Is Clarence Thomas Ethically Challenged?

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Is Clarence Thomas Ethically Challenged?

 

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and special guest Liz Wolfe consider the recent revelation that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted lavish trips from his billionaire friend Harlan Crow and contextualize the leak of classified materials by 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira.

0:42: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' controversial friendship with billionaire Harlan Crow

23:15: Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira leaks classified materials to his online friends.

36:25: Weekly Listener Question

44:40: Tax Day animus

50:14: This week's cultural recommendations

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"Supreme Court Senility," by Jesse Walker

"Not So Supreme," by Nick Gillespie

"Leaker of Ukraine Intelligence Was Reportedly a Gun Enthusiast Trying To Impress His Discord Friends," by Robby Soave

"Pentagon Leak Reveals 14 U.S. Troops in Ukraine," by Bonnie Kristian

"Massive Leak of Ukraine Intelligence Documents Angers U.S. Allies," by Robby Soave

"Kerry Howley: A Journey Through the Deep State," by Nick Gillespie

"The Degraded Currency of the Shadow Government," by Kerry Howley

"Debate: It's Time for a National Divorce," by Angela McArdle and Zach Weissmueller

"Jayhawk Down," by Nick Gillespie

"IRS Is 48 Days Late To Issue Report Telling American Public How It'll Spend New $80 Billion," by Liz Wolfe

"3 More Reasons to Fear the IRS," by Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg

"Taxes: The Price We Pay For Civilization," by Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg

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[JesseAz]

No he isnt. So far every attack against him from the left has been laughable. Company went from LLC to LTD but his accountant continued to use LLC. A Billionaire with zero cases ever before the Supreme Court.

But have to ask the question to push a narrative.

Let me ask. Is Reason ethically challenged if I come up with nonsense accusations?

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Like threatening to impeach Trump because his hotels earned money.

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[Childhood reader of SCOTUS opinions, really]

Maybe we should worry about Nuclear Energy officials
https://www.insider.com/energy-official-sam-brinton-accused-stealing-airport-luggage-again-2022-12

[Gandydancer]

We should worry about lunatics being hired as Nuclear Energy officials.

[markm23]

We should worry about lunatics being hired as officials.

[Tony]

Sonya Sotomayor is friends with George Soros, who takes her on regular international vacations on his private plane and bought her parents' house, which they still live in.

Go.

[BYODB]

The relevant question is if said billionare, Sorors or otherwise, has cases that come before the Supreme Court since only in that scenario is a conflict of interest created.

[JesseAz]

Does soros have business before the Supreme Court? Go.

Ironically Sotos tries to find judicial races to implement his policies.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/03/28/soros-pritzker-and-uihleins-pour-millions-into-supreme-court-race/70055900007/

Well look at that. Soros groups have cases before the USSC.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/scotus-ruling-forces-soros-groups-to-make-anti-prostitution-pledge-to-get-u-s-aids-funding/

[Mickey Rat]

Is anyone calling for Sotomayor's head because of that? Though if that is true, perhaps your side should, for consistency's sake?

[Gandydancer]

Lefty doesn't give a fuck about "consistency’s sake".
He's just hoping against all reason that Biden will get to nominate Thomas' successor.

[Mother's Lament]

Did Harlan Crow spend $40 million on 75 targeted DA races?

Did Harlan Crow threaten a Justice Roberts surprise during impeachment?

Did Harlan Crow spend more than $170 million, personally, during the 2022 midterm election cycle to help Republican campaigns and political action committees?

Go.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/TheRealZBlog/status/1648081132766855170?t=LihM8cBKflXuiXWTNQIDUg&s=19

Reportedly, the Soros appointed DA in Virginia is charging people who marched in the Charlottesville tiki torch thing with a felony. The claim is they intimated people with fire.

The thing to watch is who does not get charged.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Soros appointed DA

What an astonishingly stupid statement. Take a basic class in civics sometime.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

Your Marxist friend is spending a lot of money getting his stooges installed in office to do his bidding. In NYC, Grimace is one of them.

[Public Entelectual]

Thomas may be ethically stunted, but Elmer is an upstanding member of the Party of Clod.

[DesigNate]

It’s sad that you thought that was witty.

[Mother's Lament]

Quit samefagging, Shrike.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

At least it’s keeping his pathetic cock out of little boy’s rectums.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

That one's not shreek, Public Entelectual was formerly called Entelechy, and he's the 76 year old bootlicking Nazi faggot named Russell Seitz who used to relentlessly peddle his chicken little pant-shitting global warming hysteria blogspot blog called vvattsupwiththat. See, it's two Vs instead of a W, it's a joke on the actual wattsupwiththat site, except old Russ is too stupid and senile to register a real domain or operate a real blog. Clever, right?

[Azathoth!!]

Sonya Sotomayor is friends with George Soros, who takes her on regular international vacations on his private plane and bought her parents’ house, which they still live in.

Go.

She is? So why haven't leftists made the same accusations against her as they're doing with Thomas?

Or is this yet another case of 'it's okay when leftists do it'?

[Childhood reader of SCOTUS opinions, really]

If the debators are not concerned about Sotomayor's judicial incompetence why worry about rich friends

She said

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor falsely claimed that 100,000 children are in “serious condition” from Covid during oral arguments on the Biden administration’s employer vaccine mandate on Friday.

“We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators,” Sotomayor claimed.

The current number of confirmed pediatric hospitalizations with Covid in the U.S. is 3,342, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services released on Friday.

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[perlmonger]

That's not why they're ethically challenged, no.

