#clarencethomas — Public Fediverse posts
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“Justice” #ClarenceThomas explained that the #oil company had cleared the bar required to move the case into federal court because the lawsuit dealt with oil production in #Louisiana dating back to WWII, when #Chevron refined crude oil into aviation #gasoline for the #US #military.
He wrote that Chevron had shown that its #wartime production of crude oil related to its wartime aviation-gasoline refining for the military, a #federal priority.
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“Caleb Nelson, one of the most respected originalist scholars in the country, comes out against the unitary executive interpretation” of the #Constitution.”
Professor Nelson is a former #ClarenceThomas law clerk and is often cited in opinions by the six conservative members of #SCOTUS. According to Nelson, reversing the landmark case #HumphreysExecutor would be an originalism mistake.
#originalism #ruleoflaw #legal #unitaryexecutivetheory
https://www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/10/the-emperors-new-clothes-originalism.html
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#Corrupt #SupremeCourt #Justices #SamuelAlito and #ClarenceThomas Show #Contradictory #Stances This Term
In under a week, Justices Alito and Thomas have demonstrated how their #ideology and ties to their #benefactors shape their #legal #judgments—often in #hypocritical and #contradictory ways.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #Corruption #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/alito-thomas-supreme-court-term-hypocrisy.html
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Yet more proof of the corruption rampant within the GOP. This is infuriating! - The SHOCKING SECRETS of Ginni & Clarence Thomas FINALLY REVEALED - https://youtu.be/IoiiEYZZWow?si=4aaMssQeKtbdMmX8 #USPolitics #vote #vote2024 #2024vote #2024Election #election2024 #DumpTrump #podcast #podcasts #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Harris_Walz2024 #HarrisWalz #HarrisWalz2024 #MeidasTouch #MTN #MeidasTouchNews #MichaelPopok #LegalAF #SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #GOPCriminals #GinniThomas #LisaGraves #CourtAccountabilityAction #LegalAFMTN #HeritageFoundation #Florida #GeorgeBush #AlGore #SupremeCourt #AntoninScalia #CorruptCourt #TrueNorth
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First He Went After #AnitaHill. Now He’s Coming for #ClarenceThomas. As a young #conservative, #DavidBrock smeared Hill, who accused the #SupremeCourt #justice of #sexualharassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past. #MAGA #LeoLeonard #corruption Constitution #SCOTUS #federalistsociety #GOP #judiciary #courts #legalresearch #politics https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/books/review/david-brock-stench-clarence-thomas-anita-hill-media-matters.html
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🚨 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas referred to Justice Department - https://youtu.be/Ekwc9_5ZFCo?si=HBOnVZwzHTHglwvJ #USPolitics #BTC #BrianTylerCohen #MarcElias #DemocracyWatch #DemocracyDocket #SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #DOJ #JusticeDepartment #DemocracyAlert
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As Chris Geidner says, Supreme justice Gorsuch dares to lecture the rest of us on how we deal with ethical issues when it comes out that his colleague Clarence Thomas has taken more expensive trips on Sugar Daddy Harlan Crow's tab, which he never disclosed, though he's required by law to do so.
Some ethics.
#SupremeCourt #ethics #corruption #ClarenceThomas #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy #Gorsuch
https://www.lawdork.com/p/gorsuch-be-careful-thomas-more-trips
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"It’s also notable that neither Justice Clarence Thomas nor Justice Samuel Alito, both of whom have accepted expensive gifts from politically active Republican billionaires, recused themselves from the case. Thomas and Alito both joined Kavanaugh’s opinion reading the anti-corruption statute narrowly."
~ Ian Milhiser
#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
/5https://www.vox.com/scotus/357170/supreme-court-snyder-united-states-corruption
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"Bow wow wow and yippie-yo-yippie-yay, whip open those checkbooks, boys! If you billionaires liked the way your Justices ruled this year, or appreciate how your governor or mayor steered contracts your way, it sure would be nice if you left them an appreciative tip so they can buy extra beer this summer, just saying!
Disgusting."
~ Marcie Jones
#SupremeCourt #corruption #bribes #ClarenceThomas #Alito #HarlanCrow #SugarDaddy
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#HarlanCrow Provided #ClarenceThomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, #Senate Probe Finds
The #SCOTUS justice flew to Montana & other destinations on the #billionaire #GOP #megadonor’s dime. Crow’s lawyer revealed these flights to the Senate #Judiciary Committee, whose ongoing investigation was sparked by #ProPublica’s reporting.
#law #ethics #ActivistCourt
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet-flights-senate-investigation-scotus -
Convicted felon Donald Trump. That factual description written into history Thursday by a jury of 12 New Yorkers interrupts a streak of people with far more power and privilege enabling the disgraced 45th president to evade accountability for far more serious offenses.
This wasn’t the case I expected to see result in a guilty verdict first, or maybe ever. The conduct covered by those 34 felony charges brought by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg–falsifying business records to commit or conceal other offenses, which in non-legalese means Trump hiding hush-money payments to suppress news coverage of some of the times he had sex with women besides his wife–seemed tawdry and even trivial compared to the other charges Trump faces. And the logic of Bragg’s charges was not easy to follow as the others.
