• Zaktor
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    5 months ago

    Don’t care. I do care he took a hundred thousand dollars in gifts for this son from rightwing billionaires. He’s not important because he’s supposed to be a great dad, he’s important because he’s supposed to be impartially deciding matters of national import.

  • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4
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    Clarence Thomas was a judge for less than two years before becoming a Supreme Court Justice.

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    What’s with everyone in our government having family members that are felons all of a sudden? God damn, shit is getting wild van wilder by the day!

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    Republicans either raise mirror images of themselves or end up scarring and messing up children to the point where they break.

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      My grandparents took in a child that was a terror then and grew up to be a horrible person. They did everything possible and had raised a number of people that turned out to be normal previously. Some people are lost causes.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The man who was raised by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni, as their own son from ages 6 to 19 is in jail awaiting trial on drugs and weapons charges, Business Insider has learned.

    While the total amount of tuition Crow paid on Martin’s behalf remains unclear, fees for all four years at both schools would have exceeded $150,000, ProPublica reported.

    If convicted, Martin faces at least 25 years in prison as part of mandatory-minimum sentencing laws in South Carolina for certain types of drug offenses.

    Due to the nature of the charges against him, which are considered violent crimes in South Carolina, Martin is ineligible for bond, his lawyer told BI.

    Together, Martin said they traveled to more than 20 countries; he frequently spent summers wakeboarding or waterskiing and babysitting Crow’s son when the elite families vacationed together.

    However, between his father’s imprisonment and being taken in by a justice of the Supreme Court at a young age, Martin said he had to “grow up a lot faster” than a normal kid would have — and wished his great-aunt and -uncle saw that he could have used their continued support while he was struggling.


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