Posted on 07/09/2024 3:20:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) are calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to determine if Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas violated federal ethics and tax laws.
In the letter sent to Garland last week, the senators point to news reports revealing that Thomas did not disclose luxury trips or gifts over the past 20 years. Whitehouse and Wyden suggested that Thomas could be in violation of the Ethics in Government Act, which criminalizes a public servant for “knowingly and willfully” failing to file or report gifts and income from outside sources.
“The breadth of the omissions uncovered to date, and the serious possibility of additional tax fraud and false statement violations by Justice Thomas and his associates, warrant the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate this misconduct,” the lawmakers wrote.
Thomas has pushed back on accusations of ethical violations, saying he was told he did not have to report gifts he received from friends on his financial disclosures.
“Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable,” Thomas said in April 2023.
Whitehouse and Wyden also alleged that the justice could be found in violation of breaking tax laws since he did not pay the principal of a $267,230 loan, which was used to purchase a motorhome. Investigators in Wyden’s office said the loan was forgiven, raising questions of whether the Supreme Court justice actually reflected this fact in his tax records. However, Thomas’s lawyer said the loan was not forgiven and that Thomas has...
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Wyden is still alive? Wow.
lol
and any serious attempt at this will be ruled unconstitutional by the very same SC
Next.
Enough. This is what causes Democracy to become Dictatorships. That is why our Founding Fathers gave us a Republic.
I guess they want to jail Thomas along with Trump.
Petulant children.
Of course not.
They want them both dead.
And this coming from people who trade their positions for influence and money.
If you want the U.S. Supreme Court to rule made-up Special Counsels unconstitutional, that how you get the U.S. Supreme Court to rule Special Counsels unconstitutional
Another high tech lynching?
By the Democrats’ definitions, these attacks on Justice Thomas are racist.
Their pretzel logic gets around that by saying if you don't support Democrats, you ain't Black.
I think Biden carries a deep grudge against JUSTICE Thomas for surviving the disgusting attacks on Thomas’s character which he used to try to keep Thomas off the Supreme Court.
I watched those Confirmation Hearings, and came away with them feeling Biden showed himself to be a complete ASS!
Sounds like a high tech lynching to me!
First, they have no jurisdiction. Second, once Trump is elected, I do hope Thomas takes the opportunity to retire. I am bothered has his financial practices, gift taking, and living outside his means. It is unseemly, especially for a supreme court justice.
“If you want the U.S. Supreme Court to rule made-up Special Counsels unconstitutional, that how you get the U.S. Supreme Court to rule Special Counsels unconstitutional”
I don’t think either party would really mind that outcome. After all, it was Congress that allowed the old Independent Counsel Act to lapse, with GWB cheering it on.
Nobody really wants accountability if it comes to rest on themselves or their allies.
Thomas’s “high tech lynching” statement was genius. You could see the horror in FJB’s eyes when he realized that he was exposed and outmatched.
These b’tards will not stop, and Merritless Garland will gladly oblige.
I see you drank the Mockingbird Media Kool-Aid.
You "we must hold ourselves to a higher standard" virtue-signalers don't care that our enemies are held to no standards at all.
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