Supreme Court Springs A Leak; Leaks To Conservative Pundits May Have Started More Than A Month Ago

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45. Oh yeah...I guess the HMOs are not paying her just to wear the stupid hat.

Well, that brings up an interesting point. We all know that corporations have perfected the art of lobbying Congress to a science, and it's so easy now that the fun has probably gone out of it.

Maybe the next frontier in corporate corruption will be to develop the fine art of lobbying the Supreme Court by giving all their spouses seven figure a year jobs to do nothing but convey insider information, or withhold sex in exchange for legislation.


By the way, I'm not surprised that Thomas didn't recuse himself on the grounds that his wife works for the HMO lobby. But wasn't there some talk about Kagan recusing herself because she was part of the team that crafted the law? I'm hoping that she made it a point of NOT recusing herself, or saying she'd only recuse herself if Thomas did, and when he refused so did she. After all, the SCOTUS has no code of ethical behavior, so if the four conservatives are going to act like assholes, and proudly flout their biases and conflicts of interest, the least the liberals can do is act like assholes, too. And say "we'll knock it off if you do. Until then, we're not recusing ourselves from shit. In fact, next time GREEN PEACE is arguing a case before us, we're going to take the weekend off to go on their latest SAVE THE WHALES protest. And if anybody whines about this, we'll just tell them that Scalia set the precedent by going duck hunting with Dick Cheney while he was adjudicating his case. So, talk to him about it."