John Oliver offers Clarence Thomas $1m a year to leave Supreme Court

John Oliver has offered Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he leaves the court immediately.

On a recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the show host declared, “This is not a joke”, as he waved a contract at the screen and asked the judge to “get the f*** off the Supreme Court.”

He added that on top of the million a year, he would throw in a motor coach worth $2.4m in return for the judge leaving the United States’ highest court – making reference with this offer toprevious motor coach coverage, which revealed Mr Thomas borrowed over a quarter of a million dollars from a wealthy friend to buy a luxury motor coach years prior.

"Clarence Thomas is arguably the most consequential justice on the court right now, and he’s never really seemed to like the job. He’s said it’s not worth doing ‘for the grief,’" Oliver said.

In 2001, Mr Thomas made a speech that was reported on by The New York Post, in which he said that his job was not worth doing for what they pay.

“The job is not worth doing for the grief. But it is worth doing for the principle,” he said to the outlet.

Mr Thomas, who will earn$298,500 this year for his role as a Supreme Court Associate Judge, was revealed to have accepted luxury vacations from real estate mogul Harlan Crow in an investigation published by ProPublica last year, which also claimed he received gifts from other wealthy businesspeople for years without disclosing them.

Mr Thomas did respond to the criticism, saying he did not need to report on gifts and travel as it was “personal hospitality from close personal friends,” but did end up including several trips paid for Mr Crow in his 2022 financial disclosure report.

However, Oliver had an idea to give Mr Thomas a very