“And so long as we believe Supreme Court justices are quasi-monarchs who are entitled to live like lords, they will find ways to live like lords. Those who can afford to purchase their lordliness will pony up whatever it takes. And we will all say that it’s awful. Until we learn about the next one, and the next one, and the one after that.” — Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/clarence-thomas-broke-the-law-harlan-crow.html