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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 26, 2023 3:13:38 GMT
Hummm......
Under Article III of the U.S. Constitution, life appointments of Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court is not specifically granted, nor is there anything that prevents Justices from being rotated to lower courts. Instead, the language of Article III §1 merely clarifies that “[t]he judges both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold office during good behavior,
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 26, 2023 15:02:54 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 27, 2023 23:31:53 GMT
Our never ending corruption of a SCOTUS Justice.. Mark Paoletta of the National Review posted an article, arguing that Thomas' trips with friend Harlan Crow arguing that Thomas "did not have to disclose such trips," and that he "acted properly and consistent with the rules." Those allegations, Paoletta argued, are part of Democrats' "broader campaign to delegitimize the" Supreme Court. This latest effort by the Left has nothing to do with 'ethics,'" Paoletta argued in the Thursday article. "It has everything to do with trying to destroy the Supreme Court now that there is a working majority of justices moving the Court firmly in an originalist direction." *** Paoletta disclosed in the article that he "remains close friends" with Thomas, but he "didn’t mention that he was on the same trips with Thomas and Crow that raised eyebrows when ProPublica wrote about them earlier this month," HuffPost reports. *** "So a funny thing happened when he posted the op-ed on Twitter: A lot of people showed up with receipts," the outlet reported, pointing to tweets that included a photo of Paoletta sitting with Thomas and others in the outdoors.www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-2659922890/He never mentioned in all his tweets/comments that he was on all the trips, together with Thomas |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 30, 2023 18:07:02 GMT
Isn't this rich.! Ted Cruz calls Justice Thomas the most principled constitutionalist of all times.... Democrats are going after him because he is Black. Say what?!!
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Post by onelasttime on May 1, 2023 16:43:34 GMT
Now he may have ruled this way if he didn’t have his sugar daddy. But we will never know and that is a problem.
From the article…
”In August 2021, Thomas was one of the six justices who voted to strike down a federal administrative moratorium on evictions, originally enacted in September 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to halt the spread of COVID-19. In June, Thomas was one of four justices who voted to end the moratorium — but the majority voted to leave it in place because it was set to expire the following month.
In July, between the two rulings, Crow Holdings — which owns apartment buildings, student housing, and manufactured housing nationwide — was cited in congressional testimony for being one of the country’s most frequent eviction filers, despite the moratorium.
In March 2020, Crow Holdings Capital, the firm’s investment arm, warned investors in a financial filing that the pandemic was already leading to “substantial governmental intervention” that could end up “substantially eliminating market participants’ ability to continue to implement certain strategies or manage the risk of their outstanding positions.”
This March, Crow Holdings Capital made its interest in ending eviction moratoria explicit, telling investors that its business “may be particularly susceptible to economic effects driven by a pandemic such as COVID‐19, including risks related to tenants being unable to pay rent (particularly with respect to residential, retail and office properties), federal or state restrictions on rent pricing, rent increases, or eviction moratoriums.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 1, 2023 20:03:48 GMT
What a terrible web he weaves....
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Post by paulao on May 1, 2023 23:49:26 GMT
My die hard Republican BIL says Thomas doesn’t deserve to have protestors outside his home. I think my BIL has Parkinson’s related dementia, since that happened in 2022. Sadly, he is convinced he is right.
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Post by moretimeplease on May 4, 2023 14:39:13 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on May 4, 2023 14:55:05 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on May 4, 2023 14:58:37 GMT
Good question..
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Post by onelasttime on May 4, 2023 23:40:12 GMT
From The Washington Post…
“Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work just over a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
In January 2012, Leo instructed the GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill a nonprofit group called the Judicial Education Project and use that money to pay Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the documents show. The same year, the Judicial Education Project filed a brief to the Supreme Court in a landmark voting rights case.
Leo, an adviser to the Judicial Education Project and a key figure in a network of nonprofits that has worked to support the nominations of conservative judges, told Conway that he wanted her to “give” Ginni Thomas “another $25K,” the documents show. He emphasized that the paperwork should have “No mention of Ginni, of course.”