[Nardz]

Everybody on Reason's staff is ethically challenged

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Lillian McEwen, a retired prosecutor, law professor and administrative law judge, discussed her intimacy with Thomas in a lengthy television interview Friday with reporter Rebecca Cooper of ABC affiliate WJLA in Washington, D.C.
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"He was obsessed with pornography," McEwen told Cooper. "It was something he talked about quite frequently."
McEwen's comments appear to bolster testimony by Hill, who alleged Thomas sexually harassed her by graphically describing his interest in porn.
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"He talked about pornographic materials depicting individuals with large penises or large breasts involved in various sex acts," Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991. "On several occasions Thomas told me graphically of his own sexual prowess."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-clarence-thomas-lover-speaks-tv-interview/story?id=11950662

[DesigNate]

Hey look, shrike is proving his racism again.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

“He was obsessed with pornography,” McEwen told Cooper. “It was something he talked about quite frequently.”

Hey, just like you! Except that nobody has ever accused Clarence Thomas of peddling hardcore child pornography like you did.

[Medulla Oblongata]

In a 1999 episode of Dateline NBC, former Bill Clinton campaign volunteer Juanita Broaddrick alleged that, in the late 1970s, Clinton raped her in her hotel room. According to Broaddrick, she agreed to meet with Clinton for coffee in the lobby of her hotel, but Clinton asked if they could go to her room to avoid a crowd of reporters; she agreed. Broaddrick stated that once Clinton had isolated her in her hotel room, he raped her. Broaddrick stated Clinton injured her lip by biting it during the assault.[2][3] In 1999, Clinton denied Broaddrick's allegations through his lawyer.

Supporters of Clinton have questioned her account by noting that, when Broaddrick testified about her alleged encounter with Clinton under oath, she denied having been raped by him. In her NBC interview alleging rape, Broaddrick said that she had only denied being raped under oath to protect her privacy. Supporters of Clinton have also noted that she continued to support him, and appear at public events on his behalf, weeks after the alleged rape, and that Broaddrick said that she couldn't remember the day or month the alleged incident occurred.[4] Broaddrick has stated that in 1978 she revealed the alleged assault to five intimates, and that they advised her not to cause trouble for herself by going public.

Leslie Millwee
In October 2016, Leslie Millwee accused Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting her three times in 1980. Millwee was then an employee at a now-defunct Arkansas based television station, and Clinton was then governor of Arkansas. Millwee told Breitbart News that on each of the three occasions, Clinton came up behind her and fondled her breasts, and on the second occasion, he rubbed his crotch against her and came to orgasm.[5]

Paula Jones
Main article: Paula Jones § Jones v. Clinton
According to Paula Jones' account, on May 8, 1991, she was escorted to Clinton's hotel room in Little Rock, Arkansas,[6] where he propositioned and exposed himself to her. She claimed she kept quiet about the incident until 1994, when a David Brock story in the American Spectator magazine printed an account. In 1994, Jones and her attorneys, Joseph Cammarata and Gilbert Davis, filed a federal lawsuit against Clinton alleging sexual harassment.[7] In the discovery stage of the suit, Jones' lawyers had the opportunity to question Clinton under oath about his sexual history; in the course of this testimony, Clinton denied having had a sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, a denial that, after his affair with Lewinsky was subsequently exposed, eventually led to his impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice.[8]

Several witnesses disputed Jones' account, including her sister and brother-in-law. These witnesses contended that she had described her encounter with Clinton as "happy" and "gentle". In addition, Jones had claimed to friends that Clinton had a particular deformity on his penis, a claim that was revealed to be false by investigators.[9]

However, legal analyst Stuart Taylor Jr. wrote a 15,000 word piece in the November 1996 issue of The American Lawyer defending the merits of the case, which included a large number of contemporaneous witnesses to whom Jones had confided at that time, and asking why the national media had not treated her accusations more seriously. Taylor's article led to numerous media organizations revisiting the case, and indicating that it indeed had merit.[10][11][12][13]

In April 1998, the case was dismissed by judge Susan Webber Wright as lacking legal merit.[14] However, Jones appealed Webber Wright's ruling, and her suit gained traction following Clinton's admission to having an affair with Monica Lewinsky in August 1998.[15] This admission indicated that Clinton may have lied under oath when he testified in the Jones case that he had never had a sexual relationship with Lewinsky.

On appeal, in the midst of his trial for impeachment based on his testimony in the Jones case, Clinton was faced with the prospect of having to go under oath again and testify more about his sexual history. Instead, Clinton agreed to an out-of-court settlement, paying Jones and her lawyers $850,000 to drop the suit; the vast majority of this money was used to pay Jones' legal fees.[16] Clinton's lawyer said that the president made the settlement only so he could end the lawsuit for good and move on with his life.[17]

Kathleen Willey
Main article: Kathleen Willey § Claims
In 1998, Kathleen Willey alleged Clinton groped her without consent in the White House Oval Office in 1993.[18] Kenneth Starr granted her immunity for her testimony in his separate inquiry.[19][20]

Linda Tripp, the Clinton Administration staffer who secretly taped her phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky in order to expose the latter's affair with the president, testified under oath that Willey's sexual contact with President Clinton in 1993 was consensual, that Willey had been flirting with the president, and that Willey was happy and excited following her 1993 encounter with Clinton.[21] Six other friends of Willey confirmed Tripp's account in sworn testimony, stating that Willey had sought a sexual relationship with the president.[22] Ken Starr, who had deposed Willey in the course of investigating Clinton's sexual history, determined that she had lied under oath repeatedly to his investigators. Starr and his team therefore concluded that there was insufficient evidence to pursue her allegations further.[citation needed] In 2007, Willey published a book about her experiences with the Clintons.[23]

Other accusations
In April 1998, Inside Edition reported that Cristy Zercher, a former flight attendant, had accused Clinton of groping and fondling her on a 1992 campaign flight while his wife Hillary was sleeping nearby. A release announcing the results of Zercher's polygraph test stated that she had negative ratings for truthfulness on four questions asked the week prior.[24]

In 1999, Eileen Wellstone reiterated to reporters that she had accused Clinton of sexually assaulting her in 1969, when they were students at Oxford.[25][26] Wellstone filed a complaint with the university, but no charges were brought against Clinton.[26]

