Comedian and "Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver is urging Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign, offering him $1 million per year to do so. READ MORE: wgntv.com/hill...
Many people miss the point of the joke: That an offer to pay Justice Thomas to retire is NO DIFFERENT than Harlan Crowe or others taking Thomas on expensive trips or giving him expensive gifts when they have conflicts of interest with the court. If you think John Oliver should be arrested and/or fined, then you should also be pushing for all of the people who have "bribed" Justice Thomas. THE "BRIBERY" IS THE JOKE!
You left wingers in this nation need to exit left an stop the madness of harassing people especially SCOTUS judges. You people have become very very sikc political cashews.
Justice Thomas gets to have a life outside of the court even if you don't agree with his logic. Having wealthy friends doesn't make you beholden to them. Slinging around loaded words doesn't make them accurate, just makes you look racist.
@@daveyboygee How about you watch John Olivers segment on Thomas before you get on that high horse of yours. The criticism of Thomas is for accepting gifts worth millions from people who have vested interests in the outcome of supreme court cases. Do better and stop sounding so proudly ignorant.
I mean John basically offers Clarence to free himself from the job where he seems to not care that much as he said it himself. Plus, he gets 1mil every year until he die. That is the same deal with supreme court job when you're appointed for life on that seat. Supreme Court Justice is a very serious position where that individual should get away from outside influences but Clarence seems distracted and uncaring of the responsibility he has on this country. Clarence can also keep contact with his "rich best friends" even after he quits the court, and I doubt if his rich, best friends would keep him around anymore if he quits. This judge is basically out of touch so why doesn't he just take the deal. Leave the job he doesn't care with more money and retire. @@daveyboygee
@@SlyFan-mp8dc John Oliver just opened himself to a bribery charge which carries a fine of $259,000 or 3 times the value amount of the offer which ever is greater, 15 years in prison or BOTH if convicted and leaving he OFFER open and available for 30 days makes this an 'intentional and real bribery offer.
@@SlyFan-mp8dc ... the guy is showcasing the fact that such a blatant declaration of bribery is *legal* in the first place, he's appalled by that fact. just look at the scandals judge Clarence has with a billionaire.
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.” - Frank Herbert
For the "This is bribery!" CHUDs: one of Thomas's "friends" started grooming him with lavish gifts and expensive trips and Thomas ruled in 10 cases for said "friend" since he started receiving gifts. Oliver's point was highlighting how absurd of a conflict of interest the existing situation is and, like the "gifts" from "friends", this is perfectly legal, albeit ethically and morally corrupt.
Both ways? If this is bribery, then the 500K vacation yacht trip, the 250K gift to buy a motor coach and 100K paying for his nephew's tuition would be too, right?
@@BIGMIKESKNUTTS Probably not since slavery was quite rampant in this country for a long time. Wouldn't have been the first time for a republican either dumbass.
that is the whole point of the joke that could possibly becomes real if Clarence accepts the deal. It's basically calling out his passive-aggressive attitude toward his philosophy of life. Clarence doesn't care his job even making 6 figures so John gives him a chance to do nothing for the rest of his life to just enjoy seven figures salary and a bigger, newer motor couch instead. IF Clarence has balls then he would take that deal, admit that he is an incompetent judge, and let other people, who really cares about the job, take over.@@franklyanogre00000
If only more so called professional journalists attempted to expose corruption like Politico and this comedy show did. And just imagine if Cucker Carlson had a pair when he "interviewed" putin. 😂 I can't either.
18 USC 201: Bribery of public officials and witnesses (2) Penalties.-Any person who violates paragraph (1) shall be fined not more than $250,000 or 3 times the monetary equivalent of the thing of value, imprisoned for not more than 15 years, or both.
@@doko3000since you’re having trouble with words. ‘BRIBERY’: the giving or offering of a bribe. ‘BRIBE’:to persuade someone to act in one’s favor by a gift of money, or other endorsement. Get it now? How he’s clearly attempting to bribe him in his favor? Through the act of bribery? With a bribe?
