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Reminder to *re-reads headline* "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas," is it? Anyway, reminder to that guy that justice and ethics are about what we *ought* to do, not merely and only what we're "required" to do.
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@Wolven "I'm not required to report millions of dollars of benefits because I'm friends with the person who gave them to me" would absolutely not fly if he was just a regular government employee or, hell, any other Article III judge.

@halfcocked nope, but since there's damn near no meaningful oversight to actually make these people do anything, and since several of them obviously don't believe in morality for its own sake, here we are

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