Elie Mystal: What Justice Thomas’ Donors Are Getting Is a ‘Return to 1850s’

RUSH EXCERPT:

MYSTAL: “This isn’t charity. They’re getting rulings. They’re getting opinions. They’re getting the kind of return to not 1950s, but to the 1850s that they want for their funds. If we, the rest of us who are not making — the other funny thing is you saw the liberals like Sotomayor had guests but they were all like $5. Here’s a flower, sonya. That’s what she was getting. All of us who don’t have the money to buy our own Supreme Court justices. What we need to do is use what power we have, the power we didn’t have during the Jim Crow south, and go out and vote for people who are going to hold the Supreme Court justices to heel through ethics ledgegislationleg Hank Johnson has an ethics bill on the house floor. We need to vote for people who are going to support that bill and ask our leaders are you going to support ethics reform? No more nice letters. No more, oh, no more of that stuff. Are you going to support the bills to stop these people from graft?”