What I find ironic is that Roberts is so upset about the “whistleblower” and has ordered an investigation, while one justice’s wife is actively committing sedition against the US and there is not a peep from any of the other justices. It is shameful!
I have lost all respect for the SCOTUS. I am so disappointed a feel like crying.
This story is in its infancy.
last weekend that Ms. Thomas was “not the focus of this investigation.”
But that appeared to have changed Thursday. A person close to Ms. Cheney said that “the facts make clear the committee does need to talk to Ginni Thomas now.”
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., told reporters that the January 6 committee would be inviting Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to speak to them after reports of emails between her and John Eastman. NBC’s Ali Vitali reports from Capitol Hill.
by Luke Broadwater, NYT
This story isn’t going to go away.
Christofascism is their game.
Interesting summary. He does ramble a bit at the end, but it’s spot-on rambling.
Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative activist, has met with Jan. 6 select committee investigators. “Who asked Ginni Thomas to call legislators in Wisconsin and Arizona to get them to basically vote in those fake Trump electors?,” legal expert Nick Akerman asks Joy Reid.
MARCH 4, 2022
By Paul Fisher
The lying pigs at “Heartland (climate science is a fraud) Institute” defending Ms. Thomas:
It keeps getting better. Justice Thomas refused to recuse himself from the trumpsters latest filing. This will get interesting - will Clarence Thomas be able to blow up the Supreme Court the way trump manage to blowup American civility, his DOJ, his FBI and so on.
Damage control, battle stations, stand by and stand ready . . . . . . . . . . . .
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes a new filing from Donald Trump’s legal team requesting that the Supreme Court block an appeals court ruling that allows the Justice Department to use the 100 classified documents the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago. In the filing, Trump’s legal team goes one step further than they have in previous filings by admitting that Trump had possession of the government’s documents.
BY DARRAGH ROCHE ON 10/5/22
Analysis by Aaron Blake
Yes, in Trump’s mind, possession is nine-tenths of the law. He does not understand that in his case, possession is proof of theft.
An update on that Supreme Court extremist Clarence Thomas and his desperation to protect his beloved wife, at all costs. His oath don’t mean squat, it’s all about ME, ME, & Mine.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes a new Supreme Court order from Justice Clarence Thomas that temporarily blocks Senator Lindsey Graham from having to testify in the Fulton County grand jury investigation into the 2020 election, despite an apparent conflict of interest given his wife’s efforts to overturn President Biden’s victory.
5:10
"AND IT GET’S WORSE.THE LAWYER WHO FILED THE APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT PUT TWO OF THE JUSTICES CURRENTLY SERVING ON THE COURT IN THEIR CURRENT JOBS.
LINDSEY GRAHAM’S LAWYER REPRESENTING HIM NOW AT THE SUPREME COURT IS THE FIRST TRUMP WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL WHO RAN THE PROCESS THAT SHOWS DONALD TRUMP’S FIRST TWO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, NEIL GORSUCH, AND BRETT KAVANAUGH. THOSE TWO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES OWE DON MCGAHN THEIR JOBS.
THEY SHOULD BE RECUSING THEMSELVES."
an aside,
An update on the Ginni Thomas story.
$600,000 secret income? Who’s to know?
March 29, 2023 #msnbc #supremecourt #ginnithomas
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes a new exposé by The Washington Post revealing a slew of questions about the funding behind a right-wing advocacy group being led by the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Virginia Thomas.
By Shawn Boburg and Emma Brown
March 28, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
In 2019, anonymous donors gave the think tank Capital Research Center, or CRC, $596,000 that was designated for Crowdsourcers, according to tax filings and audits the think tank submitted to state regulators. The majority of that money, $400,000, was routed through yet another nonprofit, Donors Trust, according to that organization’s tax filings. Donors Trust is a fund that receives money from wealthy donors whose identities are not disclosed and steers it toward conservative causes.
In recent months, the high court has faced increasing scrutiny over a range of ethical issues, including the lack of transparency surrounding potential conflicts of interest and a whistleblower’s claim that wealthy Christian activists sought access to justices at social gatherings to shore up their resolve on abortion and other conservative priorities. …
Regarding Donors Trust:
The people who vote for those who keep these money spigots flowing literally don’t care. They believe money is speech. They believe George Soros pays people to walk here from Guatemala and storm our borders. They think dark money is how the game is played.
Little do the intellectual cowards and clods realize, it’s paying for the Extreme Right Wings systematic brainwashing of their sheople.
Hiding behind one’s stupidity may be human, but it shouldn’t be excused. Certainly not in a moralistic sense, education was a cornerstone of American greatness, right behind having the richest most amazing landmass at our disposal.
It’s started after WW2. They saw how giving soldiers an education was changing the political landscape. The wedge into school boards was prayer and relentless attacks on textbooks.
Some of it seemed funny and the consensus was that it wouldn’t last. Then we got televangelists and Billy Graham in the Whitehouse.
Democracy can be a weak tool against populism. We still have a strong education system, and important data is being preserved, but the trends are not as strong as they once were.
That’s where the audience comes in.
I myself believe they have a responsibility too - but I fear most would disagree.
Civic concern; curious and critical thinkers; love of learning and growing; sense of patriotism and responsibility towards our form of government.
. . . and so on.
They think they are doing all of those things, especially the patriotism. Since the 60s, when the zeitgeist shifted against racism and exclusion, they have been told that they are now the excluded ones, that racism has reversed. They believe they fighting for the same things you did back then.
Here’s Tuckers actual words, unedited, proudly displayed by Fox
The story keeps getting exposed, one layer after another.
Sep 17, 2023 #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
Clarence Thomas’ Wife, Ginni Thomas, is exposed by Politico bombshell reporting over her and other top right-wingers, including Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow, plot to exploit Citizens United supreme court ruling to their deep advantage. Jayar Jackson and Michael Shure break it down on The Damage Report.
Read more here: Ginni Thomas and rightwing activists exploited supreme court ruling – report - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2… "In the months before the US supreme court handed down Citizens United, the 2010 ruling which unleashed a flood of dark money into American politics, the wife of a conservative justice worked with a prominent rightwing activist and a mega-donor closely linked to her husband to form a group to exploit the decision.
So said a blockbuster report from Politico, detailing moves by Ginni Thomas – wife of Justice Clarence Thomas – and Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society chief who has worked to stock the court with rightwingers, leading to a series of epochal decisions, including the removal of the federal right to abortion.
Half a million dollars in seed money, Politico said, came from Harlan Crow, the Nazi memorabilia-collecting billionaire whose extensive and mostly undeclared gifts to Clarence Thomas have fueled a spiraling supreme court ethics scandal."
09/10/2023 07:00 AM EDT
Heidi Przybyla is a Washington, D.C. journalist. You can find her on Twitter @HeidiReports.
“Ginni really wanted to build an organization and be a movement leader,” said a person familiar with her thinking at that time. “Leonard [Leo] was going to be the conduit of that.”
She also had a rich backer: Harlan Crow, the manufacturing billionaire who had helped Thomas and her husband in many ways, from funding luxury vacations to picking up tuition payments for their great-nephew.
At the time, the Citizens United ruling was widely expected, as the court had already signaled its intentions. When it came, it upended nearly 100 years of campaign spending restrictions.
The conservative legal movement seized the moment with greater success than any other group, and the consequences have shaped American jurisprudence and politics in dramatic ways.