Clarence Thomas IS conflicted

[Tiberius]

13 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

 

IT’S ALL bull####: Another Judicial Ethics Story About Justice Thomas Falls Apart. 

 

“The never-ending reporting on Supreme Court ethics has backfired. The goal was to demonstrate that certain Supreme Court Justices are behaving unethically. But in turn, each of these stories unraveled. The Justices either followed the rules, or made a good-faith error that was promptly corrected. If the entire media apparatus is unable to unearth actual problems, then we should take comfort: the Justices take their ethical obligations quite seriously.”

 

“The latest attacks on Justice Thomas have nothing to do with ethics. Instead, the attacks are about undermining the Supreme Court now that it no longer acts as a super-legislature for implementing the Left’s progressive policies.

 

Other justices have also suffered baseless attacks on their ethics and character. The Left is weaponizing financial disclosures to smear conservative justices. It’s important for defenders of the Court to call this out for what it is. Meanwhile, Justice Thomas and his colleagues can hopefully continue to focus on their work: issuing legal opinions that are faithful to the Constitution.”

 

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/05/02/another-judicial-ethics-story-about-justice-thomas-falls-apart/

 

 

That’s because legal opinions that are faithful to the Constitution are the Left’s worst nightmare.

 

 

 

 

 

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$500,000 vacation trip, real ethical. 

 

Pawn, but "R" by his name, so its ok 

[B-Man]

 

[Tiberius]

2 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

Anita Hill knew what she was about. Spot on this scum bag 

 

You guys like polishing these turd leaders you have 

[B-Man]

 

 

The Democrats’ attacks on the Court are, to characterize them generously, pathetically stupid. Moreover, there is a wonderful irony in Senate Democrats, virtually all of whom get rich on modest government salaries, attacking Supreme Court Justices on grounds of “ethics.”

 

So what is the point? The Democrats obviously are trying to lower the standing of the Court, and the judiciary, in the eyes of the uninformed. But why?

 

Actually, the question answers itself. In a democracy, the popular standing of any institution is critically important. For many years, the Supreme Court has consistently polled more favorably than Congress or most presidents. Undermining public respect for the judiciary is an end in itself, as Democrats look forward to more rulings (e.g., on race discrimination in college admissions) that they don’t like.

 

Beyond that, Democrats have talked openly about packing the court. Will Congress really pass legislation expanding the Court so a Democratic president can appoint a slate of partisan justices? Not while the Republicans control either chamber, certainly. And even if the Democrats should narrowly control both House and Senate at some point, I doubt that they would try to pack the Court. Rather, beyond their usual propaganda effort, I think Democrats hope that they can intimidate one or more of the conservative justices and cause him, or them, to swing to the Left to ensure popularity in Georgetown.

 

It has happened before, repeatedly, but I don’t think it will happen now. Today’s generation of conservative judges is far more self-consciously conservative than prior generations. They didn’t go on to the Court hoping for favorable reviews in the Washington Post.

 

I also think that threats of assassination by the likes of Chuck Schumer, which leaking of the Dobbs opinion apparently was intended to promote, have backfired. Threats to their families’ personal safety have, I suspect, have only hardened the determination of conservative justices to stick up for the Constitution. In fact, the justices’ security was the last subject touched on in the nine justices’ letter to Durbin:

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/democrats-attack-on-supreme-court-intensifies.php

[Orlando Tim]

Between Thomas, Roberts, and Sotomayor I wonder who is next with the parade of clearly questionable actions. We need definite rules that help the Supreme Court keep every appearance of being proper. 

[ChiGoose]

1 hour ago, Orlando Tim said:

Between Thomas, Roberts, and Sotomayor I wonder who is next with the parade of clearly questionable actions. We need definite rules that help the Supreme Court keep every appearance of being proper. 

Don’t forget Gorsuch too.

 

SCOTUS needs serious ethics reforms. 

[Tiberius]

 

[BillStime]

JFC - it’s time for an ethics code - now 

 

 

[BillsFanNC]

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to recuse herself from multiple copyright infringement cases involving book publisher Penguin Random House despite having been paid millions by the firm for her books, making it by far her largest source of income, records show.

 

 

[Joe Ferguson forever]

1 hour ago, Tiberius said:

 

Clarence wreaks of dung from working the fields doing his maters bidding

Edited May 4, 2023 by redtail hawk

[BillStime]

46 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to recuse herself from multiple copyright infringement cases involving book publisher Penguin Random House despite having been paid millions by the firm for her books, making it by far her largest source of income, records show.

 

 

So you agree it’s time for an ethics code - great! 

