In a week that saw the unprecedented indictment of a former president and the surreal image of his appearance in a courtroom, the chaotic fun house of American politics somehow found room to fit another bombshell. Last Wednesday, ProPublica reported that Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas — the most right-wing justice on the most right-wing court in generations — has for decades been secretly taking luxury trips and other lavish gifts paid for by billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow, all without disclosure, unambiguously breaking the law in the process.

It’s worth reading the whole piece to drink in the full, scandalous details. Those include a photorealistic painting of Thomas and Crow at the latter’s opulent lakeside resort, depicting the two hanging out together with, among others, longtime Federalist Society bigwig Leonard Leo, maybe the leading architect of the court’s hard-right turn.

The story is rightly being treated as a major scandal, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling for Thomas’s impeachment over the lawbreaking. But this report barely scratches the surface when it comes to a Supreme Court that’s politically and ethically compromised beyond belief, even as Chief Justice John Roberts has insisted that the court isn’t politicized and that “keep[ing] any kind of partisan divide out of the judiciary” is a “high priority.”