#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

#SCOTUS’ #BirthrightCitizenship opinion is looong.

Mostly the #dissent by Justice #ClarenceThomas & joined by #Gorsuch. The majority opinion is 26 pages long, Thomas’s dissent runs to 91 pages.

Imagine being that freaking #racist.

#law #immigration #ImmigrationLaw

The Supreme Court Blocked Trump on the Fed, Mail-In Ballots, and E. Jean Carroll in One Day #DonaldTrump #LisaCook #EJeanCarroll #JohnRoberts #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #FederalReserve #MailInBallots #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Watson #RNC #Election2026 #VotingRights #SexualAbuse #Defamation #FedIndependence #PresidentialPower #June29 #Hawk #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8MAQ8mkJ_Q

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#SCOTUS rebuffs #AlanDershowitz $300 million suit against #CNN

The Supreme Court refused Monday to revive the attorney’s #defamation lawsuit against CNN over its coverage of remarks he made while defending #Trump during his 2020 #impeachment.

Justices Neil #Gorsuch & #ClarenceThomas dissented from the majority decision, saying legal standards for public figures who claim defamation should be reconsidered.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress
https://apnews.com/live/trump-administration-iran-updates-06-29-2026#0000019f-13aa-d928-adbf-3faf8d6c0000

@CheapPontoon There's a reason that both #ClarenceThomas and #ErikPrince were at #OligarchCamp together...

Justice Brett #Kavanaugh & Chief Justice #JohnRoberts broke from their #conservative colleagues in siding with Pitchford.

Justice Neil M. #Gorsuch wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel A. #Alito Jr. & #AmyConeyBarrett.

“Put simply, Mr. Pitchford’s account of a muzzled defense team is hard to square with the record. But even if it were a plausible account, that still would not be enough,” Gorsuch wrote.

#law #racism #SCOTUS #DeathRow #RacialBias #JurySelection

RE: https://mastodon.social/@army_talk_fascism/116510530082800011

Sometimes though, it actually is easy to identify them.

#Trump #Vance #Hegseth #Graham #Rubio #Stefanik #Musk #Thiel #Bannon #Kushner #Hoekstra #Noem #Homan #Bondi #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts #Alito #Kavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #Gorsuch

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116489299784659411

Today the Roberts Court spits on graves of hundreds of thousands who died for the idea that black people are people.
The Civil War really was a thing.
But Uncle #ClarenceThomas won't be happy until he can't vote.
#JohnRoberts #RobertsCourt #SCOTUS #crowned #King #OurPutin #VotingRightsAct #VRA #GOP #KKK #DEI #fascist #USA #Constitution #Alito #Kavanaugh #ComeyBarrett #Gorsuch #SupremeCourt #voting #civil #rights

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/

Justice #ClarenceThomas, writing for the 5 conservative justices, said the federal #law that generally shields the #PostalService from lawsuits over missing, lost & undelivered #mail includes “the intentional nondelivery of mail.”

In dissent, Justice Sonia #Sotomayor wrote that while the protection against lawsuits is broad, it does not extend to situations when the decision not to deliver mail “was driven by #malicious reasons.” Justice Neil #Gorsuch joined his 3 liberal colleagues in dissent.

#Trump thanked Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel #Alito & Brett #Kavanaugh by name “for their strength & wisdom & love of our country” for dissenting from the majority.

Of the other conservatives justices who voted to knock down his tariffs — Chief Justice #JohnRoberts & Justices #AmyConeyBarrett & Neil #Gorsuch — Trump said, “they’re just being fools & lapdogs for the RINOs & radical left Democrats.”

Trump said they were “very unpatriotic & disloyal to our Constitution.”

#law #tariffs #SCOTUS

#Trump quoted Justice Brett #Kavanaugh's dissent, which said the decision might not substantially constrain a president's ability to order #tariffs in the future.

"He's right. In fact, I can charge much more than I was charging," Trump said.

The 3 dissenting justices in the 6-3 ruling were Kavanaugh, who was appointed by Trump to the court, & 2 other conservative justices, Samuel #Alito & #ClarenceThomas.

