Impeach Clarence Thomas

It's my understanding that there are no ethics "laws" for Supreme Court justices.  Not even ethics rules.

UPDATE 12:51 pm:

UPDATE 04/08/2023:

UPDATE 04/09/2023:

Piles of money and pricey gifts flowing to Clarence and Ginni from big-money, right-wing sources, none of it disclosed. But it isn’t surprising at this point, given the years of ethics-trampling by this DC power pair. As the Los Angeles Times noted on Friday, in 2004 it reported that Thomas had accepted expensive gifts and private plane trips from Crow and that after its story appeared, Thomas continued to accept free trips from him but stopped disclosing them.

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Allowing a billionaire with a political agenda to subsidize your high-flying lifestyle is quite a breach of trust for a Supreme Court justice. But Thomas has come under fire for other potential conflicts of interest, most notably participating in a case last year related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election that were linked to Ginni. And these revelations cut against the image that Thomas has tried to project over the years of being your average Joe. Talking about the types of vacations he favors during an interview for a documentary on his life—a film partially funded by Crow—Thomas remarked, “I prefer the RV parks. I prefer the Walmart parking lots to the beaches and things like that. There’s something normal to me about it.” After all, every normal American who enjoys hanging out in Walmart parking lots has a billionaire pal who jets him around the world.

As for the missus, it was not even two weeks ago that the diggers at the Washington Post discovered that a “little-known conservative activist group led by” Ginni “collected nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations to wage a cultural battle against the left.” The contributions were structured so the source of the money would not have to be publicly disclosed. That is, someone slipped over half a mil to a political endeavor run by the wife of a Supreme Court justice, and the public doesn’t know who’s supplying this cash to her outfit. It’s also unknown how much of these funds, if any, end up in the Thomases’ bank account.

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In an age of hyper-tribalized politics in which the Supreme Court is critical to the disposition of so many crucial and contentious issues in American society, it’s important for the justices to do all they can to ensure that the court functions fairly and is not being unduly influenced by big-money and political interests—and that the public can trust the guys and gals in robes. Yet with Roberts refusing to implement sensible ethics rules, Thomas has been a one-man wrecking ball for the court.

  Mother Jones

UPDATE 04/09/2023:

UPDATE 04/10/2023:

Perhaps Clarence has no mirrors in his own home.  

UPDATE 04/10/2023  06:05 pm:  One small detail...

UPDATE 04/14/2023:

By the way, there's more.

UPDATE 04/15/2023:  Like George Santos, this story just keeps growing.

UPDATE 04/16/2023:

Over the last two decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has reported on required financial disclosure forms that his family received rental income totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a firm called Ginger, Ltd., Partnership.

But that company — a Nebraska real estate firm launched in the 1980s by his wife and her relatives — has not existed since 2006.

That year, the family real estate company was shut down and a separate firm [Ginger Holdings] was created, state incorporation records show.

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The previously unreported misstatement might be dismissed as a paperwork error. But it is among a series of errors and omissions that Thomas has made on required annual financial disclosure forms over the past several decades.

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Thomas’s income from the firm he describes as “Ginger, Ltd., Partnership” on the financial disclosure forms has grown substantially over the last decade, though the precise amounts are unknown because the forms require only that ranges be reported. In total, he has reported receiving between $270,000 to $750,000 from the firm since 2006.

  WaPo

That's a pretty big range.

[T]he leases for more than 200 residential lots in Ginger Woods and Ginger Cove were transferred from Ginger Limited Partnership to Ginger Holdings, LLC, property records in Douglas County show.

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Ginni Thomas is not named in state incorporation records related to Ginger Holdings, LLC.

Okay, but I want to know why the original company was shut down, and a new one, with a slight name change, took its place. That sounds a little shady. I guess it doesn't have to be, but it does raise questions.

At any rate, Thomas is a cheat and a liar through and through.

Ginni Thomas earned more than $686,000 from the conservative Heritage Foundation from 2003 until 2007, according to the nonprofit’s tax forms. Clarence Thomas checked a box labeled “none” for his wife’s income during that period. He had done the same in 2008 and 2009 when she worked for conservative Hillsdale College.

Thomas acknowledged the error when he amended those filings in 2011. He wrote that the information had been “inadvertently omitted due to a misunderstanding of the filing instructions.”

In some years before those omissions, however, Thomas had correctly reported his wife’s employment.

Thomas failed to report the sale of the three Georgia properties to Crow in 2014, and he also continued to report that he owned a share of those properties as late as 2015, his disclosure forms show. In addition, beginning in 2010, his disclosures described the properties as being located in Liberty County, Ga., even though they were actually located in Chatham County.

Who the hell is doing his taxes?

Thomas also did not report reimbursement for transportation, meals and lodging while teaching at the universities of Kansas and Georgia in 2018. After the omission was flagged by the nonprofit Fix the Court, Thomas amended his filing for that year. He also amended his 2017 filing, on which he had left off similar reimbursements while teaching at Creighton Law School, his wife’s alma mater.

Okay, so I guess we'll just wait a day or two for the next installment of Clarence Thomas' dirty dealings.  And I'm going to have to start a new post instead of continuing to update this one.