if they were gonna retire rich on billionaire donor money they would have already done it. look at Corrupt Clarence: as long as he’s sitting on the bench he can count on thousand dollar/day vacations and he knows that. As soon as he has nothing to offer his billionaire owners they’ll pull up stakes and move on the bribing the next justice.
The way current day bribery political connections work is that you work on someone’s behalf and then when you’re done working in government you get a position as a board member, director position, whatever, from the people you helped profit so they can give you a gigantic salary as compensation for your favors for them without the government being able to do anything about it. I don’t think any politician stays in the game for the free trips.
with scotus it seems like they don’t ever bother with the veil of delayed rewards anymore. someone gives a justice a pile of money, that justice rules in their favor, and as long as neither of them says “hey, that pile of money is definitely to buy rulings and not as a gift freely given to someone who just happens to have the final say in the law of the land” then no one can ‘prove’ bribery. the fact is at this point they’re mocking us openly.
if they were gonna retire rich on billionaire donor money they would have already done it. look at Corrupt Clarence: as long as he’s sitting on the bench he can count on thousand dollar/day vacations and he knows that. As soon as he has nothing to offer his billionaire owners they’ll pull up stakes and move on the bribing the next justice.
The way current day
briberypolitical connections work is that you work on someone’s behalf and then when you’re done working in government you get a position as a board member, director position, whatever, from the people you helped profit so they can give you a gigantic salary as compensation for your favors for them without the government being able to do anything about it. I don’t think any politician stays in the game for the free trips.with scotus it seems like they don’t ever bother with the veil of delayed rewards anymore. someone gives a justice a pile of money, that justice rules in their favor, and as long as neither of them says “hey, that pile of money is definitely to buy rulings and not as a gift freely given to someone who just happens to have the final say in the law of the land” then no one can ‘prove’ bribery. the fact is at this point they’re mocking us openly.