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I see SCOTUS isn't even pretending any more...
Charities don't mean what they're supposed to mean in these contexts. They all gain a lot personally from these outings. It's sick we even have an avenue for these backroom deals. >

The charity loopholes really frustrate me on so many levels. It’s turned into a tax write off, good PR, and potential source of shady deals and money laundering. I believe all that money could be put towards high risk but high reward investments the money isn’t properly funding such as innovative results based research in cancer treatment/prevention that uses actual decreases in cancer rates as the metric rather than number of publications or risky game changing investments in clean fusion energy projects. My reasoning is that it could serve a lot of the same purposes as current non profits such as protecting wealth and creating good PR but at least producing results for society and removing the shady stuff. Basically tell billionaires if they want to throw money away to save on taxes and generate PR then do it by investing in the long shots they wouldn’t normally touch. >

Can’t have anything nice. Donations as write-offs has got to go. It’s empowering way too much corruption and churches are being as mouthpieces for donors. >

Thanks to Citizen’s United Ruling, it just made it worse.  Who allowed that? Supreme Court Justices. >

“Charities” that benefit government employees should be banned, full stop. This goes for all those sketchy Police charities that give “get out of ticket free” cards to their donors, too. >

K street shouldn't exist either. >

What, it should go from I to L street? >

They already got J street, those bastards! >

Some of us are regular folks. >

Chief Roberts runs a dirty court. >

And then Roberts whines about the loss of credibility of the court, while doing nothing to restore the court's credibility. >

Yeah, how dare that fuck say anything about people talking shit about the court. Fuck all of them. It's a fucking joke because they have turned it into a joke. >

Yup. That Roberts dared to whine about complaints about the Court shows how painfully disconnected he is from basic reality. >

If they can be lobbied they're politicians and therefore should be elected. >

It's this simple. >

Wow, the definition of “charity” in our cynical, polarized society. >

“It’s disgusting,” he said. “Many of the people who contribute have the same reasons I do. You go to a cocktail party and support a good cause. But it turns out that for some people it’s not that innocent. And I think the justices are a victim of that.” >

Poor, poor Supreme Court justices...They're just victims in all this! They're the real victims here, not all Americans. >

To be fair, as a cis white man, I'm not really suffering too terribly.... So maybe not ALL Americans; just the "right" Americans are suffering... At least according to the supreme court and a re-burgeoning white Christian nationalist party
You know, just women, and anyone who is melanin proficient... Or folks with an accent... And the poor's.... >

Fair point, I don't mean to claim any victimhood, I'm not really in the demographic that gets hurt most. But people I care about are hurt, and in a general sense it hurts all of us, as Americans, as Earthlings, humans, whatever. It brings us all down, that we let that happen. We're all responsible. >

Remember that "...then they came for the..." thing?  Yeah, this is why us not-in-that-demographic folks are fighting. >

And we expected...?
Just another way for the wealthy and powerful to protect and increase their wealth and power at the expense of the public. >

This country is a Ponzi scheme. I'm so sick of it. Normal people never have a chance at a decent life unless they get incredibly lucky. >

I feel like we're playing monopoly after all the properties we're purchased, houses and hotels put up.  Of course those that got to start the game with open property say it's fair, the rest of us only exist to pay. >

Our system is so corrupt. It’s insane. >

Unseemly, for sure. Perhaps the “Society” and the Justices should part ways. There is no reason for the Chief Justice to act as the honorary head of this group. >

Lie and spend your way in to the top. Shake hands with conservative Justice like Thomas or Barrett. Be respectful. Tell them to go fuck themselves and their hypocrite corrupt ways. Boast about how easy it is to get access to them and that you've recorded it all. Leave. Release footage. >

“Who wouldn’t expect that to be our constituency?” he said. “I don’t think I would have taken money from the Communist or Nazi Parties, but within reason the society was open to all.” >

Sign me up bruh, I’m looking at a RICO indictment. >

The idea that there IS "a charity tied to the Supreme Court" is a problem in itself. >

The only way to bribe or buy a judge is window shopping >

Like any other branch of government, the court is beholden to special interests that funnel money to its members >

Pay for play >

The Republic is not what it once was… >

Those justices who made themselves available should resign, be impeached, and investigated for possible influencing of cases before the Court.
When Republicans corrupt, they corrupt completely. >

Guessing it only offers access to 6 of the 9. >

Why does the Supreme Court need charity, of any type? >

Wow! Our highest court in the land is offering freemium “pay to win” subscriptions? >

