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we are well beyond anyone in the SC recusing themselves for any reason. these dems are smokin the reefer
I get that they want to be on record pressuring him to recuse himself from the trial but I agree, this seems like a waste of breath.
Spoiler:
He won't
if he hadn't resigned, he won't recuse.
Urging Clarence Thomas to behave ethically is like urging an oil tycoon to put the lives and health of people over profits.
Neither is ever going to happen unless you force them to.
It really fucking sucks that this angry asshole who's primary motivation is getting revenge on the people who once tried to hold him accountable for being a serial sex pest has the ability to fuck the entire country for the rest of his life with zero recourse to stop him.
This was what I immediately thought of. I think his usual "look" is an attempt to try not to laugh maniacally at how much he loves being a partisan hack with impunity.
There is recourse, but that sort of thing only happens to democrats. We just don't have the 'unhinged violent nutjob' supply the bad guys do.
Is his wife facing charges for being a leader of the movement that led to Jan 6th?
No, she attended a rally before the attack, and has continued to endorse their election lies, but her good friend Liz Cheney stopped Congress from looking at her too closely and regular old prosecutors don't have the courage to hold someone as connected as her to account.
"regular old prosecutors" are overwhelmingly right-wingers.
I swear the finger-wagging will work this time! Come on everyone, behave and follow the rules! /s
Seriously though, when will Dems key into the fact that the right doesn't give a fuck about rules or institution? They've been doing obstructionist politics since Obama. They are obviously not interested in playing fair or governing effectively.
So, at what point do Dems become complicit?...
*I am not saying; don't vote blue. Im saying we have to demand more from those who we elect before it is too late.
Its almost too late.
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"Who put this pubic hair in my Supreme Court?"
How about they stop "urging" the enemy to stop doing something, and instead of being feckless whiners, actually put on their big-boy pants and MAKE THEM!
Often, the only way to make them is to change the law, and that can't be done without the consent of their corrupt allies in the Legislative Branch.
Great sentiment, but how would they do that? House Democrats don't really have any power
Sure they could at least call for an investigation into him, make sure while it is going on he is forced to testify in Congress.
He will if Dems pay him enough.
this
The law: its muh!
"La loi, c'est moi."
That was my first impulse but he def doesn't know French so I thought it would be ~~incongress~~ incongruent
La loi, c'est 💋, 👨🍳
The problem is house democrats arent using speech to tell him. Loads and loads of $peech.
I'll take Things That Won't Happen for 200, Alex
"No" -Clarence Thomas
Could we start a go fund me so we could pay him to vote in favor of democracy?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A group of House Democrats on Thursday called on conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from a case involving former President Donald Trump's eligibility to appear on Colorado's Republican primary ballot.
“This time, we must urge you to recuse yourself from any involvement in the case of Anderson v. Griswold, because your impartiality is reasonably questioned by substantial numbers of fair-minded members of the public, who believe you wife Virginia ('Ginni') Thomas’s substantial involvement in the events leading up to the January 6 insurrection, and the financial incentive it presents for your household if President Trump is re-elected, are disqualifying,” the lawmakers wrote.
“It is unthinkable that you could be impartial in deciding whether an event your wife personally organized qualifies as an ‘insurrection’ that would prevent someone from holding the office of President.”
Democratic Reps. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, Glenn Ivey of Maryland, Gerald Connolly of Virginia, Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico, Jasmine Crockett of Texas, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Dan Goldman of New York also signed the letter.
But Thomas continues to face scrutiny for refusing to recuse himself from several other Jan. 6-related cases, including one involving whether Trump has presidential immunity from federal prosecution.
The Supreme Court last month denied special counsel Jack Smith’s request to step in ahead of the normal appeals process.
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Narrator: He didn’t.
just give him a new pillow and he'll just fall asleep through it. if you tell him it costs a thousand dollars, he'll happily accept it.
The only threat he might consider is one of losing his access to YouPorn.
Can I hear an argument from the other side because I clearly don't understand how this argument isnt sound and isn't being screamed by every talking head on TV, news, op ed, etc.
Pretty solid indicator he’s going to keep trump on the ballot.
So 5-3 to keep Trump on instead of 6-3. It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
How about this: no matter what the decision is, Colorado keeps trump off the ballot anyway, with the rationale being that Thomas is a corrupt bastard in the tank for trump. It’s not like anything matters anymore.
[note: I don’t actually advocate this, for the most obvious reasons]
I feel it too
If he doesn’t recuse himself he needs to be impeached for it as well. He’s blatantly and openly in cahoots
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