Boom (Ginni and Clarence)

[deminks]

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Legal? Ethical?

Certainly undermining, eh Roberts? How far does this one go?

[bullimiami]

1. Republican thy name is hypocrisy.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. This news is a long time comin'.

About time someone reports on these fascists.

Please, please let there be more of this.

[Etherealoc1]

3. Resign already ..this is too much

[Lovie777]

4. DeSatan over shithole . . .

oh my. Fight.

[Leghorn21]

5. A few rays of sunshine on this travesty FINALLY

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Someone pointed out that the GQPers were having a COW when they thought Justice Sotomayor was dining with Chuck Schumer a week or so ago

Yep, they sure were

laughing and crying here!!!!!

[multigraincracker]

6. I smell a new House

Investigation.

[Skittles]

7. how do they get away with this shit

they're all SICKENING

[JHB]

15. Thomas has gotten away with this shit for decades. He's on the SC because he got away with this shit

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One item on his meager pre-SC federal jurist track record was a lawsuit between Ralston Purina and ALPO Petfoods.

Purina was founded by the grandfather of Senator John Danforth, Thomas' friend and political mentor, and at the time (late 80s, early 90s) he and his extended family were the major shareholders. A decision in the case favorable to Purina was worth millions to them.

Clarence Thomas wasn't concerned with the appearance of conflict of interest (much less actual conflict of interest) and did not recuse himself. The decision was in Purina's favor.

This should have kept him off the SC long before anyone had ever heard of Anita Hill, but it got glossed over like a lot of other things, and he's been a faithful operative of the extreme right while on the Court ever since.

[Skittles]

30. I hear you

I remember the hearings - I remember thinking of the great Thurgood Marshall and wondering what he thought of that disgusting hack Thomas.

[JHB]

31. "A black snake is still a snake."

[Skittles]

32. wow

that describes him perfectly

[JHB]

33. Yup. Thurgood Marshall, who I was quoting there, had him down cold.

[LisaM]

43. Danforth?

Isn't that Dan Quayle's family?

[LisaM]

44. Okay, I looked this up.

The Quayles and Danforth families are friends. So Clarence Thomas is loosely connected to the Quayles, no surprise.

[JHB]

47. Do you have a link? Because as far as I can tell, No.

In quick (~5min on Google) checking it's not clear why Danforth is is middle name. It doesn't derive from his grandparents.

[LisaM]

48. See above.

The Danforths were family friends. (The "Dan" comes from his middle name). So there is a tenuous connection between Quayle and Thomas, but it's a thin one.

[certainot]

20. they have 1500 coordinated radio stations. limbaugh taught a generation of republicans dems are

unamerican and can do nothing good and the cons can do nothing wrong, to the point where putin is better than any dem president

[Bev54]

8. They get together to coordinate and inspire?

I think she meant to say connive and conspire.

[gratuitous]

9. THAT should disqualify Justice Thomas from any cases his wife has an interest in

Let's see, who is the sole person on the planet with the unappealable and unchallengeable authority to recuse Justice Thomas?



Oh yeah. Never mind.

[Captain Zero]

40. Recuse from cases involving Florida/DeSantis?

I would think especially anything involving DeSantis.

[Kingofalldems]

11. He needs to be impeached for sure.

[dchill]

12. This kind of stuff has been going on forever.

Did it suddenly become illegal? Whattya gonna do about it?

[GB_RN]

13. Uncle Slappy Has No Business Talking To Gov. DeathSentence...

In any political/legal context. And his wife has not much more. Federal judicial ethics rules need...no MUST be applied to the SCOTUS. It's criminal that they are not.

Uncle Slappy should already have been impeached and convicted over his failure (for years) to report his wife's income on his financial declarations (his excuse that "I didn't know I had to" is pure BS).

[Ziggysmom]

14. I see who is the boss in his house and it ain't Mr Long D*** Silver!

There is no doubt in my mind that he committed perjury in his confirmation hearings. This pitiful specimen of a man had no business on any bench, much less the Supreme Court.

[Lonestarblue]

16. We need protests demanding that Thomas resign for unethical behavior.

Several of Trump’s first appointees had to resign because of ethics issues. Why shouldn’t an unethical SC justice be forced to do the same? Of course, he would never do that with Democrats in control of the Senate.

[Zeitghost]

17. What am I missing here?

There is nothing illegal or improper about a Judge talking with a Governor or any other politician.

