Well, it's official. One of our Supreme Court Justices which definitely makes you scratch your head as to how many others of them are doing. This has just had a massive a pro-republica piece I pulled out on them alleging massive ethics violations basically being bought out by Republican conservative with private jet trips and the lavish private Chef vacations uh, donations, political donations to the Supreme Court Justices uh spouse? You've even got uh, the belief that this massive Republican donor potentially helped orchestrate the Supreme Court's shift uh, from uh, where it has been to a more the right as we've seen over the last few few years here with with more right-leaning cases uh, favoring uh, those who lean rights such as for example, with the Uh reversal of Roe V Wade something that was previously deemed unimpenetrable, uh, or impenetrable I Should say let's get the word right now. Obviously, this video is not designed to be political.

This isn't supposed to be left versus right. it's supposed to be sort of an analysis into wow, are our Supreme Court Justices potentially not politically neutral despite this lifetime tenure that they get, which is supposed to enable them to be politically neutral. And uh, I mean the last thing I really feel like we need right now is more Jade when it comes to politics, but unfortunately, this was just too mind-blowing not to talk about. So let's take a look at the pro Republica piece and uh, let's add some commentary on it I Do keep in mind this video is brought to you by my courses on building your wealth.

Link down below. We've got a coupon code expiring on CPI day which is April 12th and the prices will be going up after that. so let's take a look at this piece. So for over 20 years, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been treated to luxury vacations by billionaire and Republican donor Harlan Crowe Now what's interesting is how Harlan Crowe is a Real Estate Mogul His father was actually once deemed the largest landlord in the country I Believe it was 1971 that Harlan Crowe and The Crow Uh company the organization its privately held company.

The Crow Company was deemed the largest landlord in the country with over a billion dollars in Assets in 1971. currently it sits somewhere around 18 billion dollars in assets and the Sun Mr Harlan who's in his 70s now? he runs the real estate fund now. I Think that's very interesting because obviously I have a massive real estate background. not only my financial advisor licensed financial advisor, but I'm also a real estate broker and I got my start in real estate so let's take a look at this.

so This Starts Here By talking about how uh, Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia him and his wife were going on vacation nine days to island hopping on a super yacht. If uh, Thomas had chartered the plane and the 162 yacht himself, the total cost of the trip would have exceed did five hundred thousand dollars. Fortunately for him, that wasn't necessary because he went on a trip with a real estate magnet. Republican Mega Donor Harlan Crowe who owned the jet and the yacht too? Now do keep in mind when you own a a plane, it is a lot cheaper to operate than if you.

Charter The plane chartering is very expensive chartering, so sometimes the numbers that you're going to see here I Want to just give you a personal insight into this? Some of the numbers that you're going to see here I think are relatively uh, dare I say uh, inflated but it, we're still going to be talking about the meaning behind all this. Think about. for example, uh, they they give an example later in the story about how a flight was taken I believe it was from Connecticut yeah Dallas to Connecticut here. look at this.

Thomas even used the plane for a three-hour trip on Feb 11, 2016. the plane flew from Dallas to New Haven uh with a pit stop before flying back later that afternoon. Had that plane been chartered, it could have cost around seventy thousand dollars. Realistically, the actual marginal cost of operating that plane in my opinion, would probably have been closer to to if it's already an own plane.

Two to three thousand dollars per hour would have been the marginal cost of that plane. So you're probably looking much closer to like four to maybe ten thousand dollars. So some of the pieces of the article will be a little exaggerated because they are using Charter prices rather than normal prices. Uh, owning a jet I know that.

Anyway, Okay, so uh. now one of the things I wrote down I was doing some other research uh and I think they actually mentioned in this story too Harlan frequently took the position he's that Republican donor That quote I don't disclose what I don't have to and it's one of the reasons he likes being a private company. I Personally find that's pretty common. A lot of people who don't really like disclosing things and they kind of want to do things their way.

They keep their companies private, they don't want the SEC in their life, they don't want regulation in their life, and to some extent it's like yeah, why would you want to invite more Regulators in but that's sometimes where you can also get sus things where all of a sudden now you've essentially got a republican Mega donor potentially who's got a Supreme Court Justice in their back pocket? Could you imagine having the Supreme Court Justice uh in your back pocket to some extent. But anyway, they give some examples here about are they vacation they've gone to all male retreats in California they've gone to uh, the uh uh that's called The Bohemian Grove they've gone to ranches in Texas Indonesia I think Hawaii was mentioned over here and basically the Supreme Court Justice said hey, look I I never asked for any of it and because I never asked for any of it. uh I don't think I have to disclose all of these Mega gifts that I've gotten even though technically, uh, ethics. uh, law attorneys say any kind of donation basically over fifty dollars requires disclosure I mean here's a line right here.

Ethics experts said the law clearly requires disclosure for private jet flag lights and Thomas appears to have violated it. Now he's been the Supreme Court Justice since the 90s. My guess is if if this continues to get media attention, there's a chance he could be quote unquote, forced into retirement. uh, hate to say it, but this is it's it's not a good look and you'll see how this evolves, especially when we get into what his wife's position is I think it'll blow your mind and you're going to want to get life insurance in as little as five minutes.

hashtag sponsored Anyway, Uh, okay, so it was an it was a question of not wanting to use the office for anything other than it was intended. These are other people, other ethics attorneys who basically say hey, like look when or or even other judges retired judges. They say look when we make reservations places we don't want to use our title like Judge Pafrath or whatever. We don't want to do that because we don't want to be unjustly potentially enriched Now, of course, Thomas makes the argument that well, Harlan's just my rich friend.

Okay, so now we have to kind of evaluate if somebody's your Rich friend. Are you supposed to say no to all of their generous vacations and super yacht trips and hotels and private Chef food or whatever else or should you be reimbursing? maybe your fair share? or just at the very least, disclosing it. Now many people here would argue that disclosure would be the best opportunity. Look, if you're going to get these gifts, just disclose it.

The problem is the Justice probably is thinking, well, if I disclose gifts I didn't ask for then people are going to think I'm biased. But now people, you basically hit the nail in the coffin. Now people definitely think you're biased because not only are you not disclosing it, but you're arguing that you don't need to disclose lavish vacations and gifts from your quote-unquote friend. Uh, take a look at this.

These gifts include. Look at this Soon after Crow Met Thomas Three decades ago, he began lavishing the Justice with gifts including a 19 000 Bible folks of nineteen thousand dollars for a Bible Are you kidding me? They have one of these for free in every single hotel room. but apparently this Bible belonged to Frederick Douglass Recently Crow gave Thomas A Portrait of the Justice and his wife uh, the crow the crow Foundation then also gave a hundred and five thousand dollars to Yale law school. That's where Thomas went to school and uh uh uh, then we've got you know.

other trips over here. One of the trips included motorboats and a giant inflatable rubber duck. Um I Don't even want to know what artificial intelligence would draw up if we threw into an AI generator? Show me Clarence Thompson with a giant inflatable rubber duck and motorboats. Actually, you know what? I think we have to do it I think we have to do it.

Hold on. Uh so I have an AI generator here. I'm gonna just type it in really quick. Uh, let's do.

And then I want to tell you about the wife because the wife is a really interesting piece. So let's do Clarence uh Thomas Supreme Court Justice with a giant inflatable rubber duck and motor boats. All right, we'll give that a few minutes to show up, but that's gonna be ridiculous, so stand by for that. All right, let's go back over here.

So um, okay, let's keep going I Really want to get to the Life part and some of the judicial action part. so let's keep going here. Uh okay. so uh, didn't disclose.

Okay, we talked about that. So uh yeah here they talk about lifetime tenures for judges are designed to keep uh, people from being politically biased. Uh okay. now here look at this: Crow Met Thomas after he became a justice.

so interestingly, they happened to become quote genuine friends after Mr Thomas became a Supreme Court Justice Of course they did Anyway, the pair odd word, have become genuine friends according to people who know both Uh men. especially since they're going to Men's Clubs I mean I Guess that's not terribly unnormal, but abnormal for for wealthier people. But anyway, over the years, some details of Crow's relationship with the Thomases have emerged. In 2011, the Times reported that gross generosity toward the Justice Uh had been growing during.

at the same time that your political revealed that Crow had given half a million dollars five hundred thousand dollars to a tea party group. So the Republican donor gave 500 Grand to a tea party group. Listen to this founded by the Supreme Court Justices wife Jenny Thomas Jenny Thomas By the way, she was a real A an election uh, fraud proponent suggesting that Donald Trump substantially lost the election because of election fraud I think I actually wrote down a quote over here. Uh, they thought, yeah, yeah, look at this.

Thomas has been a prominent backer of Trump's lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. That was a quote from the Guardian. Uh, so I Want to make that clear? This was a quote from the Guardian and so was the other one. Uh, on the 24th of November 2020 Thomas Rhodes I Can't see Americans swallowing up the obvious fraud just going with one more thing with no freaking consequences.

the whole coup and now this. uh. She also then says her husband is stubborn and that they don't talk politics. Uh, but uh, the fact that, uh, that they allege they don't talk politics together seems a little far fetched.

I mean what? what kind of spousal relationship doesn't a chat together about their job? That seems a little weird. Of course. Thomas makes the argument that oh no, it's boring to talk about politics. so I don't talk about politics with my wife I'm like a lot of this just seems ludicrous.

Like ludicrous, hiding from disclosures and trying to run through legal loopholes here. But anyway, apparently that tea party group that was founded by the Supreme Court Justices wife paid her a 120 000 salary and was funded by this guy. and uh, and and now we're seeing these lavish vacations and private jet trips and Yacht super yacht trips and everything. uh with without any disclosure.

especially since Thomas has been ruling on cases directly involving the real estate industry I Hate to say it here, but I I think the corruption is really obvious here as and I think this was the nail in the coffin for corruption. Okay, listen to this. I I Like this is like the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard. listen this.

I Don't have a problem with going to Europe but I prefer the United States and I prefer seeing regular parts of the United States Thomas said in a recent interview for a documentary about his life which Crow helped finance. Okay, so so Crow the real estate billionaire guy helped finance this documentary about the Supreme Court Justice and apparently in the interview he says the following quote: I prefer the RV parks I prefer the Walmart parking lots to beaches and things like that. There's something normal to me about it I come from regular stock I prefer that I prefer being around that. Okay, let me just pause for a moment and let me just ask.

Let's let me just pull the audience. Okay, so I'm going to run a poll and I want to see what your answers are. Do you prefer private jet and super yacht victims or Walmart parking lots? Okay, jet vacations Walmart parking lot and and I'm very curious to see what the results of this poll are because Let's just say, all right, while that poll runs, let's go ahead and look at what the uh oh my God Look at this. Look at this.

look at this hold on. This is hilarious. So this is the artificial intelligence generated image of Clarence Thompson or Thomas It don't even look like rubber ducks Robert ducks and motorboats? You ready for this? Hold on? this is this is priceless. Oh my Lord I mean his face is like perfect in all these images too because he looks like deer in the headlights like uh, you got me uh as a step bro I'm stuck.

Help me. Oh my gosh, this is ludicrous. Okay, let's keep going here. So and then I'm gonna review the results of the poll in just a moment.

Uh, Crow's guests are served meals prepared by private chefs, a painting of the two men at the resort sitting Outdoors smoking cigars along with alongside conservative political operatives. Uh, then you've got uh, what do we have over here frequent vacations? Oh, here we go and then listen to this. During one trip in July 2017, Thomas's fellow guests included Executives at Verizon and a Pricewaterhousecoopers an auditor both major Republican donors and leaders of the American Enterprise Institute a pro-business conservative think tank. Uh, and then a painting of Thomas at Top Ridge shows him in conversation with Leonardo Leo the Federalist Society leader regarded as an architect of the Supreme Court's recent turned to the right.

So and then of course the argument is nah, these are just Gatherings of friends. So yeah, yeah, I mean I think this is pretty obvious here. Now it's it's worth looking at uh, his some of his cases and how these could be uh, how how he could sort of interpret uh or affect law. Obviously, if you have more of a republican a tilt and you're hanging out with Republican Executives First of all, think about it from the POV of if you're Crow the rich billionaire, the real estate billionaire how easy it is to call up your CEO friends and go hey man, come on this trip, I'm gonna have a Supreme Court Justice with us.

