Thomas has insisted there’s nothing wrong with the lavish travel arrangements made by Crow, since the two have been friends for some 25 years.

Colbert spotted a hole in that logic.

“OK, but you’ve been on the Supreme Court for 31 years,” he pointed out.

Then, he mimicked an all-too-blunt conversation about the arrangement.

“It’s not a bribe, he’s my friend,” he said.

“Oh, how’d you guys meet?” he answered himself.

“Uhh… he was bribing me,” he said.

See more of his takedown of Thomas in his Monday night monologue: