[addicted]

I suspect there’s a lot of gray areas and I suspect justices of all stripes have tripped over the gray area multiple times.

But I think all the justices can see what Thomas was doing was pretty awful and I doubt any of the other justices, even those whose views I find abhorrent, would have gone that far.

And we’re only talking about justices’ actions themselves. This ethics code very clearly brings in consideration of the judge’s spouse’s activities as well, something which, once again is a major problem with Thomas, and none of the other judges as far as I can tell.

[ImJamal]

>But I think all the justices can see what Thomas was doing was pretty awful and I doubt any of the other justices, even those whose views I find abhorrent, would have gone that far.

I'm not sure that is the case. Ginsburg got a trip from a person and then the court declined to take up a case against said person.[1] The whole article is quite good so I would recommend reading the whole thing.

>This ethics code very clearly brings in consideration of the judge’s spouse’s activities as well, something which, once again is a major problem with Thomas, and none of the other judges as far as I can tell.

If his wife had wanted to give a speech and Thomas told her no, how many articles would there have been about the mean, misogynist, conservative man controlling his wife? It was a lose lose for Thomas on this so long as his wife wanted to do it.

I think this is on his wife, not him. Justice Breyer defended Thomas on this [2] as well.

There are examples of other justices' spouses doing similar things. Roberts' wife for example [3]. I'm sure there are more cases as well.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/scotus-justices-rac...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-breyer-defends-ginni-thomas...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/john-roberts-jane-sull...