For over 20 years, Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury trips from a GOP mega-donor. Even worse, this mega-donor is an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia. The Republican billionaire who lavished luxury gifts on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas collects historical artifacts he says shed a light on the twentieth century’s worst atrocities. Harlan Crow, the… Read more.
Supreme Court
Justice Alito Cracks a Racist Joke. Trumpism Has Infected the Supreme Court
Justice Alito Cracks a Racist Joke You do see a lot of Black children in Ku Klux Klan outfits, right?’ Alito then joked. ‘All the time.’ — The Recount (@therecount) December 5, 2022 Frankly, there are too many things wrong with this joke to list. But, notably, Justice Samuel Alito told it during oral arguments at the… Read more.
Justice Thomas’s Wife Ginni Is Complicit in Jan 6 Insurrection
Ginni Thomas is complicit Last March, the Washington Post published text messages between Virginia (Ginni) Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, and Mark Meadows, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff. Those messages revealed she was involved up to her neck in the MAGA plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. So any suggestion that her husband wasn’t complicit defies common… Read more.
The Supreme Court Has No Legal Reason to End Affirmative Action. But Its Political Reason Is Compelling.
Based on legal reasoning, precedents, and the justices’ sworn representations, the Supreme Court has no legal reason to end Affirmative Action in college admissions. But it had no legal reason to end a woman’s constitutional abortion rights. Yet the Court did so anyway. Mend, do not end, Affirmative Action Those arguing to end Affirmative Action insist… Read more.
The Supreme Court and Clarence Thomas
Podcast Episode 82 Much is being made about how the Republican Party has become little more than a political cult dedicated to Donald J. Trump. But the Supreme Court is rivaling that party in this respect. And fears abound that it will take another civil war to save America from their dystopian devices. Listen.
Justice Thomas Would Ban Same-Sex Marriage, Contraceptives, Even His Own Interracial Marriage…
Justice Clarence Thomas upstaged his conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court with his concurring opinion when they overruled Roe v. Wade (1973) last month. They defied common sense to argue that the rationale they were using to do so only applied to abortion. Read more.
Supreme Court: First they Came for Voting, then Abortion…
Conservatives on the US Supreme Court have the whole world fretting today about what they’re up to. Because, frankly, they seem hell-bent on turning America into a Taliban-style paradise … or Gilead. They insist their job is just to apply their interpretation of what the Founding Fathers originally intended when they wrote the Constitution to… Read more.
Republican Supreme Court Deliver Death to Abortion Rights
Chief Justice John Roberts himself confirmed yesterday that the leaked draft opinion, which delineates the reasoning for the (Republican) Supreme Court to finally overrule Roe v. Wade, “is authentic.” I commented on the Mississippi law that provided the pretext for the Court to deliver this death blow to abortion rights in America in “Abortion Brings… Read more.
Wife of Justice Thomas Will Cause Him to Retire in Disgrace
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Virginia “Ginni’ Thomas, will cause him to retire in utter disgrace. This is unavoidable now. Because, in the days following the 2020 presidential election, she sent then White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows a flurry of text messages, some of which The Washington Post published last… Read more.
Biden Nominates Jackson as First Black Woman to Supreme Court
Trust me, Ketanji Brown Jackson is far more qualified to sit on the Supreme Court than Amy Coney Barrett. And Blacks everywhere should be proud and encouraged in equal measure that she is even more suited for this pioneering role, as the first Black woman, than Thurgood Marshall was, as the first Black man, when… Read more.