Posted on 04/08/2023 2:34:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The left’s assault on the Supreme Court is continuing, and the latest front is the news that Justice Clarence Thomas has a rich friend who has hosted the Justice on his private plane, his yacht, and his vacation resort. That’s it. That’s the story. Yet this non-bombshell has triggered breathless claims that the Court must be investigated, and that Justice Thomas must resign or be impeached. Those demands give away the real political game here.
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ProPublica, a left-leaning website, kicked off the fun with a report Thursday that Justice Thomas has a longtime friendship with Harlan Crow, a wealthy Texas real-estate developer. The intrepid reporters roamed far and wide to discover that the Justice has sometimes traveled on Mr. Crow’s “Bombardier Global 5000 jet” and that each summer the Justice and his wife spend a vacation week at Mr. Crow’s place in the Adirondacks.
The piece is loaded with words and phrases intended to convey that this is all somehow disreputable: “superyacht”; “luxury trips”; “exclusive California all-male retreat”; “sprawling ranch”; “private chefs”; “elegant accommodation”; “opulent lodge”; “lavishing the justice with gifts.” And more.
Adjectival overkill is the method of bad polemicists who don’t have much to report. The ProPublica writers suggest that Justice Thomas may have violated ethics rules, and they quote a couple of cherry-picked ethicists to express their dismay.
But it seems clear that the Court’s rules at the time all of this happened did not require that gifts of personal hospitality be disclosed. This includes the private plane trips. ProPublica fails to make clear to readers that the U.S. Judicial Conference recently changed its rules to require more disclosure. The new rules took effect last month.
Justice Thomas would have been obliged to disclose gifts that posed a conflict of interest involving cases that would be...
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“High Tech Lynching for Uppity Whites”-Clarence Thomas
If Gyorgy Schwartz is behind this, I won’t be the least bit surprised.
This is not happening.
From the moment he was nominated he has endured countless and relentless attempts to smear him. This will fail like the others.
Has Hillary gotten anything near the same treatment for far, far worse?
If at first you don't succeed, become more degenerate and try, try, again.
Thomas is laughing his ass off over all this
There is NOTHING liberals can do except impeach and remove him, and that is basically as impossible as it was to remove Trump.
A whole lot of nothing here.
Thomas will stay until he dies or until he knows the end is near and a conservative will replace him.
a 5 to 4 conservative majority isn’t enough, we need to maintain 6 to 3 or better to insure our countries future!
Sonia Sotomayor the wise latina is 68!! ROFL
I hope she drops dead the minute Trump takes office :)
Where’s Roberts? Crickets.
Useless justice that, IMO, was the leaker of Roe repeal .
ProPublica,
...a extreemist far left website..
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There, equity applied.
Trying to make everything retro-active.
Not going to hold up.
So you spend time with a wealthy friend, and it’s now a crime.
The racists just can’t stand the Thomas dares to have a white wife and white friends
Biden is lynching him again
I remember that Biden smeared him in his confirmation hearings by bringing in pube girl, Anita Hill, and damn near torpedoed him. Biden is not a nice person, at all.
Clarence Thomas is, along with Alito, one of the two best Justices on the United States Supreme Court.
Btw, the “secretive all male gathering” is the Bohemian Grove encampment in CA, attended mostly by wealthy Dems. I’m sure Paul Pelosi has turned up there often.
So what’s the big deal?
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