{"id":1401678,"date":"2023-12-19T16:03:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T16:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=92a2514c079183c74684281ff1d4acb0"},"modified":"2023-12-19T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T16:03:22","slug":"clarence-thomas-repeatedly-pushed-for-removing-ban-on-speaking-fees-for-justices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/19\/clarence-thomas-repeatedly-pushed-for-removing-ban-on-speaking-fees-for-justices\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarence Thomas Repeatedly Pushed for Removing Ban on Speaking Fees for Justices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas&rsquo; decadeslong friendship with real estate tycoon Harlan Crow and Samuel Alito&rsquo;s luxury travel with billionaire Paul Singer have raised questions about influence and ethics at the nation&rsquo;s highest court. In early January 2000, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was at a five-star beach resort in Sea Island, Georgia, hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/clarence-thomas-repeatedly-pushed-for-removing-ban-on-speaking-fees-for-justices\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/clarence-thomas-repeatedly-pushed-for-removing-ban-on-speaking-fees-for-justices\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents reveal that Thomas hinted he might resign if salaries weren&#8217;t raised for Supreme Court justices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17359,45737,59519,4,276,72194,1369,72197],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401679,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401678\/revisions\/1401679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}