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HBO Show Host Offers Bribe to Justice Thomas to “Get the F*** Off the Supreme Court” – HotAir

It doesn’t get much more insulting than this. An HBO show host is offering Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas $1M per year to step down now from the nation’s highest court. 

John Oliver started his eleventh season of Last Week Tonight by trying to bribe Thomas to retire. It’s not a lame partisan joke, either. Oliver claims he is serious and gives Thomas a 30-day deadline to accept his offer. 

Oliver, our intellectual better, gives three options on how to fix the Supreme Court. During the new season’s premiere episode on Sunday night, Oliver said the Supreme Court is at “a breaking point.” The fixes he offered up are “enforceable ethics codes, to term limits, to potentially expanding the court.” 

“If we’re going to keep the bar of accountability this low, perhaps it’s time to exploit that low bar the same way billionaires have successfully done for decades,” Oliver…

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