Of course.
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Post by peasapie on May 4, 2023 23:45:45 GMT
I just saw the above on the Washington Post. This is just beyond what is believable! Not only does he need to be demoted, but the entire Supreme Court system needs an overhaul.
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Post by mollycoddle on May 5, 2023 0:11:43 GMT
Crow is quite the sugar daddy. I have been seeing posts about the “persecution” of Clarence Thomas. How predictable. How depressing. Like this: 🙄 And this: 🙄🙄 Taking hundreds of thousands of $$ from a friend seems odd to me, even if said friend is a billionaire. I just wonder why employees of other federal departments have such rigorous rules about accepting gifts, and at the SC, it’s fine. If RBG had taken that much money from George Soros, conservatives would be outside the SC in droves, protesting. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 5, 2023 4:01:35 GMT
Can't have one without the other!! Go Ted...
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Post by onelasttime on May 5, 2023 20:54:17 GMT
Good question. If Kellyanne “gave” Ginni $25,000 was it declared and if so how and were taxes paid on it?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 5, 2023 20:59:31 GMT
Crow is also looking at false income GIFT taxes.. Let us not forget about interest and penalties... BIG TIME!! Clarence Thomas’ billionaire friend could be hit with hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes for the gifts he bestowed on the Supreme Court Justice, a new report stated Friday. Harlan Crow reportedly took Thomas on pricey vacations and helped pay for the judge’s grandnephew’s boarding school tuition – all without Thomas declaring it, ProPublica reported. One of those trip was a yacht jaunt around the Indonesian archipelago that ProPublic valued at $500,000. But what about Crow’s judgment? Did he file gift tax returns and pay gift taxes on any of the gifts he provided to the Thomas family? The Daily Beast reported that any gifts topping a certain amount need to be taxed. The cap this year is $17,000 and Crow’s reported gifts are worth substantially more than that, the report said. www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-2659971816/ALWAYS remember taxes is what got Al Capone!! |
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Post by Gem Girl on May 5, 2023 22:14:51 GMT
Good question. If Kellyanne “gave” Ginni $25,000 was it declared and if so how and were taxes paid on it? I wondered if this was what finally split George Conway and her. Never understood how that pairing worked, but oh, well. |
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Post by onelasttime on May 6, 2023 23:48:51 GMT
Anita Hill gave compelling testimony that was ignored. The fact that she did come forward with her testimony was reason not to confirm him as a Justice.
But since Thomas is a conservative Pence is dismissing everything Anita Hill said because you know their guys are so pure they walk on water. And everything negative about one of theirs is just the left making it all up because they are jealous.
I’m getting so sick of these people.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 7, 2023 1:20:05 GMT
Anita Hill gave compelling testimony that was ignored. The fact that she did come forward with her testimony was reason not to confirm him as a Justice. But since Thomas is a conservative Pence is dismissing everything Anita Hill said because you know their guys are so pure they walk on water. And everything negative about one of theirs is just the left making it all up because they are jealous. I’m getting so sick of these people. Of course, principles.... Like running with and supporting TFG! Good choices Pence!! |
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Post by hop2 on May 7, 2023 10:35:18 GMT
A principled Jurist would not be accepting thousands of dollars from a group presenting a case in front of them. They would either not accept the money or recuse themselves from the case. EVEN if there are reasons for the payment, a principled Jurist would care about the appearance of impropriety. It is literally in governmental employee contracts.
Thomas has no principles thus he does care.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 8, 2023 13:00:51 GMT
The rejected child and man!!
Kirk appeared Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss his new PBS documentary, "Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court," which premiers as new revelations are published about the couple's ties to wealthy benefactors.
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Post by onelasttime on May 8, 2023 18:36:28 GMT
From Democracy Docket…
”How Can We Trust a Court That Doesn’t Care To Be Independent?”
”In recent weeks, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took an unusual step: Both argued that the Biden administration should ignore unjust court rulings like Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s nationwide injunction banning the abortion drug mifepristone. The idea struck many as too dangerous to even contemplate — myself included. But in truth, ignoring unjust rulings would hypothetically be the proper response to tyranny (see the Boston Tea Party). The nagging question has always been: How can we tell when it’s time to take that drastic step?
