Investigating Clarence Thomas - What's the point?

[qwlauren35]

Daily Kos just sent me a request to sign a petition calling for an investigation of Clarence Thomas. It was pretty damning.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife advocated to overthrow the government. Ginni Thomas maintained text communication with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about the need to overturn the election, sending him conspiracy theory videos and texts like, “Do not concede. It takes time for the army who is gathering for [Trump’s] back.”

This is hardly the first time Clarence Thomas failed to recuse himself when he faced obvious conflicts of interest. In 2000, he joined the majority in Bush v. Gore, handing the presidency to George W. Bush while his wife was actively aiding Bush’s transition team. In 2012, he participated in the first challenge to the Affordable Care Act even though his wife was being paid to lobby against it and to seek its repeal. And in 2017, he ruled to uphold Trump’s cruel Muslim ban while Ginni Thomas received funding from one of the organizations that urged the Court to uphold it.

Sign the petition: House and Senate Democrats must initiate an investigation into Clarence Thomas’s unethical behavior.


Justice Thomas continues to rule on SCOTUS cases that directly impact the insurrection aftermath, including Donald Trump’s attempt to block the Jan. 6 select committee from getting White House documents. In fact, Thomas was the only Justice to dissent on that case.

Justices’ failure to avoid conflicts of interest––and the appearance of conflicts of interest––further undermines public trust in the Court at a time when its legitimacy is already a matter of significant public debate.

The lack of a binding code of ethics and basic standards of conduct for the nine justices of our nation’s highest court is a major concern. We are calling on the House and Senate Democrats to investigate and follow up with legislation to enforce a binding code of ethics on the justices of our Supreme Court.

I didn't sign the petition because I just didn't see any point. If we can't impeach a president for illegal activities, how can I believe that anything would come of investigating Clarence Thomas. Unless the Republican Party would stab him in the back because he's black, it's just pointless. And they won't because they need a majority and losing Thomas would sway the Supreme Court.

I just pray that he dies. I was hoping that that infection would take him out.

[Hoyt]

1. Don't see point either, he'll be gone soon enough. Question is whethers Democrats will be in office.

Would be nice to see some effort in coming up with a code-of-conduct.

[Chainfire]

7. If he died today, the Republicans would embalm him and place him at his desk

until after the next Presidential elections. Mitch McConnell would claim, with a straight face, that as long as he occupied that chair, he could not be replaced, and that due to his temporary disability, his wife could be his proxy until he got better. All over American conservatives would be praying for his speedy recovery...

[TheRealNorth]

11. Lol

His wife Ginni would be hauling him around like Bernie in "Weekend at Bernie's". She is batshit enough to do it.

[MyOwnPeace]

12. Chainfire - RealNorth........

Good stuff - both of you!

It's great to be able to laugh when you're staring at a cold fact that cannot be denied - ain't no way we can be rid of him......

[yonder]

17. Who would be able to tell the difference between a

post-embalmed Justice Thomas and his pre-embalmed self anyway?

[FarPoint]

16. We must attack with the rule of law...

Even the appearance of impropriety with a Supreme Court Justice is reason to question, investigate...What you refer to is exactly what the abusers of power want us to do....

Giving up, rolling over....that is making it easy for Thomas...gives other permission to do the exact same.

[Hoyt]

18. OK. What are you going to charge him with? Let's just impeach everyone

we don’t agree with while claiming to support DEMOCRACY.

[Ohio Joe]

2. If for nothing else...

Then to make the repugs go on record of approving such bullshit.

Edit - I mean go ahead and impeach him even if there is no conviction.

[empedocles]

3. Call him out. Something may turn up. No free passes.

[maxsolomon]

4. Daily KOS can't make a Repuke "go on record"

These petitions are clickbait. They mean nothing.

[Ohio Joe]

5. Sorry... I was not clear...

I was speaking of impeaching him even though there would be no conviction, not signing the petition.

[AlexSFCA]

6. unlike sitting president, would't SC justice be indicted and if convicted by a jury go to prison?

I understand that this does not remove SC justice but he won’t be able to work from prison so we will have 8 justices until Thomas retires or dies in prison. This outcome will be far better for us to block extreme cases seeking to overturn important precedents.

[SoCalDavidS]

9. Thinking Thomas Will Go To Prison Is As Unlikely As TFG, Rove, Cheney, Etc., Going There EVER nt

[Mad_Machine76]

8. I sort of agree

but full exposure and making it more publicly well known would be better than nothing I suppose?

[tirebiter]

10. It ain't easy

We choose to go to the Moon,” Kennedy said. “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

[Midnight Writer]

13. Investigating and revealing corruption is always worthwhile.

Should we not have impeached Trump? We knew there was no chance of removing him.

I'm skeptical now that anything will ever happen to him. Should we just drop everything and "let it go"?

[gibraltar72]

14. His wife went from trustee

to paid lobbyist for Christo fascist Hillsdale College, to influence from the inside.

[iemanja]

15. There is nothing more useless than a petition

I don't sign them anymore.