Legal Eagle asks is there 'Astonishing Corruption at The Supreme Court?'

It's time to update the topic of Justice Clarence Thomas with Legal Eagle asking is there Astonishing Corruption at The Supreme Court?

Ethics? Never heard of it...What's the solution here?

I'm being a good environmentalist by recycling my reaction from MSNBC interviews ProPublica about Justice Thomas's unreported vacations paid for by Harlan Crow, which also reuses another reaction.

I'm recycling a passage from CNBC examines 'How The Supreme Court May Threaten Democracy' for the first part of my reaction.

[T]he Supreme Court needs more accountability and transparency. I'm less clear about which reforms Congress can and should implement. The bills for a greater transparency and compliance with ethics rules would certainly be a good start.

That's the long-term structural response to this incident, which shows that these proposed reforms are definitely needed. The short-term response is to ask what to do about Justice Thomas. Should he resign? Abe Fortas resigned for something similar although involving less money, even after inflation. Will he? Ha! No, not unless the situation gets much worse for Justice and Mrs. Thomas. Should he be impeached, convicted, and removed? It doesn't matter, because the Republican House majority will never vote to impeach Thomas. We'll have to wait until 2025 for a Democratic majority. Even then, I doubt the Senate would convict, even if the Democrats retain their majority. We'll just have to outlast him. Sigh.

Reduce? No, I think we should expand the court: "I also support increasing the size of the Supreme Court so that there is a Justice for every federal appellate circuit, but President Biden is not in favor of this idea and Republicans would filibuster it." That's still true, although I wonder if Biden's mind will change. It's also a subject for another post. Stay tuned.