Jane Mayer reminds us: Thomas was only vote to block 1/6 from getting Trump's papers & Gini's texts

[kpete]

@JaneMayerNYer
So, @TheNewYorker reported, instead of recusing, Clarence Thomas was the only vote to block the Jan6 committee from getting Trump's papers. Mark Meadows filed a supporting brief. And Ginni's texts to Meadows were at stake. https://newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned via
@NewYorker

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[gratuitous]

1. Just an impartial umpire, callin' them balls and strikes

Glad to see that the New Yorker remembered this little judicial tidbit.

We really need reform of the system that makes Supreme Court Justices the sole arbiter of their personal impartiality.

[peppertree]

17. Presumably with a Coke can in his other hand

[Evolve Dammit]

19. with a pubic hair in it. Long Dong Silver may you rot.

[peppertree]

21. Poppy Bush was known for his wicked sense of humor

So much so that he half-jokingly referred to it as his "evil twin" - such was the contrast with the genteel side most of the public knew him for.

There's no doubt in my mind that he meant Thomas' appointment as a very deliberate insult to the Black community.

[jaysunb]

26. We knew and understood the gambit in real time. Nt

[dchill]

2. But wasn't it a sweet gesture - to cast any question of ethics...

... aside to protect his loon of a wife?

[Cha]

3. Oh Yes.. the Full of SHIT Fascist

Thomases.. Ginny & Clarence.

💙💛

[Achilleaze]

4. sleazebag republican traitors deserve justice

lock the traitors up

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. This won't be helping Clarence's health situation.

Won't be a better time for him to bow out with cover.

[liberalmuse]

6. Wow.

This could get interesting if we actually held high profile criminals accountable these days.

[uponit7771]

7. WHOA !!

[2naSalit]

8. All the more reason we need...

A stronger hold on Congress.

[DURHAM D]

9. Treason

[Carlitos Brigante]

10. She's such a corrupt, gross, fascistic, insufferable bag of shit. nt

[fightforfreedom]

11. This must be investigated. This is obvious corruption by a Supreme Court judge.

Clarence has tough questions he must answer. Dam!

[Hassler]

12. Yep. Traitor Thomas'husband.

[NoMoreRepugs]

13. These slugs are despicable.

[GoodRaisin]

14. He should do the right thing, and resign.

Unfortunately not much chance of this sleaze bag doing anything because it’s right.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. He ruled on his own wife? That's corrupt.

[Larissa]

22. He can run but he can't hide

Justice Pubic Hair needs to resign.

[Jerry2144]

16. Since she is an insurrectist

Can we use the 14th to remove him from office of Mother Nature doesn’t help us out?

[RANDYWILDMAN]

18. he is great at situational ethics

which really means he has none.

[dlk]

20. Corruption in plain sight

Thomas voted to protect his wife’s texts from discovery. He needs to be impeached.

[Mr. Ected]

23. This is abhorrent behavior at any level of the judiciary

But coming from the most prestigious, most elite, most revered Court in the land?

Inexcusable. Reprehensible.

But is it justiciable?

[ancianita]

24. Lots of little unethical hidings, shieldings and blockings lead to a national state of delusion.

No democracy can work this way. While we fuss about their 'character,' she and her husband are tools of the long term corporate establishment of power at all costs -- whether that power rubble-izes a country like Ukraine, or it slowly guts a judicial system in another Big Fossil nation. This is democracy in chains.

Meanwhile, 2 Centrigrade renders all life moot. And we are fighting each other, swirling downstream to drop, with all our descendants, into the "bad anthropocene" abyss.
Maybe we'll drop our arms, chemicals, nukes, look at Earth's reality in fear and wonder, knowing the arc bending toward justice is moot. Maybe many of us won't, and will fight other humans even as they are all annihilated.

[llmart]

25. I don't know about the rest of you but...

I long ago gave up my idealized notion that members of the Supreme Court were of the highest moral character and only looking out for the good of our country. That happened when they decided to stop the counting of the votes in Gore v. Bush and hand the job to Dubya.

[HAB911]

27. Maybe he is in the hospital with High Anxiety

[Achilleaze]

28. Republican Moral Rot: another stinking Smoking Gun