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Nah, with this administration I don’t believe a lack of impropriety without proof. It’s swampy all the way down.
Said with confidence, as if you actually know what's going on behind the scenes.
Oh, come on.
They spy on Congress (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmakers-demand-d...).
They likely don't even need to spy on SCOTUS. They just have to chat with Ginni Thomas.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/30/ginni-thomas...
"The conservative activist Ginni Thomas has “no memory” of what she discussed with her husband, the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, during the heat of the battle to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to congressional testimony released on Friday."
"Thomas also claimed the justice was unaware of texts she exchanged with [White House Chief of Staff] Meadows and took a swipe at the committee for having “leaked them to the press while my husband was in a hospital bed fighting an infection”."
I look forward to the day we pull our heads out of the sand and stop excusing blatant corruption. It takes a naive view of the world to assume the Secretary of Commerce has access to the same limited information as you or I.
Let’s call all of this what it is: parasites leveraging their insider positions for profit. The ruling class is ripping the copper out of our walls and selling it for scrap while we all choose to look the other way.
The justices and all of their clerks don't live in a bubble. They regularly hang out and discuss god knows what with other political operatives. Thomas is particularly noteworthy for essentially taking bribes from a conservative billionaire. The idea that zero information on potential rulings would leak out to certain people is highly implausible.
I mean that's just a silly thing to assume with this administration.
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He had access to the entire legal team for one side of the case. He also had access to internal legal discussions when the tariffs were put in place, when the president was almost certainly advised that they were illegal and would likely be struck down.