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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell speaks to Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe about the mounting pressure that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is facing after text messages his wife sent in the lead-up to the January 6th Capitol riot were made public. Aired on 03/29/2022.
aeromanKC
(3,322 posts)IOKIYAR
Until proven wrong this is the way it is. I'm still waiting. It's just disgusting to watch day after day.
Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)It used to be that SCOTUS was the sacrosanct and unassailable branch of our government. But TFG upended that, as he has most everything else.
dem4decades
(11,288 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)The whole country heard about him back then - I remember sitting in the dentist's chair at the time and my dentist had the hearings on so she could listen in her exam room...
dem4decades
(11,288 posts)Above the law Republicans?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)And he said that he wasn't interested because serving on the court would end any of his political activities including his ability just to speak out. *sigh*
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)its a crime for a Justice to be unethical or political. Unfortunately, the Constitution is too often like the Bible, just about anything can be arguably justified with a quote/verse taken out of context.
Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)And he knew that a SCOTUS justice had to be impartial.
stopdiggin
(11,306 posts)(also why Lawrence Tribe is ever more the 'talking head' - ever less the dependable legal scholar)
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)but one cant just accept them a truth.
I generally like listening to Tribes option and insights, but realize he wants to be invited back.
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JudyM
(29,241 posts)Thanks for posting it, Rhiannon. Informative. Lets hear it for 28 USC sec. 455.
Apparently Scalia never read it.
Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)Or vote for TFG.
JudyM
(29,241 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)DanieRains
(4,619 posts)Clarence ang Ginny have committed multiple felonies, but they are above the law. They are Rich Republicans.