Originally published at: Democrats are demanding action over the latest reports of Justice Thomas' corruption | Boing Boing
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That grouping in log rocking chairs almost looks like it would fit right in on the porch of a Cracker Barrel.
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Ha! 🤣
When the evidence against the man is a goddamned photorealistic painting, you can’t help but laughDemocracy 📉🙃😩
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what are you on about?
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Dear FBI/DOJ,
Please prosecute Clarence Thomas for “Influence Peddling.”
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Somebody painted an investigative journalism piece, apparently? Seems typing would be easier, but hey, whatever gets the job done.
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Crow’s private lakeside resort, Camp Topridge, sits in a remote corner of the Adirondacks in upstate New York. Closed off from the public by ornate wooden gates, the 105-acre property, once the summer retreat of the same heiress who built Mar-a-Lago, features an artificial waterfall and a great hall where Crow’s guests are served meals prepared by private chefs. Inside, there’s clear evidence of Crow and Thomas’ relationship: a painting of the two men at the resort, sitting outdoors smoking cigars alongside conservative political operatives. A statue of a Native American man, arms outstretched, stands at the center of the image, which is photographic in its clarity.
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That image from the tweet in Jason’s BoingBoing article is a painting, not a picture.
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i get that (now), but there are other tangible pieces of evidence, such as the copy of Thomas’ book, signed for a crewman on the yacht taking him and Crow sailing around New Zealand.
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When the defense team comes unprepared, you can’t help but laugh. I mean, even when there’s records and documentation, why would you even make a painting based on a historical event that never happened? Some sort of wish fulfillment? 
For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show.
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You’ve got, from left, Bo Rutledge - a former clerk of Clarence Thomas and Dean of the University of Georgia Law School; Leonard Leo, co-founder of the Federalist Society; and Mark Paoletta, who was point man for Clarence Thomas during his Confirmation Hearings and is Ginny Thomas’ lawyer.
Did these guys need some special access only available through the offices of a billionaire to get Clarence Thomas on the phone?
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He also clerked for J. Harvie Wiklinson III, who authored the (later overturned) opinion to detain Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured during the invasion of Afghanistan, without charges or access to a lawyer, has struck down affirmative action and racial preferences wherever possible, and wrote the majority opinion that upheld “don’t ask don’t tell.”
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If Thomas had chartered the plane and the 162-foot yacht himself, the total cost of the trip could have exceeded $500,000.
“thousands of dollars worth of trips” seems off by at least a couple orders of magnitude.
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Oh, no, it’s all OK. You see, Ginny Thomas took all those bribes, not Clarence.
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Is it possible the painting isn’t the evidence, just a nice depiction of what sorts of things the evidence includes? And is there any way to find out without looking at the article, which undoubtedly says? 
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