Justice Clarence Thomas’ continued presence on the U.S. Supreme Court is one plausible answer.
Far from being the self-portrayed everyman who parks his RV in Walmart parking lots, Thomas has been living lavishly for quite some time. Every week, we learn more about how billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow showered Thomas with extravagant and unreported gifts. Those include chartered flights and yachts in Indonesia, the purchase and maintenance of Thomas’ childhood home (while his mother lives there rent free) and regular use of Crow’s private jet.
Conservatives have been quick to defend the two as just “friends.” Thomas’ behavior, however, is quite irregular. None of the other justices appear to have been the beneficiaries of such largesse. Moreover, none has blatantly flaunted the federal requirement to report them. As far as we know, Thomas is singular in his malfeasance; he is therefore singular in the disgrace and suspicion he has now brought upon the Court.
Put simply, Crow compromising Thomas’ independence is an existential threat to the rule of law.
Justice Robert Jackson once remarked about the Supreme Court: “We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.” I would add: They are entitled to be final only because we believe they exercise independent judgment. Notice that I did not say “impartial.” We know that Justice Samuel Alito prefers anti-choice litigants; that Justice John Roberts prefers “colorblindness” over racial equity and that Justice Neil Gorsuch will block any attempt by workers to advocate for better working conditions. We despise them for it, but we obey their decisions because we hold fast to the idea that they are independent.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 8, 2023 21:01:02 GMT
And all the gifts needed to be reported to the IRS all these years!! Someone is going to get a BIG bill!!
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Post by onelasttime on May 9, 2023 3:47:25 GMT
Yeah good luck getting any answers…
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 9, 2023 10:46:30 GMT
Crow may hesitate because of the IRS issues. If he literally owns the jet, yacht, and retreates, would they be able to get all the info? Yes maybe.. they got manifests from some of Epstein's flights?!?!
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Post by onelasttime on May 23, 2023 20:27:34 GMT
Well I’m sure members of the Supreme Court feel they are above any type of oversight.
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Post by Gem Girl on May 23, 2023 21:44:40 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on May 24, 2023 3:48:03 GMT
You think?
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Post by onelasttime on May 24, 2023 3:56:31 GMT
Gift article from The Washington Post. link
From the article… “ Roberts says Supreme Court will address ethics issues”“Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said Tuesday night that he was “confident” that the Supreme Court will convince the public that the court “adheres to the highest standards of conduct.” Accepting an award at the American Law Institute, Roberts did not directly comment on the controversies that have surrounded the court’s members and their financial disclosures or the mounting congressional pressure for a specific code of conduct for the Supreme Court. But he said that disturbances outside the court have not affected the nine justices: “Inside the court there is cause for optimism,” he said. Then he added: “I want to assure people that I’m committed to making certain that we as a court adhere to the highest standards of conduct. We are continuing to look at things we can do to give practical effect to that commitment. And I am confident that there are ways to do that consistent with our status as an independent branch of government and the Constitution’s separation of powers.” & “While Roberts and his colleagues have said they voluntarily abide by many of the guidelines for lower court judges, Senate Democrats have criticized the court for not enacting a code of conduct specific to the court. Roberts recently turned down an invitation to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying it would not be appropriate for the head of an independent branch of government to appear before the committee. The committee itself appears torn about whether Congress can mandate an ethics code for the court, or require it to enact one on its own. Roberts’s remarks seemed intended to convey to lawmakers that the justices are working on it, but did not want or need intervention from the political branches.” I’ll believe it when I see or don’t hold your breath. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 24, 2023 4:04:55 GMT
Where do CROW's lawyers have the right to say that the Judiciary committee doesn't have the right to have oversight of the justices and the SCOTUS? May be the Congress should shut off their funds! Let them use their gifts!!!
I still want to know about tax liabilities for both Crow and Thomas. I know there are tax restrictions on how much I can gift... Why not them?
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