Talk to him about whatever you want. Nudge nudge, wink wink it like it's kind of obvious, blatantly obvious that there's going to be some potential for uh nudging by Executives to rule in cases a certain way. It's very difficult to remove biases that you potentially get brainwashed into through vacations and trips over Years And we're talking now Decades of this and of course Thomas's reply or Crow's reply. Yeah, here's the I'm not required to disclose or I don't disclose what I'm not required to.

But anyway, specifically talking about Thomas and his cases. So Thomas is he's a conservative. He's a big fan of originalism, But that originalism tilt that he's had has leaned further and further to the right now. originalism is this idea that you interpret without new versions, uh, or new adaptations to what's in the Constitution.

So for example, today, you're not going to take uh, social media, the internet. Uh, you know you're not going to look at implications of how we live our lives today. A To help you rule based on constitutional questions, you're just going to basically look strictly at the Constitution. So I'll give you some examples.

here. In an original style case was a second amendment case uh, DC versus Heller in 2008. this is where DC basically tried to ban all firearms, but the Supreme Court overruled that the DC is not able to ban that in homes. The Congress Also, here's a U.S First, Bond 2014 Congress was uh, basically overturned by the Supreme Court when Congress bans States from using chemical weapons now I Use this one specifically because it's kind of like why the hell would would a state ever have to use chemical weapons? But when you have a super conservative judge that leans right obviously that's called leans right? I Mean you are on the right if you're very conservative, uh and uh, and you have the belief of originalism.

The originalist argument to overturn Congress's ability to say look, states are not allowed to use chemical weapons is you simply use you. Simply say the following: Anything not explicitly provided to the Federal government: as a power becomes the power of the state via the 10th Amendment Now that makes sense when the framers wrote the Constitution but does it make sense Today we didn't have chemical weapons back then. Of course they didn't put chemical weapons in the Constitution but an originalist will say no, not in the Constitution. Anyway, there's some other examples of originalism, but really, the question here is, is it reasonable for a judge not his friend gave him 100 off coupon code? Yeah, maybe.

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But anyway, let's look at the results of this poll right after I Just mentioned You gotta ask yourself is is it potentially Is this potentially Corruption of the Supreme Court and the answer is here is yes. Likely this is likely Corruption of the Supreme Court I Hate to say it because I Try not to be jaded but this is Jay ding. It's scary. All right, let's look at the results of the poll: I Think y'all are screwing with me? Uh, we only got 66 saying they prefer private jet trips over Paul more parking lots out of 306 votes right now about that.

Yeah right. I Don't believe any of you. but I appreciate the humor in it. So we got a super majority at least to agree that private jet trips are better than Walmart parking lots.

Come on man. Walmart Parking lots. You gotta be careful man. people.

people are trying to attack you with shopping carts all the time. Drive to a Walmart man, people just come out of anywhere. All right, it's like somehow they come out of Mini Coopers with giant shopping carts ready to Door dink well shopping cart ding your car. It's crazy.

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those are once a week exclusive lives. But if you join any of the courses, you get access to the Uh every day the market is open. Live streams those are great. So it's a little bit of a larger group but but we still get a lot of Q A But anyway, one of the things we were talking about was Walmart plus and uh, how was Walmart Plus? Quite frankly, you should just use Walmart Plus and get your stuff delivered because a it's included in the price I Mean yeah, you're gonna add a little bit of a tip, but the time you save a makes up for it.

And B the fact that you're not going to potentially be subject to impulse purchases that you might in the store I mean I Suppose you can impulse buy online, but it could be. it could be a good thing. Uh, anyway so uh Walmart equals the Wild West uh Walmart Lot has been a friendly, safe place over years of traveling. Don't get me wrong, I like Walmart I will go to Walmarts as well I've I Remember the first time I visited uh Fort Collins We're like we need to find a fan because the dorm was staying and this was back when I was a police explorer.

we didn't have air conditioning so we're like we got to find fans Walmart was the only place the Walmart Supercenter that had fans. although I will say I'm pissed that they got rid of the garden centers at most of these places. I used to be a big green thumby and ever since they got rid of the garden centers at like Targets, the Super Targets and the super Walmarts I'm pissed Anyway, okay, that gives us a little bit of insight into judicial corruption.