A campaign staffer, Sandra Allen James, accused Clinton of sexually assaulting her in his hotel room in 1991. She claimed that he exposed himself to her and forced her to conduct oral sex on him while they were sitting on the couch.[25]

A former professor from the University of Arkansas claimed Clinton had groped a female student and tried to trap her in his office when he was a professor. This would later be backed up by a piece written by Daniel Harris and Teresa Hampton, which alleged that students at the university confirmed that Clinton had tried to force himself on them when he was a professor.[27]

Karen Hinton, who served in the Clinton administration under the HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, told journalist Michael Isikoff that Clinton had harassed her at a fundraiser in 1984. Hinton claimed that Clinton had been staring at her and that he wrote down his hotel room number and a question mark on a napkin and gave it to her, which she said made her feel humiliated. Her allegations were published in Isikoff's book Uncovering Clinton.[28]

In November 2017, sources within the Democratic Party told author and former foreign editor of Newsweek Edward Klein that Clinton was being accused of sexual assault by 4 women. The plaintiffs alleged that the assaults took place shortly after the end of his presidency in the early 2000s, while they were in their late teens. A member of Clinton's legal team confirmed the existence of new allegations against Clinton.[29]

[Childhood reader of SCOTUS opinions, really]

You use filth in your posting name so I doubt you have a good moral compass.
As to your claim, doesn't it seem odd that something claimed in 1991 (over 30 years ago) is obviously settled only by you.

[Sevo]

turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[VoteQuimby]

SHOCKING that the resident conservative republican agrees with...THE GOP! Do you ever not, cuck?

[Jerryskids]

Of course Thomas is ethically challenged. What can you expect from a colored man that supports Republicans? No Negro can actually be that stupid, he's obviously a tricky one just like all Negroes. He'll grin in your face while he's busy stealing your chickens and watermelons and your wife's underwear off the clothesline. Assuming your wife is a white woman. I'm not racist but everybody knows blacks are a hegemonic bloc, unlike those Latinx who have various cultures amongst themselves, and if you ain't voting Democrat you ain't black. I heard it from Joe Biden hisself and he ain't racist a bit, just that some of his best friends were racist as a motherfucker.

[Fats of Fury]

I think you mean ethnically challenged, he is at least the black face of white supremacy.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

The Latinx are a glorious feast of breakfast tacos. And the negroes will fall in line when Joe kicks their asses behind the bleachers like he did to Korn Pop. I personally don't vote Democrat and I ain't black so Joe is absolutely right.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

Darth Brandon LOVES breakfast tacos. Especially the mini tacos.

[Pear Satirical]

You forgot that black people don't know how to use the internet.

[Mother's Lament]

Or how to get an ID.

[Pear Satirical]

To be fair, I don't think Biden ever specifically said that one. Though didn't he say something about roaches and black kids touching his leg hair?

[Medulla Oblongata]

And if they don't vote for Biden, they ain't black.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I think someone needs to check their privilege.

[Dillinger]

lavish trips to Epstein Isle unremarkable ...

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Epstein wasn't making decisions on your abortion.

[perlmonger]

Epstein was probably very pro abortion. Mandatory abortion, even.

[JesseAz]

How would he get new employees?

[Childhood reader of SCOTUS opinions, really]

Yet he was causing them so we have your number and priorities 🙂

[Gandydancer]

"Epstein wasn’t making decisions on your abortion."

Neither is Crow.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

Even assuming the unproven - that there's something wrong with Thomas' relationship with a billionaire - then let's consider the alternatives.

Let's compare Justice Thomas with the kind of Justice with whom a Democratic President and Senate would replace him.

At least the replacement wouldn't do anything unethical - just try to restore the lawless and murderous Roe v. Wade decision and legalize the killing of unborn human beings.

[Mike Laursen]

Hmm, this is a good time to mention the Democrats never packed the court as many conservative commenters were absolutely certain they would do.

[Fats of Fury]

No, it would have been a better time to mention it when democrats said they would pack the court.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/05/1034494416/the-case-for-court-packing-as-a-way-to-promote-democracy

[JesseAz]

They campaigned on it and Biden continues to consider it. Which talking point are you trying to make?

[Pear Satirical]

Mike Laursen: "How dare republicans bring up democrats statements!"

[Mike Parsons]

they were unsuccessful there, so now they are working on an end-round. Corporate media got the playbook and are running with it.

This is desperation to get a Biden pick and a 5-4 court.

[Liberty_Belle]

Mitch McConnell holds the all time record for packing courts , Supreme and/or otherwise. No one will every beat his high-score. When he dies, the GOP is going to make a gold effigy of him and every GOP member will have to bow down to it on the way into GOP functions.

[Pear Satirical]

Wait, when did Mitch McConnell expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court in order to get favored political outcomes?

[JesseAz]

I swear leftists rely on complete ignorance to argue.

[DesigNate]

It’s not McConnell’s fault Obama left all those judge seats vacant for the next president to fill.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Hi there HazelMeade/Hugh Akston! Actually, you retarded fucking cunt, court-packing refers to increasing the size of the court and then filling all of the vacancies with partisan picks to change the political composition of the court. Mitch McConnell using his senate majority to decline his consent for your chocolate messiah's radical Marxist supreme court pick was not court-packing, and neither was using his senate majority to grant his consent for a Republican president's supreme court picks. Does that help, you retarded fucking cunt, or do you need shorter words and some crayons?

[Azathoth!!]

How do you say that you have no idea what 'court packing means without saying that you have no idea what 'court packing means?

Like this--

Mitch McConnell holds the all time record for packing courts , Supreme and/or otherwise. No one will every beat his high-score. When he dies, the GOP is going to make a gold effigy of him and every GOP member will have to bow down to it on the way into GOP functions.

[Inquisitive Squirrel]

When you have to change the definition of words and phrases to "win" an argument, you may want to rethink your position.

