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Requiring the HIGHEST JUSTICES in the Country to NOT take Bribes from Defendants or Plaintiffs depending on the case is DEEP STATE WOKE SOCIALISM!
They are gratuities, not bribes, DUH
/s
Based on recent rulings you don’t need the /s
Just a small treat.
They worked hard to take your rights away. They deserve a treat every now and now.
Judges can have a little salami
indulgences
DO allow them to go through a lengthy process, complete with a mountain of precise paperwork, and a committee chosen by their peers, on both sides of the aisle, to accept any form of donation.
Why?
Cause they're gonna find a way anyway. That or literally just give them excellent benefits that basically equal the recent Thomas bullshit.
Basically I'm searching for other ways to reduce these issues to a minimum long term.
Most of the fix should be much simpler. Pay them each $600k, indexed to inflation.
That should make them pretty resistant to bribery. Your quality of life really doesn't improve much past that $600k point, even if you're maintaining two houses. (And the justices aren't representatives. They don't need a second house.)
But yes, their tax returns should be public as well.
Yes but once you make that much, then amassing more money turns into a game of how you can fuck over the most people to increase your value. See: every billionaire in existance.
When all your planes come back with bullet holes at points A, B, and C, where should you add additional armor?
Survivorship bias doesn't really work when there are no survivors lol
Billionaires are a subset where they've already self-selected for extreme greed. Hopefully Supreme Court justices would be closer to a normal population.
Supreme Court justices have very little in common with average Americans.
Our recent experience with Trump should have made it painfully clear that rich people can be bribed too.
So no, we don't need to pay them more. We need to send them to jail if the accept bribes. And the law that enables that should be passed with a note that it is not subject to judicial review by the Supreme Court.