[B-Man]

Waging War Against the Supreme Court

 

It’s long been noted that conservatives don’t fight with the savagery of the socialist left. We may know guns, we may be pro-military, but when it comes to really getting down in the gutter, the left gets the upper hand — probably because they are willing to go so low. In this way conservatives can even be called naive. We are kids up against the German Stasi.

 

This applies to the new war being waged against the Supreme Court. As William Jacobson noted in a recent post on the website Legal Insurrection, there is “a years-long and accelerating attempt by Democrats to delegitimize the Supreme Court. You could trace the history back to the ‘Borking’ of Reagan nominee Robert Bork, but certainly to the savaging of Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings.” There is, Jacobson writes, “a broad activist and Democrat campaign against all the conservative Justices, including Justice Thomas and his wife, Chief Justice Roberts and his wife, and Justices Alito, Kavanaugh, and Barrett (to a lesser degree).”

Fueled by dark money, the left is sending professors to judges houses, planning bogus stories in the press, and revisiting Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 nomination. They just had a hearing on ethics and the court, which was nothing but an attempt to delegitimize the institution.

 

{snip}

 

I intentionally used the metaphor of the German Stasi in The Devil’s Triangle because that wicked communist apparatus is reflected in the modern American left. The Stasi used spies to surveil the entire population, and worked with artists and entertainers to propagandize the German citizens. The courts were nothing more than a means to advance communism. Klaus Marxen, Professor for Criminal Law at the Humboldt University, has written that the Stasi “treated law as an instrument of politics.” In 1979 Stasi officer Erich Mielke put it this way: “Power is the most important position from which to fulfill the historical mission of the working class, to establish Communist society … Socialist law is an important instrument of exercising, enhancing and consolidating power.”

 

To the modern Democrats, it’s also all about power. They can’t ram through their socialist agenda with a conservative court. As they proved with their use of criminal Michael Avenatti (now in prison for extortion) during the Kavanaugh hit, criminality is baked into their plan. In the 2000 obituary for Erich Mielke, The New York Times explained that “Communist rule in East Germany [was] where assassination, kidnapping, execution, denunciation and intimidation were used to achieve and maintain power under the long, menacing shadow of the Soviet Union.”

 

 

The naiveté of conservatives reminds me of how I tried to warn my friends in the summer of 2018 that we were about to enter a war zone. I will never forget standing on my back porch and talking to a high school friend of mine just after the news had broken that Brett had been nominated. He was upbeat, reassuring me that the process might get bumpy but wouldn’t be too bad. I stood there and as calm as I could begged him to listen to me. The left is a modern Stasi, I said. They are going to start with our birth certificates and go up to last week, and every time we belched it is going to be brought up. My friend brushed me off. Then the hurricane hit.

 

The American Stasi aren’t letting up. Why are we?

 

https://stream.org/conservatives-are-not-ready-for-the-hot-war-against-the-supreme-court/

 

 

[BillStime]

Hey @Buffalo_Gal - don't let facts get in the way... this thread is extra special at DR's safe place.

 

Thomas had legal custody of the boy.

 

 

Idiots

 

[B-Man]

 

 

Supreme Court is the left's new Trump

 

Having convinced themselves that Democrats will cream President Trump next year thanks to ballot harvesting, the left has moved to remove the last obstacle to their total control of our country, which was a constitutional republic until January 20, 2021’s installation of Biden in the White House.

 

The left now attacks the Supreme Court.

 

Democrats want to give Congress control of the court by creating an ethics commission of some sort. That’s like Jack the Ripper calling for knife control.

If such a commission does not work, assassination is not outside the left’s ken. Justice Samuel Alito flat out raised that possibility when asked about the leak of his draft of the decision that overturned Roe.

 

Readers must understand that we now have a government of the government by the government and for the government.

 

The deep state preferred Bidden because he allowed the deep state to run the government as he appointed tokens and flunkies to his Cabinet who know not how to run their departments. This means Civil Service-protected lifers — not Congress or the Cabinet secretaries — will decide whether you can have a gas stove.

The agency is not the Department of Energy but the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

 

{snip}

 

This was the result of the leak of the reversal of Roe. Someone leaked his draft opinion and this put six justices in danger. Police arrested a man who was in Brett Kavanaugh’s yard intent on his assassination — to be followed by two others.

 

As it was, noisy protesters broke the law and marched at three justices’s homes. Police never enforced the laws banning such protests.