#law #economy #tariffs #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #geopolitics #SCOTUS

#SCOTUS’ decision was 6-3.
Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel #Alito & Brett #Kavanaugh dissented.
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice #JohnRoberts said the #statute does not authorize the president to impose #tariffs.

“The president asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, & scope. In light of the breadth, history, & constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it.”

#law

@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/

Justices #ClarenceThomas & Neil #Gorsuch said they were eager to go further. The 1935 precedent, Justice Thomas wrote, “poses a direct threat to our constitutional structure &, as a result, the liberty of the American people.”

In its recent emergency orders, #SCOTUS has also signaled that it is now poised to give the president more direct #power over the multimember commissions as well.

#law #HumphreysExecutor #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵

For the first time in the hearing, Justice #ClarenceThomas speaks. He had no questions for Trump’s Solicitor General John Sauer.

Thomas with the help of #Gorsuch asks whether #Congress can create commissions of multimember agencies with presidential secretaries at their top, with differing firing powers.

Pretty sure Congress just let out a collective groan at that prospect.

This would be asking them to restructure government.

#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Trump #SeparationOfPowers 🧵

"#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

The Little-Known History Of #BohemianGrove, The Summer Camp For The ‘Masters Of The Universe’

By Katie Serena | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis
Published November 28, 2021
Updated February 6, 2022

A private campground in Monte Rio, California, Bohemian Grove hosts an all-male social club of rich and powerful members who want to "misbehave."

The High-Ranking Bohemian Grove Members

"Today, the Bohemian Grove serves as a getaway for members to reconnect with each other and to let loose. The club’s motto is “weaving spiders, come not here,” a line from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It means that members aren’t supposed to work while at Bohemian Grove.

"However, there have been notable exceptions, including planning for the #ManhattanProject in 1942, which led to the creation of the atomic bomb. But considering how many well-known policymakers have been members of the Bohemian Grove club, this isn’t entirely surprising.

"Past members and guests have included #RonaldReagan, #RichardNixon, Karl Rove, Theodore Roosevelt, Walter Cronkite, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Colin Powell, and Nelson #Rockefeller."

Read more:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/bohemian-grove

#OligarchCamp #ErikPrince #ClarenceThomas #SkullAndBonesSociety #Oligarchy

New #SCOTUS Disclosures Show 2023 Was a Good Year for Several Justice-Authors' Bank Accounts

June 7, 2024

Is SCOTUS internalizing the lessons on #ethics? Maybe.

"Four Supreme Court justices supplemented their income with payments from their book deals, three accepted money for teaching, and only two accepted any reportable gifts in 2023, according to financial disclosures released Friday. Justice Alito was the only sitting justice to request an extension.

"These disclosures are the first to be released since the Court announced its adoption of a Code of Conduct (Nov. 2023) and the first since the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation from ProPublica was published (Apr. 2023&ff). Given the wide array of data in the reports, it’s difficult to ascertain whether recent ethics scandals have changed the justices’ behavior. In fact, there are some conflicting signs.

"According to #ClarenceThomas’ disclosure, he did not accept any gifts of private plane travel or resort stays from #HarlanCrow or any of his other prior benefactors in 2023. The only gift he accepted was $2,000 in 'photo albums' from the outgoing executive director of the Horatio Alger Association, Terry Giroux, and Giroux’s wife, Barbara. (Justice Jackson’s gifts are noted later in the release.)

"What’s more, Thomas wrote at the end of his report that his 2019 FDR “is hereby amended to include the following entries under the reimbursement section, which was inadvertently omitted at the time of filing,” and he lists a one-night stay at a hotel, with free food, in Bali and a four-day, three-night stay at #BohemianGrove (though he doesn’t write “Bohemian Grove”).

"On the one hand, amendments like these show growth and are appreciated. On the other hand, ProPublica reported that Thomas flew to Indonesia on a private plane for his summer jaunt, and from this omission in the appendix, it appears that either Thomas made another error or he believes neither travel on a private plane owned by a friend (though it’s really owned by his friend’s company, #HRZNARLLC) nor overnight stays on a yacht owned by a friend (really Crow Holdings, LLC) to be reportable."

