LOS ANGELES – President Biden on Saturday night said he expects the winner of this year’s presidential election will likely have the chance to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court – a decision he warned would be “one of the scariest parts” if his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is successful in his bid for a second term.

  • Crikeste@lemm.ee
    51·
    5 months ago

    It’s only around $100,000 to bribe justices. One billion dollars could bribe 100,000 justices at that rate.

    And that rate is only that high because Clarence Thomas skews the numbers with how vast the bribes he has accepted have been.

    • Brokkr@lemmy.world
      21·
      5 months ago

      You added a zero somewhere.

      Also, it seems like justices are charging on the order of 1 million, so a billion dollars gets 1000 judges. Still plenty for them to get whatever they want.

      • Crikeste@lemm.ee
        21·
        5 months ago

        Judges aren’t charging anywhere even close to a million dollars. You might be thinking of Clarence Thomas, who I pointed out as an outlier.

        And even if I was off on my math, we aren’t getting more than 10,000 justices. Ever. Never. And even if we did, my math was based off only 1 billion dollars. A few people have MUCH more than that. So with that in mind, you’re going to need about 100,000 justices anyway just to outweigh the influence of money.

        • Brokkr@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 months ago

          Oh, wow, sorry. It’s just Thomas that’s throwing it way off. My bad.

          Also, I wasn’t disagreeing with your point at all. You’re absolutely right. Just that somewhere you had an extra zero, but it doesn’t change your point at all: judges are cheap and a billionaire could easily buy them all for a small fraction of their wealth.