 

Now Democrats are counterfeiting ethics complaints against Neil Gorsuch, John Roberts and of course, Clarence Thomas, whose skin color has especially discombobulated Democrats who fear he will become a role model for black children. One in four Democrat votes now come from black people. Without them and ballot harvesting, the party is as dead as the Mugwumps.

 

I’m no lawyer. Glenn Harlan Reynolds of Instapundit fame is.

 

He wrote, “The Supreme Court has ruled against the left on guns and abortion and is expected to strike down affirmative action any day now.

“Thus it must be delegitimized in any way possible.

 

“Just as the breathless coverage of the (entirely fake) stories of Donald Trump cavorting with Russian hookers in Moscow convinced some people that with so much smoke there must be fire.”

 

In DC, where there is smoke, there is dry ice from the CIA and the FBI.

 

My favorite senator, John Kennedy, said, “Americans may be poor under the Biden administration, but they are not stupid. They know what's going on here.”

What is going on is Democrats trying to extort the court.

 

More at the link:

 

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/supreme-court-is-the-lefts-new-trump?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1115457&post_id=118535941&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

 

 

 

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[Tiberius]

2 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Supreme Court is the left's new Trump

 

Having convinced themselves that Democrats will cream President Trump next year thanks to ballot harvesting, the left has moved to remove the last obstacle to their total control of our country, which was a constitutional republic until January 20, 2021’s installation of Biden in the White House.

 

The left now attacks the Supreme Court.

 

Democrats want to give Congress control of the court by creating an ethics commission of some sort. That’s like Jack the Ripper calling for knife control.

If such a commission does not work, assassination is not outside the left’s ken. Justice Samuel Alito flat out raised that possibility when asked about the leak of his draft of the decision that overturned Roe.

 

Readers must understand that we now have a government of the government by the government and for the government.

 

The deep state preferred Bidden because he allowed the deep state to run the government as he appointed tokens and flunkies to his Cabinet who know not how to run their departments. This means Civil Service-protected lifers — not Congress or the Cabinet secretaries — will decide whether you can have a gas stove.

The agency is not the Department of Energy but the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

 

{snip}

 

This was the result of the leak of the reversal of Roe. Someone leaked his draft opinion and this put six justices in danger. Police arrested a man who was in Brett Kavanaugh’s yard intent on his assassination — to be followed by two others.

 

As it was, noisy protesters broke the law and marched at three justices’s homes. Police never enforced the laws banning such protests.

 

Now Democrats are counterfeiting ethics complaints against Neil Gorsuch, John Roberts and of course, Clarence Thomas, whose skin color has especially discombobulated Democrats who fear he will become a role model for black children. One in four Democrat votes now come from black people. Without them and ballot harvesting, the party is as dead as the Mugwumps.

 

I’m no lawyer. Glenn Harlan Reynolds of Instapundit fame is.

 

He wrote, “The Supreme Court has ruled against the left on guns and abortion and is expected to strike down affirmative action any day now.

“Thus it must be delegitimized in any way possible.

 

“Just as the breathless coverage of the (entirely fake) stories of Donald Trump cavorting with Russian hookers in Moscow convinced some people that with so much smoke there must be fire.”

 

In DC, where there is smoke, there is dry ice from the CIA and the FBI.

 

My favorite senator, John Kennedy, said, “Americans may be poor under the Biden administration, but they are not stupid. They know what's going on here.”

What is going on is Democrats trying to extort the court.

 

More at the link:

 

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/supreme-court-is-the-lefts-new-trump?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1115457&post_id=118535941&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

 

 

 

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LOL, Alito and Thomas sure fit the mold, corrupt women hating scumbags 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

Supreme Court is the left's new Trump

 

Having convinced themselves that Democrats will cream President Trump next year thanks to ballot harvesting, the left has moved to remove the last obstacle to their total control of our country, which was a constitutional republic until January 20, 2021’s installation of Biden in the White House.

 

The left now attacks the Supreme Court.

 

Democrats want to give Congress control of the court by creating an ethics commission of some sort. That’s like Jack the Ripper calling for knife control.

If such a commission does not work, assassination is not outside the left’s ken. Justice Samuel Alito flat out raised that possibility when asked about the leak of his draft of the decision that overturned Roe.

 

Readers must understand that we now have a government of the government by the government and for the government.

 

The deep state preferred Bidden because he allowed the deep state to run the government as he appointed tokens and flunkies to his Cabinet who know not how to run their departments. This means Civil Service-protected lifers — not Congress or the Cabinet secretaries — will decide whether you can have a gas stove.

