I am delighted to be speaking tonight at the Ford Presidential Library in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Rage and the Republic at 6:30 pm. Here is the website for anyone interested in attending. fordlibrarymuseum.gov/events…

Oct 1, 2026 · 10:00 AM UTC

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Gonna talk about the Rager in Chief, professor?
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Michigan...the home of the meanest people in the US. I hope you have excellent security.
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This should enrage everyone in West Michigan, but it is highly unlikely that Turley will be willing to discuss how conflicted Thomas is. Sadly. Turley has shown to only rage against liberals.
Meet MAGAt and Trumps favorite Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whose decades-long tenure on the highest bench in the land has been heavily entangled with an unprecedented web of undisclosed billionaire-funded luxury. While lower-court judges and standard federal workers are bound by strict rules that can lead to termination or prosecution for hiding minor financial perks, Thomas has sat virtually unregulated, shielded by the Supreme Court’s long-standing lack of an enforceable independent code of conduct. Investigative reports, spearheaded by journalists at ProPublica, have exposed a staggering list of financial favors that remained completely hidden from his mandatory annual financial disclosure forms for over twenty years. The most prominent of Thomas’s wealthy benefactors is Texas real estate billionaire Harlan Crow. The Senate Judiciary Committee's Democratic report and investigative findings reveal that Thomas secretly accepted at least 38 luxury vacations, 26 private jet flights, helicopter rides, and international voyages on Crow's 162-foot superyacht, the Michaela Rose. These included island-hopping through Indonesia and annual summer stays at Crow's private Adirondacks resort, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars per trip. When confronted, Thomas claimed he originally believed these flights and yacht cruises fell under a "personal hospitality" exemption, a defense that independent legal ethics experts thoroughly rejected because post-Watergate disclosure laws strictly require the reporting of transportation gifts. The hidden financial dependency went far beyond vacationing. In 2014, Crow secretly bought the Georgia home where Thomas’s mother resides, along with two neighboring vacant lots, from the justice and his family. Thomas failed to report this real estate transaction on his annual disclosures, later calling the omission "inadvertent" only after investigative reporters exposed the deal. Furthermore, Crow financed the private school tuition for a grandnephew whom Thomas was raising, a direct financial relief worth over $100,000 that went completely unrecorded on official forms. Other wealthy conservative figures have also heavily funded Thomas’s lifestyle. Executive Anthony Welters provided Thomas with a $267,000 loan to purchase a luxury Prevost RV. The Senate Judiciary Committee later discovered that the loan featured highly irregular, unreported interest-only terms that were ultimately forgiven altogether, essentially functioning as a massive hidden cash gift. Additionally, conservative judicial architect Leonard Leo directed secret consulting payments ranging between $80,000 and $100,000 to a firm run by Thomas's wife, Ginni Thomas, explicitly instructing that her name be kept off the paperwork. The systemic failure to disclose these multi-million dollar benefits has severely damaged public confidence in the neutrality of the judiciary. Critics argue that Thomas effectively supplemented his federal salary through a private network of ultrarich conservative donors who have active political and corporate interests influenced by the court’s rulings. Despite massive public scrutiny, subsequent amendments to his financial filings, and intense congressional pressure to pass the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act, Thomas remains on the bench as the court's most senior active justice, a stark symbol of the ongoing ethical crisis within America's legal system.
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Replying to @JonathanTurley
Like I said last night in Ann Arbor, President Ford would've loved you.
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Replying to @JonathanTurley
Ps: you're at the museum tonight in Grand Rapids
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Welcome to Michigan!
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Hard pass. No one wants to hear your BS
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Now all the crazy's will know, be safe.
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