@MariaHill @MJ Apparently no one had been really convinced of Clarence Thomas's judicial qualifications already at the time of his nomination in 1991.
"...
Anticipating that the ABA [American Bar Association] would rate Thomas poorly, the [G.H.W. Bush] White House and Republican Senators pressured the ABA for at least the mid-level "qualified" rating, and simultaneously attempted to discredit the ABA as partisan.
..."
ABA committee majority awarded Thomas a frosty & sobering "qualified".

— 7:7 in the Senate Judiciary Committee on motion to report favorably
— 13:1 in the Senate Judiciary Committee on a motion to report without recommendation
— Senate confirmation vote: 52:48

Note: Leonard Leo's Federalist Society had been founded only 9 years before Thomas's SCOTUS-nomination, as the self-proclaimed right-of-center antithesis to allegedly "liberal" ABA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas_Supreme_Court_nomination
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateTheSix #LeosSCOTUSSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #CompromisedCourt #InvestigateFederalistSociety #ExpandSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct

@Wolven This statement should be publicly read in every community throughout the U.S.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #DefendAmerica #DefendDemocracy #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #CleanSCOTUS #ImpeachTheSix #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #CompromisedCourt

@DemocracyMattersALot The Federalist Society "has evolved into the de facto gatekeeper for right-of-center lawyers aspiring to government jobs and federal judgeships under Republican presidents."

— Amanda Hollis-Brusky, author of "Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution" —

Collaboration of "Republican" presidential seatholders with the Federalist Society not only guarantees politicized judicial nominees, but long-lasting breaches of the fundamental principle of Separation of Powers, i.e. corrupt & harmful opinions on the bench.

#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState #CompromisedCourt #DarkMoney #Corruption #Bribery #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #JudicialInsurrection #Overthrow

@flexghost Good & right argument!

#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #LeosSCOTUSSix #CompromisedCourt #JudicialInsurrection #ReconstructionAmendments #EqualProtectionClause #14thAmendment

@Nonilex Killing Affirmative Action has been a longtime favorite target of the Federalist Society.

"This term, the Supreme Court is going to overturn affirmative action. ***It’s one of those 50-year-long projects by the Federalist Society*** and the conservative media to overturn this policy. Affirmative action has been more or less the most successful racial social justice policy in American history since Emancipation. But whatever. They’re going to get rid of it. They don’t like it."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/real-story-behind-affirmative-action-cases-court.html
#RuleOfLaw #AffirmativeAction #Equity #Equality #Fairness #AntiRacism #CleanSCOTUS #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateTheSix #CompromisedCourt #DarkMoney #Corruption #Bribery

@AliceMarshall while at it, pull give others swimming in the riches dark money and bribery have kept them afloat...

"When your supreme court becomes a tool of dirty deeds, you have NO supreme court, but a #compromisedcourt