Methinks that one of the main reasons that Republicans do not want us to go after Trump,

[Baitball Blogger]

is because an investigation of that caliber would also result in losing Clarence Thomas and possibly Alito from the Supreme Court. Both are way too embedded with right-wing extremists that were behind January 6th.

That's also why they want to slow down on affirming justices. They know what's coming. They do.

[Mr.Bill]

1. If Thomas and Alito went on live TV

and chopped the heads off of live babies, you could still not get enough republican votes in the Senate to remove them from office.

[lagomorph777]

4. Could they vote on SCROTUS cases from their jail cells?

I don't think there's a memo that "forbids" prosecuting a sitting (or former) SCROTUS justice.

[Silent3]

10. You're thinking sitting Justices would be jailed for something? Anything?

How adorable!

[lagomorph777]

12. Seditious conspiracy.

I think there's a high chance that any real investigation would quickly connect Thomas to the coup plot.

I know less about Alito's exposure.

However, I do deeply doubt that Merrick would ever investigate anybody in the top two or three tiers of government. Sad to say.

[Mr.Bill]

11. What crime would you currently convict them of?

I was talking of impeachment proceedings and Senate conviction to remove them from office. Neither of these would necessarily put them in prison.

[lagomorph777]

13. Neither would happen, though - 2/3 required.

The only slightly plausible scenario is actual criminal trial. Thomas appears to be very liable, if Merrick ever gets serious.

[NCjack]

2. Our Reprussian politicians do not want Trump to reveal the amount of Russian

money the accepted to spike American democacy.

[lagomorph777]

6. Russiapublicans in general (not just Alito/Thomas) are implicated.

They are deathly afraid of the truth coming out (and more afraid of jail).

[jcgoldie]

3. How do you get rid of em?

I mean even if it turns out Clarence and his wife masterminded the whole shitshow at the capitol, republicans don't care about that. What is the mechanism for removing him, impeachment won't happen if you can't even get them to convict Trump. I'm not trying to be snarky just genuinely curious if there is any way?

[lagomorph777]

8. Jail them. There isn't even a fake memo against doing that.

[GoCubsGo]

5. They're more worried about their own asses.

The vast majority of them are compromised in one way or another. Remember, Putin also hacked the RNC's servers, and he's got all sorts of dirt on them. Not to mention that at least 8 of them are Russian assets, probably more, and even more have likely been illegally taking Russian money. How much of that is going to come out? Probably, most of it.

[FreepFryer]

7. Gotta catch em all (Nt)

[Achilleaze]

9. Republicans are dedicated to hiding their ugly truth from Americans

But the truth will out.

The betraying Repubes will pay for their sins, and their crimes.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Right, they are not protecting Trump, they are protecting themselves.