Reply to No surprise - Clarence Thomas is completely corrupt

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "No surprise - Clarence Thomas is completely corrupt"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This town is full of federal employees who can tell you that Thomas' excuses are complete BS. Stop covering for this crook.[/quote]

Right?  When I think about the hours and angst I spend a few months ago with my ethics officers to make sure that I was handling an outside activity properly - one that had *nothing* to do with my job... soooo frustrating....
[/quote]

Ok, and? This has zero to do with your job and what the standards are at that job. Please show us what he violated, specifically. [/quote]

You can go back and see his votes. He took bribe for his vote. I guess you are saying a bribes are legal for conservative members of SCOTUS. [/quote]

Can you point to the evidence? Did Crow have matters before the Court? [b]Is there an appreciable difference between Thomas' rulings before and after he met Crow[/b]?[/quote]

Yes there is. Do you really think a SCJ can fly under the radar? There are only a handful of lawyers from a small group of firms that specialize in the SCOTUS case. They make a lot and lots of money and have a files on each SCJ. I have seen the analysis of votes and associations(people, organizations, spouses, etc) for each justices. Thomas is the easiest to get if you know the right people. There is a dollar value assigned to Thomas. It’s the way some SCJ works. Guess what the analysis will never see the light of day because why f%$% up an easy vote. [/quote]

:lol:  :lol:  :lol: .

Again, non-answer.[/quote]
How about this? It doesn’t really matter if he did or did not. What matters is perception. And the perception right now is that there is (at least) one justice available for purchase. Regardless of this is true, this taints the legitimacy of the court that Robert’s has not protected. We all hope that the legal system is our last hope, but as we are seeing quickly and brightly, that hope is eroding. This latest scandal is just adding fuel to the fire.

So no, maybe we don’t have exact proof of bribery, but the optics of this are pretty bad. Especially for a SC that already buried its image. We no long have faith.[/quote]

This has been publicly known about Thomas for like two decades; even before Roberts was Chief Justice. So at what point exactly did this become a perception problem for the court?

The actual underlying facts matter as well, not just the perception. Would you really leave the court susceptible to the whims of public opinion and twitter trending topics? That way lies madness.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics