For years, Clarence Thomas has been showered with gifts. Flights on a billionaire’s private jet, lavish vacations cruising on his superyacht, summer stays at his Adirondacks compound, tuition for a child Thomas was raising, a quarter-million-dollar motorhome a wealthy friend paid for.
Those gifts were income, and income belongs on a tax return. Thomas treated them as nothing, and no public record shows he ever reported a dollar of it. Under Virginia law, leaving income that size off a return, if it was done to cheat the state, is a felony. The evidence is already public, and he could be charged on Monday.
Virginia law makes it a felony to file a state income tax return with a false statement on it, made with intent to defraud the Commonwealth. The statute is Virginia Code section 58.1-348, it carries up to five years in prison per count, and the clock has not run out on the returns Thomas filed for tax years 2020 through 2024. That is the whole case, and unlike everything else, it is a case a county prosecutor in Virginia has the plain authority to bring.
Nothing will come of it but it at least sounds funny.
Idk, I’m not saying that Clarence Thomas doesn’t have it coming. It looks like he took bribes.
I get kind of an ick about going after the black guy, when I doubt he was off on his own taking bribes and think it’s more of a structural issue.
So, I’m not sure which would be more repellent doing nothing or doing something in this case.
You do have to kind of admire the game though, which damnation would you prefer?
I think Uncle Clarence gave up his black guy card decades ago.
Well he certainly had no problems going after the black guys. time for him to get what he gave
I get kind of an ick about going after the black guy
Seriously‽ The guy is corrupt. The law applies to all no matter the skin colour, and he of all people should know that (as a supreme court judge).
Go back to Reddit
He’s the one that did it publicly and he’s an idiot for it. Gotta start somewhere with these Supreme Injustices. I fear if he’s impeached the replacement the orange one picks will be far worse, if that’s even possible.
sounds like what a russian troll would say
Or an Israeli lobbyist.
I get kind of an ick about going after the black guy, when I doubt he was off on his own taking bribes and think it’s more of a structural issue.
As a member of the black delegation, fuck that guy. We don’t claim him.
Could be? Or will be?
It’s the US - I think we all know the answer.
That country needs to (for so many reasons) drop “In God We Trust” as an official motto - “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda” seems more apposite.
Fine, but do it in Latin… for the mystique…
𝓟𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓶, 𝓐𝓾𝓭𝓮𝓶, 𝓓𝓮𝓱𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓶
The worst part of this is that even if he is convicted and removed from the judiciary, Trump gets to pick his replacement, so it will not only not fix anything but will very likely make it worse.
I mean the trial will take time and if Democrats get to control Congress after midterms they could just not confirm any of Trump’s picks. Who am I joking, the Democrats would never.
It needs to be delayed till January of next year, when the next Congress comes in session. If Thomas has any sense he’d resign if this looks like it’s going somewhere so Trump can sneak an appointment in. My best guess for what the Democrats would do, if they were able to block a Supreme Court pick, is come up with some sort of compromise. Maybe appoint somebody who’s a moderate, not a Trump acolyte. I doubt they’d want the optics of not confirming a justice for 2 years.
Are memories really that short? If you keep giving them help while they spit on you every chance they get then you’re just helping them. They blocked Obama and then had their candidates straight up lie to congress. There is a very strong case for not giving them the time of day much less a hearing in the Senate.
I agree they shouldn’t even give them the time of day. But I don’t know if they’d be willing to take the pressure of putting off a hearing for 2 years. I suspect they’d eventually buckle. Probably the best course of action is to just drag the whole thing out. You get hearings, but we’ll schedule it a ways out, turn down anyone where there’s even a hint that they’re lying, etc. That way they can claim they’re taking action, but Trump keeps sending them bad candidates, candidates who go against the clear expressed will of the American people, candidates who lie to Congress, candidates who have conflicts of interest, etc.
The least reliable members of the facist block of SCOTUS are those appointed by Mr. Trump.
He’s really, really bad at the job.
thats a pretty astute observation. still, narrowly missing a “state-level charlie kirk” because the fascists are just fucking bad at the job is not the type of comfort I hope for.
Not really a new thing for fascists. Hitler screwed the German army so hard with dumb projects that had no chance of going anywhere, poor decision making, poor management of the government, etc. For example, the V-2 program is widely seen as a net loss for Germany - it cost too much, consumed too many resources, and never proved to do meaningful damage. Then there’s Germany’s obsession with giant tanks that were never going to be practical, even if they somehow made them reliable.
Well, it’s all we’ve got right now.
Just like Al Capone.
And I could be starting pitcher for the Padres, but it ain’t likely.
Yes please
Aaannnnddd nothing will come of it because he is a boot licker for this administration.
These are state crimes. The only way Trump can affect this case is if he sends in the National Guard to protect Thomas from being arrested.
As long as Virginia’s governor doesn’t betray us, like Polis did here in Colorado.
Don’t threaten me with a good time
🫲🍊🫱
Absolutely nothing will happen.
Best case scenario, the stress pushes a clot into his brain.
Yeah, and then the cons put an extremely right wing hack that’s also a zygote onto the court.
Hey y’all, RTFA. It is not saying what you think it is saying. The last several paragraphs twist things on thier head.
If that even happens, the Supreme Court can simply issue a ruling in his favor from the shadow docket and I have no reason to believe they won’t
The SC has no authority over state laws unless they find them unconstitutional or conflict with federal laws. I don’t think even the 6 GOP justices would go that far.
lol we all know nothing is going to fucking happen
Leona Helmsley was a prophet: “We don’t pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.”
No, he won’t.
Should he? Yes, he should have been dragged out behind the courthouse 20 years. But he’s not going to ever face any consequences for betraying this country or for taking bribes, even though he’s made a career out of doing both.
I’ve got to say it. This is a case the Biden DOJ could have brought too. And Obama. The Democrats have got to stop playing games. They should have immediately changed it up when Obama was denied justice picks.
how is this guy still employed? honest question - dude has litany of corruption accusations going back decades and he’s still holding a position? How does that work?
He’s rich.
and there is no law for the rich
You obviously don’t remember the nomination hearings regarding the coke can. Should have never gotten the job
The legal system exists to serve these people and attack everybody else.
Supreme court justices are appointed for life.
Does that include from behind bars?
NOBODY should be appointed for life. That shit stinks of dictatorship real bad.
What bad could come of letting someone make important decisions, someone who has become deranged as their brain atrophies and also desperate as death looms large, someone with no future and no stake in the consequences of their decisions?
The idea behind the SC being lifetime appointments was to insulate it from political pressure, unlike the president and Congress which are suceptible to removal. The SC is (supposed to be) a rather apolitical body that determines if the laws passed are unconstitutional, in order to preserve basic rights.
Right now, it’s rife with partisan hacks, and it need to be removed and rebuilt from the ground up. Absolutely none of the current Republican justices meet the qualifications nor strength of character to be SC jucsticies.
