US supreme court justice Samuel Alito: 'It is the highest court in the land with the lowest ethical standards,' says Jamie Raskin, the Democrat ranking member of the House oversight committee. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/APThe exchange was an aside secretly recorded by Windsor, a liberal activist posing as a sympathetic, anti-abortion campaigner, as she mingled with chief justice John Roberts, Alito and his wife Martha at the function.
The most gilded institution in the land has left itself open to accusations of corruption and venality. For the past week, details emerged from an analysis by non-profit organisation Fix the Court of the jaw-dropping range of gifts accepted by justice Clarence Thomas, who has been on the supreme court since 1991. Thomas accepted gifts and holidays estimated to be worth more than $4 million between 2004 and 2023 and exceeding the total value of all gifts accepted by his fellow justices tenfold.
Thomas and Alito are supreme court veterans who combine with Donald Trump’s three appointees Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy-Coney Barrett to form the majority vote in an exceptionally conservative court. The 2022 decision to reverse the 50-year-old Roe v Wade abortion rights decision has become one of the many ideological battlegrounds ahead of the upcoming election.
Referring to her husband, she says: “And he’s like, `Oh please don’t put up the flag’. I said, ‘I won’t do it because I’m deferring to you. But when you are free of this nonsense, I’m putting it up and I’m going to send them a message every day.’”
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