Showing posts with label Thomas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas. Show all posts

Friday, July 25, 2025

3 Supreme Court justices just tried to kill the ban on racist election laws | Vox

Although none of them explained why they voted the way they did, Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch all voted to leave in place a lower court decision that effectively nullified one of the most consequential civil rights laws in American history...

https://www.vox.com/scotus/421091/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-turtle-mountain-howe 


 

Friday, June 20, 2025

Clarence Thomas concurs gender affirming care ruling

But opponents of U.S. laws banning transition-related care for trans minors have said prohibitions imposed by Republican-led states go much further than European policies, which limit but do not categorically ban care. 

"This is no ordinary medical regulation," Pratik Shah, head of Supreme Court and appellate practice at Akin Gump, said of Tennessee's law on a call with reporters in December…

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5357102-clarence-thomas-gender-affirming-opinion/


 

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Clarence Thomas Hit With The BAD News In Unexpected Supreme Court Takedown

Supreme Court Justices, specifically Clarence Thomas, get rocked by new address from President Biden announcing he will be targeting the Supreme Court's corruption scandals with a reform plan that could introduce term limits.

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Ocasio-Cortez introduces articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito | CNN Politics

"Justice Thomas and Alito's repeated failure over decades to disclose that they received millions of dollars in gifts from individuals with business before the court is explicitly against the law," Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement. "And their refusal to recuse from the specific matters and cases before the court in which their benefactors and spouses are implicated represents nothing less than a constitutional crisis."…

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Dems seek special counsel to investigate Justice Clarence Thomas

Two Democratic senators are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for possible tax law violations. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent the letter to Garland last week asking him to appoint a special counsel "to investigate possible violations of federal ethics and tax laws."…

Friday, June 28, 2024

Supreme Court LEAVES Clarence Thomas OUT TO DRY

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok on the Legal AF pod (After Dark Edition), debate whether Clarence Thomas line defense of drug dealing domestic violence abusers and their right to bear arms, means we have found how far they will sink in defense of the Second Amendment.

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Clarence Thomas signals his intent to blow up the entire federal tax code: analyst - Raw Story

"Thomas' dissent is a masterwork of partisan historical revisionism, manipulating reality so seamlessly that an unsuspecting reader might actually think he is telling the truth," wrote Stern. "He isn't, not even close: Thomas' goal in Moore is to eviscerate the 16th Amendment, which legalized the federal income tax in 1913. And, as is so often the case, the justice marshals his argument by diminishing a progressive constitutional amendment as some illegitimate affront to the Framers' original, divinely inspired design...

Sunday, June 16, 2024

Jamie Raskin SMACKS DOWN Supreme Court With Surprise Ban

Jamie Raskin and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez completely shred Supreme Court Justices over their blatant corruption as Democrats introduce a new $50 gift ban citing their massive salaries getting bolstered by millions in gifts from influential figures.

Monday, June 10, 2024

Weekly Roundup: Examining the Fallout: Trump’s Verdict, SCOTUS Revelations, and Texas Curriculum (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad and Dan discuss the harsh rhetoric from the American right in response to Trump’s recent conviction on 34 felonies, including calls for retribution against Democrats. They explore the significant ethical issues surrounding Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. The episode also covers Texas’ proposed public school curriculum changes that push a Christian-centric education, and reactions from a Mexican American family’s departure from Idaho due to feeling unwelcome. The hosts emphasize the dangers of the current conservative landscape and its implications for American politics and education.

00:00 Introduction: Should Democrats Be in Jail?

00:26 Reactions to Trump’s Conviction

01:04 Exploring the Supreme Court Fallout

02:09 Texas School Curriculum Controversy

02:33 Weekly Roundup and Personal Updates

04:04 Discussion on Trump’s Verdict and Political Reactions

18:30 Clarence Thomas and Supreme Court Ethics

29:26 Frustration with Institutional Norms

30:08 Texas School Curriculum Controversy

31:54 Religious Influence in Education

38:46 Parental Concerns and Ignorance

46:01 Texas GOP Convention Highlights

53:25 Mexican American Family’s Idaho Experience

59:46 Concluding Thoughts and Reasons for Hope
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Friday, June 7, 2024

'It pays to be Clarence': Data shows justice raked in 'staggering' $4 million in gifts - Raw Story

Thomas was found to have received 193 gifts — which include meals, lodging and flights — worth $4,042,286 and 126 additional "likely" gifts valued at $1,837,510, the data show...

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Opinion | How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases - The New York Times

The U.S. Department of Justice — including the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, an appointed U.S. special counsel and the solicitor general, all of whom were involved in different ways in the criminal prosecutions underlying these cases and are opposing Mr. Trump's constitutional and statutory claims — can petition the other seven justices to require Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves not as a matter of grace but as a matter of law. 

The Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland can invoke two powerful textual authorities for this motion: the Constitution of the United States, specifically the due process clause, and the federal statute mandating judicial disqualification for questionable impartiality, 28 U.S.C. Section 455. The Constitution has come into play in several recent Supreme Court decisions striking down rulings by stubborn judges in lower courts whose political impartiality has been reasonably questioned but who threw caution to the wind to hear a case anyway. This statute requires potentially biased judges throughout the federal system to recuse themselves at the start of the process to avoid judicial unfairness and embarrassing controversies and reversals...

Friday, May 24, 2024

Clarence Thomas attacks Brown v. Board ruling in South Carolina voting map opinion

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a strong rebuke of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling on Thursday, suggesting the court overreached its authority in the landmark decision that banned separating schoolchildren by race…

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order

The Guardian reported last August that on his website Haywood has repeatedly envisioned serving as a "warlord" at the head of an "armed patronage network" which might at some point find itself in conflict with the federal government…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/11/claremont-institute-society-for-american-civic-renewal-links


And keep in mind that this group has the backing of Leonard Leo, the influential and wealthy Catholic who gets other wealthy people to lavish gifts on justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito.










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