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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Clarence Thomas is directing Trumps lawyer how to present his defense!? Jack Smith agreeing!
Trumps lawyer saying in court to Judge Chutkin Thomas directed us to raise this issue
Chutkin apparently responded he directed you to do that?
Trumps attorney said well he didnt direct us to and tried to backtrack.
Jack Smith sitting in court by nodding to judge YES.
Irish_Dem
(55,557 posts)B.See
(2,790 posts)Buy them RV's, send them of luxury all expenses paid vacations and cruises, lavish gifts on them, and line their fkng pockets with millions.
Irish_Dem
(55,557 posts)Butterflylady
(3,855 posts)Like free vacations on your yacht.
Irish_Dem
(55,557 posts)He can order whatever he wants.
Lovie777
(13,981 posts)Thomas and the other five are not in the USA favor.
B.See
(2,790 posts)anti-democracy enemies of the state and assets of a foreign adversary.
Kid Berwyn
(17,089 posts)Using their positions to obstruct justice. President Biden can officially arrest their asses, try their asses and fry their asses. Officially.
Oh, yeah. Problem solved.
flying_wahini
(7,694 posts)He needs to go. The first day after Harris gets sworn in.
leftieNanner
(15,526 posts)I agree, but exactly how?
newdeal2
(556 posts)I dont know. Maybe he retires.
leftieNanner
(15,526 posts)But I think the grim reaper would be the only option. Or maybe an indictment for tax fraud might do it.
He would never retire unless there was a GOPer in the White House.
barbtries
(29,406 posts)is there a law that SC justices are immune from prosecution? that could be a way. prosecute his fucking ass
leftieNanner
(15,526 posts)Where do we find 67 Senators to remove him?
barbtries
(29,406 posts)i personally think the TCFSF cult is fading. If and when we win in November it may (should) free up some traditional republicans to do the right thing and say what they really believe.
If a supermajority is reached something must be done about the filibuster. I don't know enough to speak intelligently about it but for starters make them actually filibuster.
chowder66
(9,634 posts)I have suspected they have been advising this criminal defendant all along. I literally was just thinking about it again last night.
Punx
(451 posts)Doing this,
All hell would have broken loose in the media. We would never here the end of it. And House Republicans would already have articles of impeachment drawn up.
bluestarone
(17,848 posts)Why wouldn't the DOJ be interested in this? Maybe even judge Chutkin?
ancianita
(37,657 posts)would tell you that while the DOJ undoubtedly has interest in this; it has absolutely no jurisdictional power (being in the Executive Branch) over the SCOTUS. In the Third Branch it's the Judicial Conference that would have to act. I believe a group of federal judges, and a few lawyers, have sent a letter to the JC to urge them to investigate and really deal with these obviously corrupt justices.
returnee
(220 posts)As long as there is reasonable evidence of a crime, I think it would certainly be within the jurisdiction of the branch tasked with the enforcement of the law. The only question is, is there a crime in what Thomas is suspected of doing?
ancianita
(37,657 posts)"...Congress established an annual conference of the chief justice of the United States (or the senior associate justice if the chief is unable), and the senior circuit judge (now called the chief judge) from each judicial circuit and charged the conference with a general mandate to advise on the administrative needs of the federal courts. The act required the senior judge in each district to prepare an annual report of the business of the district's court. The conference would use these reports to prepare suggestions for the temporary transfer of judges, pending the approval of all courts involved. This expansion of the authority to transfer judges fell far short of Taft's concept of a permanent corps of at-large judges. Congress established 24 temporary judgeships, but adhered to the principle of fixed residency for district judges. Congress also declined to make the attorney general a member of the conference, although the act permitted the chief justice to request the attorney general to report on the business of the courts. Even without a formal relationship with Congress or the Department of Justice (which then administered the federal courts), the conference offered the judiciary a means of communicating its administrative needs.
The conference was renamed the Judicial Conference of the United States in 1948.[2] In 1956, Congress provided for the inclusion of the chief judge of the Court of Claims.[3] At that time, the judges of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) declined to include a representative on the conference.
The size of the conference nearly doubled following an act of 1957 that provided for the appellate and district judges in each circuit to elect a district judge to represent the circuit on the conference for a term of three years. In 1961 the chief judge of the CCPA began serving on the conference.[3] ...."
At best the AG can "report on the business of the courts" but it has no subpoena or investigative power. And right now the JCUS isn't doing much but talking among themselves, only meeting twice a year, IIRC.
It's a 'separation of powers' thing across the 3 branches of government.
The only branch that can change SCOTUS is the First Branch, the People's Branch, Congress.
returnee
(220 posts)If Thomas goes out and robs a bank, are the DOJs hands tied?
onecaliberal
(35,056 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(10,219 posts)Wonder Why
(4,281 posts)bsiebs
(738 posts)Reagan put his sorry ass in the EEOC in 1982
Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
May 6, 1982 March 8, 1990
Then Bush Sr put him in as a judge in US Court of Appeals
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
March 12, 1990 October 23, 1991
18 months later
he has enough judicial experience to move to the Supreme Court on October 23, 1991
NameAlreadyTaken
(1,215 posts)dchill
(39,676 posts)ecstatic
(33,958 posts)If not, why are his actions allowed?
ancianita
(37,657 posts)Since these justices make the supreme laws of the land, who can hold them accountable when there's evidence of corruption, except Congress. With this House Republican majority, that's not going to happen. So we have to win back both House and Senate to make impeachment and removal happen.
Congress, if we win it back, convenes before the next president is sworn in, so Biden can signal it to start moving on judicial reform and within that framework and most important, court expansion and impeachment. First things first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
Farmer-Rick
(10,949 posts)Could it be more obvious?
Too bad Dems let Clearance into the Supremes.
Fiendish Thingy
(17,327 posts)Sounds like the defense attorney was asserting the instructions from the SCOTUS ruling (which were, in part, written as instructions to Chutkans court), and framed them as directions from Thomas.
ZonkerHarris
(25,024 posts)WarGamer
(14,235 posts)flying_wahini
(7,694 posts)LymphocyteLover
(6,225 posts)Impeach the mofo already!!! Jeesh!
LiberalFighter
(53,112 posts)Westcoast4life
(90 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(2,462 posts)Thomas directed what issue? Jack Smith nodding and smiling in the courtroom? Why?
Any links to anywhere available?
ZonkerHarris
(25,024 posts)WarGamer
(14,235 posts)ZonkerHarris
(25,024 posts)scipan
(2,584 posts)Link to tweet
?t=Ta-TGuW-k_GUwYPZ2KSHpg&s=19
Defense: Justice Thomas directed us to raise this issue
Judge Chutkan interjects: "He *directed* you to do it?"
Defense: Well.. he didn't direct us to
ZonkerHarris
(25,024 posts)flying_wahini
(7,694 posts)ZonkerHarris
(25,024 posts)but if you need to believe some fake shit to feel better then you do you
Blue Owl
(53,720 posts)Mme. Defarge
(8,411 posts)flying_wahini
(7,694 posts)barbtries
(29,406 posts)can it?!!
mucifer
(24,526 posts)BoRaGard
(2,139 posts)Thomas has got to go. What a disgrace.