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Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Venmo Thing

A bunch of lawyers had just been sending money on Venmo to one of Clarence Thomas's aides. Universities use supreme court justices to solicit donations by like so they'll have a don't invite a justice to like give a talk at the university and they'll pay them a bunch of money. So it's great. This is this is really fun. But again the Supreme Court is not like it's not actually a court it's just like a weird dictatorial tribunal that is subject to like absolutely no authority whatsoever.

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