Federal courts won't refer Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to attorney general over ethics
Federal courts won't refer Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to attorney general over ethics
The federal courts will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have violated ethics laws to the Justice Department.
Summary
The U.S. Judicial Conference announced it will not refer ethics allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the Justice Department.
The allegations involve undisclosed luxury trips funded by wealthy friends, which Thomas claims were exempt from disclosure due to personal ties.
Thomas agreed to updated reporting requirements on trips and gifts, addressing concerns about undisclosed luxury trips funded by wealthy benefactors.
Critics argue the decision underscores the need for Congress to establish mechanisms to enforce ethical standards for Supreme Court justices.
The rule of law is dead in America.
Shoplift food for your family or smoke an herb that comes from the ground, and you go to jail. Take bribes and destroy the country for your own greed and selfishness, and they praise you and make you immune to all consequences.
And even then, they toned down the socialist elements of the original game they stole.
Why would they?
Infighting weakens the caste. Besides, what are you going to do about it?
Judges have been a pretty partisan issue for a while now, but I do agree there is jack shit that can be done about it right before another Trump admin and GOP senate.
The U.S. is such a shithole.
On track to becoming a banana republic, if grownups don’t intervene.
There are no grownups left. Only revolutionaries.
I think Thomas, like many other influential people, knows very well that he doesn't have to fear any consequences or even prosecution in this system, which this decision now confirms once again. That was to be expected, because why should anything have changed. I mean, Thomas was already obviously corrupt way back in 2000, when he was already a supereme court justice and, together with his cronies, prevented the recount of the votes in Florida, which meant that Bush became president instead of Gore. Incidentally, his billionaire buddy Harlan Crow was also already involved back then. So he has been doing this for more than 25 years in such a brazen manner and has simply remained true to himself - and only to himself.
Well will ya look at that. Corruption!
Even if they refer them now, the DOJ and AG are about to be under new management soon.
Of course that would require them to have ethics as well.
Someone remind me which one of them is Clarence Thomas:
idk which one?
I couldn't tell you. All SCOTUS justices look alike to me once they put on the uniform.
But it's got to be one of them.
The
justicejust us system.Of course they won’t. Zero chance he’s the only supreme court justice who did this shit, he’s just the only one stupid enough to get caught. Or the only one evil enough to be so brazen.
Pretty sure Alito got caught over similar shit (maybe not as extravagant)
He's also the biggest target!
Can you blame at this point? The new admin is talking about ending the DOJ and putting a Pedophile in as AG.
The old AG sucks ass, too, he basically caused the Trump admin by not persecuting Donny.
Gaetz hasn't been considered for AG for months now.
I used the same level of scrutiny to vet my statement about the new AG as republicans used to investigate the pet eating claims.
It's not like Trump's Justice Department would have done anything with it anyway...
Probably not, but he'd have an opportunity to replace him with someone at least as bad. So, you never know.
AJAB
Obviously because the laws only apply to us regular people.
My thoughts and prayers go out for the these corrupt judges.