He won’t resign because the bar to remove him is too great. Now if they prosecuted him for tax evasion, that could get him off the bench before he dies.
The case will go all the way to the Supreme Court!
😆 God the judiciary is fucked up…
You would hope the case would be an 8-1 slam dunk. In reality, 5-4. Corruption wins again.
he won’t resign unless he is compelled by the law or court order. there are too many people who have invested in him for him to just walk away.
There is literally no court aside from SCOTUS that can compel him to resign.
Well, he could be impeached. Simple majority in the house and 2/3 in the senate though, iirc. Don’t see that happening any time soon.
Republicans hold the house for now, so that’s absolutely not happening, esp. since the poorly-name “Freedom Caucus” would immediately move to remove McCarthy if he even brought it to the floor for a vote.
you betcha. he’s going nowhere.
Clarence Thomas resign
YES
calls
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Haha, that was me as well. I need to read the whole text before getting emotional 🙄
That would be ethical and the right thing to do so there’s no way in hell that corrupt sex pest would ever resign.
He’s not resigning from a position that is a lifetime appointment.
So sick of hearing these moronic articles.
Either get the goddamn Department of Justice or IRS involved in this and see if these trips and other gifts were illegal, or STFU. Yes, we all know he’s a corrupt piece of shit, but he’s not resigning, and it sure as hell doesn’t look like any governmental departments even want to try going after him for corruption.
Based on how often he and Alito are crying out about his unfair it is that they’re being scrutinized for corruption, I think this is really bugging them.
Believe me, I hope to hell you’re right, but when it comes down to it, it seems like wishful thinking from the Internet.
Everything is wishful thinking until it happens!
But yeah same here :/. Gotta keep the hope.
Unfortunately, you are not the target audience for this article.
Most Americans are not informed at all, and no matter how stupid it may seem, they need the most watered down solution shoved in their face repeatedly just so they recognize the problem in the first place
These “Moronic articles” places him into the spotlight.
There is very few things that can be considered an “Annoyance” to rich folk, being in that spotlight is one of them.
People like Clarence Thomas want to go on vacation and not worry about being recognized in public.
Being in the spotlight means they have to hire more security, it means background checks, it means more people in your private life, it means always looking over your shoulder because the “media” is everyone with a smart phone nowadays.
So while I would love to see less topics on Clarence Thomas that doesn’t involve a jail cell. The attention on his shadiness, is the 2nd best for now.
He knows he’s essentially untouchable, so all the things you list, he probably doesn’t give a flying fuck about. Lazy Merrit Garland isn’t going to open an investigation on Thomas and it looks like neither is the IRS to see if there were any tax shenanigans going on. And our corporate news media is more on his side, than the side of The People. 90% of these stories are utterly pointless. They are filler to get clicks
But stress causes health problems…
That would imply he feels remorse.
Does this look like remorse to you:
We know that he doesn’t feel remorse. But being annoyed is a form of stress.
I was with the OP at first, but @[email protected] is right. Let’s give this fucker so much attention that he hates leaving his mansion(s).
Right? There’s only so much we can do. But for fucks sake let’s at least do that.
You can be untouchable and still have social pressures.
Just as you can be a fly could do virtually nothing to harm a living human being, but buzz around his ear enough and they will do anything to get rid of the buzzing.
The point is to be within the law, and be annoying.
Security? He’s not going to places you go to. Security is built into the places he goes.
You would be suprised how much that isn’t true. That’s why yatch make sense for the rich to have. Keeps them out of sight. But anywhere on land, there will be other normal ish people.
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There is very few things that can be considered an “Annoyance” to rich folk, being in that spotlight is one of them.
Elon Musk must be suffering greatly, I’m sure.
Why would he resign? Like really why would he do it. You can’t force him to, his time won’t run out and corpos and lobbying will never let any sort of political entity take him from his place.
Dude is there until death you can cry all you want but he’s not leaving.
I will gladly be wrong about this btw but I know i probably won’t.
