The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas

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  1. Jack Hays

    Jack Hays Well-Known Member Donor

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    No one disputes that. In this post you're leaning against a door no one is trying to open.
     
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    OK, I see the nature of the misunderstanding. What I was referring to when I said Democrats to the same thing was your statement

    "Republicans demonstrated during the Trump impeachments that they will always place their political interests before their country's interests"

    My point is that Democrats tend to place their political interests before those of the country as well. It just seems to be a thing that politicians on both sides of the aisle have a tendency to do.

    Hope that made more sense. If not we can sort it out.
     
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    Ahh, extra baloney, that's a foot thick sandwich you got there.
     
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    The DP and its bosses maintains the systemic institutional racism that has always been the source of its political power before, during and after the Civil War. Eliminating the symbols of the CSA is just an attempt to whitewash the ugly racist history of the DP.

    Your assertion that it is just "one quote" that proves Biden is a white racist is false.

    "The resurfaced Biden quotes come from a pair of stories written by journalist Robert S. Boyd. In the first, which ran in the Detroit Free Press, Biden touted the fact that Wallace had once “praised him as one of the outstanding young politicians of America.” The Inquirer story includes Biden’s quote about Delaware being on “the South’s side in the Civil War.”
    ROLLING STONE, Joe Biden in 1987: ‘We (Delawareans) Were on the South’s Side in the Civil War’, On Thursday, another decades-old quote of Biden’s surfaced courtesy of the Trump campaign’s opposition research team, By ANDY KROLL & JAMIL SMITH, JULY 19, 2019.
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/joe-biden-delaware-civil-war-860886/
     
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    NYT = MSM = Fake News
     
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    And now a 2 foot thick baloney sandwich..

    "Elevated inflation has been driven by supply chain disruptions and pent-up consumer demand for goods following the reopening of the economy in 2021"
    https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/why-is-inflation-rising-right-now/

    If you want to be taken seriously you really shouldn't keep driving off cliffs into the sea of BS..
     
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    My point is that Lincoln never apologized for his racists words like blacks and whites should not intermarry. And while the words you posted did indeed proclaim a regret for the institution of slavery, Mr Lincoln could still be a racist, while at the same time being opposed to slavery.

    Any rate, I gotta go. I'll try to get back to this some other time.
     
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    While Lincoln was alive the US military occupied the South, and Sherman and Sheridan were free to suppress the DP/CSA veterans and sympathizers. The assassination of Lincoln and the rise of the odious and very progressive Andrew Johnson resurrected the DP from the ashes of its defeat. Lincoln had nothing to do with that.
     
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    All judges are required to recuse themselves if family members are involved in a case.

    He is required to recuse himself from anything related to the Jan 6th insurrection and issues related to the election.

    Thomas was the only judge who voted against Trump being required to release his documents related to the insurrection. QED
     
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    Fake News. The claim that recusal is required is more fake news horse ****. How many times do your sources have to lie to you before you use your search bar to quickly double check them and expose that, once again, they are feeding you propaganda? One day your pride will result in you taking the time to double check them prior to embarrassing yourself again.

    i) "Supreme Court justices’ recusal decisions are unreviewable and very rarely explained."
    ii) "Justices are are not required to explain their recusal decisions."

    [Some] DEMOCRATS ARE PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1859: In Fit of Racially Charged Outrage, Democrats Target Supreme Court’s Only Black Justice for Impeachment.

    "Party’s ugly segregationist past resurfaces as prominent interracial couple comes under attack."

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    It's the 21st century. I thought we'd put all this unpleasantness from [some within] the Democrat Party behind us.
    Justice Thomas grew up under the Jim Crow of the Democrat Party
    A high tech lynching of a Black man by a bunch of Democrats.
    That's familiar hate speech is some parts of the Democrat Party.
    Butt Ugly and it's time it stopped.
     
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    So, your argument is that because of one high school grade performance in an urban environment, then it must apply to all urban high schools?

    Or you could look at the link below on how all Texas School Districts performed. Urban areas as well as rural areas have performances ranging from fair to above average.

    http://proximityone.com/txsdp.htm

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  12. Jack Hays

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    You cite Forbes; I cite Forbes. And I'm not in need of your advice.

