| >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... |