[Mother's Lament]

"Hmm, this is a good time to mention the Democrats never packed the court as many conservative commenters were absolutely certain they would do."

Probably because of the bill they tried to introduce.

Democrats to introduce bill to expand Supreme Court from 9 to 13 justices

Always expect that everything Mike claims is wrong. You can always bet on Mike, he's the comments very own Jim Cramer.

Post your mocking laughter below.

[Cronut]

Not packing the court because they didn't have the votes to do it, isn't the point you think it is.

[Brett Bellmore]

They didn't pack it because they didn't have the votes. That's the only reason they refrained.

[Tony]

What a fun exercise in pretending that any one of you cousinfucking assholes won't defend literally any wrongdoing by anyone with an (R) after his name.

[Fats of Fury]

OOPS!. Mayor Ed Murray (D) resigns after cousin accuses Ed of fucking him when cousin was age 13 .
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-mayor-ed-murray-resigns-after-fifth-child-sex-abuse-allegation/

[Uilleam]

It's always projection with these assholes, isn't it?

[Fetterman's Hump]

What's a little grooming amongst Democrats? Don't be so judgmental.

[Mother's Lament]

Poor Tony.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

Well, by his own admission his IQ is only 85.

[JesseAz]

Besides being a black and appearing conservative, what did he do wrong?

Why are so many leftists here racist?

[Mike Parsons]

"being a black and appearing conservative"

Are you dismissing the most heinous charge when it concerns the left?! In their mind, they have sufficiently pandered to those uppity blacks and made them feel good, so damnit, they better fall in line and do everything the elite white lefties tell them.

Not much has changed for the plantation massa's

[JesseAz]

Still the pro segregation party too.

[Tony]

For my money his ludicrous jurisprudence is criminal enough. They're only 9 people who get to make law for all of us. Fuck them. They may be the only humans on earth whose deaths are morally imperative.

But he's also obviously extremely corrupt, because he can be. It's why we have checks and balances, to prevent people like him. Only he has none.

[JesseAz]

A judge ruling on what a law is is criminal to you... never change Tony.

Which law has Thomas made? The leftist judges tend to do that, can't recall a Thomas one.

What corruption? Be specific.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Which law has Thomas made? The leftist judges tend to do that, can’t recall a Thomas one.

He invented the law that businesses in any given state have to become sales tax collectors for the other 49 states as well. That was a boner.

[Mother's Lament]

"But he’s also obviously extremely corrupt"

Such as?

You always throw out little grenades but you never have anything to back them up with.

[Tony]

Why do all conservatives play identity politics every time they open their stupid mouths while pretending to be against playing identity politics?

[sarcasmic]

Complaining about how white, heterosexual, Christian cis-males are the most persecuted people in the history of the world is not identity politics!

[DesigNate]

Nobody said that.

What plenty of people HAVE done is point out that Tony and shrike are racist pieces of shit who shit on any black person that isn’t a Democrat.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Remember when sarcasmic wasn't a Marxist bootlicking retard who defended Tony and the kiddie diddler?

[JesseAz]

What identity politics? Correctly stating how racists dems are? Nobody here is arguing for Thomas to be granted anything based on being black. But noting the common tactic of leftists to be racist. See shrike below.

[Tony]

You're very stupid and you should take up another hobby. How about something with cars?

[Roscoe Scheffler]

You're a racist AIDS-riddled faggot piece of shit and couldn't even muster up a reply that wasn't a non-sequitur. Why don't you go play in traffic?

[JesseAz]

Poor Tony. He is upset.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

Tony, you shit sipping fritata, your kind make everything about race. We would like all that to go away, but rabid, racist democrat morons, such as yourself, can’t let it go.

[Tony]

I have mentioned no one's race here. Not once. I haven't even thought about it. Physician, fuck thyself.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

If you don't like being called a racist, you could have just not spent the last 30 years calling the only black man on the supreme court an uppity nigger.

[Tony]

He's not uppity, he's a psychopathically corrupt right-wing lunatic. Don't you read?

[Roscoe Scheffler]

I read you sputtering like the AIDS-riddled pathetic faggot that you are, offering not one example of this alleged "psychopathic corruption" while doing the same racist smear job you've trying for 30 fucking years now. Go ahead Tony, it's OK, nobody can possibly think any less of you. Just call old Clarence "Uncle Tom" Thomas a nigger.

[JesseAz]

You have yet to give a specific example.

[Childhood reader of SCOTUS opinions, really]

Tony, He is higher on every achievement chart than you are so maybe you could close that embarrassing distance by pretending to be human.

[Cronut]

I don't even understand this line of attack. He's conservative, and Brandon informed us he ain't black. How can he be the black face of white supremacy if he isn't even black?

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

I thought Enrique Tario was the black face of white supremacy.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

At least I will not demand that cousin Billy gets his dick cut off and 6 months of hormone treatment first.

[Mike Parsons]

how much for multiple private jet flights to a private island getaway with unlimited blowjobs from teens?

I know, you are going to think Im asking for Palin's buttplug, but I really just want to tally Clinton's bill up for him so we can submit it to the media outrage machine.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Epstein was a running buddy of Fatass Donnie's, you know.

I expect them all to be ethically challenged. But I hate the Bible-beating conservative hypocrites most of all.

[Pear Satirical]

Until Trump through him out of his life and banned him from his hotels.

[Mother's Lament]

That's the real reason Pluggo hates Trump.

[kfs]

We hate you the most, pedo

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

No you faggot child rapist, they weren’t buddies. They knew each other. A lot of people know Trump. Including your democrat masters who did hang out at Pedo island.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

That Donnie was an acquaintance is front and center with you while you ignore the long list of people with D's next to their name that were much closer friends with Epstein.

[Marshal]

The most amusing element of Tony's fantasies is that his enemies are just like him which proves they are terrible people.

[sarcasmic]

That's hilarious coming from someone who has never responded to a comment with anything other than a personal attack.

[Mother's Lament]

Self-awareness isn't a Sarcasmic superpower.

