Beyoncé tickets, Bali trips and book deals: Here's how Supreme Court justices earned money this year
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antithesis
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Posted 2:11 am, 06/09/2024
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For it to be a bride wouldn't the people giving the gifts have to ask for some sort of favor in return at some point?
Do you think that people are giving millions of dollars in gifts just out of the goodness of their hearts? We have no way of knowing that organizations they're involved in that the Supreme Court has ruled on... or refused to rule on, if preferred.
No more paying people in power for book deals , only pay them a small percentage of each book when it's actually sold to an individual
Unfortunately, that doesn't really help... someone could just buy 50,000 copies of a book instead of writing them a check.
I think it needs to be a lot more strict... you get THIS amount each year, and that's it. No extra curricular sales, no stock trades, nothing. And that includes anyone in the household, including staff.
Biden would have gotten $1.75 for his book. You mean the only book he authored, "Promise Me, Dad" from November 2017?
Forbes said it had sold "over 300,000" copies by July 2019...
That's about the same as Trump's book published in 2015, "Crippled America," which sold 239.900 by 2016...
But again, this is all irrelevant. Trump was caught buying $55,055 worth of his own books using campaign funds, apparently trying to inflate the numbers and funnel money to himself...
And one mayor bought $18,000 worth of Biden's book, obviously trying to funnel money his way without it being traced back to him...
It's all just ways for people to illegally funnel money to politicians.
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Anonymoose
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Posted 9:07 pm, 06/08/2024
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No more paying people in power for book deals , only pay them a small percentage of each book when it's actually sold to an individual, Biden would have gotten $1.75 for his book.
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RollOn2
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Posted 6:06 pm, 06/08/2024
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I find smalltownclown especially disgusting too. Is that racist? 
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smalltownman
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Posted 5:15 pm, 06/08/2024
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And I suppose this isn't a racist comment?
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Albert Pike
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Posted 4:28 pm, 06/08/2024
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For it to be a bride wouldn't the people giving the gifts have to ask for some sort of favor in return at some point?
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RollOn2
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Posted 2:39 pm, 06/08/2024
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Ketanji Brown Jackson is especially disgusting.
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antithesis
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Posted 2:20 pm, 06/08/2024
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was gifted Beyoncé tickets from the singer and Justice Clarence Thomas disclosed two trips gifted from major GOP donor Harlan Crow - a news report about the gifted trips landed the justice in hot water earlier this year. Four of the justices disclosed financials related to book deals. The reports, which cover the 2023 year, were made public for eight of the nine justices with Justice Samuel Alito requesting a 90-day extension for his report. Supreme Court justices are required to file disclosures of gifts annually. Justice Brown Jackson received four tickets from Beyoncé valued at more than $3,700 (more than £2,900) to the singer's concert. Justice Thomas, meanwhile, included in this year's report a disclosure that he took two trips with Mr Crow in 2019 - one to Bali and one to California. The trips were added as an amendment to a previous disclosure. The California trip was to a "private club" according to the report, possibly alluding to Bohemian Grove, a California club for rich, powerful men. Justice Thomas reportedly has visited the club in the past. Food and lodging for both trips were gifted to Justice Thomas, according to the disclosure, but he did not include the exact monetary value of the trips. ProPublica reported last year that the 2019 trip to Bali may have cost as much ***500,000 (£403,000). As part of its report, the non-profit news website found Justice Thomas accepted vacations from Mr Crow, a real estate mogul, nearly every year for two decades. At the time the news story was released, Justice Thomas pushed back saying "this sort of personal hospitality" did not need to be part of the annual disclosure. Scrutiny of the omission, led to similar criticism of other justices last year. On Friday, Justices Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, Brett Kavanaugh and Brown Jackson listed book royalties as part of their financial disclosures. Justice Brown Jackson made more than $893,000 (more than £702,000) for a book advance for a yet-to-be released memoir. Justice Kavanaugh disclosed receiving $340,000 (£267,000) for a forthcoming "legal memoir".
Do you believe that Supreme Court justices should be allowed to accept brib... err, "contributions" like this?
If not, what do you think the punishment should be?
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