[aggiesal]

24. Thomas: Hello Mr. Death Sentence, how are you doing? ...

Gov: Fine Justice Thomas. Listen I have a campaign contributor that has a case coming in front of SCOTUS. Can you help make sure that the decision is favorable for my contributor? I'm sure your wife's non-profit would get a nice hefty donation, if that happened.

Thomas: Sure, I know the case. I'll see what I can do.

[Zeitghost]

27. Do you have any evidence of that happening?

It's not like SCotUS Justices are required to live as hermits. They are allowed to have friends and acquaintances.

[aggiesal]

34. Let me look in my back pocket ...

Wait ... a judge should recuse themselves, not if they actually have a relationship with someone that might have an issue before the court, but just the appearance of a relationship.

Do you honestly believe that Justice Thomas would actually recuse himself, if a case dealing with Jan. 6th came before SCOTUS, while his wife's organization paid to bus people to the insurrection?

In 2004, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote an opinion declining to recuse himself in a case to which Vice President Dick Cheney was a party in his official capacity, despite the contention of several environmental groups that Scalia's participation created an appearance of impropriety because Scalia had recently participated in a widely publicized hunting trip with the Vice President. When Scalia went on the hunting trip, Cheney's case was either already on the SCOTUS docket or on track to be on the docket.

So you see, I don't really need proof, it just has to appear that it could be improper.
If the situation that I describe happens, where a case comes before SCOTUS of a contributor to DeathSantis, do you think Justice Thomas would recuse himself?

[Zeitghost]

35. All we know is Thomas has made some form of recent contact with Desantis.

That's it. There is no case before the court, there is no financial interest involved. As I said above, a Justice is under no obligation not to talk to people because maybe some day they might bring a case before the court.

I don't like Thomas, his wife or the Gov. but this is a nothingburger.

[NewJeffCT]

42. And the right did the same thing with RBG

saying that her speaking to pro-choice groups meant she should recuse herself on issues of abortion.

[MerryHolidays]

36. Not sure why you are such a defender of this complete mediocrity

How many other SCOTUS justices have a spouse so involved in inflammatory political issues? Do you really think this is normal?

[Zeitghost]

37. I'm a defender of facts

Thomas making contact with Desantis is a non-issue without a bunch of very pertinent details that do not exist outside the minds of some posters.

As for his wife's politics, she is entitled to speak and advocate as she pleases, the same as you and I. If a case directly involving her comes before the court, we will see what Thomas does. That so far has not happened.


If we found out Breyer's wife donated to planned parenthood and had made pro choice statements, would you expect him to recuse himself from the TX case?

[MerryHolidays]

39. Glad to know that you are on top of all of Ginni's shenanigans

Just as an FYI, given your "fact defender" role": https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/politics/ginni-clarence-thomas-supreme-court-recusal/index.html

[turbinetree]

18. He needs to be IMPEACHED, she needs to be brought before the Jan 6 Committee and asked

how she became involved with people to go to the US Capital...to take down a duly elected government by voters....

[Karadeniz]

29. I'd love to see that happen.

[ShazzieB]

19. A what of what gathering?

The penultimate sentence of Ginni's request concluded with this: "...we are a cone of silence gathering."

Way to make this "gathering" sound like some sneaky, sinister cabal, Ginni. And in fact, that's exactly what it seems to be. From Wikipedia:

A cabal is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community, often by intrigue and usually unbeknownst to those who are outside their group. The use of this term usually carries negative connotations of political purpose, conspiracy and secrecy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal

I guess "cone of silence" is meant to indicate confidentiality while avoiding "negative connotations of political purpose, conspiracy and secrecy."

Sorry, Ginni, it's not working for me!

[Hassler]

21. Thomas is a Republican political hack in robes.

[demtenjeep]

22. OHHHHH Biden should get another SC pick

yessssssss

[AZLD4Candidate]

23. Are we truly surprised any more? Ever since Obama won in 2008, they have gone off the deep end

[MyOwnPeace]

26. Indeed........

that really is the sum of it all - PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!!!!

What scum they are.......

[dchill]

25. Neh Neh Neh - Nefarious!

[BlueIdaho]

28. Maybe it's time for Ginni Thomas

To resign from the Supreme Court. While she is at it she can take that weak kneed sock puppet with her.

[Evolve Dammit]

38. Anita Hill was right and she was shut down.

[elias7]

41. "Cone of silence", you know, like Get Smart. It was a joke...

These people are absurd

[rockfordfile]

45. Corruption

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

46. They even make a portable version