If you're going to accuse others of harrassment it helps not to be a notorious troll.

[Marshal]

Are you talking to yourself again? I'm always amused when someone who claims to have fucked another commenters mother, and referred to others as giving each other blowjobs whines about personal attacks. That is of course in addition to sarc routinely responding to principled criticisms with personal attacks.

But sarc does have one consistency which is literally never applying to himself the standards he judges others by.

[Inquisitive Squirrel]

He's the Taylor Lorenz of Reason commenters.

[Marshal]

What a fun exercise in pretending that any one of you cousinfucking assholes won’t defend literally any wrongdoing by anyone with an (R) after his name.

Note that sarc doesn't criticize Tony for this personal attack even though it was unprovoked and Tony routinely engages in these attacks, offering literally nothing else. That's because sarc doesn't care about personal attacks, in fact he both routinely engages in thiem personally and protects his allies who engage in them as he protects Tony here. The only factor sarc is interested in is if you are to his right. That places you in the out-group subject to different standards.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Poor sarcasmic! The Mean Girls just pick on him and his faggot child molesting Marxist buddies just like his mean old "cunt" wife did! How can they not see that nothing is ever his fault and everything he has ever said was right, even when he contradicts himself 15 minutes later in the same thread?

[Tony]

Nobody is like me. If they were, I'd change.

My enemies are the humans who wield power to hurt people, then do. No more, no less.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Nobody is like me.

You are the most uninteresting, non-individuated NPC I have ever encountered in my entire life, Tony. There are reddit bots more unique than you. Let me know when your enemies get done murdering 3 dozen people, sexually assaulting hundreds of women, causing 3 billion dollars worth of property damage and chopping off little kids’ genitals like your friends have and then we can talk about wielding power and hurting people. Or better yet, maybe we could do some interviews with some of the guys you’ve fucked in the ass and given AIDS without telling them.

[sarcasmic]

Sad but true.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Judging by the comments, we are rapidly approaching "Clarence Thomas could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue" territory

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

How so?

[Marshal]

No reason, fantasy evidence is sufficient for their conclusions but only when attacking people to their right. When the left transgresses the same people transform into guardhouse lawyers for whom no evidence is sufficient.

Today we're pretending his accountant not correcting an immaterial name change is some sort of ethical failure. After their ever-malleable standards complete ignorance of how anything works is the next most important requirement of their ideology.

[JesseAz]

What crimes did he commit?

Nothing you say is ever honest jeff.

[DesigNate]

Yeah, no.

[DesigNate]

You realize you just agreed with Tony in a personal attack on anyone here who doesn’t agree with his leftist narrative, right?

[Roscoe Scheffler]

sarcasmic may be a hopeless alcoholic and drug addict who lives in a section 8 apartment and hasn't been sober for even one second of his entire chronologically-adult life, but the one thing he realizes is that he agrees with anyone who is pushing a leftist narrative.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Sarc thinks he some kind of tough guy, but he's just an asshole.

[aarinsanity]

at the very least, as a public servant, I think Clarence Thomas should clarify to the public any financial interests that may sway the way he votes on SCOTUS. We literally use our tax dollars to pay him as a Justice!

[Nardz]

You don't pay taxes

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Uncle Clarence and his longtime bro Bill Cosby ethically challenged? Just because both are preening amoral hypocrites who don't practice the ethics they claim to represent and are both beloved by white authoritarians? Say it ain't so.

[Commenter_XY]

Uncle Clarence?

You're not racist at all, are you? C'mon. Do better.

Clarence Thomas has an unbelievable personal story. As an American, I am proud that a black man with Thomas' beginning (single Mom in rural GA) in life can proudly sit on SCOTUS as a brilliant jurist for 30+ years. He is an authentic American hero.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Thomas has ruled in favor of brutal and intrusive cop behavior a number of times. I know why conservatives like him but no libertarian should.

[Commenter_XY]

And Sotomayor and Kagan uphold death penalty cases too.

Do better.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

You’re just mad because the cops hate kiddie fuckers like you.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Name the cases, pedophile. Or maybe just admit that you're a racist piece of shit who hates Thomas for being an uppity nigger. You've posted hardcore child pornography at Reason.com, so don't worry about anyone possibly thinking less of you for actually using the word. Go ahead and call him a nigger, pedophile.

[Sevo]

turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Religion and Politics, my life]

Wrong for the [uncountable] time.
I've read most of his rulings at least in summary and he has always said that brutal and intrusive cop behavior is OBVIOUSLY a legislative matter and not a judicial one.

A rotten lousy law can still be constitutional. As Biden does all the time, he takes something that will never fly legislatively, issues a fiat, and hopes the court won't overturn it

[Mother's Lament]

"Uncle Clarence?"

Pluggo wanted to call him Uncle Thom' so bad.

[Tony]

I thought you faggots based your entire politics around--no no, not climate change--whiny crybaby whining about how you can't say nigger in public.

Stop calling people racist. It doesn't make any sense.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Pretty funny coming from the actual, literal faggot who bases his entire politics around whiny crybaby whining about how teachers can't sexually molest schoolchildren and encourage them to cut off their genitals.

If you don't like being called a racist, you had the option of not spending the last 30 years using racist smear campaigns against the only black man on the supreme court, faggot. I'm glad you could finally up all your courage and actually say the word you've been desperately wanting to say for so long though. That must feel good to finally get that out instead of having to hide behind bitchy faggot passive aggressive seething for 30 years.

[DesigNate]

Fuck off, racist trash.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Being lectured about ethics by someone who got banned from Reason.com for posting dark web links to hardcore child pornography is just too precious.

[A Thinking Mind]

Literally every other supreme court justice goes to events hosted by other people. They go to weddings, they go to Superbowl Sundays, they go high class galas, they get invited to give speeches, and in all of these, they can get free food, free drinks, etcetera. The left is targeting Clarence Thomas, essentially, for having a social life. Because they've decided that insinuating wrong doing is enough if they dislike the target enough.

