Clarence Thomas, Tax Evader?

This corrupt empire just keeps sinking lower and lower into personal decadence. Bad enough that Bush the Elder, Joe Biden, and John Danforth put a known sex offender on the Supreme Court. And that he is bored to death by his duties. (He hasn't asked a question during oral arguments for five years, it was just reported.)

Now it seems he may be a tax evader. The Federalist Society, an extreme right-wing conspiracy devoted to packing the U.S. judiciary with arch-reactionaries, paid all his expenses to attend a four day conspiracy conclave of the sinister billionaire Koch brothers 3 years ago. That should be reported as a gift under Federal law and tax paid. Instead, Thomas lied and said he dropped by briefly and gave a talk. [click on title for link to articles]

Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, former Wall Street Journal reporters, wrote a book about Thomas' confirmation and the character assassination of Anita Hill. They document in damning detail the many corroborating facts and other victims' of Thomas' vulgar harassment. In particular, they show how Biden suppressed the evidence, discouraged witnesses, and lied to his fellow Senators to push Thomas onto the Supreme Court. (The Democratic Party has a long, despicable history of packing the courts with reactionaries, then using the prospect of the GOP appointing reactionary judges to scare people into voting Democratic. As if the Dems didn't aid and abet the GOP court-packing, not merely by refusing to put holds on or filibustering awful nominees, and the GOP does routinely with most Dem. nominees, but by actually voting for the worst reactionaries. Remember, Scalia was put on the High Court by a Democratically-controlled Senate by a vote of 98-0. Including the vote of then-Senator Al Gore. In a bit of poetic justice, Scalia in 2000 helped steal the election for President from Gore, dashing his lifelong dream of becoming President. Boo-hoo, Albert.