Senators seek special counsel probe of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Senators seek special counsel probe of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Justice Clarence Thomas "secretly accepted gifts and income potentially worth millions of dollars," the Democratic senators said evidence suggested.
Or...
The president can just order the DOJ to imprison him for actions against the US government and outright treason.
And it would be totally legal
But he won't, because he doesn't take the threat of fascism serious.
129Joe Biden is acting like a complete pussy following milquetoast Merrick’s lead
41"Nothing will fundamentally change."
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Toss him in jail for one day and you'd see all this shit stop.
Add the owner of fox in the same cell. You'd be amazed how quickly things would clean themselves up.
19Took one bullet to stop 1/6.
Fascists are usually cowards, but they'll always keep pushing till there's consequences.
Biden will not fucking give them consequences. They gave him the power to, and dude immediately announced publicly that he'd never do it.
Like, that alone should be disqualifying.
Biden treats this personal, it's him vs trump. But this is so much bigger and so much more important than either of those old rich men.
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I don't believe the recent court ruling would actually allow that because suspending court justices isn't a regular part of the president's duty.
The best king example I've seen is that the president would be within the law if they shot the director of homeland security - the president is allowed to control who is in that position, they can remove them at will - the SC ruling means that the method they chose to remove that person is now unimpeachable... if they chose to suspend them by freeing them of their mortal coil they're "acting within official duties".
3I don’t believe the recent court ruling would actually allow that because suspending court justices isn’t a regular part of the president’s duty.
Directing the DOJ is
So Biden can direct them to arrest someone, and throw them in gitmo.
His motivations can't be investigated. And directing the DOJ is within a presidents power
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If he cared about protecting the country from fascism, he wouldn’t be running.
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We knew he was a garbage human being during the Anita Hill hearings.
That he's still a garbage human being now that he had even more power shouldn't be a surprise to anyone with any understanding of how people work.
52We knew he was a garbage human being during the Anita Hill hearings
Man, if only the head of that committee was a real leader. One willing to stand up for what is right, defend the victim, keep decorum, and allow the multiple other woman with similar complaints to testify...
Imagine if Clarance could have been kept off the court
I guess it would be pointless to look up who that was, it was 30 years ago and the Senator would have already been pretty senior to head that committee...
I'm sure he's far a way from modern politics by now, hell, he'd have to be like 81 years old now!
No reason to disturb his likely retirement enjoying his time with his family.
16Thank god we learned from that and haven't confirmed any other justices with credible allegations of sexual assault against them. Imagine where we'd be if we confirmed that clown who regularly boofed beer.
21Your hate boner for Biden is astoundingly embarrassing.
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I vividly remember a newspaper clipping about the Anita Hill hearings being displayed at my school in 10th grade. If only I knew that POS would not only still be there 33 years later, but would be actively trying to destroy democracy.
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Get that professional sugarbaby off the court.
14How has nobody offered him a yacht holiday and then extracted the ship's crew in the middle of nowhere in Pacific.
That would be pretty hilarious10John Oliver offered him $1mil a year to retire and a brand new Winnebago yet upon the highest court he still reigns with that shifty ass smirk across his face
8Which is proof he already gets more
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Which will go nowhere.
4Stil worth doing even if it is just used as a way to support future efforts to reform SCOTUS.
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Nah, he's immune. He's part of the supremes.
0Now that there isn't any time left to do anything...
0or what? the house is in complete chaos with people who dont know how (or care) to be congress critters, and what, theyre suppose to act on whatever the DOJ finds??
waste of time and money
-9waste of time and money
Yes and no. Regardless of what happens with the results, it's important that we not let [blatant] corruption become the norm. Better to try to do the right thing than let that kind of corruption go completely unchallenged.
And if the R-led House ignores it, that puts them on the record as saying that corruption is okay. If dems take the House, then an impeachment vote might at least make it to the floor. Ideally, we'd have the 60 votes in the Senate needed to do something with that, but I'm not holding my breath.
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