Clarence Thomas' wife tried to overturn democracy

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

Actually it is. Just like everybody else. Isn't that what this section of the forum is about? Our own selfish beliefs?

So this user posted this and then immediately deleted his account? Weird...

No, Teddy Bear had been around for several weeks/month.

As far as Mr. Thomas, he needs to be removed from the bench ASAP.

[kager]

Actually it is. Just like everybody else. Isn't that what this section of the forum is about? Our own selfish beliefs?

So this user posted this and then immediately deleted his account? Weird...

Perhaps they are en route to getting the help they so desperately need.

[Matt]

Actually it is. Just like everybody else. Isn't that what this section of the forum is about? Our own selfish beliefs?

So this user posted this and then immediately deleted his account? Weird...

No, Teddy Bear had been around for several weeks/month.

As far as Mr. Thomas, he needs to be removed from the bench ASAP.

There is nothing that suggests Associate Justice Thomas needs to be removed. He has done nothing wrong.

Teddy Bear has deleted his account, right after posting what I quoted as du15062.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

Actually it is. Just like everybody else. Isn't that what this section of the forum is about? Our own selfish beliefs?

So this user posted this and then immediately deleted his account? Weird...

Perhaps they are en route to getting the help they so desperately need.

Trans people don't need help. Bigots like you on the other hand....

[kager]

Actually it is. Just like everybody else. Isn't that what this section of the forum is about? Our own selfish beliefs?

So this user posted this and then immediately deleted his account? Weird...

Perhaps they are en route to getting the help they so desperately need.

Trans people don't need help. Bigots like you on the other hand....

Good one.

Less a bigot than someone you seem to worship here, but I'll try to do better.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

Actually it is. Just like everybody else. Isn't that what this section of the forum is about? Our own selfish beliefs?

So this user posted this and then immediately deleted his account? Weird...

Perhaps they are en route to getting the help they so desperately need.

Trans people don't need help. Bigots like you on the other hand....

Good one.

Less a bigot than someone you seem to worship here, but I'll try to do better.

I don't worship anyone on here.

[Lester The Nightfly]

I don't think Thomas should resign, but I do think Roberts needs to watch him like a hawk and if there's even a hint of a whiff that he or his immediate family are even remotely tied up in a matter that may come before the court then Roberts needs to yank him off the case because there's no evidence Thomas will do it himself.

[tapeisrolling]

I find it interesting that Justice Kagen has recused herself some 20 times since she has been on the court. Thomas has been there much longer and 'nothing' ever felt like maybe he was too close to an issue to not take part.

[Deleted User 15773]

I don't think Thomas should resign, but I do think Roberts needs to watch him like a hawk and if there's even a hint of a whiff that he or his immediate family are even remotely tied up in a matter that may come before the court then Roberts needs to yank him off the case because there's no evidence Thomas will do it himself.

I'll agree to that and yes The Justice needs to recuse himself from cases that pertain to Jan 6.

[TC Talks]

It turns out recusal is a voluntary thing.

WASHINGTON — In the wake of revelations about incendiary text messages from Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, to the Trump White House, mostly in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 attack, Democrats in Congress urged Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to take action.

But the chief justice is powerless to force Justice Thomas to recuse himself.

The messages, which embraced conspiracy theories about the election and urged Mark Meadows, President Donald J. Trump’s chief of staff, to work to overturn the results, may well mean that Justice Thomas should disqualify himself from cases on the 2020 election and its aftermath.

Indeed, legal experts said that is not a close question. But it is one that the Supreme Court’s norms and structure leave to the justice in question.

His title notwithstanding, the chief justice is not the boss of the other members of the court. He has some administrative responsibilities and the power to assign the majority opinion when he is in the majority. He presides at the impeachment trials of sitting presidents. He makes $12,500 more than his colleagues.

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But that basically exhausts the practical differences between the roles of the chief justice and the eight associate justices. Indeed, Chief Justice Roberts has joked about the “odd historical quirk” that gives chief justices only one vote.

He can lead by example, of course. He can make public statements, as when, on different occasions, he rebuked Mr. Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, for attacks on members of the federal judiciary.

But he does not presume to tell other justices what to do. After news reports that he had asked colleagues to wear masks on the bench during the Omicron surge, he took the unusual step of issuing a public statement.

“I did not request Justice Gorsuch or any other justice to wear a mask on the bench,” he said. (Justice Neil M. Gorsuch was the only justice who did not wear a mask at some arguments in January.)

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Recusal decisions, the chief justice has said, are also left to individual justices.

[Honeyman]

What a fucking pile of shit this guy is. Anyone one of you righties want to defend him?

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