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Anonymous wrote:In my dream world, Biden gets the chance to replace Thomas (who is 74 and overweight and a black male) and we get a 5th female justice, and a majority female Court. I’d love the black female candidate who was also being vetted for KJB’s seat and who have would become the only non-Ivy educated justice. There is a real lack of understanding of the real world effects of their rulings. Perspectives from outside the Ivy League are needed.

That would be beautiful. But unless Thomas dies, he’s not going anywhere. The GOP has no scruples.

More finance “missteps” today…

What would you like the potted plant Roberts to do? Act or something? Tell Thomas that he’s been misreporting and promising to do better off and on for decades? Require some sort of decent behavior from Thomas? No, no, no - potted plant John Roberts has achieved his goal and he’s not going to notice that he’s presiding over a joke.

For those too lazy to click through, yes, Thomas is even more ethics challenged! This has got to be the stupidest man on the planet if he doesn’t know how to fill out these forms.

“Over the last two decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has reported on required financial disclosure forms that his family received rental income totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a firm called Ginger, Ltd., Partnership.

But that company — a Nebraska real estate firm launched in the 1980s by his wife and her relatives — has not existed since 2006. …

The previously unreported misstatement might be dismissed as a paperwork error. But it is among a series of errors and omissions that Thomas has made on required annual financial disclosure forms over the past several decades, a review of those records shows. Together, they have raised questions about how seriously Thomas views his responsibility to accurately report details about his finances to the public.“

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Anonymous wrote:In my dream world, Biden gets the chance to replace Thomas (who is 74 and overweight and a black male) and we get a 5th female justice, and a majority female Court. I’d love the black female candidate who was also being vetted for KJB’s seat and who have would become the only non-Ivy educated justice. There is a real lack of understanding of the real world effects of their rulings. Perspectives from outside the Ivy League are needed.

That would be beautiful. But unless Thomas dies, he’s not going anywhere. The GOP has no scruples.

More finance “missteps” today…

The latest way Thomas is corrupt: he has claimed income from a firm that was shut down in 2006.

“Over the last two decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has reported on required financial disclosure forms that his family received rental income totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a firm called Ginger, Ltd., Partnership,” the Washington Post reports.

“But that company — a Nebraska real estate firm launched in the 1980s by his wife and her relatives — has not existed since 2006.”

“That year, the family real estate company was shut down and a separate firm was created, state incorporation records show. The similarly named firm assumed control of the shuttered company’s land leasing business, according to property records.”

“Since that time, however, Thomas has continued to report income from the defunct company — between $50,000 and $100,000 annually in recent years — and there is no mention of the newer firm, Ginger Holdings, LLC, on the forms.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/16/clarence-thomas-ginger-financial-disclosure/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert&lctg=136252390

Anonymous wrote:In my dream world, Biden gets the chance to replace Thomas (who is 74 and overweight and a black male) and we get a 5th female justice, and a majority female Court. I’d love the black female candidate who was also being vetted for KJB’s seat and who have would become the only non-Ivy educated justice. There is a real lack of understanding of the real world effects of their rulings. Perspectives from outside the Ivy League are needed.

That would be beautiful. But unless Thomas dies, he’s not going anywhere. The GOP has no scruples.

In my dream world, Biden gets the chance to replace Thomas (who is 74 and overweight and a black male) and we get a 5th female justice, and a majority female Court. I’d love the black female candidate who was also being vetted for KJB’s seat and who have would become the only non-Ivy educated justice. There is a real lack of understanding of the real world effects of their rulings. Perspectives from outside the Ivy League are needed.

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Anonymous wrote:Anita Hill told us. It was a mistake to put Thomas on the Court. And I think it’s been a mistake for conservative not to impeach under Trump when they had the White House and the Senate and could put a different member of the Federalist society who holds the same conservative views. Putting the name of a Justice who is bought and paid for on 5-4 decisions in cases like Dobbs damages and delegimizes the Court in ways that it will take decades to undo, if they can. Not seriously pursing the Dobbs leaker was another huge error.

A decade ago, SCOTUS had a higher approval rating than Congress of POTUS. Now it’s something like 19%. Dobbs is bad. The failure to even pretend they follow any ethical guidelines is so much worse.

Have yuo watched the Anita Hill hearings? I don't believe her. Why did she follow Thomas to other jobs if he was so awful? Why did she volunteer to escort him after she left that job and was living in the midwest when he came to speak? Would you volunteer to escort someone who had harassed you?

You apparently are a guy or 25 years old and don’t know how common harassment of women was thirty years ago, and how women were told to put up or shut up and consider themselves lucky they were allowed to take a man’s job. Thank a Gen X professional at some point for fighting to make stories like Anita Hill’s much less common.

I think you meant Baby Boomer. You know the Baby Boomers that so many rant and scream about on DCUM. We put up with that misogynistic, racist, shat every other day in the work place and college. But with that said, so did the early Generation Xers.

Yeah, I’m early Gen X (1970) with an Older Boomer parents. My mom had the teacher/secretary/nurse, but only if you don’t marry well option before her parents would pay for college. The 1960-1975 cohort really paid their dues and pulled up the women behind them. There were no women partners when I started at my law firm, and I had to fight for maternity leave.

