It’s not just for Clarence Thomas anymore! Credit card companies have gone to court to block the Biden Administration’s attempt to cap credit card fees to $8, and, naturally, the credit card companies are suing in the Fifth Circuit court–the one full of rightwing judges. But it turns those judges aren’t just conservative ideologues, they’re also corrupt (boldface mine):

The 5th Circuit’s treatment of the case has also come under fire, as Trump-appointed Judge Don Willett has not recused himself despite the fact that he owns tens of thousands of dollars in Citigroup shares. While Willett has argued that Citigroup is not a party to the case, it belongs to trade groups that are, and any ruling on credit card fees would significantly impact the bank. Collectively, all the judges on the 5th Circuit have invested as much as $745,000 in credit card or credit issuing companies, according to the most recent publicly available information.

If there were ever a time a president could just say categorically, “I will ignore judicial review unless the case is tried by a judge without a financial conflict of interest”, this would be the time. The judiciary is a co-equal branch of government, and if it won’t police its own corruption, then it’s up to the other branches to do so, one way or another.