John Oliver offers Clarence Thomas $1 million per year to leave the Supreme Court

Would you quit your job for the promise of $1 million each year and a $2.4 million luxury motor coach to go along with the cash?

Comedian John Oliver seems to think that’s an offer that Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas will find too good to refuse.

“Justice Thomas, we have a special offer for you tonight. We are prepared to offer you $1 million a year for the rest of your life if you simply agree to leave the Supreme Court immediately and never come back. It is that simple,” Oliver said during his HBO show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

Oliver held up a stack of papers and said that if Thomas signed “this contract” and resigned, the “money is all yours.”

“This is not a joke,” the comedian made clear. “This is real. A million dollars a year, until you or I die.”

Oliver went on to sweeten the deal with a $2.4 million Prevost Marathon motor coach, to replace Thomas’ current motorhome.

“Look at this beauty, Clarence,” Oliver said.

Oliver’s offer comes, he said, as Thomas is set to participate in some of the most consequential cases to ever come before the court, including whether former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election were covered by some sort of presidential immunity and whether the decades old Chevron deference will stand.

The 75-year-old George H.W. Bush appointee has come under fire recently for his close personal ties to several conservative billionaires, many of whom have business before the court. His associations have been lucrative for Thomas, Oliver alleged, netting him dozens of all-expenses-paid vacations and flights aboard private jets.

Thomas’ love of his current motor coach was well documented during a 60 Minutes interview aired in 2007. The $267,000, 40-foot-long Prevost Le Mirage XL Marathon was apparently paid for with a loan from a healthcare-billionaire friend. Oliver says a large portion of that loan was forgiven.

Those revelations come as Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas, faces scrutiny of her own over her role in post-election efforts to keep Trump in office.

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Oliver claims he spoke with legal experts, who assured him he could legally make the offer, since the high court is exempted from the rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States, which prohibit federal judges from accepting gifts for any off-bench activity.

“Clarence Thomas is arguably the most consequential justice on the court right now, and he’s never really seemed to like the job. He said, ‘It’s not worth doing for the grief.’ So what if he could keep the luxury perks that he clearly enjoys, without having to endure all of that grief?” Oliver said before laying out his offer.

Oliver has given Thomas 30 days to reply. The Supreme Court did not return a request for comment on the comedian’s offer.

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