Or you can just "hire" Ginni Thomas. >


access to the justices

I wonder  which justices... >

This was covered a few weeks ago on the Strict Scrutiny podcast - absolutely nuts >

The Roberts Court has always been pay to play. It's gotten more blatant over the last ten years or so, but that corruption is one of his signatures. >

Our Supreme Court of Partisan Hacks - Catholic Mullahs. 
Time to pack the court with real Justices. >

*Republican "justices" >

Poor people in the US goes to strip clubs for their 18th birthday/anniversaries; the wealthy gets a nice new car. Now Imagine being so obscenely rich that you get to wine and dine with the most powerful/physical manifestations of justice and the law in your land (the most powerful country in the world). Such freedumb really brings tears of envy to an outsider like me. >

“It’s one thing to go into the Oval Office because you spent $100 million on a campaign and get to talk substantively about the most important thing in the world to you,” he said, “as opposed to getting to go to a dinner or a lecture by a law professor on Marbury v. Madison where a justice might say a few words of introduction.” >

I will say this about Trump: while he gave the wrong answers, he was absolutely asking the right questions.  
This is that classic corruption that Republicans clamor about.  I'd say that this needs to be investigated, justices need to step down, fines issued, laws made, etc., but I have been on this earth long enough to know that the powers that be simply won't allow that.  Very fash, very cool, thank you. >

every accusation is an admission. >

This country is rotten to the core, all the way down to the SCOTUS.... >

Down to the GOP/Republican SCOTUS yes. So let's fix that. >

Whole article's worth a read, but I'm consistently disappointed how cheap it takes.

He couched it as a bargain, advising that $10,000 was enough to get noticed.
“I’ll warn you: There’s money involved,” he emailed one ally. “Societies like this begin from one starting point: Donor. It’s not as expensive as you think, though.”

For context, "he" in this case is

the Rev. Rob Schenck, told The Times how he had made the society and its events part of his campaign to embolden the justices to take unapologetic stands against abortion.

That's all it takes for the court to reverse Roe, or to decide EPA can't regulate the air that everyone breaths, or for Purdue pharma to try limiting it's liabilities, or for Chevron to try to get whatever Chevron was trying to get, etc, etc, etc. >

hate groups are doing similar and registering as churches >

Apalling >

it is not a court. let's stop calling them that >

Does the charity refer to the justices as The Big Guys on their laptop? >

Impeach the traitors or expand the court to dilute their corruption. >


Impeach the traitors or expand the court to dilute their corruption. 

You do realize that the corporate donor class has access to every member of the court, right? >

So? Impeach them. Just because there's access doesn't mean they must be corrupt. Get some justices with integrity. >

The corruption began when ultra rich capitalists started buying off police unions and the local courts so that endless wealth and power would eventually trickle up and fill their pockets. Fast forward to today, and now those same wealthy capitalists have garnered enough wealth and power to design and control an entire political system that works exclusively in the favor. 
Therefore, it is fair to say that it would be impossible to find a judge with integrity — as every judge has had to accept a political bribe at least once in their career to be appointed to a post. Not to mention that every judge that has ever been appointed to the Supreme Court was previously vetted by shills who serve within to the corporate controlled two party system. >

Lots of judges are elected. Elect judges with integrity. Protest to get the corrupt judges some consequences. >

Ooh. A dinner with Clarence and Ginny. That would be a laugh riot ! >

These justices have been clandestine about their influencers for a long time. Where did Scalia die? >

He died on that ranch right? Is it owned or operated by a group of lobbyists or something? >

So they essentially put a "For Sale" sign on the court? >

It’s just a front to gain influence with the court >

The Corrupt Court >

Seems like the GOP has created much simpler avenues for bribing a current/potential SCOTUS justice. This is just the low hanging fruit for slightly poorer/less well connected dummies. >

This Supreme Court is a joke and an embarrassment. We’ll look back in a 150 years (if we’re even still around) and go wtf were they thinking. >

If 90+% of your charity gains don’t go to actual charitable causes then you should be taxed. >

OPs comment was a joke yes. >

I get I gotta keep fighting. But duck man, it’s hard to get out of the mindset “we’re a failed state” sometimes. >

The destruction of American institutions is complete and the weapon was money. Who could have guessed. Our enemies sure did, and a surprising bargain. >

This should be illegal it’s definitely unethical but it is the Supreme Court after all! Ethics is something they no longer care about >

We have the best judges money can buy. >

Woah. >

Gross >

Is there not ANYTHING COMPLETELY CORRUPT FRAUDULENT OR IMMORAL ffs