@rbreich How is that no other justices have said a word about it?

Silence is complicity.

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The goppers will not impeach, because they are jealous, and want to board the grift train.

Insanity. Addiction to money.

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Good question. Very likely with an answer involving legality, ethics and morals and some measures of a lack thereof. Plus a lack of will to act by those in authority.

Vernacularly, loosely woven carpets can hide gross amounts of dirt until beaten well. Then it all comes out.

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The easiest assumption is that a person vetted by the Senate, with a record in a profession that itself has an ethical standard, would remain true to the ethics of that profession.

We have been disabused of 2.5 of our assumptions:
One, that a member of the Supreme Court would remain true to ethics,
Two, that the Senate has a sense of propriety and discretion in whom they elevate to the Supreme Court,
And another .5 that they could find someone in the profession who already lacked ethics, and would willfully lie to the Senate under oath. And more than just one "someone." It's as if they're trying to find them, on purpose.

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Mass corruption begets more corruption and that's what the #RepublicanParty wants. That, and total political chaos at the federal level.

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Because Congress doesn't have the presence of mind to pass laws that require automatic removal of any federal judge for violating disclosure laws.

They delude themselves into believing they are honest and follow the laws faithfully, even though they clearly don't do that.

Yet those same federal judges (SCOTUS included) expect everyone else to abide by their rulings.

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Oh well. You are living through the late 1980s in SFRY - dissolvment of a waning secular worldview, its destruction and replacement with an appripriate kind of Christian fascism. And there is nothing one can do about emerging chaos. A brewing and stewing war.

Wish there is somewhere Billy Clinton to get BJ from an intern to make something shitty like Dayton Accords to look good in re-elections to pause "ancient hatred."

Gruß aus Bosnia.

@rbreich Because it's so shocking, so disturbing, that civilized people are stunned into inaction.

Not that it happened intentionally in this case, but the right-wing makes use of this mechanism regularly. You can get away with things that are so shocking that people don't know how to act, so they do nothing.

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I think it's time to ask more questions about the court itself, Thomas is just a (terrible) symptom.

@rbreich Is Clarence Thomas the most corrupt justice in US history? If so, we should refer to him as such. Every time his name is mentioned.

(I know…that probably still won’t lead to the impeachment he deserves, but maybe it can somehow move the needle in the direction toward some kind of accountability.)

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