i get it. rachel, before you go, i don t think you can guess the one thing that clarence thomas and i have in common. and i will give you a hand, it is a career ambition that neither one of us realized. is it related to bribery? it is the last thing you would guess ever went through my mind. but clarence thomas, at least, partially gets to dress as one of these and that is a catholic priest. [laughter] clarence thomas actually was in the seminary studying to be a priest before going off into law. and when i was a ten year old altar boy, and by far, the most solemn altar boy you have ever seen. it went through my mind, more as a performance thing because you are up there on the stage, i mean alter, and you are in a supporting role and you think maybe should i move up to the big role? lawrence, i feel like this is one of those things that could get real deep real fast, but i should probably leave it right there. it is going to get deeper in this show right before we b
on a real vote and it said roe and then the other side said wade, are o w versus wade on a robot. i thought it pretty fantastic. i get it. rachel, before you go, i don t think you can guess the one thing that clarence thomas and i have in common. and i will give you a hand, it is a career ambition that neither one of us realized. is it related to bribery? it is the last thing you would guess everyone through my mind. but clarence thomas, at least, partially gets to dress as one of these and that is a catholic priest. [laughter] clarence thomas actually was in the seminary starting to be a priest before going off into law. and when i was a ten year old altar boy, and by far, the most solemn altar boy you have ever seen. it went through my mind, more as a performance thing because you are up there on the stage, i mean alter, and you are in a supporting role and you think maybe should i move up to the big role? lawrence, i feel like this is one of those things that could
while living on a government salary and wanting to be very, very rich, or at least once having wanted to be very very rich? the desire to be very, very rich evaporate for him? in the same way that the desire to be a priest evaporated for him? or did some piece of that last four wealth remain? enough of it seems to have remained to make clarence thomas the most publicly corrupt supreme court justice in history. as i have noted before that it is possible in the last couple of hundred years we have had a supreme court justice who is secretly more corrupt than clarence thomas, but that never became public. that is possible, but on the public record alone no supreme court justice in history has ever been more financially compromised than the man who the legal times once reported,
you are at risk of associating with people who could well have matters that come before you or who might have an interest in the cases that come before you, financial or otherwise. in other words, judge luttig believes that clarence thomas should live the life that he was studying for in the seminary. but with the additional pleasures of a high government salary and a wife. but living the life of a priest, cut off from horribly concerns, was something that clarence thomas decided he did not have the discipline to do. the reason priests where long black robes is to communicate instantly to everyone who sees them that they are not of this world. they are not better than anyone else, but they are living a different life than everyone else. the robe is, among other things, an external statement of the sacrifices that they have made in their daily lives to serve
the kindness of billionaires. that is simply because justice thomas decided to stop reporting all of the massive cash equivalent gifts that he was accepting. the times reports that, in his early years in the court, justice thomas disclosed about 20 private plane fights and an assortment of other gifts, including cigars, a daytona 500 yacht get, a silver buckle, a rawhide coat. after the los angeles times chronicled his gifts and travel in 2004, he stopped disclosing private flights and has seldom reported gifts or other benefits. his decision not to disclose many benefits for nearly two decades, beyond trips related to teaching, speeches, and attending legal academic conferences, has made it difficult to track potential conflicts of interest. but those conflicts have been found and reported. billionaire harlan crow has lavished more cash equivalent benefits on clarence thomas,