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Watchdog: Thomas Accepted More in Gifts Than All Other SCOTUS Members Combined (truthout.org)

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait, wait, wait... How many ~~bribes~~ "gifts" are the other SCOTUS members getting? 'Cause I hadn't heard of any 'til now and naturally assumed it was ≈0!

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

See the thing is some of these could just be like very natural things that people have to register as gifts. Like if I had to register everything I did with my friends as gifts then maybe I'd have a non-zero sum of gifts, like my friends buy me lunch and sometimes they pick me up and drive me places. Now when your friends are millionaires that's bigger. And it seems a little bit more unreasonable. That being said, there's a difference between your friends having dinner with you and people blatantly giving you money under the table in so many ways

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The government already has rules to quantify and account for that sort of thing in various contexts, such as this or (more strictly) this. Similar rules simply need to be imposed on SCOTUS.