The Saga of Clarence Thomas and His Luxury RV Takes a Disturbing Turn
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so by "taking a turn" they mean remains on the exact same path with no new developments.
But once again, I hate modern journalism
I hate the 24 hour news cycle too, but this is worth keeping in the back of your mind. When politicians start asking these questions publicly but it doesn't seem like anything's changed, it's because we're missing information.
It's one real news piece, followed by 20 people's response to that news piece, followed by manufactured drama about those opinions, over and over again.
I thought "the turn" was that he was actually being investigated for it.
Agreed 100%. OTOH - keeping people engaged and thinking about these gross ethics violations are good for our elections. Republicans are winning the hearts and minds of the electorate as they up the ante on terrible acts. This will hopefully not let these assholes get off the hook.
Also… I don’t know this publisher’s ethics standards or motives. Just wishful thinking
in an ideal world. but you even show that you know it doesnt work in the next sentence, these stories do not stop coming out but republicans are not being written off despite them. To republicans its all justified to own the libs, and to people like me, it's just showing impotence of democrats. I only care about these stories if consequences are happening, not empty threats and criticisms.
There are a lot of better examples of journalism than NewRepublic.
By all means post one.
Mother Jones, Al Jazeera, prospect.org, The Washington Post most of the time
New York Times and New Republic have taken on some sort of weird corruption recently, and thehill.com has fully embraced the darkness
Al Jazeera is kind of funny.
I responded to someone who has 3 posts in their history, but is sure they know what to post.
The main thing we need to do to fix journalism is crowdsource the titles. But how to make that happen? I dunno.
r/savedyouaclick was pretty good at this, I'd say
I always wonder how you get that many up votes in 30 minutes.
people coming in annoyed with the clickbait and finding the comment that vindicates them.
See there, already an up votes. Whatever suits your fancy, I guess. A bit like like masterbation.
I mean unless there are consequences, it doesn't mean shit.
That's the disturbing part!
title didn't tell me what the article was about, didn't click
Thomas is refusing to say whether he paid the $264k loan on his RV or whether his rich buddy gave it to him for free. If it was the latter, he should be paying taxes on it, which means a Supreme Court justice may be involved in felony tax evasion.
Wasn't his corruption already disturbing?
I wonder which road his RV took with that turn. Must have gone offroad with it and ended in a swamp ?
As usual, Biden's Justice Department is missing in action. After four years, we're still waiting on any form of accountability for Trump. Thomas can rest easy.
I don't think the DOJ can take on SCOTUS. For that you need Congress
At the same time, Thomas is beholden to the same Federal Corruption laws that any other federal employee is.
I thought they voted that the scotus is not beholden to the same federal laws as other judges or other federal employees. At this point the only people who can hold them accountable is congress.
The judicial ethics code is self imposed by the Judicial Conference of the US (created by Congress), which does not impose those rules upon the Supreme Court. I do not know whether they have the authority to do so. The Supreme Court up until this scandal, had refused to implement their own ethics policy. And the one that they recently adopted is weak, both in terms of requirements and enforcement.
OK, I guess what I was thinking was their ethics policy which I recall being laughably weak basically saying if you are naughty nothing will happen. Thanks for clearing that up
Everyone has to follow the tax code.
If he was found guilty of a crime, couldn't he then be removed from office? The Constitution says that they "shall hold their Office during Good Behavior". Surely being convicted of a crime would be the opposite of "Good Behavior" and disqualify them from office.
DOJ may not be able to do anything about Justices taking money from plaintiffs or other ethics violations, but they can certainly enforce the tax code.
That’s the part I’m interested in, I’df there’s really a tax issue. Maybe he really didn’t understand justices had to have ethics and morals, avoid corruption and conflicts of interest, and were just there to solicit gifts from plaintiffs, but how can he explain away if he didn’t pay taxes?
They have to get a referral from the IRS.
Source?
Who could've predicted that an AG that is part of the federalist society would go easy on a fellow federalist society member.
Clarence Thomas is the definition of making something out of nothing in this country. He was born with nothing, and became a fucking Supreme Court Justice. His only mistake is that he's a conservative... which is too bad..because he's not as "accepted" by his own people... African Americans should be praising this man and giving him the upmost respect for what he's done.
Apparently you've never heard of Thurgood Marshall. Now there was a great man, unlike Clarence "Uncle" Thomas...