[JesseAz]

Kagan has to recuse herself from every education case per the leftist talking points here.

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/09/u-s-supreme-court-justice-elena-kagan-to-speak-at-northwestern-pritzker-school-of-law-on-sept-14/

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

How does Pritzker, school, and law go together?

[Mike Parsons]

When its the left, its not only fine, but expected they will grift on their position and nothing will ever come of it.

Remember when the left freaked out that AOC took what amounted to a massive unregistered gift at the met gala, never attempted to pay for any of the free shit she got, and then doing an "oops I forgot!"? Remember when the media was up in arms and demanded accountability?

Of course, who would expect them to be able to focus on that, when they are going after Trump on parking tickets past the statute of limitations and prosecuting show trials.

Straight fucking commies all of them.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

Marxists have no right to exist.

[nobody 2]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that far more (virtual) ink will be spilled over Clarence Thomas's friendship with this Crow guy than over Bill Clinton's friendship with Epstein.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Who and who?

[Mother's Lament]

Doesn't ring a bell.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

MoveOn already, geez.

[Mike Parsons]

I mean, the borg hive mind really decided Clarence Thomas needs to go, that much is clear. They definitely simultaneously decided to skip over the tranny shooting in TN, so they must have transferred the bandwidth from there to "get the uppity black to resign"

You fuckers couldn't be more obvious in your coordinated media efforts to get the SCOTUS you want. I hope Thomas stays on the court for another decade or so, and look forward to president Desantis replacing Sotomayor when her diabetes gets the best of her. A 7-2 court after all these commie tactics will be all the sweeter. Not RBG croaking and Trump replacing her levels of sweet, but close

[Mother's Lament]

"They definitely simultaneously decided to skip over the tranny shooting in TN"

Can't imagine why?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

OT.
English is my native tongue but I have no idea what these words mean.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/michigan-state-university-language-police-warn-offensive-words-america-female-wreaths
Michigan State University Language Police Warn Of Offensive Words Like 'America', 'Female,' 'Wreaths'
"The word “female” was excluded for inclusion in the guide’s section dealing with “Gender and Sexuality.” When used “as a noun for women,” the “pejorative term reduces women to their assumed biological anatomy,” the guide scolded.
The guide also advised to include cisgender whenever referring to transgender.
“Not including cisgender implies that cisgender identities are more valid than transgender identities,” the guide warned.
Taking inclusiveness to a wild extreme, MSU language police recommended using a veritable alphabet to replace LGBT.
“LGBTQIA2S+ is often used at MSU to refer to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and/or queer, intersex, asexual and two-spirit groups,” the guide noted. “The plus sign refers to the inclusion of all identities that are not specified in the acronym.”

[Fetterman's Hump]

I too am a native English speaker. Like you, I have no idea how much damage MSU has done to the English language.

The last item surpasses absurdity: "“LGBTQIA2S+ is often used at MSU to refer to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and/or queer, intersex, asexual and two-spirit groups,” the guide noted. “The plus sign refers to the inclusion of all identities that are not specified in the acronym.”"

What is a "two-spirit group"?

[Mike Parsons]

“The plus sign refers to the inclusion of all identities that are not specified in the acronym”

Oh sweet, I didnt know it covered cis-heteros. Sweet, I am LGBTQ+ too!

See ya’ll at pride!

Edit: Seriously, when are they just going to come out and say: "Not normal white people". Can we stop pretending this isnt just "fuck the Kulaks"

[Gaear Grimsrud]

"female" is a pejorative term but "cis" is not? WTF?

[Brett Bellmore]

If they actually meant anybody to use this stuff, they'd sneak in a vowel or two, so that it was humanly possible to pronounce.

I'll stick with "querty people".

[Gaear Grimsrud]

What is a “two-spirit group”?
I don't know and I'm afraid if I Google it I'll just be more baffled.

[JesseAz]

Butchering of native American beliefs.

[Cronut]

Cultural appropriation

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

Which is a ridiculous concept.

[Mike Parsons]

Clinton was just way ahead of his time with parsing the definition of 'is'.

Pretty soon words with such an absolute implication will all be in the banned category, as there is a chance someone who believes they live in an ambiguous, impossible to define, and non-existent reality will be irate that someone would have the audacity to have any kind of certainty about a topic.

"Woman" and "female" have certainly entered the above realm

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Thomas ethically challenged? He makes progressives feel sad and scared. Case closed.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

Their hatred for him is a ringing endorsement.

[John Gall]

Thomas only challenge is; being a black conservative.

[plaidshirt]

This is why I visit Reason - to inform myself about the latest popular topic(s) of pearl clutching within D.C. at any given moment.

[Mother's Lament]

THE COMPANY HAD BECOME AN LLC BUT HIS ACCOUNTANT STILL CALLED IT AN LTD!!! IT'S LITERALLY CLAIMING MONEY FROM A COMPANY THAT DOESN'T EXIST!!!

Don't you even know how criminal or something that is?

[sarcasmic]

Comments summary: If you criticize Thomas you're a leftist.

[Pear Satirical]

Wow Sarc, this is low even for you.

[sarcasmic]

Huh? I'm just summarizing the comments into one pithy statement. If you think what I said is low, take it up with the commentors not me.

[JesseAz]

The very first post addresses the 2 accusations Thomas is accused of and is shown to be baseless.

More proof you aren't here to argue ideas.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

I doubt he’s ever had a real idea in his miserable life.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

What's the sarc summary?

[sarcasmic]

I think the people attacking him are grasping at straws while the people defending him are engaging in attacks. They both suck.

[JesseAz]

Retarded both sides to protect the baseless attacks. Lol.

[Mother's Lament]

People are picking on the Democrats and that's bad.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

Not Sarc’s precious democrats!

[Bill Dalasio]

No, if you criticize Clarence Thomas for matters you don’t criticize others for you’re probably a leftist. Or just a racist.