Most stark among the other cases: The attempted murder of democracy that Trump staged after the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith indicted Trump for that last August. But a feckless Supreme Court–on which two ethics-deprived members, Clarence Thomas (R) and Samuel Alito (R), show multiple signs of being at least insurrection-curious–has instead slow-walked its way through handling Trump’s absurd claim that former presidents warrant lifelong immunity from prosecution for acts during their time in office.
As a result, Smith’s case may not come to trial until after the election that could see Trump returned to the White House, from where he could fire Smith and order whatever lackey he appoints as his attorney general to drop the charges.
A separate case that could see Trump and his minions brought to justice for their attempted self-coup now sits in a ditch not because of the waffling of judges but because of a prosecutor’s foolishness. Fulton County, Ga., district attorney Fani Willis decided to hire the lawyer with whom she was having an affair to serve as her special prosecutor, and of course the defense found out.
The first case Smith brought against Trump–charging the former president with taking hundreds of classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida and then refusing to return them while being extremely careless in his custody of them–brings the added karmic richness of targeting the guy who campaigned on Hillary Clinton’s self-serving e-mail habits representing an unforgiveable threat to national security.
But Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon has been so solicitous of Trump’s interests and so slow in handing down rulings that she has all but assured that this case, too, won’t go to trial until after the election. In the process, Cannon’s contortions in favor of Trump may have single-handedly invented a new job description: emotional support judge.
All of these cases could have been rendered less eventful had 10 more Republican senators voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment in February 2021. A conviction would have banned Trump from holding “any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States”; instead, many of these cowards said that they punted because courts would hold Trump accountable.
After all that, 12 unnamed New Yorkers showed up and did their job over the past few weeks in Judge Juan Merchan’s court as Bragg’s lawyers effectively made their case. And they did so even though there is a real risk that the efforts of some of Trump’s more rabid supporters to dox the jurors will lead to one of his most deranged followers shooting one of these dutiful citizens–or a random person whom they think looks like one of them–on Fifth Avenue.
We owe these 12 men and women our thanks for showing that even former presidents are not above the law. But we cannot thank them by name.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/05/31/former-area-resident-encounters-belated-accountability/
#2024Election #AileenCannon #AlvinBragg #ClarenceThomas #convictedFelon #Jan6 #JuanMerchan #ruleOfLaw #SamuelAlito #TrumpBusinessRecordsCase #TrumpDocumentsCase #TrumpFelonies #TrumpImpeachment #TrumpJan6Case
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#USpol #SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas
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Good point here's the complete quote:
"👉Revanchist politics👈 and a list of enemies to rival #AryaStark’s: These things do not pair naturally with bonhomie at the office. Yet such are the contradictions of #ClarenceThomas."
Here's a link w/o PW:
There is a German saying: A lot of enemies, a lot of honor."
The catch is, however, that you cannot be devoid of honor, like #DirtyClarence...
I can see...
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John Oliver offers to pay Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he resigns from supreme court
Late-night host gives justice, under fire over undisclosed donations, 30 days to accept offer, which includes a tour bus
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/19/john-oliver-clarence-thomas-resign-1-million-offer
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Clarence Thomas never did pay
The loan he took from Mr. Jay
The luxury Prevost Marathon RV
Somewhat shady, you must agree
The debt was never seen on a form
The Senate had to enquire, the storm
It found the debt was forgiven, still#clarencethomas #anthonywelters #senateinquiry #luxuryrv #poetry
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Justice Thomas’s R.V. Loan Was Forgiven, Senate Inquiry Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/clarence-thomas-rv-loan-senate-inquiry.html
#NYTimes #ClarenceThomas #SenateInquiry #RVLoan #JusticeThomas #ForgivenLoan #Politics #News
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What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement https://politi.co/3ExpGO9 via @politico #scotus #clarencethomas #ginnithomas #leoleonard #citizensunited
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Democrats Unimpressed With Clarence Thomas's Feeble Attempt At Transparency
#AboveTheLaw #ClarenceThomas #Transparency #Democrats #Unimpressed #FeebleAttempt #Politics #News
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#ClarenceThomas: "In very simple terms, if you are a public servant you can't take #FreeStuff, it is as simple as that. If you want free stuff don't be a public servant. But guess what? When you are not a #PublicServant, people don't want give you free stuff" - @BarbMcQuade w/ @NicolleDWallace #SCOTUS #corruption #FinancialDisclosure #EthicsRules #Judiciary #LegalResearch #FinancialSystem
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Billionaire #HarlanCrow Bought Property From #ClarenceThomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal
The #transaction is the first known instance of #money flowing from Crow to the #SupremeCourt justice. The sale netted the #GOP #megadonor two vacant lots & the house where Thomas’ #mother was living (& still is).
by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski
@ProPublica
#SCOTUS #SCOTUSstench
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus -
BOMBSHELL: #BillionaireGate
"IN 2019...after the U.S. #SupremeCourt released its final opinion of the term, Justice #ClarenceThomas boarded a large private jet headed to #Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: 9 days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a #superyacht... total cost of the trip...$500k...on vacation with real estate magnate and #Republican #megadonor #HarlanCrow, who owned the jet — and the yacht, too."
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow