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FFS Attys w/cases before #SCOTUS venmoed $$ to an aide for #ClarenceThomas
“Several lawyers who have had business before the supreme court, including one who successfully argued to end race-conscious admissions at universities, paid money to a top aide to Justice Clarence Thomas, according to the aide’s Venmo transactions.”
#SCOTUSstench #TermLimits #JudicialEthics #Law #Legal #Corruption
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/clarence-thomas-aide-venmo-payments-lawyers-supreme-court
The lawyers who made the #Venmo transactions were: #PatrickStrawbridge, a ptnr at Consovoy McCarthy who recently successfully argued that #AffirmativeAction violated the US constitution; #KateTodd, who served as WhiteHouse dpy counsel under #Trump at the time of the payment & is now a managing party of Ellis George Cipollone’s law office; #ElbertLin, the fmr solicitor general of WV who played a key role in a #SCOTUS case that limited the #EPA’s ability to regulate #GreenhouseGasEmissions; &
#BrianSchmalzbach, a partner at McGuire Woods who has argued multiple cases before #SCOTUS.
The payments to #RajanVasisht, who served as #ClarenceThomas’s aide from July 2019 to July 2021, seem to underscore the close ties between Thomas, who is embroiled in ethics scandals following a series of revelations about his relationship with a wealthy billionaire donor, & certain senior Washington lawyers who argue cases & have other business in front of the justice.