Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
Impeach these mother fuckers https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/clarence-thomas-aide-venmo-payments-lawyers-supreme-court
Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo

Payments to Rajan Vasisht, an aide from 2019-21, underscore ties between the justice and lawyers who argue cases in front of him

The Guardian
Jul 12, 2023 at 8:48pmIvory for iOS
Show threadjosh ledgardJul 12, 2023
@Migueldeicaza if nothing else impeach them for hiring people dumb enough to make public Venmo transactions.
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Jul 12, 2023
@joshledgard it is unbelievable
Show threadAlex BicalhoJul 12, 2023
@Migueldeicaza I’d love to know how checks and balances are handled for the SCOTUS. I haven’t heard of any way this can be done.
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Jul 12, 2023
@aebicalho seems like they aren’t? This is where we are at:
Show threadAlex BicalhoJul 12, 2023
@Migueldeicaza yup. As a country we have been lacking checks and balances lately, some worst than others. In some cases there are processes to enact to handle corruption and, but in others there are not. And most recently there is also an effort to brush off corruption as ‘normal’. I personally also loathe ‘Citizens United’ because corporations are not people.
I truly feel helpless.
Show threadSaagar JhaJul 13, 2023
@aebicalho @Migueldeicaza Didn’t you read the article? They don’t use checks and their balances are in Venmo
Show threadMichael VanceJul 13, 2023
@saagar @Migueldeicaza @aebicalho it’s a sign of the times that this comment could plausibly be about FTX as well.
Show thread⚙ARCJul 12, 2023
@Migueldeicaza might as well expand the courts. Repubs are already expecting this to happen anyways so might as well just do it now.
Show threadDave ParkJul 13, 2023
@ARCANON @Migueldeicaza Great idea, and arguably necessary to restoring democracy. Sadly, Dem leadership is fighting the last war instead of the next war. The higher the office, the more dissonant to the threat.