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beSpacific<p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ClarenceThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClarenceThomas</span></a> sent teenage grandnephew to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HiddenLakeAcademy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HiddenLakeAcademy</span></a> private boarding school in foothills of northern GA. Thomas had legal custody of Martin when he was 6 yrs old / had told an interviewer he was “raising him as a son.” Tuition at the boarding school $150,000 in 2009 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/bankstatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bankstatement</span></a> buried in unrelated court filings shows source of Martin’s tuition = the company of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaire</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RealEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealEstate</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/magnate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magnate</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HarlanCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HarlanCrow</span></a>. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/FinancialDisclosure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FinancialDisclosure</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/EthicsReforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EthicsReforms</span></a> <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/clarenc</span><span class="invisible">e-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SenateJudiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SenateJudiciary</span></a> Cmte Held Hearing 3/2/23 On <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/EthicsCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EthicsCode</span></a> For <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> Amidst <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ClarenceThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClarenceThomas</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/scandal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scandal</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/EthicsReforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EthicsReforms</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/testimony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>testimony</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/checksandbalances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>checksandbalances</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/recusal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recusal</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/statusquo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statusquo</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HarlanCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HarlanCrow</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/publicservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicservice</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/judicialpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>judicialpower</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/federaljudiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federaljudiciary</span></a> Enforce the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CodeofConduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CodeofConduct</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crisis</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/confidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>confidence</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/JudicialActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JudicialActivism</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PartisanJudiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartisanJudiciary</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/OathofOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OathofOffice</span></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4kKO73q1w" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4kKO73q1</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p>@lawdork - "Sen. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/LindseyGraham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LindseyGraham</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/falsely" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>falsely</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/claimed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>claimed</span></a> multiple times on 3/2/23 that all 9 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> justices signed on to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChiefJustice</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a>’s letter declining <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SenateJudiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SenateJudiciary</span></a> Committee Chair <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DickDurbin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DickDurbin</span></a> invitation to attend the committee’s <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/hearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hearing</span></a> on <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/EthicsReforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EthicsReforms</span></a>. Building on that false premise, Graham later claimed, “I just want people to understand court as a whole has a problem with this, whether they’re right or wrong.” <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republicans</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/epicenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>epicenter</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lies</span></a></p>
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