‘Corrupt as hell’: Clarence Thomas faces fresh calls to resign after more billionaire gifts revealed
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Congressional Democrats have pushed for ethics reform legislation, efforts publicly rejected by Samuel Alito
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The Supreme Court is completely decoupled from the American population. What do you expect to happen? It's a place where career justices can go to play ideology while normal people are suffering.
The East Coast elite is very rich and (by extension) conservative. They are never going to vote for things that actually help the American populace.
I would hardly call most New England states, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware as "conservative" by any stretch of the imagination. It doesn't get conservative until you get south of DC.
NYC does have actual conservatives, they even have their own island and have to take a ferry to get to work....
Every state has conservative pockets. McCarthy is from California, one of the bluest states in the country. But NYC as a whole is overwhelmingly blue.
Not you're conflating two issues. All large states tend to have rural areas which are mostly conservative, and California is no exception. I looked McCarthy 's district up and it's in the southern part of the Central Valley, it looks like it includes some of Fresno's suburbs but not Fresno itself (which is repped by a Democrat). NY State is no different: go north of the Tappan Zee and you have large swaths of Republican country with a few dots of cities that are Democratic thrown in.
But NYC definitely has Conservatives. They may not be as conservative as the South, but they exist. Recall that NYC elected Giuliani as Mayor, before he went off the rails. NYC also elected Mike Bloomberg, but in fairness he would be a Democrat anywhere else.
Joe who supports the Patriots and works on a lobster boat half the year isn't going to the Supreme Court. Bill who's a theatre student at NYU isn't going to the Supreme Court. The people that are going to the Supreme Court are predominantly white men from highly privileged backgrounds.
Coincidentally, this forms the three metrics that correlate with conservative lean. Wealthier people lean conservative, white people lean conservative, and men lean conservative. In fact, even in the notoriously liberal New York Metro, white people are mixed https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/compare/party-affiliation/by/racial-and-ethnic-composition/among/metro-area/new-york-city-metro-area/.