"As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused," Alito says of the upside down American flag that flew in his yard in January 2021.
"I do not want to cross my wife! She'll hang me faster than an upside down flag!" - Alito probably
"If I piss off my wife she starts chanting 'Hang Mike Pence!' and makes me sleep in the RV! " - Thomas probably
@lindamarie not surprising at all - just as #GinniThomas has participated openly and actively in #insurrection activities #Alito and his wife have done the same. #Trump#GOP created and executed the roadmap. None of the justices will #recuse and there is no process in place to remove them. #Election2024 is critical. Everyone Please #Vote.
Justice Clarence Thomas calls criticism of him ‘nastiness’ & ‘lies’
After facing harsh questions about his judicial decisions & accepting lavish gifts from a billionaire, #SCOTUS Justice #ClarenceThomas forcefully pushed back on
his critics Fri — saying he & his wife, #GinniThomas, have endured “nastiness” & “lies.”
#SCOTUS is hearing a challenge today to a federal #law prosecutors used to charge >350 people who attacked the Capitol on #Jan6.
>100 have been convicted & sentenced under the statute for obstructing or impeding an ofcl proceeding—the joint session that convened to confirm Biden’s victory.
The case could impact #Trump’s federal trial in DC for trying to remain in power, 2 charges he faces are based on the same #obstruction statute.
#ClarenceThomas was first to ask a question, asking #JosephFischer’s attorney a very specific question about his reading of the #obstruction statute. “How do we determine what these provisions have in common. Do we look after the ‘otherwise’ or before?” he asked. Critics have said Thomas should not have any role in #Jan6-related cases because his wife, #GinniThomas, was involved in efforts to undo the results of the 2020 election & attended #Trump’s rally the morning of the Capitol attack.
"Ginni Thomas, the justice’s conservative activist wife, is not just aligned with Trump’s rhetoric: She has close ties to Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election."
#ClarenceThomas should recuse & resign. That's what I heard from Lisa Graves on the @NicoleSandler show last week. Lisa talked about how #GinniThomas was involved.
The press knows the best way to reach the maximum audience is to give Republicans what they want and drive liberals to hate reading, hate sharing, and even hate subscribing.
What in the world was Fani Willis thinking?
(couldn't agree more)
by Ruth Marcus
As a #legal matter, the allegations about a romantic relationship between #FultonCounty DA #FaniWillis & the chief prosecutor in the #ElectionInterference case against #Trump are irrelevant. Even if all the claims are true, they wouldn’t imperil the prosecution or justify dismissing the indictment…. As a question of atmospherics, though, the situation is a disaster…
Mark Robinson's secret meeting with Ginni Thomas raises questions
Not long after the Jan. 6 riot, Thomas and North Carolina's controversial lieutenant governor held a mysterious meeting with a right-wing organization.
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But the meeting ... fills in some details about the extent of [Ginni's] organizing since Jan. 6, 2021 — which has been largely, but not completely, out of public view.
I was hoping nothing important would happen because I'm busy finishing my book again 😂
I'll answer this one:
the CO Supreme Court just ruled that the 14th amend means Trump can’t be on the state ballot. How does one appeal a state court decision to SCOTUS? (Other than a death penalty sentence)
Federal issues are appealable to federal courts.
The Supreme Court is the final arbiter of what the Constitution means. (See Marbury v. Madison)
Jay Kuo on the Supreme Court's toothless new PR window-dressing ethics code:
"If you’re going to abide by a solid set of ethical rules that governs the behavior of your group, it’s a mistake to have the group itself craft it. ...
For the Supreme Court to truly be accountable, an outside, independent body needs to step in to impose the rules."
"The Supreme Court’s new ethics code is a joke The code is so weak that it serves to legitimize Clarence Thomas’s corruption. It is literally worse than nothing."
"Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced an ethics code for the justices. But the code is utterly empty. It has no enforcement mechanism and no mechanism for the public to lodge complaints of misconduct.
"In issuing an unenforceable 'code of ethics' for the Supreme Court, John Roberts has flipped the American public a judicial middle finger. The code is a sham."