No surprise - Clarence Thomas is completely corrupt
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It can actually be forced too. That process is going on right now with Judge Newman on the Federal Circuit. |
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Key words. There are levels to this. |
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Wash DC pizza chain "&pizza" announced in an email to customers that, from now until Friday ... "every pie is on sale, just like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas."
https://twitter.com/OurShallowState/status/1648831980900061184 |
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Their pizza sucks. |
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Also just like Clarence Thomas! |
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And Thomas doesn’t? |
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+1 thank you for bringing this up. |
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Only Citizens United, the ruling that made endless bribery forever A-OK and is destroying our democracy. No biggie. “[Thomas] emphasized that the friend in question “did not have business before the court”. But a close look at Thomas’s judicial activities from the time he became friends with Crow, in the mid-1990s, suggests that the statement might fall short of the full picture. It reveals that a conservative organization affiliated with Crow did have business before the supreme court while Thomas was on the bench. In addition, Crow has been connected to several groups that over the years have lobbied the supreme court through so-called “amicus briefs” that provide legal arguments supporting a plaintiff or defendant. In 2003, the anti-tax group the Club for Growth joined other rightwing individuals and organisations, including the Republican senator Mitch McConnell and the National Rifle Association (NRA), in attempting to push back campaign finance restrictions on election spending. At the time of the legal challenge, from at least 2001 to 2004, Crow was a member of the Club for Growth’s prestigious “founders committee”. Though little is known about the role of the committee, it clearly commanded some influence over the group’s policymaking. During the course of a 2005 investigation into likely campaign finance violations by the Club for Growth, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) noted that rank-and-file club members could “vote on an annual policy question selected by the founders committee”. Crow has also been a major donor to the club, contributing $275,000 to its coffers in 2004 and a further $150,000 two years later. The 2003 legal challenge championed by the Club for Growth targeted the McCain-Feingold Act, which had been passed with cross-aisle backing the previous year. The legislation placed new controls on the amount of “soft money” political party committees and corporations could spend on elections. On appeal, a consolidated version of the lawsuit, Mitch McConnell v FEC, was taken up by the supreme court. In a majority ruling, the court allowed the most important elements of the McCain-Feingold Act to stand (though they were later nullified by the supreme court’s contentious 2010 Citizens United ruling). Thomas was livid. He issued a 25-page dissenting opinion that sided heavily with the anti-regulation stance taken by the Club for Growth and its rightwing allies. Thomas began his opinion by breathlessly accusing his fellow justices of upholding “what can only be described as the most significant abridgment of the freedoms of speech and association since the civil war”. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/20/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-harlan-crow-luxury-gifts |
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The supreme court isn't subject to that law |
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| There is precendent: Abe Fortas was forced to resign by then Chief Justice Earl Warren for very similar reasons. Too bad Roberts lacks the cojones to do the same. |