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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on April 07, 2023, 08:23:47 AM
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Star Member UCmeNdc (9,333 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217801152
Ocasio-Cortez Calls For Clarence Thomas To Be Impeached Over Gifts From GOP Mega Donor
"This degree of corruption is shocking — almost cartoonish," said the Democratic lawmaker.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday called for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be impeached after a bombshell report revealed that he’s been taking luxury trips paid for by a Republican megadonor for decades and not disclosing them.
“This is beyond party or partisanship,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “This degree of corruption is shocking — almost cartoonish. Thomas must be impeached.”
The New York City Congress member was reacting to a ProPublica report published Thursday that lays out Thomas’ undisclosed ties to billionaire GOP donor Harlan Crow. Thomas “has accepted luxury trips virtually every year” from Crow for more than 20 years without reporting them, ProPublica reported, citing travel records and interviews. Thomas’ failure to disclose the trips appears to violate a law requiring judges, members of Congress and other federal officials to report most gifts, including private jet flights, per ProPublica.
Ocasio-Cortez said that barring dramatic change, this scandal will define the current conservative-led Supreme Court run by Chief Justice John Roberts.
“This is what the Roberts court will be known for: rank corruption, erosion of democracy, and the stripping of human rights,” she tweeted.
:whatever: trying to get the black man off the USSC
WarGamer (8,353 posts)
5. According to Sen. Whitehouse...
This was all a loophole that existed before the Senate retooled the regulations last week.
So, for all the gnashing of teeth... it appears no rules or regs were broken.
The new rules should help a LOT.
Thanks Sen. Whitehouse.
Star Member Botany (67,540 posts)
2. Thomas' corruption is nothing new. Scalia went on an all expenses paid high end duck hunting trip
... with Vice President Cheney as Cheney had business before the SOTUS (trying to hide the reason
that he pushed w into the Iraqi war was oil) and when asked about the duck hunting trip Scalia looked
@ the reporter and made a quacking noise and then laughed.
Star Member Scottie Mom (5,110 posts)
3. My first thought was the same as AOC's!
Impeach him!!! Now!!!
You can't change the guidelines then retroactively charge people with crimes... oh, wait... you are Dems... carry on.
Star Member barbtries (27,457 posts)
6. obviously he should be impeached.
this is not the first time he's lied on financial documents, he's as corrupt as ****. plus he has a conflict of interest with his wife and won't do shit about it.
i still think she's the person who leaked the Dobbs decision.
nvme (852 posts)
10. This scumbag should be prosecuted for this
As a federal employee, I am required to complete and ethics course. We are all told we cannot accept gifts of greater than 5 dollars. Absolutely no gifts can be accepted by anyone who has some business with the agency I am part of. How the **** is this "pubic hair on someone's Coke can muther****er" get away with taking 20 years of vacations by a special interest prick's dime? Please tell me SOMEONE WILL IN VESTIGATE THIS TROGOLODITE.
Star Member TomSlick (10,301 posts)
26. It would be a futile gesture BUT the House needs to go on record by voting on impeachment.
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First of all:
:racist:
Secondly, I wonder if that "reputable" outlet ProPublica has ever investigated the vacations of Saint Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sonia Sotamayor, or Elena Kagan? Perhaps even the newest moonbat on the court, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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AOC claiming anything is clownish? :rotf: Priceless!!! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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Isn't AOC herself under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for accepting gifts from donors?
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AOC claiming anything is clownish? :rotf: Priceless!!! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
If anybody should know what "clownish" looks like, it would be the imbeciles who stare at it every day in the mirror, you'd think.
Of course, Occasional-Cortex is one of those fortunately rare individuals with DUm'Rat levels of self awareness, sooo...
:popcorn:
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Isn't AOC herself under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for accepting gifts from donors?
Why yes she is! But's that OK because she is a dumocrat.
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Ex post facto.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C3-3-1/ALDE_00013192/
Article I, Section 9, Clause 3:
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
Separate provisions of the Constitution ban enactment of ex post facto laws by the Federal Government and the states, respectively. The Supreme Court has cited cases interpreting the federal Ex Post Facto Clause in challenges under the state clause, and vice versa, implying that the two clauses have the same scope. The Court has construed both clauses to ban legislatures from enacting laws that impose criminal liability or increase criminal punishment retroactively. The constitutional prohibitions of ex post facto laws are closely related to the prohibitions of bills of attainder—legislative actions that determine guilt or impose criminal punishment on specific persons or groups without a judicial trial. In some cases, the Court has held that a single legislative action may violate both the ex post facto and bill of attainder prohibitions.
Some ex post facto cases involve facial challenges—claims that the challenged laws are invalid in all circumstances. Many, however, involve claims that the Ex Post Facto Clauses bar applying laws to specific offenses that were committed before the laws’ enactment. The Supreme Court has denied ex post facto claims when it has found that a law is not ex post facto as applied to the challenger, even when the law might be ex post facto as applied to others not before the Court.
The Supreme Court has held that the constitutional prohibitions on ex post facto laws do not apply to crimes committed outside the jurisdiction of the United States against the laws of a foreign country.
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Ex post facto.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C3-3-1/ALDE_00013192/
:cheersmate:
But that was when we were the USA. Now under glorious progressive USSA anything against communism is illegal. Oh the future comrades is going to be glorious. GLORIOUS COMRADES!!!!
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:cheersmate:
But that was when we were the USA. Now under glorious progressive USSA anything against communism is illegal. Oh the future comrades is going to be glorious. GLORIOUS COMRADES!!!!
I can smell the heady fragrance of the mass graves from here, Comrade!
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I can smell the heady fragrance of the mass graves from here, Comrade!
Excellent observation Comrade! Your chocolate rations have hereby been increased from 12 portions to 6.
:-)