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Jesus Christ.
There's a difference between possible and probable. This headline is extremely misleading. It might as well say Clarence Thomas could have monkeys fly out of his butt on Monday.
Is it possible? Yes.
Is it probable? No.
No, he won't.
Should he? Yes, he should have been dragged out behind the courthouse 20 years. But he's not going to ever face any consequences for betraying this country or for taking bribes, even though he's made a career out of doing both.
We may see a migration of Virginian motorcoaches into Florida and Texas.
Oh no how unfortunate.
Haha silly, a supreme court justice can't break the law! They make the law! How can they make the law and break the law at the same time? That makes no sense hahahahahahaha 😭
Could be? Or will be?
It's the US - I think we all know the answer.
That country needs to (for so many reasons) drop "In God We Trust" as an official motto - "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" seems more apposite.
Fine, but do it in Latin... for the mystique...
Virginia's CIA governor won't let it happen.
Isn't Monday a Federal Holiday? The courts will be closed.
him and his wife are both hardcore magats, so crucify them
DO IT.
I've got to say it. This is a case the Biden DOJ could have brought too. And Obama. The Democrats have got to stop playing games. They should have immediately changed it up when Obama was denied justice picks.
how is this guy still employed? honest question - dude has litany of corruption accusations going back decades and he's still holding a position? How does that work?
You obviously don't remember the nomination hearings regarding the coke can. Should have never gotten the job
The legal system exists to serve these people and attack everybody else.
and it is absolutely disgusting
Supreme court justices are appointed for life.
Does that include from behind bars?
NOBODY should be appointed for life. That shit stinks of dictatorship real bad.
What bad could come of letting someone make important decisions, someone who has become deranged as their brain atrophies and also desperate as death looms large, someone with no future and no stake in the consequences of their decisions?
The idea behind the SC being lifetime appointments was to insulate it from political pressure, unlike the president and Congress which are suceptible to removal. The SC is (supposed to be) a rather apolitical body that determines if the laws passed are unconstitutional, in order to preserve basic rights.
Right now, it's rife with partisan hacks, and it need to be removed and rebuilt from the ground up. Absolutely none of the current Republican justices meet the qualifications nor strength of character to be SC jucsticies.
Didn't work. The highest prize for any president is appointing a SCJ from "their side".
Given that a president can serve 8 years, I'd say a fixed term of 16 years so that they can outlast a hostile president. On average a position would come up every couple of years with the current 9 seats.
He's rich.
and there is no law for the rich
To be clear (because it isn't totally obvious from the title and text submitted on Lemmy), this article is a call to action, not reporting on a filing that's actually happened or rumored to be in progress or anything like that:
So why Monday? Because there is nothing special about Monday. It is the next day the courthouse opens, the next day a prosecutor could walk this to a grand jury, the same as they could have on any working day for the last several years. For anyone else, this case would already be filed.
[...]
Three officials can move on this, and they can each do something different, so we ask each one for what they actually have the power to do. [...] Here is where to reach them, by phone or by email.
He could be charged Monday. Or Tuesday. Or he could've been charged last Monday. There's three people in Virginia who have the power to make that happen, you should go call and email them.
Surely it's better to wait until trump is no longer president, otherwise if this forces Thomas to resign trump gets yet another supreme court pick who will be as young as possible to guarantee the court doesn't swing back around for another 40 years
this article is a call to action
Action to do what? A People's Arrest?
Let me know when we reconvene the Revolutionary Tribunals. Then write the article
They want us to contact the elected officials who can take action. I doubt anything happens but worth a shot.
contact the elected officials who can take action.
🥴
Yup. Just answering. This whole thing is just a wish though.
I’m looking forward to the Supreme Court ruling that a sitting Supreme Court member has “operational immunity” and effectively ruling that anyone on the Supreme Court can break the law as much as they want until their fucking life ~~sentence~~ term is up
And also all supreme court members can't be tax audited. And the creation of a Supreme Slush Fund
He will not be
Time to put him behind bars.
They should lock him in a cabin.
Absolutely nothing will happen.
Best case scenario, the stress pushes a clot into his brain.