In an opinion essay in The WSJ, Justice #Alito responded to questions about his #PrivateJet travel to a #luxury fishing trip w/a #GOP#MegaDonor#billionaire who frequently has cases before the #SupremeCourt hours before the ProPublica article was published.
The justice wrote he was not required to #disclose the trip or #recuse himself from his benefactor’s cases.
The #transaction is the first known instance of #money flowing from Crow to the #SupremeCourt justice. The sale netted the #GOP#megadonor two vacant lots & the house where Thomas’ #mother was living (& still is).
You are not looking at it from the libertarian Koch network standpoint.
SCOTUS justices sell the service of ruling in your favour, in a kind of freemium model.
Want a ruling based on the constitution bla bla bla, go with the free service model. Want the premium service model, with guaranteed outcomes, well, then you have to pay for it.
Calling it a bribe is so very last century, it's a premium service fee.