Laffy👀 Via Katie Phang:
NEW: @senwhitehouse sends a letter to AG Merrick Garland requesting that he appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Justice #ClarenceThomas for his alleged violations of federal ethics and tax laws.
ArtemesiaAren't the more discrete bribes well past the statute of limitations? The RV financing, the free house for his mother, the tuition for his adopted "nephew"? The more current stuff like getting hosted and flown on a billionaire's yacht and plane for a free vacation in indonesia, are harder to define as crimes.
dingodog@artemesia @GottaLaff
You could still impeach him for it, if you just win both houses of Congress...
You could still impeach him for it, if you just win both houses of Congress...
Whoop-te-do. And it takes only one house to impeach, the House. But it takes 67 senators to convict and remove. Name me the 17 GOP senators who will vote to convict. Though I'll grant that if there's a republican president, they might cynically decide ol' Clarence Sale's getting a little long in the tooth and decide to replace him with someone in their 50s.