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Clarence Thomas says he ‘was advised’ he didn’t have to disclose trips paid for by GOP donor
The Hill ^ | 04/07/2023 | ZACH SCHONFELD

Posted on 04/07/2023 9:42:28 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: CFW

Very well put!


61 posted on 04/07/2023 11:25:46 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

ABC Leftist News Radio has this on their leadoff. Their other big story (and I mean that literally) is how well the economy is doing after todays jobs report and how Biden is worried the Maga Republicans will sabotage it by trying to cut spending. So, I’m trying to decide something here. Are journalists just stupid people in general or have they been so brainwashed by our education system?


62 posted on 04/07/2023 11:29:34 AM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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To: Fuzz
hey weren’t friends until he became a supreme court justice though.

1. What was illegal about their friendship?

2. How many years exactly have they been friends?

3. So what?

4. Who's their next Conservative target?

63 posted on 04/07/2023 11:30:02 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (From here on out, transmission fluid will be referred to as Gender Neutral Shift Juice)
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To: Fuzz

Now convince me this wasn’t a political hit piece from an organization that receives donations from Soros by their own admittance.


64 posted on 04/07/2023 11:32:55 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (From here on out, transmission fluid will be referred to as Gender Neutral Shift Juice)
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To: ALPAPilot

Good one! LOL


65 posted on 04/07/2023 11:33:07 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Kathy in OC

All politicians, including judges, have rich friends. I have rich friends that took my kids to Maine every summer.
Making it into something to be ashamed about is the point.
If we don’t complain about it, the leftists have nothing. Because it is nothing.


66 posted on 04/07/2023 11:39:54 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: SecondAmendment
Thomas had a big fat political bullseye painted on his back during the confirmation hearings, leftists despise anyone who proves their worldview wrong and will tirelessly do anything to destroy them.

And guess who was the head of the panel during Thomas' confirmation hearing?

Joe Biden.

67 posted on 04/07/2023 11:43:29 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can never have enough clamps. Thanks Ben.)
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To: Lisbon1940

Attempted compliance is now a crime?


68 posted on 04/07/2023 11:46:47 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Reno89519

Prove none of the other Justices that have ever sat on the court did the same thing. If it isn’t against the law, then he is within his rights to do so. While Congressional members take bribes, conduct insider trading, sleep with Chi-com spies, along with committing a multiple number of other ethics violations with impunity, the only reason they are attacking Justice Thomas is because they want him gone. It’s the pubic hair on a Coke can all over again.


69 posted on 04/07/2023 11:48:03 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: lucky american
"So, Thomas has a rich friend."

The Clintons had Sam Walton and the Tyson family when they were in Arkansas.

70 posted on 04/07/2023 11:50:01 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Reno89519
"And I don't care the amounts and find lame the excuse that he wasn't required to disclose and stopped disclosing after criticism. He didn't stop taking the gifts, though."

So Justice Thomas has to be the good 'n*gga' and tap dance to the ethical life you've deemed is required of him? Apply your own rigid ethical standards to yourself. You're as bad as the liberals trying to get rid of him. Judge yourself before you judge others.

71 posted on 04/07/2023 11:54:48 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Reno89519

As far as I am concerned, he can do whatever he wants. Because their guys can do whatever they want and not get so much as a slap. Well, that is the standard they live by and now we should too.

Sick of law and order and ethics for us, unlimited immunity for them.


72 posted on 04/07/2023 11:56:09 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Reno89519

This is just another hit job by the communist left. I am sure DeSantis will be next. At least you have outed yourself as an absolute turncoat. This is war! We do not need jellyfish such as yourself on our side.


73 posted on 04/07/2023 11:56:23 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: mass55th
I suspect most have, just like members of congress, etc. That is my point, it is wrong. I bet if someone on FR read the same article with Kagan instead of Thomas as the justice, they'd be screaming bloody murder about it.

I am not saying Thomas should resign, but am saying he and the others should stop doing this. That is my point. Clearly based on the many articles I've read, it doesn't appear he's violated any laws, and it seems they all do it, it is just wrong.

74 posted on 04/07/2023 11:58:01 AM PDT by Reno89519 (I stand with Trump Against Political Persecution. As DeSantis Says, It Is Un-American.)
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To: CFW

Yeah, joining them on a pleasure trip is what seems to be the issue. It isn’t as if the friend financed a trip for Justice Thomas and his wife to take on their own. That would be a whole different kettle of fish.


75 posted on 04/07/2023 12:07:45 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So he went on vacay with his rich friend who owns a plane. Its not like the RNC was paying for his plane fare.


76 posted on 04/07/2023 12:09:17 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It many rich friends does AOC, Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff have?


77 posted on 04/07/2023 12:12:58 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Reno89519
"That is my point, it is wrong."

It's wrong in your eyes, that doesn't mean it's actually wrong as it pertains to Clarence Thomas. Apply the same rules you require of Thomas to yourself. Stop taking all birthday, Christmas, etc., gifts from friends and family, along with other gifts, like having a friend buy a meal for you, or drive you somewhere for free. You're requiring another person to adhere to a rigid standard that you wouldn't even apply to yourself. You must have never gotten past the anal stage.

78 posted on 04/07/2023 12:14:13 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This judge should just self identify as Transgender. This will all disappear.


79 posted on 04/07/2023 12:18:31 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

U.S. courts judges “Judicial Conference Gift Regulations”

https://www.uscourts.gov/rules-policies/judiciary-policies/code-conduct/judicial-conference-regulations-gifts

§ 620.50 Disclosure Requirements

Judicial officers and employees subject to the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and the instructions of the Financial Disclosure Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States must comply with the Act and the instructions in disclosing gifts.

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The judge knows that, and so do the accountants.

But the socialists are preying upon people who do not know.


80 posted on 04/07/2023 12:23:53 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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