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Clarence Thomas was Caught AGAIN. Impeachment Imminent.

Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:30:50 No.1158052 View View Reply Original Report

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/16/clarence-thomas-ginger-financial-disclosure/
Clarence Thomas has for years claimed income from a defunct real estate firm
The misstatements, which began when a family business transferred its holdings to another company, are part of a pattern that has raised questions about how the Supreme Court justice views his obligation to accurately report details about his finances to the public.
By Shawn Boburg and Emma Brown
April 16, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. EDT

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:31:39 No.1158053 Report

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Over the last two decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has reported on required financial disclosure forms that his family received rental income totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a firm called Ginger, Ltd., Partnership.

But that company — a Nebraska real estate firm launched in the 1980s by his wife and her relatives — has not existed since 2006.

That year, the family real estate company was shut down and a separate firm was created, state incorporation records show. The similarly named firm assumed control of the shuttered company’s land leasing business, according to property records.

Since that time, however, Thomas has continued to report income from the defunct company — between $50,000 and $100,000 annually in recent years — and there is no mention of the newer firm, Ginger Holdings, LLC, on the forms.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:33:02 No.1158054 Report

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The previously unreported misstatement might be dismissed as a paperwork error. But it is among a series of errors and omissions that Thomas has made on required annual financial disclosure forms over the past several decades, a review of those records shows. Together, they have raised questions about how seriously Thomas views his responsibility to accurately report details about his finances to the public.

Thomas’s disclosure history is in the spotlight after ProPublica revealed this month that a Texas billionaire took him on lavish vacations and also bought from Thomas and his relatives a Georgia home where his mother lives, a transaction that was not disclosed on the forms. Thomas said in a statement that colleagues he did not name told him he did not have to report the vacations and that he has always tried to comply with disclosure guidelines. He has not publicly addressed the property transaction.

In 2011, after the watchdog group Common Cause raised red flags, Thomas updated years of his financial disclosure reports to include employment details for his wife, conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas. The justice said at the time that he had not understood the filing instructions. In 2020, he was forced to revise his disclosure forms after a different watchdog group found he had failed to report reimbursements for trips to speak at two law schools.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:34:02 No.1158055 Report

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A judicial ethics expert said the pattern was troubling.

“Any presumption in favor of Thomas’s integrity and commitment to comply with the law is gone. His assurances and promises cannot be trusted. Is there more? What’s the whole story? The nation needs to know,” said Stephen Gillers, a legal ethics expert at New York University.

Gillers said all three branches of government should investigate Thomas’s compliance or noncompliance with federal ethics law. “The Supreme Court has been the glue that has held the republic together since 1790 with the Civil War the only interruption. We need the public to respect it even when it disagrees with it and to understand why it is important. Generally, the public has,” he said. “But that respect is now in serious jeopardy, and others must do something to stop the free fall.”

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:35:03 No.1158056 Report

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>>1158055
Thomas did not respond to emailed questions sent through a court spokeswoman. His wife also did not respond to requests for comment.

Thomas’s income from the firm he describes as “Ginger, Ltd., Partnership” on the financial disclosure forms has grown substantially over the last decade, though the precise amounts are unknown because the forms require only that ranges be reported. In total, he has reported receiving between $270,000 to $750,000 from the firm since 2006, describing it as “rent.” Thomas’s salary as a justice this year is $285,000.

The company’s roots trace back to two lakeside neighborhoods developed decades ago by Ginni Thomas’s late parents in a community in Douglas County, just outside of Omaha.

Ginger Limited Partnership was created in 1982 to sell and lease real estate, state incorporation records show, and its partners were Ginni Thomas, her parents and her three siblings. The firm owned and leased out residential lots in two developments, Ginger Woods and Ginger Cove, collecting rent annually from each occupied plot of land, according to copies of lease agreements on file with the county.

When he was nominated to a federal appeals court in 1990, Thomas listed the firm in a financial statement as one of his wife’s assets — worth $15,000 at the time.

