signalmankenneth
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Thomas like most republicans has no shame, morals or integrity, and he will not resign either?!! Thomas taking travel and gifts from Harlan Crow, and not reporting them on the disclosure forms, stink to high heaven too?!! Everyone has a price?!!
The conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas must resign, an ethics watchdog said on Tuesday, citing revelations about his failure to declare lavish gifts and financial support from a Republican mega-donor, Harlan Crow.
In an open letter to the scandal-hit Thomas, Noah Bookbinder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or Crew, cited a “grave crisis of institutional legitimacy currently facing the supreme court”.
“For the sake of the court and for the sake of our democracy which depends on a judiciary that the public accepts as legitimate and free from corruption, we urge you to resign.”
He added: “Your conduct has likely violated civil and criminal laws and has created the impression that access to and influence over supreme court justices is for sale.”
Thomas has said he did not declare gifts from Crow including luxury travel and resort stays because he was advised not to do so, but will do so in future.
He has not commented on reports that Crow bought from him property in which his mother still lives rent-free; that Crow paid for the private schooling for Thomas’s great-nephew, who the justice said he was raising like a son; and that the conservative activist Leonard Leo secretively arranged the payment of tens of thousand dollars to Ginni Thomas, the justice’s rightwing activist wife.
Leo and Crow deny wrongdoing.
In the case of the school fees, Thomas did declare a gift from another donor for the same purpose. Critics say this shows he knew he should have declared gifts from Crow.
Supreme court justices are notionally subject to ethics rules for federal justices but in practice govern themselves.
Democrats in Congress have called for Thomas to be impeached and removed. That is a political nonstarter, as Republicans hold the House, where impeachment would begin. Democrats have also called for an ethics reform.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-ethics-watchdog-calls-clarence-172923068.html
The conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas must resign, an ethics watchdog said on Tuesday, citing revelations about his failure to declare lavish gifts and financial support from a Republican mega-donor, Harlan Crow.
In an open letter to the scandal-hit Thomas, Noah Bookbinder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or Crew, cited a “grave crisis of institutional legitimacy currently facing the supreme court”.
“For the sake of the court and for the sake of our democracy which depends on a judiciary that the public accepts as legitimate and free from corruption, we urge you to resign.”
He added: “Your conduct has likely violated civil and criminal laws and has created the impression that access to and influence over supreme court justices is for sale.”
Thomas has said he did not declare gifts from Crow including luxury travel and resort stays because he was advised not to do so, but will do so in future.
He has not commented on reports that Crow bought from him property in which his mother still lives rent-free; that Crow paid for the private schooling for Thomas’s great-nephew, who the justice said he was raising like a son; and that the conservative activist Leonard Leo secretively arranged the payment of tens of thousand dollars to Ginni Thomas, the justice’s rightwing activist wife.
Leo and Crow deny wrongdoing.
In the case of the school fees, Thomas did declare a gift from another donor for the same purpose. Critics say this shows he knew he should have declared gifts from Crow.
Supreme court justices are notionally subject to ethics rules for federal justices but in practice govern themselves.
Democrats in Congress have called for Thomas to be impeached and removed. That is a political nonstarter, as Republicans hold the House, where impeachment would begin. Democrats have also called for an ethics reform.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-ethics-watchdog-calls-clarence-172923068.html
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