@@Flipindabird23 I have a problem with your "in his favor". John is not receiving anything in return. He's not asking for his ruling in this or that way. Bribery is not constituted in this case. Edit: I need to add, I appreciate you taking the time to be informative, despite the sarcasm
His piece on this explains it pretty well. There is no ethics oversight of the highest court, one with lifetime appointments. Since he has no matter in the court it isn’t really a bribe. It’s a legal agreement separate from court business.
You mean, imagine if Trump offered millions to an unethical judge who's already taking bribes? Weak analogy. Trump doesn't have to bribe someone he puts in power for life. Try again.
Lawyer here... It's a crime to bribe a judge for a specific ruling, especially if you are an interested party in the case. But offering the judge money to step down when you have no cases before them, because you just don't like them, is probably fine.
As he pointed out on his show, this is 100% legal in the USA. Oliver found that laughable. You clearly don't get the joke, because Clarence Thomas has been taking bribes since he got on the Supreme Court, but I am sure that is just fine by you.
As Oliver stated in his segment, it is not against the law. He found that laughable, but it is a fact. On the other hand, taking money/vacations from people that do have cases before the court is bribery, and Thomas should recuse himself in all such instances. He does not, but I am sure you are not bothered by that.
He's pointing out how corrupt Clarence Thomas is. Thomas should be embarrassed that this offer was made. He didn't give Roberts, Elito, or any other justices the offer. He offered it to the most corrupt justice of all, Clarence Thomas. You need to listen to real news. The man who swore by the bribe theory was just arrested for lying. The special counsel who indicated Hunter Biden was the one who indicated Fox News favorite witness. The Republicans can't find the proof of the bribery accusation and their star witness was indicted for what? LYING
He said he had professionals look over the contract, and they told him they couldn't find anything illegal about it. Also, is paying someone to retire bribery?
The Supreme Court has no standing enforceable ethics code, and since previous policy has made it so that they are the only ones who can enforce things on themselves, they have made themselves exempt from all laws relating to bribery and impropriety
It's not a bribe, just a counter offer for a job. A bribe would be if he wanted him to make a certina decision. You know like what all the corps have been doing with Thomas.
@@AnalyticalinadreamNo, this is quite literally attempted bribery of a public official. This is the reason justices serve for life. I’d also like to point out that there has yet to be a single case of quid-pro-quo against justice Thomas throughout this entire stupid smear campaign.
@@Analyticalinadream It's fine. It doesn't matter. You can indict a ham sandwich, as the saying goes. And this British commie needs to get what he deserves, good and hard if Republicans are ever in power again.
We do feel sorry for those of you sane individuals in this clusterfuck of a nation that is the USA - that you are maybe not stuck - but put - in this spot right now. Sure, you could split and live somewhere else. But you'd have to split. You would have to do anything. Something! ANYTHING/SOMETHING something/anything Meanwhile we can relish in the spectrum
He wasn't bribing him. It was "Lobbying". Bribery is a poor person crime. Trump took $2 billion from Saudi Arabia, $153M from China, $2.8M from Isreal and unknown amounts from Russia, & North Korea, all while still running his company. Why is this the hill you are chosing to die on? That isn't a society of law and order, that is a society of kings and peasants. Is your dick so hard with just the thought that you'll be a peasant under Trump? I fucking hate Biden and his continuing every single Trump policy that enriches the wealthy ONLY, but I'm not willing to become a fucking peasant to a fucking scam artist whose stolen from charities and paid hundreds of thousands on hookers and small children for sex while flying around in a private jet paid for by rubes who are propping up his opulent lifestyle while shitting on you idiots ie "I love the poorly educated". Fuck Biden, but Fuck Trump more.
Wow! You spelled all those words correctly! Too bad you don't know what they mean because you only listen to grifters who are playing you like a fucking fool. Just hearing them laugh and laugh and laugh about how gullible you are and how easy it is to make you so afraid of your fellow working class that you are giving them all your money while fighting the people trying to pull you off your journey into oblivion.
@@JmReDP21 if you think there is no proof you've been living under a rock. Even the most staunch Republicans have come out and said that he was being bribed. What Oliver is doing isn't a bribe. A bribe is getting money to pass laws or do something that gives someone special treatment. Clarence Thomas is allowed to quit whenever he wants.