The firm was dissolved in March 2006. Around the same time, Ginger Holdings, LLC was created in Nebraska, according to state records, which list the same business address as the shuttered company and name Joanne K. Elliott, the sister of Ginni Thomas, as manager.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:36:08 No.1158057 Report

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The same month, the leases for more than 200 residential lots in Ginger Woods and Ginger Cove were transferred from Ginger Limited Partnership to Ginger Holdings, LLC, property records in Douglas County show.

Reached by phone, Elliott referred questions about the two companies to Ginni Thomas.

“You could call her and she could answer anything that she wants you to know,” Elliott said before hanging up.

Ginni Thomas is not named in state incorporation records related to Ginger Holdings, LLC.

In his most recent disclosure, in 2021, Thomas estimated that his family’s interest in Ginger Limited Partnership, the defunct firm, was worth between $250,000 and $500,000. He reported receiving an income from it between $50,000 and $100,000 that year.

On Friday, congressional Democrats with oversight of federal courts cited Thomas’s “apparent pattern of noncompliance with disclosure requirements” in calling on the Judicial Conference — the policymaking body for the federal courts — to refer him to the attorney general for an investigation into whether he violated federal ethics laws.

In addition to the recent revelations about Thomas’s financial relationship with Harlan Crow, the Texas billionaire, they cited a period in the 2000s in which Thomas failed to disclose his wife’s employment as required by law until the omission was reported by the watchdog group Common Cause.

Ginni Thomas earned more than $686,000 from the conservative Heritage Foundation from 2003 until 2007, according to the nonprofit’s tax forms. Clarence Thomas checked a box labeled “none” for his wife’s income during that period. He had done the same in 2008 and 2009 when she worked for conservative Hillsdale College.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:37:21 No.1158058 Report

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Thomas acknowledged the error when he amended those filings in 2011. He wrote that the information had been “inadvertently omitted due to a misunderstanding of the filing instructions.”

In some years before those omissions, however, Thomas had correctly reported his wife’s employment.

Thomas failed to report the sale of the three Georgia properties to Crow in 2014, and he also continued to report that he owned a share of those properties as late as 2015, his disclosure forms show. In addition, beginning in 2010, his disclosures described the properties as being located in Liberty County, Ga., even though they were actually located in Chatham County.

Thomas also did not report reimbursement for transportation, meals and lodging while teaching at the universities of Kansas and Georgia in 2018. After the omission was flagged by the nonprofit Fix the Court, Thomas amended his filing for that year. He also amended his 2017 filing, on which he had left off similar reimbursements while teaching at Creighton Law School, his wife’s alma mater.

Jonathan O’Connell and Alice Crites contributed to this report.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:39:38 No.1158059 Report

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>>1158052
not really surprising, fraudsters rarely commit fraud just once.
I remember dealing with a housekeeper forging checks, when I caught her doing one I said I'd let her off if that was the first and only time it happened. She swore up and down that she was mostly an honest woman and just slipped up a bit, honest mistake.
Except then I found half a dozen other forged checks going back through my records.

Never trust someone you catch cheating at something. It's never the first time they broke the law, it's just the first time they got caught.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:41:40 No.1158060 Report

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https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3953176-clarence-thomas-should-follow-the-abe-fortas-precedent-and-resign-gracefully/

Clarence Thomas should follow the Abe Fortas precedent and resign gracefully
BY PHILIP ALLEN LACOVARA, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 04/16/23 9:30 AM ET

Justice Clarence Thomas can still redeem himself. One of his predecessors, former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, showed the way. Caught in the midst of a financial scandal, Fortas did the decent thing and resigned rather than continue to embarrass the court and himself. This is one precedent that Thomas, a notorious iconoclast, should follow.

Thomas’s dubious financial entanglements have been a source of embarrassment for many years. Indeed, even his unsavory relationship with politically active real-estate billionaire Harlan Crow, which figured so prominently in the recent reports of luxury trips around the world on Crow’s yachts and jets was the subject of an expose a dozen years ago. Washington Monthly magazine published a recap of what was known about Thomas’s hobnobbing with new-found friends who cultivated him after his accession to the high court.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:42:41 No.1158061 Report

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Justice Clarence Thomas can still redeem himself. One of his predecessors, former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, showed the way. Caught in the midst of a financial scandal, Fortas did the decent thing and resigned rather than continue to embarrass the court and himself. This is one precedent that Thomas, a notorious iconoclast, should follow.

