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This needs to be given more attention
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Controversy is again surrounding Thomas, though, much of it due to the actions of his wife Ginni. In a letter recently obtained by Politico and American Oversight, Ginni Thomas noted that her husband has been in contact with Florida Governnor Ron DeSantis over a number of issues.
In an email to DeSantis team, Ginni Thomas wrote, Gov. DeSantis will be acquainted with me, as I video-interviewed him for a Leader Series with the Daily Caller years ago when he served in Congress, saw him at a state dinner at the Trump White House and my husband has been in contact too on various issues as of late.
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Me.
(35,454 posts)Collusion between D'Sants and Clarence Thomas along with his troublemaking wife Ginny. Really, Thomas needs to be booted from the court.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Isnt it lifetime appointment? Is there a federal law against collusion of SC justice and a governor?
ShazzieB
(16,513 posts)A seat on the Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment, but a Justice, like other federal judges,, can be impeached (by the House of Representatives) and, IF convicted (by the Senate), removed.
Fifteen federal judges, including one Supreme Court Justice (Samuel Chase in 1804) have been impeached. Of those fifteen: eight were convicted by the Senate, four were acquitted by the Senate, and three resigned before an outcome at trial. Justice Chase was among those acquitted.
https://ballotpedia.org/Impeachment_of_federal_judges
Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)person.
ShazzieB
(16,513 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)is a beginning. Then...
Justices Are Categorized Along With the President as Being Subject to Impeachment.
In the entire history of the U.S. Supreme Court only one justice has ever actually been impeached: Samuel Chase, in 1805.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/supreme-court-justice-ever-impeached-005539519.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAF5I2uKDLvfFllCYoiX13OUJcglVxlviQ7TBCdhdoY-pSF_q6fwV9HGYIYv4qRpPo2iLFOMrmkXx1y92MPyiSulHrfVRLlroin6MV9EbI24eoHE2ekSfXZABeMM6I5ox9iKMP44STwzSjYWI2I1xs0d_iXnC1cGJKuTyqCVaugGR
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)one of the applied threats would be impeachment, which is in fact, in the Constitution as a remedy
NewHendoLib
(60,019 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)FBaggins
(26,757 posts)Are they under the impression that SCOTUS justices arent allowed to talk to politicians? Or that the liberal justices dont?
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Kavanaugh, Barret......they're all unabashedly republican owned. They don't even try to fake impartiality anymore.
And republicans claim Democrats are politicizing everything.
Cha
(297,655 posts)damn spouse of yours.
Hope you go down in History as the Fucking Disgrace and Traitor to America that you are.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)someone else had to tell him how to vote on cases. He used to do whatever Scalia told him to do. He was completely lost when Scalia died. DeSantis must have filled Scalia's clown shoes.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)FBaggins
(26,757 posts)Were never going to control 67 senate seats
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,429 posts)1. Retire
2. Die
3. Resign, or,
4. Impeach, convict and remove.
Other than dying, what are the chances that any of the other 3 will come to pass any time soon?
So, yeah, in essence, he is immune to being removed from the bench.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,554 posts)Justice Thomas should recuse from this case.
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SFFAs lawsuit seeking to strike down affirmative action has received the enthusiastic backing of the conservative National Association of Scholars. It filed an amicus brief in support of the suit, accusing Harvard admissions officials of being prejudiced against Asian students and stereotyping them as uninteresting, uncreative and one-dimensional.
Ginni Thomas sits on the advisory board of the National Association of Scholars. Observers are concerned that her position with a group that has intervened in the affirmative action case could present appearances of conflict of interest.....
Ginni Thomas is an advisory board member of an organization that has taken a very specific position on a case in front of her husband. That will make it hard for the public to be confident that hes going to be totally unbiased.
Me.
(35,454 posts)that impeachment for Supremes along with the President is written into the Constitution. Of course we would need more Dem senators. IAlso, I have read that Roberts loathes Ginni.
yardwork
(61,703 posts)Thomas and his wife have been doing this crap for years.
spanone
(135,873 posts)Link to tweet
American Oversight
@weareoversight
· Feb 4
Emails we obtained, reported on by @politico, suggest that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is in regular contact with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
In a June 2021, Ginni Thomas said DeSantis should be familiar with her because my husband has been in contact with him[.]
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)To retire from the Supreme Court.