    ". . . Inflation is most likely to occur whenever there are too many dollars chasing too few goods. This is simple supply and demand. When the pandemic struck, the Federal Reserve and Federal government, together, flooded the economy with more dollars. How much more? In January 2020, the M2 money supply was around $15.41 trillion. This past April, only 16 months later, the M2 money supply was at $20.11 trillion, representing an increase of 30%. While this may have boosted the economy and helped avoid a more serious recession, it also contributed to higher inflation. . . ."
    Buckle Up: 3 Reasons Why Inflation Is Rising - Forbes
    https://www.forbes.com › mikepatton › 2021/06/10 › b...


    Jun 10, 2021 — Reason #1: Increased Money Supply · Reason #2: Declining Value of the Dollar · Reason #3: The Supply Chain · Portfolio Tips.
     
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    Lincoln led the country to higher moral ground.
     
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    There is no evidence he was even aware that any communication from his wife was involved. More broadly, there is no evidence Mrs. Thomas was in any way involved in the case.
     
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    Fed policy having much more of an impact to M2 than the COVID relief bill.

    In recent months M2 has exploded higher by almost 3 trillion, generating enormous market chatter. This note briefly describes the mechanics of how Fed actions has led to a spike in bank deposits, which in turn has led to a large increase in M2. Note that M2 is largely comprised of different types of bank deposits, including demand deposits, savings deposits and time deposits. I’ll first go over the basic principles of central bank and commercial bank money creation, then apply the principles to recent events.
    https://fedguy.com/the-mechanics-of-quantitative-easing-and-m2/

    The point isn't that Biden's efforts to keep the economy from backsliding after another COVID wave added nothing to the inflationary spiral. The point being his policies aren't responsible for nearly as much of it as Repubs would have us think. That especially pertains to the price of oil.
     
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    I understand your argument. To summarize, what you want is for all federal justices, including those sitting on the supreme court, to use all three judicial philosophies to rule on a case. That is fine on paper, but does not work in reality. Every justice at the time of confirmation on the federal bench have taken years, if not a decade or two, to cultivate their judicial philosophy. Each federal justice will gravitate towards one of those philosophies that I listed because of the time cultivating that philosophy. And every justice already knows the other judicial philosophies out there and have decided, in their own professional viewpoint, not to grativate towards that direction. In other words, your argument is fine on paper, but is not based on reality or human psychology.

    That is why we have the rules of conduct for judicial benches, not to mention the lawyers through statutue and the ABA. That is where independence comes from. It is not perfect, but it is the best that we can do unless you want to start taking away personal freedoms away on choice of philosophy.
     
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    Her hubby ruled on a case, being the one in a 8-1 vote, to allow Trump to withhold documents that contained her batshyte crazy texts with Meadows. If that wasn't an instance when recusal was called for there never has been.
    There needs to be a mechanism put in place by which SCJ's are forced to recuse in clear conflict of interest cases if they won't do so voluntarily.
     
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    A swing and a miss.

    Other inputs dwarfed what Biden did. And you carefully ignored it, or you didn't have a clue, take yer pick.
     
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    SC judges do not face ethical review, the way everyone else does in the legal system. But ethical failure can result in impeachment.

    It's clear SC judges need ethical review just like everybody else.
     
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    I don't have a dog in the political fight except to reject the notion that the country's chief executive bears no responsibility for inflation. Generally, presidents get too much blame and take too much credit.
     
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    Nope. I'm not the one doing the ignoring. The final sentence from the link in #312 (bolding mine):
    "To summarize, a significant reduction in the supply of goods, coupled with a massive expansion of U.S. dollars, has led to higher inflation."
     
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    My point stands is such majestic splendor that it does not require your confirmation. I'm not surprised, given the DNC's racist history, that it would be Democrats calling for the impeachment of the only Back man on the court, over actions taken by his White wife that they disagree with.

    Democrats demanding that Clarence Thomas "get his wife in line."
     
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    More Inconvenient Truth:

    CBS NEWS, "Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read" CBS, 3/7/13.
    http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/03...recent-nyc-high-school-graduates-cannot-read/
     
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    Is Justice Thomas's wife his clerk?
    If not this is just another empty orchestrated racist attack on a black American conservative.
     
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    Can you get anything right?

    I called for SC judges to face the same ethical review everyone else faces, from the secretaries on up, in the Federal legal system.

    They would handle the situation.
     

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