There is an online petition, with links to news stories and .pdfs, here, urging Clarence Thomas to resign from the United States Supreme Court:
At least one blogger links to yet more information, and calls Clarence Thomas “an ethics problem in a black robe.” Do you agree?
No surprise, Daily Kos is spotlighting Clarence Thomas’ ethical lapses.
Chronology of Clarence Thomas’ ethical entanglements.
And HERE is a link to the New York Times expose.
Now I understand how Citizens United became the law of the land. Ick. Yuck. Euuuwwww. Should Clarence Thomas resign? This is worse than the Weiner parade in my opinion, at least.
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Supreme Court Justice have resigned over this before.
Fortas took about $15,000 from American University and about $20,000 from a stock speculator. Fortas had to step down.
The same reason he thinks it’s OK to not report income, hear the health care cases, etc. are the same reason he won’t resign. It’s hubris, maybe; but Congress will not impeach him and won’t remove him from the Court. And the Republicans will *never* view his ouster as anything but a partisan matter — particularly not since there’s a Dem as President.
So he’s in absolutely no jeopardy as a practical matter.
Maybe “Good Government Republicans” and “Good Government Democrats” are BOTH endangered species and rather than thinking in terms of Liberal or Conserative we should be thinking interms of “corporate tools” vs “statesmen and stateswomen”!!
Should he? Yes.
Will he? No.
That seemed to work for Weiner. Also, there was a senator from Alabama who called black Americans “aborigines” while joking around with a good old boy down there. I can just imagine how he talks when he’s not being tape-recorded. I wonder if he’ll resign.
I think if the media starts telling old Abe Fortas stories it could eventually happen. But, they won’t, and he won’t.
I’m not sure his transgressions rise to the level of resignation. What’s the official wrist slap for Justices? I’d support that.
His wife should have to give up her job, though. That is a pretty clear conflict. Same for husbands of female Justices.
There is none, unless you count impeaching but not convicting. Obviously, whether Thomas resigns is up to him. The only thing Congress can do is impeach him and then convict him, thereby removing him from office, and that will not happen absent evidence of actual criminality. I mean, I suppose either chamber of Congress could pass a resolution expressing dismay or something, but (a) not gonna happen, and (b) why bother.
if it’s not criminal, but merely impolite, for justices to take money from people with cases before the court. We should have exactly zero expectation that people will police themselves in terms of conflicts of interest or even bribes if they’re not even illegal. Honor, ethics, and conscience are woefully inadequate checks on this kind of thing nowadays, if they ever were effective.