billionaire.
god you’re such a capricorn in all the best ways. i appreciate you so much!!!
Keep it up! You provide a true and necessary public service. Subscribed.
I love that you do your own subtitles. But I hate that you leave parts out. 🙈
This story is infuriating! My partner is about to loose his job. We were just ready to buy a house and get children. Well, that's now going to have to wait. However, these guys can have a 1,2 million dollar home and join a country club..
Well that was depressing.
Love this Lea should be on tv as a commentator on topics -. Her explanations and down to earth delivery makes these topics easy to understand and interesting as hell….
Great stuff Leeja. Keep it up
That intro is so amazing. Every time is comes on I know we're about to get some good, informative shit coming down the pipes. It's seriously
Good stuff.
Love learning with ya! And as usual, lovin the top!
I serve on a no-power-at-all, county-wide government board, like NOBODY lobbies us for anything, and we have stronger reporting standards than the Supreme Court! I have to report gifts over a certain value, up to the dollar amount where we CANNOT ACCEPT THEM at all! I am happy to do this, because I serve the taxpayers, and the public deserves to know that I don't have any conflicts when I make decisions. How does the most powerful government entity in the nation not have similar standards? This is infuriating!
Remember, it should Not be the most powerful one but only retain equal standing. This skewing in the court's favor is one of our major problems. Of course, the executive always tries and most often succeeds in increasing its power, but the legislature has been offloading its duties to the court to avoid its responsibilities (and lessen its workload and accountability to citizens).
Who gave them enough vacation time to take off work? Did they submit a schedule request? I do not remember approving this.
The Court has long recesses. The cases require TONS of research and their employees need time to accomplish it
@@stoppit9 sounds like a cop-out to me.
Here is my life long question: how does the govt have authority to govern what women do to their bodies??? Why aren't men's bodies being governed the way women's bodies are?
Exactly, neither the federal government or state governments should be able to tell sometime what they can or cannot do with their body
Honey, $220k is A LOT of money. More than 60% of the population in this country struggles just to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads. They have been systematically disenfranchised by people like the patrons of Thomas and Kavanagh for centuries. 220k is more than twice the median (not average, which is less) household income in this country. These people are comparatively wealthy. A little perspective is in order here.
Yes. But What she's saying is that it's not possible he bought his house, private school and that $100K/yr country club.
The money is so dark it no longer registers on the visual spectrum.
I think that was the point.
I'm in the military... I'm not allowed to accept any gift over $50, either in one gift, or multiple throughout the year... they're ALLOWED to accept gifts, can accept gifts over $450 but they just have to disclose it?!?!
There was a guy who saw a brass rat in an antique store and something about it intrigued him. So he asked the salesman about it and was told "$400, but I have to warn you that it's been returned twice and I won't take it back again." So he bought it and as he walked home he noticed shadows in the ditch moving his way. Then he saw rats. Then more rats. Eventually he had hundreds, thousands, millions of rats running after him. He ran until he reached the river. Then he threw the brass rat in and all the rats followed it in and drowned. The next day he went back to the store and the salesman said "I told you I won't take that brass rat back!" He replied "Relax. I was just wondering if you had a brass lawyer."
Love You...credible, straight forward facts...You are the real media.
We have a great nation in theory. I am disgusted with the level of corruption.
Congrats on 100k!
What a wonderful effort. A woot to you.
Rule of thumb: if somebody on social benefits would have to declare it, so should politicians.
Oops became besties with a billionaire by accident 🙃
Lmfao so relatable!
You are sooo good!!! What a bright light!
Well this is infuriating
Leeja, if you haven't already, please, please, PLEASE do a story on members of Congress enriching themselves while "serving" in Congress! Makes me sick to see people elected from relatively humble backgrounds with little assets suddenly become millionaires in just a handful of years while making less than $300k/year.
Thank you for so many vids of importance.
I always have to be in the right headspace to watch these.
$415? That's an oddly specific figure.
Anita tried to save us 😔.
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Let’s thank Biden for this one 🤷♀️
@@ladymanzo9723 can't say you're wrong 🤦🏾♀️
Found your channel by sheer chance, first video was The Ronald Reagan video and I'm hooked. Hard follow lol thank you for all you do ❤
Thank you Leeja!
Great cast ! Love your character
You are a damn treasure. The fact that you're kind enough to share your wisdom and experience just makes you that much more awesome.
Brilliant. And, I lovvvvve your hair!!
great content! wtf can we do about this bribery? lol
I love how most of the videos define some of the legalese terms and then we gloss over an amicus brief.
Such obvious corruption must be addressed or freedom will die.
Only been to Rochester MN …during the summer…lovely
So… corruption all the way down
What I am not seeing mentioned is the issue of timing. Harlan Crowe has defended his 27 year friendship with Clarence Thomas. Thomas was appointed to the US Supreme Court in 1991 or roughly 33 years ago. My Grade 3 arithmetic suggests that Thomas was already on the Supreme Court when he and Crowe became friends. Crowe was already a billionaire. So how are we supposed to believe that the friendship was not corrupt?
The answer on that would be the acts of friendship performed by Thomas in the course of their friendship. Did Thomas show up one day to help Crowe’s child move? Did Thomas come with a hammer and nails to help repair Crowe’s dock? These are the sorts of things which friends do for one another.
If the only acts of friendship performed by Thomas were in the context of his position on the Supreme Court, then the SCOTUS is deeply stained by corrupt influence.
Man. This is so dark. Beautifully presented and explained, but it's fucking depressing.
Thanx Leeja.
This country is so frustrating 🤦🏼♀️
I am so furious that we're even debating obvious corruption at the highest levels of our government. These people need to removed and tried immediately, and some changes in our oversight written into law. This is not debatable, either we get honesty in our government or they're not our government anymore, not sure why everybody else is having a hard time getting to where I'm at.
Lol, I agree with your assessment of lawyers. That matches all those I've known personally.
I’m a white moderate Democrat who views C Thomas as one of the worst choices for the SC in the modern era. He has corrupted himself utterly. Also, he has abandoned the black, brown, poor and downtrodden ppl from which he came. He’s despicable!
Another issue is that there is basically no way to discipline any justices, beyond impeachment (and even that's iffy). Dunno that I would want to be the senator or congressman that tries to impeach a justice, either. It would be impossible for it not to look political, unless they did something blatantly criminal. And even then...
Thanks!
It is refreshing to know that we have people like Leeja who are willing to present the issues in completely understandable, common sense ways for our perspective. "We the people" have been busy living our lives trusting that those who make the rules will do so in our best interest. Unfortunately it is not the case. However, we are in an era where the ugly truth is now being exposed which means that it is on us to clean up the mess. Time to start voting for people who will work to create more accountability, truth, and ethics in our system and vote out the creeps that perpetuate corruption!
Time to update this one. More revelations
What?!. I’m poor as my old math test results and I shop at Walmart like all creatures do but I would NEVER say I would rather be there than the beach! And why compare crawl-mart to the beach? I get the feeling Clarry Thomas doesn’t actually know what Walmarts are.