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Crow paid for private school for a relative Thomas said he was raising “as a son.” “This is way outside the norm,” said a former White House ethics lawyer.

In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently told an interviewer he was “raising him as a son.”

Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow.

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    4 months ago

    And let’s say we see a blue wave and we have enough to begin impeachment process against Thomas and/or Alito.

    While those are the two to start with, all six of the Republican nominated judges were of the opinion that the president is a king and must be impeached and removed from the court.

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      4 months ago

      Agreed. However swapping 2 judges makes it a 5-4 liberal majority. Like you said, that’s only a start but would have huge ramifications.

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        4 months ago

        If we can impeach two for trying to start a dictatorship we can impeach all six.

        That is an even bigger deal than being bought out.