The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas

Thomas has always been by far the best and brightest Justice on the court.

 

I'd be more concerned with Biden getting impeached than Thomas.

 

That's called trolling.

 

That's because you haven't read this article.

Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?
Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court.

Stephen Gillers, a law professor at N.Y.U. and a prominent judicial ethicist, told me, “I think Ginni Thomas is behaving horribly, and she’s hurt the Supreme Court and the administration of justice. It’s reprehensible. If you could take a secret poll of the other eight Justices, I have no doubt that they are appalled by Virginia Thomas’s behavior. But what can they do?” Gillers thinks that the Supreme Court should be bound by a code of conduct, just as all lower-court judges in the federal system are. That code requires a judge to recuse himself from hearing any case in which personal entanglements could lead a fair-minded member of the public to question his impartiality. Gillers stressed that “it’s an appearance test,” adding, “It doesn’t require an actual conflict. The reason we use an appearance test is because we say the appearance of justice is as important as the fact of justice itself.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court

 

Just another inconvenient truth that partisans try to evade.

"But in terms of assertiveness - his willingness to write concurring opinions stating his views - Thomas is among the leading justices. ... In monitoring the impact of his voting record, analysts frequently neglect the most enduring aspect of a judicial legacy: jurisprudential vision. ...In that sense, Thomas promises to leave an intriguing legacy. Unlike many justices whose work never develops coherence, Thomas has progressed in a relatively short time from a freshman justice whom critics derisively called 'Scalia's second vote' to an assertive, independent spokesman for his own vision of constitutional law built on the concept of original intent. "
Christopher E. Smith, Bent on Original Intent, Justice Thomas is asserting a distinct and cohesive vision, ABA JOURNAL, Oct. 96, p. 48.

 

The inconvenient truth often attracts the attention of trolls.

"But in terms of assertiveness - his willingness to write concurring opinions stating his views - Thomas is among the leading justices. ... In monitoring the impact of his voting record, analysts frequently neglect the most enduring aspect of a judicial legacy: jurisprudential vision. ...In that sense, Thomas promises to leave an intriguing legacy. Unlike many justices whose work never develops coherence, Thomas has progressed in a relatively short time from a freshman justice whom critics derisively called 'Scalia's second vote' to an assertive, independent spokesman for his own vision of constitutional law built on the concept of original intent. "
Christopher E. Smith, Bent on Original Intent, Justice Thomas is asserting a distinct and cohesive vision, ABA JOURNAL, Oct. 96, p. 48.

The New Yorker = MSM = Fake News.

 

He consistently advances a reactionary legal philosophy that would take America back to the 1930s. But that has nothing to do with the fact he should be impeached for his repeated refusal to recuse himself in cases when there is a clear conflict of interest.

 

You seem to have been misinformed by all the typical racist drivel directed against Thomas by DP hacks.
In fact, Thomas had a very impressive resume when he was nominated. The ABAs DP racist bias has been thoroughly documented, but even the ABA had to admit that Thomas is an aggressive opponent of systemic institutional racism in the US.

"But in terms of assertiveness - his willingness to write concurring opinions stating his views - Thomas is among the leading justices. ... In monitoring the impact of his voting record, analysts frequently neglect the most enduring aspect of a judicial legacy: jurisprudential vision. ...In that sense, Thomas promises to leave an intriguing legacy. Unlike many justices whose work never develops coherence, Thomas has progressed in a relatively short time from a freshman justice whom critics derisively called 'Scalia's second vote' to an assertive, independent spokesman for his own vision of constitutional law built on the concept of original intent. " Christopher E. Smith, "Bent on Original Intent," "Justice Thomas is asserting a distinct and cohesive vision," ABA JOURNAL, Oct. 96, p. 48.

 

Sorry, but with two-career marriages now common, there is no way to justify penalizing one spouse for the activities of the other.

 

Why do you keep posting what that person wrote about Thomas as if it reflects something other than a biased opinion?

 

Penalizing? Since when is expecting a justice to appropriately recuse him/her self penalizing them? We, and justice, are being penalized when they don't.