The agency is not the Department of Energy but the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

 

{snip}

 

This was the result of the leak of the reversal of Roe. Someone leaked his draft opinion and this put six justices in danger. Police arrested a man who was in Brett Kavanaugh’s yard intent on his assassination — to be followed by two others.

 

As it was, noisy protesters broke the law and marched at three justices’s homes. Police never enforced the laws banning such protests.

 

Now Democrats are counterfeiting ethics complaints against Neil Gorsuch, John Roberts and of course, Clarence Thomas, whose skin color has especially discombobulated Democrats who fear he will become a role model for black children. One in four Democrat votes now come from black people. Without them and ballot harvesting, the party is as dead as the Mugwumps.

 

I’m no lawyer. Glenn Harlan Reynolds of Instapundit fame is.

 

He wrote, “The Supreme Court has ruled against the left on guns and abortion and is expected to strike down affirmative action any day now.

“Thus it must be delegitimized in any way possible.

 

“Just as the breathless coverage of the (entirely fake) stories of Donald Trump cavorting with Russian hookers in Moscow convinced some people that with so much smoke there must be fire.”

 

In DC, where there is smoke, there is dry ice from the CIA and the FBI.

 

My favorite senator, John Kennedy, said, “Americans may be poor under the Biden administration, but they are not stupid. They know what's going on here.”

What is going on is Democrats trying to extort the court.

 

More at the link:

 

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/supreme-court-is-the-lefts-new-trump?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1115457&post_id=118535941&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

[BillStime]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

The American Stasi aren’t letting up. Why are we?

 

👆🤡👇 - same guy

 

On 11/14/2016 at 8:34 AM, B-Man said:

He´s Going to Want People Who Are Committed to Draining the Swamp

 

Draining the swamp.

 

joke

 

[Tiberius]

2 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

A brazen effort to delegitimize the Supreme Court

CAROL PLATT LIEBAU

 

 

There are very few coincidences in Washington, D.C. There’s a reason mainstream media outlets have recently broken breathless investigations into Justice Thomas, Justice Gorsuch, and Chief Justice Roberts in recent weeks.

 

 

The left is trying to delegitimize the Supreme Court — one of the few areas of American life it doesn’t control. It’s the leftist playbook. Any American institution that stands in the way of the left-wing agenda must be destroyed.

 

 

As always for the left, it’s about political power. The 2024 presidential elections are coming up. Leftist leaders realize they’ll need a reason to get their partisans to the polls. The Dobbs case (overturning Roe v. Wade) helped them stave off disaster in 2022, and so a Supreme-Court-centered campaign makes perfect sense to them.

 

 

And if it destroys the American constitutional system of separation of powers? Well, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, to the leftist way of thinking.

 

https://omny.fm/shows/townhall-review-conservative-commentary-on-todays/carol-platt-liebau-a-brazen-effort-to-delegitimize

 

 

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Well lying to get on the court, getting placed there by wealthy individuals in the federalist society, not representing the majority of the country will tend to deligitimize a court. 

 

Call them the Putin court, without his help Trump would never of been elected to put some of them there 

[JaCrispy]

6 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

A brazen effort to delegitimize the Supreme Court

CAROL PLATT LIEBAU

 

 

There are very few coincidences in Washington, D.C. There’s a reason mainstream media outlets have recently broken breathless investigations into Justice Thomas, Justice Gorsuch, and Chief Justice Roberts in recent weeks.

 

 

The left is trying to delegitimize the Supreme Court — one of the few areas of American life it doesn’t control. It’s the leftist playbook. Any American institution that stands in the way of the left-wing agenda must be destroyed.

 

 

As always for the left, it’s about political power. The 2024 presidential elections are coming up. Leftist leaders realize they’ll need a reason to get their partisans to the polls. The Dobbs case (overturning Roe v. Wade) helped them stave off disaster in 2022, and so a Supreme-Court-centered campaign makes perfect sense to them.

 

 

And if it destroys the American constitutional system of separation of powers? Well, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, to the leftist way of thinking.

 

https://omny.fm/shows/townhall-review-conservative-commentary-on-todays/carol-platt-liebau-a-brazen-effort-to-delegitimize

 

 

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I’m sure American patriot @BillStime won’t like the sound of this…He certainly does not support the radical Marxists trying to tear down our American institutions…👍

Edited May 4, 2023 by JaCrispy

[ChiGoose]

Liberals: SCOTUS needs a code of ethics

 

Clickservatives: Sotomayor had shady dealings!

 

Liberals: Yes, that’s another reason why SCOTUS needs a code of ethics

 

Clickservatives: This is an attack on the court!

Edited May 4, 2023 by ChiGoose