But ain’t we got fun
We’re the Prevost Marathon R.V. purchased with a “loan” requiring no payments set, not the old Chevrolet set:
Billionaire political donor Harlan Crow provided at least three previously undisclosed private jet trips to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in recent years, an investigation by Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats has found.
The flights, which were detailed by Crow’s lawyer in response to inquiries from the committee, took the justice to destinations including the region near Glacier National Park in Montana and Thomas’ hometown in Georgia.
The committee launched its investigation in response to ProPublica reporting last year that revealed numerous undisclosed gifts Crow provided to Thomas, including private school tuition for a relative and luxury vacations virtually every year for more than two decades. Democrats on the committee authorized a subpoena for information from Crow last November, but the subpoena was not issued, and the new information came as a result of negotiations between the Senate and Crow’s attorneys.
It’s possible more revelations are yet to come. The office of the panel’s chair, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said that a report detailing the full findings of committee Democrats’ investigation would be released later in the summer.
“If you do good*, you get perks. Lots and lots of perks.” [*If your idea of “good” involves tortured pseudo-formalist misreadings of federal statutes to maximize the number of mass killings that take place.]
The thing is that Thomas was free at any point under the Trump administration to leave for a life of luxury with income derived from various sectors of the wingnut no-work-job-and-lecture circuit, without any ethical conflicts of interest, and without even leaving much of anything on the table in terms of policy outcomes. But he thinks he’s entitled to have it all, and he knows that nobody can stop him.