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(6,017 posts)Two years after John Roberts became Chief Justice, his wife Jane joined a top-tier D.C. attorney headhunter firm likely to place lawyers in front of the Supreme Court. She's never disclosed names, so no recusals.
In 2012 Clarence Thomas had to revise 20 yrs of financial disclosures to include that Ginni made $686,589 in 2003-2007 from Heritage Foundation & Liberty Central. Also, she recently spoke before the 1/6 committee about how the proven valid and accurate 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, the conspiracy theory which was also the impetus for the 1/6 self-coup attempt.
Just after Amy Conan Barrett became a SC Justice, her husband's law firm moved to DC to specialize in white collar defense & complex commercial litigation likely to appear before the Supreme Court. Clients so far have included 25 Fortune-500 & 15 Fortune-100 corporations.
The FBI admitted it never actually investigated allegations against Bret Kavanaugh.
Justin Kennedy, Justice Anthony Kennedy's son, was the global head of the real-estate capital markets division of Deutsche Bank, which loaned over $1 billion to Trump when other banks wouldn't. As that scandal was uncovered, Anthony Kennedy's retirement gave Trump an opportunity replace him with Brett Kavanaugh, who was deep in debt - but mysteriously, that debt disappeared.