Just nine days after extremist Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the bench to replace dead scumbag Antonin Scalia in 2017, Brian Duffy, the chief executive of Greenberg Traurig, a law firm with cases before the court bought a log cabin on 40 acres of desolate Colorado mountaintop property co-owned by the judge for $1.825 million, Politico reports.
Gorsuch, who owned a 20 percent stake in the property, reported his profits from the sale as between $250,000 and $500,000 at the time on a disclosure form as required, but of course left blank who actually bought the property. Probably because it was a guy whose firm has argued at least 22 cases since Gorsuch’s confirmation. This is (quantifiably, at least) more fucked up than Clarence Thomas’s scumbaggery with Harlan Crow, as the only time Clarence came close to something he should have recused himself from was a 2004 appeal brought by Harlan’s sex trafficker brother Trammell over some copyright claim from an architect. The appeal was turned down but it isn’t clear whether Clarence tried to argue for the court to take it up.