[sarcasmic]

"Tu quoque is a discussion technique that intends to discredit the opponent's argument by attacking the opponent's own personal behavior and actions as being inconsistent with their argument, therefore accusing hypocrisy. This specious reasoning is a special type of ad hominem attack."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

I miss the days when the political right took the high road and left ad hominem attacks with the left.

[Mother's Lament]

You even quote the wikipedia link and still manage to use it wrong.

Sometimes you're actually kind of amazing, Sarcasmic.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

I sometimes wonder if his complete inability to understand ‘ad hominem’ is some kind of performance art. Like how none of the Bluth family on Arrested Development could ever make proper chicken sounds when calling someone a chicken.

But then it occurs to me that Sarc is too much of a broken drunk idiot to pull that off.

[JesseAz]

Why not both? Sarc has made plenty of racist assumptions before. Also a left defending neocon. Basically a leftist.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Sarc has made plenty of racist assumptions before.

Remember how he said he'd never heard of a Cuban sandwich before despite being a professional gourmet chef because there's no spics in Maine? And then a few weeks later was bragging about what a cosmopolitan world traveler he is because he's been to Boston and rented a median-priced home for a weekend on AirBNB with 6 other guys?

[DesigNate]

You know what’s funny? There are only 9 instances of “leftist” in the comments and every one of them is directed at Tony or mentioned along with narrative in relation to the push on these supposed allegations by the media.

None of them are accusing other posters of being leftist for merely criticizing Thomas (Tony and shrike ARE leftist whether they criticize anyone to the right of Mao or not).

(Oh, and there’s plenty to criticize Thomas over, especially in regards to the 4th amendment and his deference towards police.)

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Comments summary: If you criticize Thomas make up shit about the only black man on the supreme court after spending 30 years calling him an Uncle Tom and a nigger you’re a leftist.

FTFY drunky.

[(Impeach Biden) Weigel's Cock Ring]

No, but your senile old hero Sleepy Joe Biden sure is!

Former White House stenographer turned whistleblower Mike McCormick: "Joe Biden is a criminal and I’ve got the evidence. If they put me in front of the grand jury… my testimony becomes the evidence that will put him in jail or will lead to his impeachmen."

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Mikey! How is that Durham investigation going? The “biggest political scandal in US history”?

I'll always give you credit for calling that one.

[(Impeach Biden) Weigel's Cock Ring]

We've got a whistleblower now, faggot pedophile scum. Impeachment is going to happen, it's just a question of "when" now and not "if".

I'm going to enjoy watmtching you choke on a ginormous bag of dicks so damn much you have no idea.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

C'mon Mikey, you need to do better than that.

Durham was investigating the Trump wiretapping Fake Scandal. The Hunter Bidens Penis Fake Scandal is now on the table.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

It’s going to be so awesome when you’re publicly exposed as a pedophile. Once convicted, will you commit suicide, or just suffer through the brutality typically visited upon known pedophiles in prison?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Everyone knows you Denny Hastert conservatives are the true perverts.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

None of the conservatives here posted child porn. You did.

[Mother's Lament]

Yeah...
You're probably the last person here who should be calling anyone else a pervert.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

This is the last thread he wants to pull. But Pluggo is pretty fucking stupid.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Remind me of that time when Denny Hastert posted dark web links to illegal hardcore child pornography, shreek.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Tell us again about how the Mueller report conclusively proved that Trump coordinate with Vladimir Putin to hack election machines and change the vote counts in the 2016 election, shreek.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Yeah, if you like overzealous and all-powerful cops and hate the 4th Amendment Clarence Thomas is your ally.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

What if you like posting dark web links to hardcore child pornography, shreek?

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Why shouldn't SCOTUS judges follow a formal code of ethics, like every other federal judge?

[JesseAz]

What rule was broken jeff?

[Tony]

What rules exist, Paco?

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Since cytotoxic (dba chemjeff) suggested the supreme court should have to follow the same formal code of ethics as every other federal judge, it would be reasonable for a person with an IQ over 85 to assume he was referring to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, you illiterate stupid AIDS-riddled faggot racist piece of shit.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

speaking of ethically challenged individuals, here is Jesse to make an appearance

[JesseAz]

What was unethical jeff?

That is now 3 posts of you name-calling without backing up your assertions. Please answer the question.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

He will either run and hide, or try and change the subject.

[Mother's Lament]

Or lie.

Like R Mac said, we don’t call him Lying Jeffy for nothing.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

He must be a shut in. If he ever interacted with the public, someone would be him to death in record time.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

Jesse has never demonstrated a lack of ethics. Whereas you regularly lie through your teeth.

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Who said they shouldn't? Sounds like a great idea to me. I suspect you won't much like the implications for the justices you agree with, and that you'll have a tremendous amount of difficulty naming any behavior of Clarence Thomas that would run afoul of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges.

[Pear Satirical]

A fucking typo, really Jeff?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

MAGA MAN!

Stop the Steal’ Organizer Apologizes After Being Accused of Asking Teen Boys for Dick Pics
‘GOOD JACKOFF MATERIAL’
“I apologize for any inappropriate messages sent over the years,” said Ali Alexander, an ally of former President Trump and white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stop-the-steal-organizer-ali-alexander-apologizes-after-being-accused-of-asking-teen-boys-for-sexual-pics

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

In 2017, Aidan Duncan—a 15-year-old boy in Colorado interested in right-wing politics—sent Alexander nude pictures after the MAGA activist asked him for them, according to an account Duncan gave in a March 2023 podcast appearance.
.
While Duncan was a high-school sophomore just starting out in politics, Alexander was a 32-year-old with a decade of political work for the Republican Party behind him. And now he was willing to share the connections he had gained through that work with Duncan, as long as the teenager met certain preconditions, including secrecy.