@@Kevstar19 I'm gonna guess you're a blind liberal. You won't even admit that Biden is senile and can't perform his duties as the President. You follow like a blind sheep.
Oliver's bribe is illegal. The corrupt DOJ won't be able to say he's too out of it like Biden, who they decided not to charge because of his age & decline .
@@bobmcbobbob1815 agree with you on that. Every damn politician on both sides of the aisle and everyone in between and every company doing business.with the government are corrupt.
It's not a bribe, just a counter offer for a job. A bribe would be if he wanted him to make a certina decision. You know like what all the corps have been doing with Thomas.
The point of the joke is currently Clarence Thomas is being bribed by 4 billionaires to stay on the supreme court. He got bitchy about his low salary years ago so they started buying him gifts, taking him on luxury trips, letting him use their jets and helicopters... so he would stay on the court and keep ruling in their favor. John oliver is just offering him more money to step down from the court. lol
It's not a bribe, just a counter offer for a job. A bribe would be if he wanted him to make a certina decision. You know like what all the corps have been doing with Thomas.
If numerous consulted legal experts say it’s fine to do, and if it got past HBO’s producers, I’m gonna trust them more than some dingdong online thanks
@@Sesosana so you trust what someone tells you on TV? I’m not saying that everything that is said on TV is a lie, but quit often we are lied to, or at least we aren’t told the full story. Just look at all of the lies we have been told by politicians and the media has willfully regurgitated said lies without doing any of their own research.
@@Sesosana guarantee your the type of ding dong that would call for a public execution of someone if they offered joe biden the same to step down. The difference is that Joe would take it,but the price would be way higher since the Bidens make that kind of money weekly by selling out America.
Holland Crow and toxic special interest groups have corrupted Clarence Thomas and other Supreme Court justices. Recent Supreme Court rulings have been absurd and illegal! Some former Republican leaders have been warning of looming dangers to our democracy, they all believe blocking Trump and preventing a Republican House majority in the next election is "the cause of our time." I believe sweeping executive orders from our President Joe Biden to head off this matter maybe our only hope to save democracy!
Ah yes, bribing a federal judge to quit because you aren't getting rulings you like......that's illegal. Imagine if Trump did this to one of the Democrat court judges. The media would call for him to be prosocuted........even more so. so how is it OK for them to do it? Fuck your double standards.
You are wrong. John Oliver even stated l this should be illegal, but it's not. This is how corrupt Thomas is. On national TV John Offered him a million dollars a year salary for life and a 2.4 million dollar condo on wheels if he retires. Thomas should be embarrassed. Oliver didn't offer this to any other justices but Thomas. Why? Thomas is extremely corrupt
“Been that way for 30 years.” - U.S. Justice Department on the lack of Human Rights in Oklahoma County Jail, 2020 “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” - Nelson Mandela 🥂🥂
THOMAS MUST BE IMPEACHED FOR ALL THE IMMORAL ACTS THAT HE HAS DONE INCLUDING REFUSING TO INHIBIT HIMSELF FROM THE INSURRECTION CASE THAT HIS WIFE HAS COMMITTED IN JAN. 6, 2021,!
Mr. Thomas, you were the one who said you were barely making McDonald's wages and deserved all the gifts you could muster. Certainly, anyone truly making Big Mac wages would be set for many more than one life. Resign and be heard.
@@AceMoonshot Great job showing how bigoted your side is. Just like Biden saying if you don't vote for him, then you ain't black. People are waking up & leaving the left plantation.
Offering him a different job isn't bribery. And if what he's doing IS bribery then ALL the fuckers who have been giving him gifts for all these years will get time too. Do you get it now?
I love John Oliver! And even more hilarious all these idiots in the comments saying "that's bribery" LOLOLOL Oliver is point out the bribes paid to Thomas by Republican billionaires after Thomas basically extorted them, threatening to step down if he wasn't rewarded financially..The cluless GOP trolls can't help missing the entire plot and the sarcasm from Oliver..oh man. Comedy gold.
Amazing how the Left is focused on Thomas, yet apparently dead, dumb and blind when it comes to the Biden Crime Inc. All for calling out corruption, but ignoring what is right in front of their face is just classic lefty logic.
