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[–] pottedmeat7910@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This man is a straight up whore. The fact that he hasn't been tossed off the bench is a miscarriage of justice.

[–] roofuskit@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

The GOP would never support giving up the seat they stole by doing the right thing.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 1 year ago

In a speech that night, he said he had never yearned to be a federal judge. “Pure and simple, I wanted to be rich,” he said.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This guy is such a piece of shit

[–] roofuskit@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Always has been. He was barely pretending to do his job until Scalia died.

[–] negativenull@negativenull.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He was known as the justice who never asked questions during any court proceedings, for about a decade. He didn't participate in court cases for a decade, other than to vote at the end.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-hasn-t-asked-question-decade-n520801

[–] skellener@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

C O R R U P T

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't wait to hear about Kavanaugh and Barrett. Both of those appointments blew my mind.

[–] EvilColeslaw@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really want to hear about the friend ~~paying off all of Kavanaugh's debts~~ reimbursing him for baseball tickets to the tune of $200,000 from 2016-2017.

[–] AtomicOrange@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

The lack of transparency and accountability is astounding.

[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Besides the infuriating corruption, I find the image of Thomas on the open road, behind the wheel of a Winnebago, maybe in full regalia, to be oddly humorous.

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

a quarter of a million dollars to sit in his favorite place, a walmart parking lot. good ol Clarence.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Clarence is a chonky boi.

As someone who voted for Obama (I have since made a pledge to myself to never vote for a self identified neoliberal for president) , j also find it disturbing that this same rich dude paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Obama campaign and was also awarded an ambassadorship for our country (the us). The issue here is money in politics we need to overturn citizens United and stop legal bribery in this country. But Clarence Thomas is an obvious example of scum collected and exposed from the bottom of the pond.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

He just likes to drive his quarter million dollar RV to Walmart parking lots and eat hotdogs

[–] ARg94@lemmy.packitsolutions.net -2 points 1 year ago

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