SCOTUS For Sale: Samuel Alito Is The Latest Bought And Paid For Conservative Justice

This Supreme Court is in a race to the bottom to see which justice can put the final nail in its legitimacy coffin. It’s Justice Samuel Alito this time.

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This Supreme Court is in a race to the bottom to see which justice can put the final nail in its legitimacy coffin. It’s Justice Samuel Alito this time.

Samuel Alito and his secret gifts from a GOP billionaire

ProPublica dropped yet another U.S. Supreme Court scandal bomb on us, this time it’s Justice Samuel Alito taking undisclosed luxury travel gifts with and from a Republican hedge fund billionaire who had “repeatedly asked the Supreme Court to rule in his favor in high-stakes business disputes.”

In 2008, for example, Alito reportedly traveled with Paul Singer, who “flew Alito to Alaska on a private jet. If the justice chartered the plane himself, the cost could have exceeded $100,000 one way.” He stayed at a “luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day.”

Like one does.

Unless one is a justice, and is required to disclose such things like the gift of private travel in case they might appear biased. But surely even though Alito didn’t disclose this, he recused himself from Singer’s business before the Supreme Court?

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