Thomas’s dubious financial entanglements have been a source of embarrassment for many years. Indeed, even his unsavory relationship with politically active real-estate billionaire Harlan Crow, which figured so prominently in the recent reports of luxury trips around the world on Crow’s yachts and jets was the subject of an expose a dozen years ago. Washington Monthly magazine published a recap of what was known about Thomas’s hobnobbing with new-found friends who cultivated him after his accession to the high court.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:43:47 No.1158062 Report

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In an era when the Supreme Court is suffering from an unprecedented lack of trust, it is not surprising that these latest revelations have sparked calls for Thomas to be impeached, a response that even its most prominent exponent, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), concedes is politically unlikely. In a House of Representatives controlled by far-right rabble rousers, Thomas is seen as a hero who is willing to stand alone when necessary to oppose what they see as the slightest hint of “socialism” in the guise of government regulation.

Similarly, calls for long-overdue enactment of a binding, enforceable code of ethics for members of the Supreme Court, while well founded, are equally unlikely, since the court and its Republican supporters have been intransigent in leaving the justices to decide for themselves whether to live up to any standards of ethical behavior. Moreover, any new prescriptions can operate only prospectively and will have no bearing on Thomas’s apparent decades of non-disclosure.

But there is a parallel for cleansing this stain on the court — Abe Fortas’s resignation in 1969.

Because Fortas served on the court for only four years, his name is little known today, especially outside Washington legal circles. The salient facts bear recalling.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:44:54 No.1158064 Report

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Fortas was a brilliant lawyer who, like Thomas, came to Washington from Yale Law School. As a young man, Fortas served as a senior official in the FDR administration and then helped found one of Washington’s great law firms, originally known as Arnold, Fortas & Porter. He befriended Lyndon B. Johnson early in Johnson’s rise up the political ladder. In 1965, President Johnson rewarded his political loyalty with appointment to the court.

In 1968, Johnson nominated Fortas to succeed Earl Warren as chief justice. That is when the wheels began to come off the bus. Investigation revealed that Fortas was paid a stipend of $15,000 to do some adjunct teaching. Unlike the gigs that current and more recent justices have accepted to offer summer seminars in exotic locations in Europe or Asia, Fortas was simply teaching a few blocks away at American University in Washington. But funding for the fee was organized by Fortas’s old firm and its clients, many of whom had cases before the court.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:45:56 No.1158065 Report

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Although these disclosures induced Fortas to ask that his nomination as chief justice be withdrawn, he sought to remain on the court. The final straw came months later, in 1969, when it emerged that he had taken a $20,000 retainer from the family foundation of an indicted securities swindler, Lewis Wolfson. Like Thomas’s receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free vacations, Fortas’s acceptance of a retainer was not technically illegal. Nevertheless, it stank.

Chief Justice Warren and Fortas’s friend Justice Hugo Black urged Fortas to resign, to salvage some of his reputation and that of his wife, also a prominent, active lawyer. Reluctantly, with his reputation in tatters, he stepped down. After resigning, he formed a new law firm and resumed practicing law as an elder statesman.

I followed these developments closely, because I was serving as a young assistant in the Solicitor General’s office and had argued my first cases a few months earlier in front of the court that included Fortas. A dozen years later, we encountered each other again, when Fortas returned to the court for his only Supreme Court argument following his resignation, and I was the advocate on the other side of a high profile case, which determined which political party would control the Puerto Rico legislature. By that time, Fortas had rebuilt his reputation. (Sadly, he died before learning that he had won the politically sensitive case.)

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 21:46:57 No.1158067 Report

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In response to the latest disclosures about Justice Thomas’s ethical evasions, he issued a statement lamely blaming his colleagues at the court for assuring him that he could treat any financial benefits from “friends” as “personal hospitality” that, under prevailing standards, need not be disclosed. Putting aside the question whether any reasonable judge would put a pattern of lengthy cruises in the Pacific aboard a luxury yacht in the same category as joining the neighbors for beer and pizza, it comes with ill-grace to fashion the blame for his grasping arrogance on his colleagues.