This is the standard of behavior SC justices should be held to.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is recusing herself from a Supreme Court case over the issue of “faithless electors” — Electoral College representatives who disregard the will of voters in presidential elections — because of her friendship with one of the parties involved in the lawsuit.The clerk of the court informed the parties of the move on Tuesday.
https://thehill.com/regulation/cour...cuses-herself-from-case-on-faithless-electors

 

I don't believe Mrs. Thomas has been a party to a lawsuit before the court.

 

Why not?

 

As a subscriber to The New Yorker I had the opportunity to read the Mayer article at leisure. It is a nothingburger, essentially a round-up of comments from people who don't like either Clarence or Ginni Thomas, with dark innuendo sprinkled liberally to cover up the lack of any real point.
I have to say I'm tired of Democrats whining. After their treatment of Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh in SCOTUS confirmation hearings, they have no standing to demand respect for their own nominees. After they were outplayed by Mitch McConnell, using tactics created by Democrats and which McConnell warned would ultimately be turned against them, Democrats now see problems on a SCOTUS they thought was just fine so long as they liked the rulings.
In Barack Obama's famous sentence, "Elections have consequences." Democrats have talked a lot lately about defending democracy; perhaps they could start by respecting democratic outcomes and the rules of duly elected legislative bodies.

 

I’d like to see the Dems fire up a quick impeachment against Mr. Thomas. It would look like a hi tech lynching against a Highly regarded African American. Hey Dems, let’s pile on. But make sure you are done by nov. 2022

 

Adherence to the law and the Constitution is now "reactionary"??? The Justices legislating perceived public opinion over the Constitution is NOT reactionary?

 

Is The American Bar Association Journal supposed to be biased in favor of Thomas?

 

The DP after the Civil War was built on a foundation of lynchings, riots, impeachment campaigns, and election fraud.

“1868. Skilfully, and with calculation, the economic problems of Reconstruction were being changed by planters and capitalists to look like problems of politics and social recognition.”

“The whole South was in a blaze of excitement in the 1868 election. Tremendous and frequent meetings were held in every city and parish in Louisiana. Every Confederate sympathizer was encouraged, and had hopes of what would happen to the South as a result of the election. The Republican Party in Louisiana was paralyzed. Secret semi-military organizations were set up, and riots broke up Republican meetings. Clubrooms were raided and destroyed. It was believed that if Seymour and Blair were elected, Reconstruction would be overthrown. A civil war of secret assassination and open intimidation and murder began and did not end until 1876, and not entirely then.”

“Secret Democratic organizations were formed, and all well armed: the Knights of the White Camellia, the Ku Klux Klan, and an Italian organization called "The Innocents." They all paraded nightly. In the election, Seymour and Blair received 88,225 votes, while Grant and Colfax received 34,859. Out of 21,000 Republican voters in New Orleans, only 276 Republican votes were cast. There were in 1870, 726,915 persons in the state. A map of the state showing where violence and intimidation occurred leaves less than a third of the state in peace. 57”
BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA 1860- 1880, W.E.B. Dubois, introduction by David Levering Lewis, the Free Press new York 1998. P. 474.

 

Well..........while making unsubstantiated claims of fake news is easy, it's what makes it entirely unpersuasive.

 

The author clearly is. Thomas' lone opinion in the recent case on Trump's EP claim is an example of just how bizarre his views are.

 

In fact, The New Yorker has been a fully exposed Fake News source for decades.

“The New Yorker magazine published an unusual apology yesterday admitting that there were "errors of reporting, checking and editing" in an article last week about Court TV, the cable-television network that specializes in trial coverage. Steven Brill, the Courtroom Television Network's chief executive, said yesterday that "quotes are fabricated" in the original article and that the magazine's fact-checking system failed."

"Mr. Brill said that The New Yorker had not dealt fully with his assertions about fabricated quotations. "The correction raises a lot more questions than it answers about The New Yorker," Mr. Brill said yesterday.”
NEW YORK TIMES, New Yorker Admits Errors But Denies Fabrication, By William Glaberson, Jan. 25, 1994. Section C, Page 20.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/25/arts/new-yorker-admits-errors-but-denies-fabrication.html

 

What do people have against a black Justice?

 

Yet another unsubstantiated partisan smear.

 

He is a black and he is an antiracist Republican.
The DP has a long history of trying to silence, disenfranchise, or kill black American Republicans. That strategy has been the key to the survival of the DP.

 

He is married to a white woman also. I guess some folks do not like that neither.