Chief Justice Roberts Refuses To Testify At Senate Ethics Hearing

Let’s see: just in the past few weeks we’ve had Justice Clarence Thomas accepting ultra-luxury travel from a far-right billionaire with interests in cases before the Supreme Court and – oh, yeah, that same billionaire bought Clarence Thomas’ mother’s house, ostensibly to make a Clarence Thomas museum but has made the kind of renovations more fit for a residence than a museum – none of which was properly disclosed on disclosure forms. That’s not including Thomas’ failure to properly report the source of hundreds of thousands of dollars in income. And then there’s his failure to recuse himself from cases his activist, coup-supporting wife has interests in.

Now we find out Justice Neil Gorsuch sold his house, for nearly $3 million, to the chief executive of a law firm with what Politico described as "a robust practice" before the Supreme Court. The sale went through nine days after Gorsuch was confirmed for his lifetime appointment. Gorsuch did not disclose the identity of the purchaser on his disclosure form.

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