But taking him at his word, it would be time for Chief Justice John Roberts and one of Thomas’s close allies, perhaps Samuel Alito, to play the role that Warren and Black played in encouraging Fortas to do the decent thing, for the court and himself — step down gracefully. They could orchestrate a mutually beneficial resolution so that nothing in Thomas’s recent professional life “became him like the leaving it.”

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 23:02:16 No.1158109 Report

Quoted By: >>1158112

No. All the other shit was naked corruption. This shit was a typo. And lumping this shit in with the other shit is bordering on disinfo since it just poisons the conversation for anyone that looks into it first.

Fuck off. Nail him on accepting hundreds of thousands in gifts, money for nothing, and unreported hundreds of thousands of donations to his wife all from the same fucking right wing political activist billionaire, not for flubbing ltd vs llc.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 23:06:25 No.1158112 Report

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>>1158109
it won't be an issue if it's just a paperwork error. the point is it looks like a cover up

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 23:19:06 No.1158123 Report

Quoted By: >>1158153 >>1158173 >>1158277

Biden will replace him with a full-blown commie, won't he?

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 23:27:33 No.1158125 Report

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>>1158112
>the point is it looks like a cover up
It really fucking doesn't. He was still reporting the fucking money, even gave the right address for the company and everything. All the paperwork was right except for 2 fucking letters.

Seriously, fuck off with this bullshit. When you mix fake scandals in with real scandals all you do is poison the well and get people to tune out. God DAMN do I hate motherfuckers like you.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Apr 2023 23:50:09 No.1158135 Report

Quoted By: >>1158172

>>1158125
it's just one of the manifold booking errors clarence made, idk why you're so mad, like i said it will either be a thing or it won't

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 00:18:52 No.1158153 Report

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>>1158123
Merrick Garland, the full-blown commie
I love conservative brainrot, I really do

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 00:41:32 No.1158157 Report

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>>1158125
>All the paperwork was right except for 2 fucking letters.
If Trump hadn't a fired the guy supposed to be reviewing these letters it never would have happened in the first place

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 00:49:58 No.1158158 Report

Quoted By: >>1158159 >>1158296

>>1158153
All government zogbots are communists deep in their empty caverns where there should be a heart and soul but there isn't. They have an insatiable quench to enslave and stomp us on the ground and laugh at our misery. They always had.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 00:56:14 No.1158159 Report

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>>1158158
when you act this silly i don't quite understand your end goal

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 01:37:44 No.1158164 Report

Quoted By: >>1158166

so another high value political target mysteriously gets criminal charges? damn, i thought the rightoids saying alex jones lawsuit was the "new model" were just conspiracy theorists. actual third world commie shit going on.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 01:40:39 No.1158166 Report

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>>1158164
>mysteriously
everyone point and laugh, he doesnt understand how the criminal justice system works and finds it inconvenient.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 01:48:03 No.1158168 Report

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>impeachment imminent

LUL. good luck getting the house votes and two thirds of the senate onboard.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 02:14:46 No.1158172 Report

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>>1158135
>idk why you're so mad
>When you mix fake scandals in with real scandals all you do is poison the well and get people to tune out.
And to borrow your own damn words
>it's just one of the manifold booking errors clarence made
If you can't refine an argument. Or worse, you deliberately aren't refining an argument to dillute any point that could be made with the evidence at hand, you are actively working against shaping any potential narrative.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 02:14:47 No.1158173 Report

Quoted By: >>1158201 >>1158277

>>1158123
I wish Biden was as cool as conservatives make him out to be instead of just being a milquetoast centrist.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 04:10:58 No.1158188 Report

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>>1158166
The so called criminal justice system doesn't work at all; that's the problem. The entire system for that matter doesn't work. But nothing to see here. Go back to sipping söy lattes from Starbucks in your tech support office

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 05:23:47 No.1158201 Report

Quoted By: >>1158216 >>1158277

>>1158173
This, the fact he didn't even threaten to nationalize the oil industry when it was clear they were price gouging and one of the main causes of inflation shows he's a giant pussy.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 07:14:40 No.1158216 Report

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>>1158201
Please just die.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 11:18:28 No.1158231 Report

Quoted By: >>1158248

>>persecution of a black man
>>the only black man on the court

Democrats are the real racists

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 13:19:29 No.1158248 Report

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>>1158231
Funny how Dems are judging him by his actions but conservatives are hung up on his race...