If numerous consulted legal experts say it’s fine to do, and if it got past HBO’s producers, I’m gonna trust them more than some dingdong online thanks
@@SesosanaRight lol Like John would just be stupid enough to throw around shit like that without any care for the legal ramifications 😂 That guy is brilliant, and his sickest burns are the ones that are so close to the line lol As he said in a recent interview with Stephen Colbert, "There's no more fun a place to dance than on thin ice" (or something to that effect).
Nothing like a British “comedian” commenting on American life and trying to get rid of a supposedly corrupt judge by doing something as insanely illegal as bribing a judge.
What Oliver is doing is not a bribe. People need to talk to a lawyer on what a bribe is before they spout out misinformation. One example of a bribe is for a border patrol customs agent to take 500$ if he lets a certain car through without inspection. Another example is when a government official is given 1 million dollars by a company so they can skirt environmental regulations. Another example is when a company gives 5 million dollars to a government official to secure a construction bid even though they aren't the lowest bidder. Asking someone to quit their job for money is not a bribe. No legislation is being passed by Clarence Thomas as a result of being paid 1 million dollars a year by John Oliver. No special privileges are being granted towards someone or something. Clarence Thomas would just quit. Clarence Thomas receiving 1 million dollars a year from his billionaire "friend" to stay in office would also not be a bribe either.
@@Redandranger Elected officials appoint the judges and the judges determine the validity of government actions such as laws and elections. So yeah it's election interference from a foreigner. DUH!!!!!!!!!
Not to mention some high class racism. It's essentially telling a black man "back on the plantation pal, you're not allowed to have those opinions". Horrible.
It's not a bribe, just a counter offer for a job. A bribe would be if he wanted him to make a certina decision. You know like what all the corps have been doing with Thomas.
He's making a joke about Thomas already being bribed, on multiple occasion, including conflict of interest, by people he calls "friends" who offer him expensive yacht trips and paid expenses for his RV trips.
Oh, big whoop on the technicality of naming but if you must: Motor Coach is a passenger "bus," especially one used for long-distance travel. RV abbreviation for a recreational vehicle: a large motor vehicle that is designed to be lived in while travelling. @osmosisp got it wrong.
@@rkymtnrsx “Clarence Thomas has secretly participated in events for the Koch donor network for at least a decade, despite the fact that the group has brought four cases before the Supreme Court” “The justice was brought in to speak, staffers said, in the hopes that such access would encourage donors to continue giving.” “Thomas never reported the 2018 flight to Palm Springs on his annual financial disclosure form” “Thomas’ involvement in the events is part of a yearslong, personal relationship with the Koch brothers that has remained almost entirely out of public view.” “Thomas’ appearances were arranged with the help of Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society leader” - propublica Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo This is what I could find in 15 minutes on my phone while sick. There are of course many more.
What John is offering is not bribery, it is what C.Thomas himself told his acquaintances years ago, that he wanted to leave the Court for more money. John is offering him a promotion.
It's not a joke, the fact that you are still in the dark is mind numbing at this point. How did they get them onnthe trains in Germany, we are literally living a version of that right now.
You love someone who is literally committing a federal crime by attempting to bribe a Supreme Court justice? Wow. You liberals do love your criminals don't you? That's why you want to let them all out of prison.
For people who don't understand this joke, go watch the whole episode of "lastweektonight's Supreme Court Ethics" to get the joke. Nothing is more embarrassing than having someone offers you so much money so you can quit your job because you're so incompetent.
@@Dragon4377 You're either a Russian troll or living in an effed up life. The Orange Jesus has more odds being in an orange jumpsuit than Oliver being hit by a thunder lightning ⚡.
No you donut. It definitely feels illegal, but unfortunately it’s not. How are people missing the point that’s so clearly being laid out by Last Week Tonight?
It's not a bribe, just a counter offer for a job. A bribe would be if he wanted him to make a certina decision. You know like what all the corps have been doing with Thomas.
It’s 100% a bribe and John Oliver is basically screaming that while he’s doing this, but also is noting that it’s perfectly legal. The point he is making is that he definitely *shouldnt* be allowed to do this. No one should
