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Senate Democrats press Thomas to recuse himself from Trump immunity case
The Hill ^ | 12/12/23 1:37 PM ET | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 12/12/2023 12:44:08 PM PST by RandFan

Senate Democrats are calling on conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from ruling on former President Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and other Democrats on the panel argue that Thomas faces a conflict of interest because his wife Ginni was outspoken in support of Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

“There are so many unanswered questions about the relationship of the justice and his family with the Trump administration that I think in the interests of justice, he should recuse himself,” Durbin said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dickdurbin; durbintheracist; judiciarycommittee; littledickdurbin; recusal; scotus
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To: AppyPappy
For the Court to consider this case, without it being heard 1st by a Court of Appeals, a majority of the Court must affirmatively vote to consider it.

A majority of 9 is 5; a majority of 8 is how many?

These guys are trash talking the Supreme Court for no purpose other than setting up an excuse for losing.

21 posted on 12/12/2023 1:34:33 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: RandFan

Hey Alexander Bolton,

Why are you lying, when you assert Trump’s claims about a stolen election are false?


22 posted on 12/12/2023 2:00:35 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: RandFan

this from the pukes that pimp jack the ripper smith on us ? !!!

go straight to hell.


23 posted on 12/12/2023 2:08:36 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: All

Durbin should talk.

Biden clone Dick Durbin belongs to a Democratic party that views the invasion of 35 million illegals as a voting bloc. The Dem Party’s stable of criminal minds relish their role as “made men” .....
<><>enforcement against taxpaying U.S. Citizens,
<><>replete w/ power conferred by elected Dem criminals in the Congress to oppress Americans,
<><>and close relatives as beneficiaries of their Congressional power.

Durbin’s a 40 year insider, working the get rich quick Congressional game with his wife. Durbin has a net worth of $10 million dollars on an annual Congressional salary of $176,000.

As the Chicago Tribune reported, his wife, Loretta Durbin
<><>landed high-paying contracts with a host of companies, non profits, and Universities
<><>entities that operate under under the purview of her husband Dick’ s Congressional oversight committee.


REFERENCE -— jandjlegislative.com

Loretta Durbin
<><>formed Government Affairs Consulting, LLC in 2012,
<><>then became a lobbying partner in the firm of Government Affairs Specialists, Inc.
<><>GASI, a bi-partisan firm contracted with a varied array of clientele,
<><>GASI lobbied in the Illinois legislature for more than ten years
<><>Mrs Durbin lobbied for a university, local govt, n/p social service and planning entities.
<><>From 1985-1994, Mrs Durbin worked in the Illinois Senate under Senate President Philip J. Rock and Dem Leader Emil Jones, Jr.
<><> She worked closely with state Senators on legislative initiatives ranging from elementary and secondary education to state govt operations to executive appointments.
<><>later, Loretta Durbin served in a senior capacity for the Illinois Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation; an agency of the Illinois General Assembly
<><>her agency tracked federal funds provided to the state, analyzes federal legislation affecting the state, and determines the impact of state mandates on local governmental units.

Durbin is a founding member of the Illinois Women’s Institute for Leadership, a comprehensive training program that prepares women to become effective leaders in government. Loretta stepped down in 2014, and is currently enjoying her retirement.


25 posted on 12/12/2023 2:55:14 PM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: All

Of course they do. Although I wonder why they don’t also pressure the only other actual conservative - constitutionalist, Alito, to recuse himself.

The other seven are compromised, so can easily be pressured to opine the way the Deep State wants.


26 posted on 12/12/2023 3:03:04 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: RandFan

NO !!!


27 posted on 12/12/2023 3:06:50 PM PST by Pearfect
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To: RandFan

Not gonna happen.


28 posted on 12/12/2023 3:07:35 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: RandFan

Only if Jack Smith recuses himself first


29 posted on 12/12/2023 3:21:25 PM PST by Eva
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To: RandFan

Ain’t gonna happen,Dick Turbin.


30 posted on 12/12/2023 3:22:28 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: RandFan

Sure, as long as sotomayor recuses herself, too.


31 posted on 12/12/2023 3:43:07 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: RandFan

Sure, as long as sotomayor recuses herself, too.


32 posted on 12/12/2023 3:43:13 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: RandFan

Sure, as long as sotomayor recuses herself, too.


33 posted on 12/12/2023 3:43:14 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Pox

Shame on you Senator Durbin. You are a disgrace and a scandal to our Church.


34 posted on 12/12/2023 3:58:24 PM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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To: RandFan

Thomas’s response should be, FU!!!!


35 posted on 12/12/2023 4:23:50 PM PST by bantam
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To: RandFan

Being a member of SCOTUS is Clarence’s job. Has nothing to do with whatever his wife does.


36 posted on 12/12/2023 4:28:09 PM PST by dforest
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To: Pox

Dick Durbin has always been a no good racist. When the old fart was young and in a Catholic school in downstate Illinois, he ran in a crowd of kids from public school that used to target black pedestrians downtown. They would get in a car and drive the streets looking for unsuspecting victims. The boys would hang out the windows of the car with sticks in their hands, and when the dri Dr spotted a black pedestrian close enough to the road he would drive up behind him so one of the teens with a stick could take a swing at the pedestrians’ head.
They called it “n.... polo.”
The guy is one nasty weasel. He got out of southern Illinois and ended up way up by “Crook” County.


37 posted on 12/12/2023 6:16:35 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: RandFan

‘Rats = Racists.

Yet again...


38 posted on 12/12/2023 6:17:19 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: RandFan

bullshit


39 posted on 12/12/2023 6:52:35 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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