MAGA all the way.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

More MAGA (same link)

This isn’t the first time Fuentes’s racist group has been dogged by accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior regarding children. In August, Fuentes associate Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez was arrested and charged with possessing child pornography. Velasquez, who went by “LatinoZoomer” online and has been photographed with Fuentes, also faces charges over allegedly threatening a conference held by a rival conservative group.

[Mother's Lament]

Is this better or worse than your NeverTrumper pals at the Lincoln Project, Pluggo?

Nobody here even knows who Ali Alexander is. Apparently the only people dubbing him a MAGA star and “Stop the Steal "organizer" is the Daily Beasts DNC agitprop team. Not one person here has ever quoted him or even mentioned him.

But you sure as fuck quoted and defended the Lincoln Project here in the past.
Pot calling kettle, yada, yada.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

It would be as some to send him to prison where they would brutalize him daily. I’ll bet he would beg like a little bitch.

[Sevo]

Remember that turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Never heard of him, but if this is true, he is hopefully taken out into a field and shot after being discharged of any and all duties he may have had in the organization.

Who here is trying to defend this sort of behavior?

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Will you ever apologize for posting dark web links to hardcore child pornography, for which your original Sarah Palin's Buttplug account was banned and an entire article and comment thread had to be purged from Reason's servers, shreek?

[Tony]

Joan Cusack at CPAC: "Is EVERYBODY GAY?!"

[Roscoe Scheffler]

Tony at every truck stop in Tulsa: "WHY WON'T YOU LET ME LOVE YOU?!?!?!"

[Liberty Lover]

No he is the most stalwart ‘original intent” Justice on the courts. The Democrats see him as the problem for instituting their leftist socialist dictatorship paradise. They don’t have a lot of confidence in old Joe in the next election so want him to appoint a “living document” Justice now that will rubber stamp the Democrat’s new laws and legislate leftist law from the bench, while striking down anything the Republicans might get through into law.

Also don’t forget about the still very active KKK branch of the Democratic party. Thomas is married to a white woman, and they hate that. Also any conservative black is an “Uncle Tom” to the Democrats, can't have that. The “If you don’t vote for Biden, ya ain’t black” wing of the Democratic party.

[Uomo Del Ghiaccio]

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is not anymore ethically challenged that any other member of the court, but is the target of political partisans who are more ethically challenged.

Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira is a patsy designated to be the fall guy. If he as a member of the Mass Air National Guard had the security clearance and the access to these classified documents there are real problems. In reality he probably didn't have access even if he had a high enough security clearance which means he was given the documents by someone else.

Something smells fishy, although I can exactly identify why I sense it. I would not be surprised if this was an orchestrated plant and the government is using Jack Teixeira as a patsy with complete disregard to his future.

[Michael Ejercito]

I will quote from a thread on another forum.

https://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?p=3857818

Of course! And the people on the Travis Commissioner's Court would have tossed Lehmberg out on her ass a long time ago. They're not doing it because there are, frankly, more important things at stake. In a state like Texas where the GOP has historically run roughshod over the Dems, they cannot afford to lose powerful positions like this. Considering the number of cases coming out of the PIU, including, incidentally, a Perry-allied ex-official who channeled millions of dollars to some of his big contributors, the Travis DA's office has more influence than just about any Democrat in the state. If Perry didn't have the right to appoint her replacement, and he almost assuredly would have appointed a fairly right-wing replacement, I'm sure the Travis County Dems would like to tell Lehmberg to take a short walk off a long pier. Unhappily, there are more important considerations at hand.

- Maraxus, writing in defense of the indictment of Rick Perry

See, when we elect a district attorney, we trust them to do one thing: prosecute crimes. So long as they prosecute crimes, and do that properly and well, they're doing what we asked them to. They are doing the bare minimum of what we expect from them- correctly using the powers of their office to perform the assigned duty. Driving drunk may reflect poorly on the DA's character and mean they should not have been elected... but it doesn't mean they have failed to do the actual job the public trusted them to do. We didn't elect this DA to be sober, we elected them to prosecute cases.

- Simon_Jester, writing in defense of the indictment of Rick Perry

[Childhood reader of SCOTUS opinions, really]

What a NON-STORY !!!
So what?

[JasonT20]

I saw so many defenses of Thomas saying that accepting all those gifts from Crow wasn’t a problem because he (or his businesses) didn’t have cases before the Court or that could come before the Court. That really misses the point. If it had been that Crow had business before the Court while having given Thomas those kinds of gifts, then Thomas would have been blatantly disregarding basic judicial ethics at best, and actually been corrupt at worse. Either would have warranted impeachment. There is a lot of area open for ethical concerns in between justification for impeachment and the whole thing being a nothingburger.

The concerns here are that a Supreme Court Justice is personally chummy to the point of accepting “hospitality” to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of vacations and travel from someone with deep connections to political causes, organizations, and other individuals of similar connectivity. Thomas clearly even hung out with many of those people at some of the retreats Crow hosted.

Justice Barrett once denied that anyone on the Court were “political hacks.” But if the American public is going to accept that, then all Justices, appointed by Republicans or Democrats, should go to great lengths to keep some distance between themselves and partisan or ideological activists. If we really want judges that will rule on the law and Constitution and not their personal political ideology and partisan preferences, then we shouldn’t be supporting the nomination and appointment of people that so obviously have strong political preferences.

Judges have become politicians in robes because elected leaders with the ability to make the nominations and vote to confirm them want that. And voters go along with it as long as it is their side making the appointments. Because, of course, it is their side that only follows the law wherever it leads.

[Libertariantranslator]

Challenged? As in disability?? Long Dong very adroitly reaches in through bedroom windows to grab women out of their beds. You know who else did that?

[John Gall]

Of course Clarence is ethically challenged, he's black.

/s

[Religion and Politics, my life]

Did anybody get it????
Ketanji is BLACK
But Clarence is CONSERVATIVE

Makes me laugh, should make you laugh

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

Maybe he’s backed up. Can’t get his hands on any little kids.