‘Get the f*ck off the Supreme Court!’ Comedian John Oliver offers to pay Justice Clarence Thomas $1M a year and hand him a $2.4M motor coach if he resigns from SCOTUS

Comedian John Oliver has offered Judge Clarence Thomas $1 million a year and a $2.4 million motor coach to “redeem the Supreme Court.”

Oliver made his offer on Sunday’s episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight, warning the justices that he only had 30 days to accept or the offer would expire.

It came after a series of investigations found that Thomas had failed to report dozens of lavish trips and expenses paid for by Republican billionaire Harlan Crow.

The ensuing scandal called his integrity and impartiality into question, especially in the wake of the heavily politicized Roe v Wade ruling and his refusal to recuse himself from hearings related to the January 6 insurrection.

Oliver joked, “There’s a lot on your plate right now, from taking away women’s rights to hearing January 6 cases… and you deserve a break, you know, from the nastiness of Washington.”

Judge Clarence Thomas was exposed last year in a series of expenses scandals

‘This way you can be surrounded by the ordinary people whose lives you have demonstrably made worse for decades.’

Last April, ProPublica revealed that Thomas had failed to declare 20 years of jet-setting and luxury travel paid for by Crow on financial disclosure forms.

They revealed that Thomas had vacationed on Crow’s superyacht, flown on his Bombardier Global 5000 jet and vacationed with him at Bohemian Grove, a men-only resort in California.

Crow also reportedly paid about $100,000 in college tuition for Thomas’ great-nephew and bought the house where Thomas’ mother lived.

The payments — and Thomas’s failure to report them — raised major questions about his impartiality, especially around the Roe v Wade rulings and the January 6 riot.

Thomas moved to overturn federal abortion rights once established in the Roe v Wade case and then refused to recuse himself from hearings related to the attack on the Capitol.

He resisted pressure to recuse himself from cases related to whether Donald Trump could be removed from states’ presidential election ballots, despite his wife, conservative political activist Ginni Thomas, having endorsed false claims by Trump that the 2020 election was stolen.

Referring to the scandals as he made his offer on Sunday, Oliver said: “So that’s the offer, a million dollars a year, Clarence. And a brand new apartment on wheels.

“And all you have to do… is sign the contract and leave the Supreme Court. The clock starts now – 30 days, Clarence. Let’s do this!’

He promised him a $2.4 million coach in exchange for his resignation

The promise of huge sums of money and lavish gifts was a nod to the gifts Thomas accepted from his “friend” Crow, who reportedly collects Nazi artifacts, including a signed copy of Mein Kampf and two paintings of Hitler.

Oliver said: “I think you’re thinking, what would my boyfriend say if I took him up on this offer? Will they judge me while they sit in their boardrooms, mega-yachts and Hitler shrines?

Will they still treat me to luxury vacations and sing songs about me on their phones?’

He added, “Well, that’s the beauty of friendship, Clarence. If they are true friends, they will love you no matter what your job is. So I think this is the perfect way to find out who your real friends actually are.’

ProPublica revealed that Thomas had spent time at Crow’s ranch in East Texas and that he tended to spend a week every summer at Crow’s private New York Adirondacks resort, Camp Topridge.

Rates at a nearby hotel start at $2,250 per night, but Camp Topridge is even more exclusive, as guests must be personally invited by Crow.

It also has quirky features, including a replica of Hagrid from Harry Potter’s hut, a 1950s-style soft drink fountain and bronze statues of gnomes.

A 2019 trip that Thomas and his wife Ginni took with Crow to Indonesia — which included private flights and time aboard the yacht, named the Michaela Rose and equipped with a giant inflatable rubber duck — is believed to have cost about $500,000, the news organization said. .

Thomas’ annual salary is $285,000.

ProPublica reported that Thomas had also been on the yacht during a trip to New Zealand and around Savannah, Georgia.

The news organization also found photos of the justice wearing a shirt with the Michaela Rose logo that read “March 2007” and “Greek Islands,” suggesting Thomas was also traveling at the time.

None were disclosed.

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas revealed that Republican billionaire Harlan Crow paid for three of his private flights

Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse displays a painting of Clarence Thomas (second from right) and Harlan Crow (right) gathered at Crow’s Adirondacks resort, Camp Topridge. The painting can be seen in the building in New York

An image of Crow’s yacht, the Michaela Rose, which was decked out with a giant inflatable rubber duck during the Thomases 2019 trip to Indonesia

A law passed after Watergate requires judges, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts.

ProPublica also reported that Crow paid about $100,000 in tuition for Thomas’ great-nephew, who raised the justice like a son, to attend Hidden Lake Academy and Randolph-Macon Academy, a military school the billionaire had also attended .

Just days after ProPublica’s initial report about Crow financing Thomas’ vacations, the news outlet published a story saying the billionaire had purchased the house where Thomas’ mother lived, along with two other properties on her street that had been owned of justice.

The new disclosure form says that in 1984, Thomas inherited a third of the trio of properties, his mother’s home and two additional homes in Savannah, Georgia.

In 2014, it says, Crow, “a longtime friend of Filer and his wife,” bought the homes for $133,000, along with other homes and lots on the street.

“Filer and his wife had invested between $50,000 and $75,000 in capital improvements in his mother’s home over the years, and therefore the transaction amounted to a capital loss,” the disclosure form said.