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Rhiannon12866

(250,685 posts)
Tue May 9, 2023, 06:30 PM May 2023

Sen. Whitehouse on Justice Thomas ethics scandal: 'We need honest courtrooms' - Deadline - MSNBC



Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) discusses with Nicolle Wallace his committee's new push to Harlan Crow for a full accounting of his financial relationship with the Supreme Court justice and what past investigations tell us about Crow. - Aired on 05/09/2023.


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Sen. Whitehouse on Justice Thomas ethics scandal: 'We need honest courtrooms' - Deadline - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 May 2023 OP
This effort by Whitehouse is applauded. However, I recall that a bill passed by Congress last in2herbs May 2023 #1
In her case, her (and her "group's") participation in the insurrection should certainly count Rhiannon12866 May 2023 #2

in2herbs

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1. This effort by Whitehouse is applauded. However, I recall that a bill passed by Congress last
Tue May 9, 2023, 06:41 PM
May 2023

year included a provision that won't require the spouse of a USSC justice to disclose her/his income any longer.

Is this immunity to spouse's being given attention? Does this exception not apply in this instance as the ethics issues occurred before last year?

Rhiannon12866

(250,685 posts)
2. In her case, her (and her "group's") participation in the insurrection should certainly count
Tue May 9, 2023, 06:45 PM
May 2023

Anything illegal should disqualify any immunity.

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