#clarencethomas — Public Fediverse posts

‘King Trump’ is stronger than ever after US supreme court bolsters his agenda https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/02/us-supreme-court-donald-trump-power-grab #UsSupremeCourt #DonaldTrump #UsNews #UsPolitics #Republicans #BrettKavanaugh #NeilGorsuch #AmyConeyBarrett #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #UsConstitutionAndCivilLiberties

Samuel Alito justified a Supreme Court ruling that threatens majority-Black voting districts

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/scotus-further-guts-voting-rights

If there were ever a #DEI hire, it was #ClarenceThomas, the least qualified appointee to the #SupremeCourt in my lifetime, making even #BrettKavanaugh seem astute and reasoned. Thomas is a corrupt, ill-educated, misogynist who wishes he could bleach his skin and wear a hood. #GeorgeHWBush nominated him because he was the only black man he could find who would kiss ass for power.

Justices side with oil and gas companies fighting environmental lawsuits

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supre…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AnneRolfes #APTopNews #Business #ClarenceThomas #Climate #Climateandenvironment #Courts #DonaldTrump #Generalnews #JeffLandry #JohnCarmouche #LAStateWire #Lawsuits #Legalproceedings #LizMurrill #Louisiana #MarcEhrhardt #SamuelAlito #SupremeCourtoftheUnitedStates #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesgovernment #Us #USA #utilities #Washingtonnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/489874/

@newsguyusa

"In a 6-3 decision, the #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS holds that International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) – a 1977 statute which grants the president authority to regulate or prohibit certain international transactions during a national emergency – does not authorize the president to impose the #tariffs "

Justices #ClarenceThomas, #SamuelAlito, and #BrettKavanaugh dissented."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/feb/20/us-iran-nuclear-deal-trump-agreement-strikes-latest-news-live-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-699877e88f0803e8d9610dc4#block-699877e88f0803e8d9610dc4

Trump's fitness to lead, in light of the Epstein files:

A passenger airplane pilot.
What's a reasonable level of confidence that that pilot will be fit to complete the flight safely?

99,999 in a hundred thousand?
That'd have you ok with one pilot somewhere on Earth every day being unfit to fly safely.

After seeing Epstein files extracts, what confidence do you have that Donald Trump is a fit person to lead the USA?

#BrettKavanaugh #ChristineBlaseyFord #AnitaHill #ClarenceThomas #BillClinton

SCOTUS Says Trump Can’t Commandeer Illinois National Guard Troops

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/29/scotus-says-trump-cant-commandeer-illinois-national-guard-troops/

“At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of #authority that would allow the #military to execute the laws in #Illinois,” the court said in its unsigned order.

And of course, Conservative Justices Samuel #Alito, #ClarenceThomas & Neil #Gorsuch dissented.

#Trump #law #immigration #military #NationalGuard #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

These 6 treacherous Trump lackeys will never be forgotten — or forgiven

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-2674378826/

Former Trump adviser claims Dems are exaggerating threat to marriage equality for political gain

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/trumpster-says-marriage-equality-safe

Samuel Alito 'not suggesting' marriage equality should be overturned

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/samuel-alito-overturn-marriage-equality

Clarence Thomas says past SCOTUS rulings aren't 'the gospel' and can be overturned

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/clarence-thomas-precedent-marriage-equality

Speaking @ Catholic Univ School of Law in DC #ClarenceThomas argued that #SupremeCourt should rethink the way #law is interpreted as it relates 2 #staredecisis, the #legal doctrine that suggests #courts should follow #legal #precedent or prior decisions when making rulings on similar legal matters. "At some point we need to think about what we're doing w stare decisis..And it's not some sort of talismanic deal where you can just say 'stare decisis' and not think, turn off the brain, right?" 1/

"#Ethics experts said #ClarenceThomas’ undisclosed ties to the #Koch network could call his impartiality in the case into doubt. This sort of potential conflict is why the judiciary has rules against both political activity and fundraising, they said. 'Parties litigating in the court before #JusticeThomas don’t know the extent of Thomas’ relationship with the parties on the other side,' said James Sample, a Hofstra University law professor who studies judicial ethics. 'You have to be pretty cynical to not think that’s a problem.' "

#OligarchCamp
#BohemianGrove
#SCOTUS
#ImpeachClarenceThomas
#ChevronDoctrine
#NDRC
#KochIndustries
#Oligarchy
#CorruptSCOTUS
#SCOTUSIsCompromised
#Corporatocracy
#Oiligarchy
#EnvironmentalProtections
#BigOilAndGas
#CorporatePolluters
#HeritageFoundation
#ClimateDeniers
#WaterIsLife
#AirIsLife

#ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochBrothers Network Donor Events

by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
Sept. 22, 2023, 5 a.m. EDT

Excerpt: "Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.

" 'In the 15 years since, the Koch network has left a deep imprint on American society. Its advocacy is credited with helping stamp out Republican Party support for combating #ClimateChange, once an issue that drew bipartisan concern. The “full weight of the network” was thrown behind passing the 2017 #TrumpTaxCut, securing a windfall for the Kochs and their donors. And the upcoming Supreme Court term could bring the network a victory it has pursued for years: overturning a major legal precedent known as #Chevron.

"While most Americans aren’t familiar with the 1984 case Chevron v. #NRDC, it’s one of the Supreme Court’s most-cited decisions. Legal scholars sometimes mention it in the same breath as Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. In essence, Chevron is about government agencies’ ability to issue regulations. After a law is enacted, it’s generally up to agencies across the government to make detailed rules putting it into effect. The Chevron decision said courts should be hesitant to second-guess the agencies’ determinations. In the years that followed, judges cited Chevron in upholding rules that protect endangered species, speed up the approval process for new cellphone towers and grant benefits to coal miners suffering from black lung.

"The Koch network has challenged Chevron in the courts and its lobbyists have pushed Congress to pass a law nullifying the decision. It has also provided millions of dollars in grants to law professors making the case to overturn it.

"The network’s position has become increasingly popular in recent years. Once broadly supported by academics and judges on the right, Chevron is now anathema to many in the conservative legal movement. And there’s no more prominent convert than Thomas.

"In 2005, Thomas wrote the majority opinion in a case that expanded Chevron’s protections for government agencies. Ten years later, he was openly questioning the doctrine. Then in 2020, Thomas renounced his own earlier decision, writing that he’d determined the doctrine is unconstitutional after all — a rare reversal for a justice with a reputation for being unmovable in his views.

"By last year, Koch network strategists sensed that victory could be at hand. During an internal briefing for network staff, Jorge Lima, a senior vice president at Americans for Prosperity, said the Supreme Court seemed primed to radically change its approach to the issue. The network was trying to find cases that could bring about major changes in the law, according to a video of the meeting obtained by the watchdog group Documented. “We’re doubling down on this strategy,” Lima told the crowd.

"Several months later, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which Koch network staff attorneys represent the plaintiffs. If Thomas and his colleagues side with them this coming term, Chevron will be overturned once and for all."

Read more:
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus

#OligarchCamp #BohemianGrove #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas #Chevron #ChevronDoctrine #NDRC #KochIndustries #Oligarchy #CorruptSCOTUS #SCOTUSIsCompromised #Corporatocracy #Oiligarchy #EnvironmentalProtections #BigOilAndGas #CorporatePolluters #HeritageFoundation #ClimateDeniers #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife

Warning: Rant ahead:

I'm fed up with #courtrulings, I'm fed up with scathing rebukes of the Trump admin. and MAGA !

It's time for HANDCUFFS!!!!! JAIL!!!!!

ARREST THEM: #StephenMiller, #ScottBessent, #OrangeMussolini, #SteveBannon, #PamBondi, #ShrekHoman, #TriciaMcLaughlin, #ICEagents, #PeteHegseth, #RussllVought, #SamuelAlito, #ClarenceThomas, #KashPatel, #MarcoRubio and the rest of the nazi thugs.

And I'm sick of the USA affecting every other fucking country on Earth with the #farright MAGA bullshit

#ENOUGHisENOUGH #Fascism #FascistUSA

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

"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
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https://www.vox.com/scotus/357170/supreme-court-snyder-united-states-corruption

"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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https://www.wonkette.com/p/supreme-court-it-aint-bribery-if

'#Resign #Immediately': #ClarenceThomas Took Even More #Secret #Trips on #Billionaire's #Jets than he reported on updated ethics disclosures.

"The next trip Justice Thomas takes should be into retirement. Resign," wrote one Democratic lawmaker.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Courts #SupremeCourts #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Corruption #Ethics #Hyprocricy #Religion #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.commondreams.org/news/clarence-thomas-resignation

A serious offer of $1-million/year, and a $2.5-mil motor coach from Host John Oliver. Think Clarence Thomas will take it?

#clarencethomas #SupremeCourts #JohnOliver
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-oliver-million-dollars-clarence-thomas-scotus-resign-2024-2

Harvard Law School and Yale Law School have pretty impressive records when it comes to graduating abject asshoIes.

Not pictured: #JDVance, #TomCotton.
#TedCruz #StewartRhodes #RonDeSantis #JoshHawley #BrettKavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #TomCotton #HarvardLaw #YaleLaw

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Today's Abortion Pill Hearing Went Fully off the Rails https://jezebel.com/todays-abortion-pill-hearing-went-fully-off-the-rails-1850447303 #Jezebel #chemicalcompounds #jessicaellsworth #matthewkacsmaryk #antiprogestogens #medicalabortion #abortifacients #clarencethomas #jenniferelrod #mifepristone #donaldtrump #georgewbush #law2ccrime #abortion #hormones #jamesho #drugs #roe #rtt

Failure to disclose stuff they're *required* to disclose seems to be a theme among right-wing judges, doesn't it? First #ClarenceThomas, now #MatthewKacsmaryk https://www.commondreams.org/news/kacsmaryk-abortion-law-review-article