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Anonymous wrote:Anita Hill told us. It was a mistake to put Thomas on the Court. And I think it’s been a mistake for conservative not to impeach under Trump when they had the White House and the Senate and could put a different member of the Federalist society who holds the same conservative views. Putting the name of a Justice who is bought and paid for on 5-4 decisions in cases like Dobbs damages and delegimizes the Court in ways that it will take decades to undo, if they can. Not seriously pursing the Dobbs leaker was another huge error.

A decade ago, SCOTUS had a higher approval rating than Congress of POTUS. Now it’s something like 19%. Dobbs is bad. The failure to even pretend they follow any ethical guidelines is so much worse.

Have yuo watched the Anita Hill hearings? I don't believe her. Why did she follow Thomas to other jobs if he was so awful? Why did she volunteer to escort him after she left that job and was living in the midwest when he came to speak? Would you volunteer to escort someone who had harassed you?

You apparently are a guy or 25 years old and don’t know how common harassment of women was thirty years ago, and how women were told to put up or shut up and consider themselves lucky they were allowed to take a man’s job. Thank a Gen X professional at some point for fighting to make stories like Anita Hill’s much less common.

I think you meant Baby Boomer. You know the Baby Boomers that so many rant and scream about on DCUM. We put up with that misogynistic, racist, shat every other day in the work place and college. But with that said, so did the early Generation Xers.

Mom an elder millennial. It’s still a thing..

No need to make this an inter-generational fight, Thomas is trash.

+1

I don’t know that the quieter but as insidious misogyny is better. It’s less in your face, but… Thomas is garbage, regardless of which women are facing what. It was clear then that he shouldn’t be on the bench.

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Anonymous wrote:Anita Hill told us. It was a mistake to put Thomas on the Court. And I think it’s been a mistake for conservative not to impeach under Trump when they had the White House and the Senate and could put a different member of the Federalist society who holds the same conservative views. Putting the name of a Justice who is bought and paid for on 5-4 decisions in cases like Dobbs damages and delegimizes the Court in ways that it will take decades to undo, if they can. Not seriously pursing the Dobbs leaker was another huge error.

A decade ago, SCOTUS had a higher approval rating than Congress of POTUS. Now it’s something like 19%. Dobbs is bad. The failure to even pretend they follow any ethical guidelines is so much worse.

Have yuo watched the Anita Hill hearings? I don't believe her. Why did she follow Thomas to other jobs if he was so awful? Why did she volunteer to escort him after she left that job and was living in the midwest when he came to speak? Would you volunteer to escort someone who had harassed you?

You apparently are a guy or 25 years old and don’t know how common harassment of women was thirty years ago, and how women were told to put up or shut up and consider themselves lucky they were allowed to take a man’s job. Thank a Gen X professional at some point for fighting to make stories like Anita Hill’s much less common.

I think you meant Baby Boomer. You know the Baby Boomers that so many rant and scream about on DCUM. We put up with that misogynistic, racist, shat every other day in the work place and college. But with that said, so did the early Generation Xers.

Mom an elder millennial. It’s still a thing..

No need to make this an inter-generational fight, Thomas is trash.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anita Hill told us. It was a mistake to put Thomas on the Court. And I think it’s been a mistake for conservative not to impeach under Trump when they had the White House and the Senate and could put a different member of the Federalist society who holds the same conservative views. Putting the name of a Justice who is bought and paid for on 5-4 decisions in cases like Dobbs damages and delegimizes the Court in ways that it will take decades to undo, if they can. Not seriously pursing the Dobbs leaker was another huge error.

A decade ago, SCOTUS had a higher approval rating than Congress of POTUS. Now it’s something like 19%. Dobbs is bad. The failure to even pretend they follow any ethical guidelines is so much worse.

Have yuo watched the Anita Hill hearings? I don't believe her. Why did she follow Thomas to other jobs if he was so awful? Why did she volunteer to escort him after she left that job and was living in the midwest when he came to speak? Would you volunteer to escort someone who had harassed you?

You apparently are a guy or 25 years old and don’t know how common harassment of women was thirty years ago, and how women were told to put up or shut up and consider themselves lucky they were allowed to take a man’s job. Thank a Gen X professional at some point for fighting to make stories like Anita Hill’s much less common.

I think you meant Baby Boomer. You know the Baby Boomers that so many rant and scream about on DCUM. We put up with that misogynistic, racist, shat every other day in the work place and college. But with that said, so did the early Generation Xers.

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Anonymous wrote:Anita Hill told us. It was a mistake to put Thomas on the Court. And I think it’s been a mistake for conservative not to impeach under Trump when they had the White House and the Senate and could put a different member of the Federalist society who holds the same conservative views. Putting the name of a Justice who is bought and paid for on 5-4 decisions in cases like Dobbs damages and delegimizes the Court in ways that it will take decades to undo, if they can. Not seriously pursing the Dobbs leaker was another huge error.

A decade ago, SCOTUS had a higher approval rating than Congress of POTUS. Now it’s something like 19%. Dobbs is bad. The failure to even pretend they follow any ethical guidelines is so much worse.

Have yuo watched the Anita Hill hearings? I don't believe her. Why did she follow Thomas to other jobs if he was so awful? Why did she volunteer to escort him after she left that job and was living in the midwest when he came to speak? Would you volunteer to escort someone who had harassed you?

She needed a job reference. He still had power over her.

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Anonymous wrote:Anita Hill told us. It was a mistake to put Thomas on the Court. And I think it’s been a mistake for conservative not to impeach under Trump when they had the White House and the Senate and could put a different member of the Federalist society who holds the same conservative views. Putting the name of a Justice who is bought and paid for on 5-4 decisions in cases like Dobbs damages and delegimizes the Court in ways that it will take decades to undo, if they can. Not seriously pursing the Dobbs leaker was another huge error.

A decade ago, SCOTUS had a higher approval rating than Congress of POTUS. Now it’s something like 19%. Dobbs is bad. The failure to even pretend they follow any ethical guidelines is so much worse.

Have yuo watched the Anita Hill hearings? I don't believe her. Why did she follow Thomas to other jobs if he was so awful? Why did she volunteer to escort him after she left that job and was living in the midwest when he came to speak? Would you volunteer to escort someone who had harassed you?

You are either a man, a woman under forty, or a woman who has never had a professional job breaking into an elitist male identified industry. Anita Hill endured what so many of era era endured plus more.

+1. And she did it while also being Black, which added an extra layer of harassment and difficulty. Mad respect for Anita Hill.

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Anonymous wrote:Anita Hill told us. It was a mistake to put Thomas on the Court. And I think it’s been a mistake for conservative not to impeach under Trump when they had the White House and the Senate and could put a different member of the Federalist society who holds the same conservative views. Putting the name of a Justice who is bought and paid for on 5-4 decisions in cases like Dobbs damages and delegimizes the Court in ways that it will take decades to undo, if they can. Not seriously pursing the Dobbs leaker was another huge error.

A decade ago, SCOTUS had a higher approval rating than Congress of POTUS. Now it’s something like 19%. Dobbs is bad. The failure to even pretend they follow any ethical guidelines is so much worse.

Have yuo watched the Anita Hill hearings? I don't believe her. Why did she follow Thomas to other jobs if he was so awful? Why did she volunteer to escort him after she left that job and was living in the midwest when he came to speak? Would you volunteer to escort someone who had harassed you?

You apparently are a guy or 25 years old and don’t know how common harassment of women was thirty years ago, and how women were told to put up or shut up and consider themselves lucky they were allowed to take a man’s job. Thank a Gen X professional at some point for fighting to make stories like Anita Hill’s much less common.

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Anonymous wrote:Anita Hill told us. It was a mistake to put Thomas on the Court. And I think it’s been a mistake for conservative not to impeach under Trump when they had the White House and the Senate and could put a different member of the Federalist society who holds the same conservative views. Putting the name of a Justice who is bought and paid for on 5-4 decisions in cases like Dobbs damages and delegimizes the Court in ways that it will take decades to undo, if they can. Not seriously pursing the Dobbs leaker was another huge error.

A decade ago, SCOTUS had a higher approval rating than Congress of POTUS. Now it’s something like 19%. Dobbs is bad. The failure to even pretend they follow any ethical guidelines is so much worse.

Have yuo watched the Anita Hill hearings? I don't believe her. Why did she follow Thomas to other jobs if he was so awful? Why did she volunteer to escort him after she left that job and was living in the midwest when he came to speak? Would you volunteer to escort someone who had harassed you?

You are either a man, a woman under forty, or a woman who has never had a professional job breaking into an elitist male identified industry. Anita Hill endured what so many of era era endured plus more.

Oh I believed Anita, or at least I do now that I’ve been a lawyer for nearly 20 years. The men I’ve worked with have been absolutely disgusting, and I had to let it all slide. The younger women in my office are lucky those guys aren’t prowling the halls anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Anita Hill told us. It was a mistake to put Thomas on the Court. And I think it’s been a mistake for conservative not to impeach under Trump when they had the White House and the Senate and could put a different member of the Federalist society who holds the same conservative views. Putting the name of a Justice who is bought and paid for on 5-4 decisions in cases like Dobbs damages and delegimizes the Court in ways that it will take decades to undo, if they can. Not seriously pursing the Dobbs leaker was another huge error.

A decade ago, SCOTUS had a higher approval rating than Congress of POTUS. Now it’s something like 19%. Dobbs is bad. The failure to even pretend they follow any ethical guidelines is so much worse.

Have yuo watched the Anita Hill hearings? I don't believe her. Why did she follow Thomas to other jobs if he was so awful? Why did she volunteer to escort him after she left that job and was living in the midwest when he came to speak? Would you volunteer to escort someone who had harassed you?

I watched the hearings as a teenager. Unfortunately, that was the way it was for working women. There was a lot of misogamy and harassment, physical and verbal. Remember, not too long before that, women could not even get a credit card on their own! We were considered chattel. A lot of women have worked very hard over the years to achieve the changes you enjoy.

Anita Hill was both typical of her times and extremely brave. No no one is perfect.