Second Harlan Crow Connected Group Has A Perfect Litigation Record Before Justice Thomas

[deminks]

Happy Birthday, Clarence.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/06/23/251092/thomas-hearts-crow/

Real estate magnate Harlan Crow has been very good to Justice Clarence Thomas, lavishing gifts and other favors on Thomas and his family. Crow provided $500,000 to allow Thomas’ wife to start a Tea Party group, and he once gave Thomas a $19,000 Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass. He also served on the board of a corporate-aligned think tank called the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which once gave Thomas a $15,000 gift.

As ThinkProgress reported earlier this week, AEI filed at least three briefs in the Supreme Court after giving Thomas this very expensive gift, and Thomas either sided with AEI or took a position that was much more extreme that AEI’s in all three of these cases. ThinkProgress has now learned that a second Harlan Crow-affiliated group, the Center for the Community Interest, has a perfect record in front of Justice Thomas.

Crow served on CCI’s board alongside failed Bush judicial nominee Miguel Estrada. Westlaw’s database of Supreme Court briefs reveals eight briefs filed by CCI in eight different Supreme Court cases, and Justice Thomas voted for CCI’s preferred outcome in every single one of these cases:


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[Jackpine Radical]

1. What's your problem here?

Isn't this the American Way? Crowe pays Thomas for a service, and Thomas renders it. Maybe we could take the idea a little further and eliminate the Justices's salaries, simply allowing them to make their living by selling their votes to the highest bidder. That approach certainly seems to accord with the principles of free-market capitalism, and would end up saving the Treasury the cost of all those judicial salaries.

[bahrbearian]

4. Exactly, the free market can regulate itself.

[nonperson]

2. Impeach this corrupt goon already

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[leveymg]

3. This is circumstantial, but goes to intent and state of mind in Thomas' pattern and practice of law-

breaking and defiance of judicial ethical norms. In addition to going toward a showing of lack of "Good Behavior" required for Impeachment, this also shows that Thomas' had formed criminal intent in making false statements on his financial disclosure forms, and that violation was intentional.

Supports Indictment of Thomas under 5 USC App. 104, for criminal False Statements.