Read more:
https://fixthecourt.com/2024/06/new-scotus-disclosures-show-2023-was-a-good-year-for-several-justice-authors-bank-accounts/

#OligarchCamp #SCOTUSIsCompromised #ImpeachJusticeThomas
#ScotusIsCorrupt #ImpeachClarenceThomas #ErikPrince #Oligarchy #USPol

Famous men’s toxic fandoms have become a tool for punishing women | Tayo Bero https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/22/famous-men-fandoms #Rapeandsexualassault #MeganTheeStallion #ClarenceThomas #JonathanMajors #HalleBailey #NickiMinaj #Celebrity #Society #Culture #Gender #USnews #Women #Film #Race

#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

Now do Clarence Thomas.
#Federal #bribery & #corruption #charges #mayor #Adams #should #resign #next #charge #SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #Clarence #UncleThomas #corrupt #judge #Clearance #accepts #gifts #millionaires #own #SupremeCourt #kangaroo #bought #court #NewYorkCity #NYC #USA #offense #money #donations #matching #campaign #funds #top #cop #thief #steal #public #funding #Brooklyn #borough #president #illegal #contributions https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-charged-bribery-and-campaign-finance-offenses

> The evidence assembled thus far plainly suggests that #Justice #Thomas has committed numerous willful violations of #federal #ethics and false-statement laws and raises significant questions about whether he and his wealthy benefactors have complied with their federal tax obligations. Presented with opportunities to resolve questions about his conduct, #JusticeThomas has maintained a suspicious silence.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/dems-seek-special-counsel-investigate-justice-clarence-thomas-rcna160982

#clarenceThomas #scotus #supremeCourt #usPolitics #politics

#SCOTUS ruled in favor of #Starbucks on Thurs in a challenge against a #labor ruling by a federal judge, making it more difficult for a key #FederalAgency to intervene when a company is accused of illegally suppressing #LaborOrganizing.

8 justices backed the majority opinion, which was written by Justice #ClarenceThomas.

#law #Union
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/economy/supreme-court-starbucks-nlrb.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

When Clarence Thomas looks in the mirror, I think he sees Pat Boone.

#clarencethomas
#justicethomas
#supremecourt

Dems Make URGENT DEMAND to Clarence Thomas in Trump Case - https://youtu.be/TVtDUROv3Mc?si=YrKp0F614P7Oyg9b #SupremeCourt #USSupremeCourt #USPolitics #ClarenceThomas #DumpTrump #GOPClowns #MeidasTouch #JusticeThomas #LegalAF

Clarence Thomas must recuse.

#ClarenceThomas #Recusal #SCOTUS #JusticeThomas #ClarenceThomasIsCorrupt #BoughtAndPaidFor #HarlanCrow #Corruption #January6 #BigLie #GinniIsComplicit

We Don’t Need an Ethics Code to Know That Justice Thomas Must Resign

https://themessenger.com/opinion/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-resign-ethics-failure-gifts-donors

#SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #Resignation #EthicsFailure #GiftsDonors #JusticeThomas #Politics #News

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

#supremecourt #Corruption #clarencethomas #JusticeThomas #bribery #uspolitics #uscourts #maga #Republicans

Clarence Thomas accepted even more gifts from billionaires, new report finds : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1193162713/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-gifts-disclosure

Affirmative Action Decision Is Clarence Thomas' Dream Come True

https://www.theroot.com/affirmative-action-decision-is-clarence-thomas-dream-co-1850596915

#ClarenceThomas #AffirmativeAction #Decision #DreamComeTrue #TheRoot #News #Politics #News

You can’t spell “supreme corruption” without “Supreme Court.” Legit.
#SCOTUS #JudicialEthics #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #HarlanCrow #PeterSinger #QuidProQuo #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #NeilGorsuch #BrettKavanaugh #AmyConeyBarrett

"We need to be aware of the history leading to the current moment. McConahay has done us a great service by laying out the case."

And, of course, as Roberts says, Clarence Thomas, wife Ginni, and Leonard Leo and the corruption of a Supreme Court dominated by hard-right Catholics loom very large large in McConahay's study.

#Catholics #CatholicBishops #US #HardRight #CultureWars #DarkMoney #Republicans #ClarenceThomas #GinniThomas #LeonardLeo #SupremeCourt #corruption
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