"If Clarence Thomas doesn't resign when will impeachment proceedings against him begin?"

[kpete]

@MaryLTrump
A lot of people in the media are asking "Should Clarence Thomas recuse himself?" (Whether or not the answer to that is "Yes," he won't.) But that's the wrong question. The right one is this: "If Clarence Thomas doesn't resign when will impeachment proceedings against him begin?"

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[Sherman A1]

1. I expect neither to happen

[jimfields33]

26. I hope not. The media will say only African American Supreme Court justice

Being kicked off the court by the house.

[Lovie777]

2. He won't resign . . ..

and the GQP in congress will never vote for impeachment especially in the Senate that have two D's that will side with them.

P.S. The United States Supreme Court has been tainted for awhile - the three last GQP US SC justices made sure that happened.

[multigraincracker]

3. I'd settle for his wife on trial for

treason.

[Rebl2]

8. Same here.

There will be no removal of Thomass

[JohnSJ]

4. They don't have the votes to have him removed from office. It would be a waste of time, and

we only have a short time before the midterms

[FalloutShelter]

5. Um... when we elect enough Democrats to

The Congress and Senate?

[rso]

20. Thomas

Electing at least 67 democrats in the Senate is the only way to get a conviction, and that is mission impossible .

[Polybius]

27. 68

Manchin we can't predict.

[Hugin]

6. I'm going to assume my favorite Trump is being...

Ironic here.

[JohnnyRingo]

19. Sarcastic...

And I suspect you're right. She knows we don't just impeach SC members and move on.
So far he's just been the cantankerous old piece of crap he always was.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. I could accept an alternative to impeachment or resignation.

I'd like to have a wide spectrum of articles and letters of condemnation from legal scholars, judges (both state and federal), officeholders, prosecutors, attorneys, and professors and deans of law schools. The articles and letters should lay out specific points of the transgressions of both Clarence Thomas and his wife. Not to forget the American Bar Association.

If my hopes are realized, the country will see and know what has happened.

While I'm not certain if this gesture will exact change, it's better than remaining silent.

[agingdem]

9. I want Clarence and his wife under constant scrutiny...

every decision dissembled…her life in and out of government…her/his contacts, far right organizations…I hate paparazzi but for the “esteemed” Clarence and Ginni I will make an exception..their faces, their comings and going all over social media…I want them isolated and excluded…a living hell

[Kaleva]

10. Pelosi and Schumer will figure out the best coarse of action.

[dem4decades]

11. His corruption should be exposed by an impeachment hearing, put it on the record.

[Raven123]

12. They will not. 1) He won't be convicted. 2) It would distract from other important tasks

3) Given #2, it would be a political loser. It not that the issue is trivial. There is just SO much happening. The Jan 6th Committee hearings, Ukraine, inflation for example.

[Stainless]

13. If Clarence Thomas is not removed from the SCOTUS.......

Then American Democracy is dead and the vile neofascist bastards have won. Sieg Heil baby!

[2naSalit]

14. When we have enough votes in the Senate...

To successfully remove him from the bench.

[Piratedog]

15. Impeachment? On what grounds?

I don’t like Thomas but there aren’t grounds to impeach. Neither is there a reason for him to resign. Yes, it looks bad that his wife is a seditionist but how is he accountable for her actions?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. You need 67 votes in the Senate to remove Thomas

I do not see how you get to 67 votes in the Senate

[FreepFryer]

17. Agreed, If we had the numbers we would have done it already. The leak is huge news...

...but it’ll likely figure differently than an impeachment in the House and failed removal in the Senate.

However, a successful House impeachment and then a refusal to refer the matter to the Senate is not outside the realm of possibility, as I recall that was floated during the first Trump impeachment.

[Firestorm49]

18. Forgive my ignorance, but hypothetically, if impeachment proceedings were to result in a vote to

remove him, and I don’t know if that would be the case, Manchin and Sinema could not be counted to seal the deal.

[FreepFryer]

21. Nope, you are correct, except in the verbiage -

To my understanding, the impeachment vote is the one undertaken in the House, and the removal/conviction vote is the one held in the Senate.

So technically, Manchin and Sinema complicate the removal vote, not the impeachment vote.

[former9thward]

24. Manchin and Sinema do not complicate any removal vote.

It is not a majority vote. It is 2/3s or 67 votes. There is no way to get to that number no matter what Manchin or Sinema do.

[FreepFryer]

25. As Senators, they complicate THAT vote, not any impeachment vote in the House.

And they complicate it insofar as they have a complex party line voting history.

[former9thward]

30. No, they are irrelevant.

No way there is 67 votes for removal no matter what they do or don't do.

[FreepFryer]

32. I wasn't arguing the feasibility of conviction, I was explaining in which vote they would vote.

Hypothetically.

Thanks, though!

[niyad]

22. When the sun rises in the north.

[Buckeyeblue]

23. I think he should be called to testify

It should be voluntary to set the record straight. If he refuses he should, along with his text messages, be subpoenaed. I would want to know if he offered legal advice or legal coverage to the group(s) trying to overthrow the government.

Because if he did, that would be collusion. I think. And maybe we skip impeachment and go right to indictment. As part of his plea bargain, he can resign.

What if a sitting justice goes to prison but congress refuses to impeach and convict?

[Polybius]

28. Pelosi has already impeached twice before

There's no way that she's gonna do it again. Three times with no conviction won't look good on the legacy.

[usajumpedtheshark]

29. I doubt any of the conservative judges would ever resign while a Democratic has

the presidency. And they certainly would never admit they made mistakes.

[Emile]

31. Seriously? Were still waiting for them to legalize cannabis!

[gulliver]

33. Thomas, like Trump, is protected by the right's hatred of us

The Thomases are, for all intents and purposes, using the same grift pattern the Trumps and Fox News use. We keep getting lost in the misdirection and miss the money flow.