Is there a good article anywhere that directly draws the line between cases he has seen and perks he has been given? I know that he should have to declare all of the trips, etc, and that that is a big problem. But I am interested in how he has directly damaged democracy in more obvious quid pro quo. I am especially interested in having an answer to anyone that tries to minimize what he has done.
I mean look up every case the heritage foundation has brought to the supreme court.
He’ll just ignore the calls and life will continue.
Clarence hears ya.
Clarence don’t care.
I skimmed the title and saw “Clarence Thomas resigns over calls […]” and my first thought was “I can’t believe it took this long.”
Unless there are dramatic political reforms, you’ll be waiting the rest of his life.
You can’t shame him out of office. If he felt shame, he wouldn’t have taken so many bribes in the first place.
It’s why lifetime appointments to powerful positions are a stupid idea.
What made sense 300 years ago may not make a lot of sense in 2023.
Unfortunately, that’s not a thought a lot of Americans like having.
Why did it make sense 300 years ago? Just so you couldn’t fire judges you didn’t like?
Why did it make sense 300 years ago?
Because it did.
300 years ago.
And Clarence Thomas’ response is that the American Mullahs can do whatever they like and there’s fuck all anyone can do about it.
And he’s 100% correct.
Yeah the way the media works, he realistically just has to keep a low profile for maybe a year or even less, wait for them to fixate on something else and then it’s back to business.
And he’s pretty much immune to any legal blowback - if anyone tried, I mean he’s 75, in his position he could easily jam that up in the courts for a decade or more and even if it somehow managed to progress, there’s the classic “I’m suddenly too old and frail to go through a lengthy trial” defence.
I think realistically the absolute worst case scenario for him is being forced to retire and spending the rest of his days in opulence anyway. I don’t like it but that’s probably how it is.
Didn’t the chief justice decide not to do an investigation for corruption, because reasons? It’s basically the same when cops investigate themselves.
Except stay awake while hearing cases at the country’s top court. Thomas likes his naps as much as he likes his billionaire patrons.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Calls for Justice Clarence Thomas to resign have intensified after documents released this week revealed more trips gifted to the U.S. Supreme Court by wealthy benefactor Harlan Crow.
“This late-come effort at ‘Clean-up on Aisle Three’ won’t deter us from fully investigating the massive, secret, right-wing billionaire influence in which this Court is enmired,” wrote Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
Earlier this year, ProPublica—a New York-based non-profit, independent newsroom conducting investigative journalism in the public interest—revealed that Thomas had accepted gifts from friend Crow, a Republican donor, for the past two decades.
The trips included a voyage on a yacht around the Bahamas, several private jet and helicopter flights, luxury stays and a dozen VIP passes to professional college sporting events, among others.
In the aftermath of the revelations by ProPublica, which sparked outrage among members of the public and Democratic lawmakers and questions over increasing ethics requirements for Supreme Court justices, Thomas defended himself, saying he had always “always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines.”
A group of House Democrats, including New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the DOJ to launch an internal inquiry into Thomas’s billionaire-funded trips.
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Harlan Crow is such a comic book vilain name too. Maybe it makes me think of the Harlans in altered carbon.
That’s what it was reminding me of!
Now that Thomas’s image can not get any worse, he’s just going to become more overt about trying to destroy the US government from the bench. That’s all that will happen.
The only way he’ll ever leave his position is feet first. Just like RBG and Scalia.
He has literally stated his life goal is to “make liberals’ lives miserable” because some Catholic priest wannabes were racist to him in seminary.
Which would be cool of him if he’d like, not picked the bootlicking side. Or if he wasn’t doing what those miserable dicks wanted? Or knew what a liberal was?
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I have three theories.
1: They were mostly Democrats, and he’s too dumb to realize they almost certainly became Republicans.
2: He never abandoned his Marxist roots, used the term “liberal” ideologically to a bunch of Republicans that didn’t know he meant them too, and is entering the final stages of his accelerationist master plan. Because he’s a moron.
3: He’s actually just a greedy sociopath who does what he’s bribed to do.
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Sounds about par for the course