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 13:45:09 No.1158253 Report

Quoted By: >>1158277

>>1158216
Problem?

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 14:31:10 No.1158263 Report

Quoted By: >>1158316

He's not going to be impeached.
There was no crime.
Keep spinning your tires, libshits.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 14:57:17 No.1158277 Report

Quoted By: >>1158280

>>1158123
>Biden will replace him with a full-blown commie, won't he?
How is he going to replace him? Thomas isn't going anywhere.

>>1158173
>>1158201
>>1158253
How's it feel knowing Biden is worse than Trump, and even worse than Carter?

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 15:04:46 No.1158280 Report

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>>1158277
Imagine being trumptarded enough to unironically believe this.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 15:21:36 No.1158286 Report

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>>1158280
>paying more for gas
>paying more for food
>paying more for housing
>no student debt relief
>no police reform
>endless bailouts for banks
>billions in profit for big pharma and defense contractors
There trumptarded and then there's... you people.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 15:35:02 No.1158290 Report

Quoted By: >>1158291 >>1158292

>>1158286
All of that is literally trumps fault tho. He fired the guys who kept prices down and reformed stuff

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 15:36:44 No.1158291 Report

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>>1158290
this. he even replaced the guy with cronies.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 15:37:20 No.1158292 Report

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>>1158290
>being this delusional
Enjoy your Bidenflation. Good news though, your empty turned out pockets will double as Bidenflags! Lmao

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 15:38:22 No.1158293 Report

Quoted By: >>1158295

funny how they only come after him for his alleged "corruption" after he voted against abortion, I guess he got the black pass until that point

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 15:40:26 No.1158295 Report

Quoted By: >>1158297 >>1158301

>>1158293
>I guess he got the black pass until that point
He never had a pass. The Dems tried falsely accusing him of rape when we was first appointed.

Didn't work then, didn't work now with Kavanaugh. They can't win a SCOTUS case to save their lives so now they just try to character assassinate the judges.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 15:41:08 No.1158296 Report

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>>1158158
mate 'communism' is a word with actual meaning, not just a funny sound you're afraid of for reasons you can't even explain

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 15:42:05 No.1158297 Report

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>>1158295
can it truly be considered character assassination when it's the justice himself who commits the character suicide?

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 16:01:43 No.1158301 Report

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>>1158295
>falsely
lol

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 17:28:04 No.1158316 Report

Quoted By: >>1158327 >>1158378

>>1158263
>There was no crime.
There were multiple textbook violations of ethics laws he is subject to. Even if it weren't politically expedient to impeach him, which it is, not impeaching him would set a horrible precedent.

Impeachment is also for standard corruption of office bullshit. Republicans necessitating it for constant strings of felonies in recent history is more of a modern phenomenon.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 18:01:44 No.1158327 Report

Quoted By: >>1158334 >>1158336 >>1158341

>>1158316
>Even if it weren't politically expedient to impeach him, which it is
If democrats actually managed to impeach a Supreme Court Justice, they wouldn't win any election or court case going forward, because it would open the floodgates in regards to other justices.
>Impeachment is also for standard corruption of office bullshit.
The newest black member of SCOTUS unironically argued that sex offender registries should be abolished and gave lenient sentences to sexual predators who, coincidentally, also happened to be black.

On second thought, go ahead and try to impeach Thomas. The outcome will be hilarious.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 18:48:18 No.1158334 Report

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>>1158327
> because it would open the floodgates in regards to other justices.
not if republicans are capable of acting in good faith, which is admittedly too high a standard for them

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 18:58:45 No.1158336 Report

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>>1158327
>because it would open the floodgates in regards to other justices.
1. Nobody on God's green earth belives Republicans are principled enough to pass on the thinnest excuse to impeach a liberal justice, so acting like that would be some transgression or escalation is complete lying nonsense on your part. I and everyone in this thread should feel fucking insults you felt confident enough to serve that load of bullshit up for us as if any of us was dumb enough to swallow it.
2. Justices have been impeached before.
>The newest black member of SCOTUS unironically argued that sex offender registries should be abolished and gave lenient sentences to sexual predators who, coincidentally, also happened to be black.

>I don't like how this justice and his wife took millions in unreported gifts and straight cash from a billionaire right wing lobbyist.
>Well I don't like how this other justice did her job or her political opinions.
What you described isn't fucking corruption, but my do you see a lot of color.

>On second thought, go ahead and try to impeach Thomas.
Gladly. Can't wait for the House to subpoena his fucking private communications. Wonder what he's been saying when he thought nobody would ever see or hear. Impeachment investigation's always the fun part.
>They can't do that.
Totally can. Just haven't had an excuse before. Man, you better fucking pray the Dems never get the House before Thomas keels over.

Or do you HONESTLY think he was the picture of impartiality and ethics in private? LMAO

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 19:31:12 No.1158341 Report

Quoted By: >>1158373

>>1158327
>The newest black member of SCOTUS unironically argued that sex offender registries should be abolished
Kinda sad that you would resort to this smear on Ketanji Brown Jackson, when this is a gross oversimplification of her position, and even conservative/libertarian publications like National Review and Reason defended her.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 22:35:53 No.1158373 Report

Quoted By: >>1158375

>>1158341
She literally, unironically, unequivocally argued that they should be abolished because they stigmatize sex offenders.

She also sympathized with criminals who were caught uploading and soliciting undercover police officers for videos of child rape.
>https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5057626/10/united-states-v-hawkins/
>https://article3project.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Hawkins-Sentencing-Transcript.pdf
>"This is a truly difficult situation. I appreciate that your family is in the audience. I feel so sorry for them and for you and for the anguish that this has caused all of you."
>"I also feel terrible about the collateral consequences of this conviction. Mr. Jeffress mentioned that sex offenders are truly shunned in our society, but I have no control over those collateral consequences."
>"Whatever I do, that is going to happen, and I here have to fashion a just sentence based on what you've done and what the law requires."
>I also feel terrible
>about the COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES OF THIS CONVICTION
>THAT -SEX OFFENDERS- ARE TRULY SHUNNED IN OUR SOCIETY
This is the fucking person that Democrats nominated for the Supreme Court.

But sure, let's impeach Thomas for unreported income. Surely this is the person we should be look at, right?

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 22:50:32 No.1158375 Report

Quoted By: >>1158377

>>1158373
Here's a thought experiment:
If you went to a board that allowed spoilered images, and you clicked on a spoilered image because you wanted to see what it was, and it turned about to be CP (because the anon that posted it was trying to troll people), and the police/feds somehow were either actively monitoring your web browsing or had a warrant to look at your browsing history and found out about it, would you want to be on a sex offender registry for the rest of your life?

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 22:55:46 No.1158376 Report

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Based far right politicians. they always fall like flies, just wait and they will commit or have committed a serious crime. They can't help it, it's in the nature of the far right.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 23:08:56 No.1158377 Report

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>>1158375
If you stumbled across illegal content, you would have an affirmative defense if you showed evidence that you had no intention of seeing that shit in the first place, like reporting the post and clearing your cache. You can't simply put someone on a sex offender registry just because you expose them to illegal content.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Apr 2023 23:18:55 No.1158378 Report

Quoted By: >>1158445

>>1158316
>not impeaching him would set a horrible precedent.
Only 1 supreme court judge has ever been impeached and he was acquitted by the Senate so it didn't mean much. This was also 200 years ago.
Not impeaching him is more in line with the current precedent

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Anonymous Tue 18 Apr 2023 04:55:22 No.1158445 Report

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>>1158378
Actually him resigning would be in line with curren precedent. If he breaks current precedent, it would be time to fall back on old precedent.

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Anonymous Tue 18 Apr 2023 22:39:21 No.1158591 Report

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The real crime here is that people bust their ass all their lives to have a secure place to live, and some families own 200+ residential properties that they rent off.

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