{"id":55277,"date":"2023-06-23T00:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55277"},"modified":"2023-06-23T00:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T00:03:25","slug":"scotus-ethics-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55277","title":{"rendered":"GOP not more corrupt than Dems, however …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n

There is not a chance in hell I am going to declare that Republicans as a human subspecies are inherently more corrupt than Democrats.<\/p>\n

However … we are seeing a disturbing trend that seems to give substance to that assertion. I refer to the incidents involving GOP-appointed justices who sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Rather than recuse themselves from cases involving wealthy benefactors, three justices seem to go on as if, well, there’s not a damn thing wrong with accepting lavish gifts from individuals who have business before the court.<\/p>\n

This is a matter of perception. If the public believes a justice is influenced by those gifts, there remains little room for the justice to set the record straight.<\/p>\n

Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted lavish vacations from Texas billionaire Harland Crow. He hasn’t recused himself from any decisions involving his big-time pal. Thomas was nominated for the court in 1991 by GOP President George HW Bush.<\/p>\n

Justice Samuel Alito has been accepting lavish gifts from an uber-rich Republican activist. No recusal from Alito, either. President George W. Bush nominated Alito in 2005 to the highest court in the land.<\/p>\n

Chief Justice John Roberts’s wife has been working as a head-hunter for big-time law firms that have cases before the high court. Oh, Roberts is another G.W. Bush appointee.<\/p>\n

OK, enough about the high court. I have witnessed judicial misbehavior in Texas at lower courts. For instance, I offered criticism of a Democratic<\/em> district judge in Jefferson County who used facsimile letterhead stationery to help him acquire a private business license to operate a restaurant in the county courthouse.<\/p>\n

These recent examples of lax ethics standards on the Supreme Court, though, does involve Republican-appointed justices<\/em>. It is troubling in the extreme to see the court’s public opinion standing plummet in real time.<\/p>\n

Americans have every right to demand and expect their justices to adhere to high ethical standards. We aren’t getting it at this time from some members of the high court’s conservative super-majority.<\/p>\n

I am, therefore, demanding it from the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is not a chance in hell I am going to declare that Republicans as a human subspecies are inherently more corrupt than Democrats. However … we are seeing a disturbing trend that seems to give substance to that assertion. I refer to the incidents involving GOP-appointed justices who sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. … Continue reading GOP not more corrupt than Dems, however …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1017,1632,1941,4091,6363],"class_list":["post-55277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-clarence-thomas","tag-ethics","tag-gop","tag-samuel-alito","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55281,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55277\/revisions\/55281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}