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DickKessler

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5. And isn't Thomas almost certainly a co-conspirator in the "Stop the Steal" coup attempts in 2020?
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 01:46 PM
Nov 5

His wife was certainly involved. Does anyone really believe that he wasn’t?

Alito is suspicious as hell too (as is his wife), he’s a vicious right-wing Culture Warrior who is on record as saying “only one side in America can win”, not to mention the fact that he authored the Dobbs opinion. Plus he and Thomas are utterly shameless in receiving gifts and favors from right-wing billionaires with business before the Court. In this, they are every bit as venal and corrupt as Trump and his Crime Family.

And in addition to those two, Roberts, Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch have signed on to or authored plenty of the extreme anti-democratic agenda of the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice in particular has been at the forefront of expanding presidential power—and by that I mean Republican presidential power—and granting ever more impunity to Trump in particular for his “official acts.”

Lest we forget, several of these justices worked on behalf of George W. Bush’s successful campaign to steal the 2000 US presidential election. Though to be fair, it was the Supreme Court who really decided that outcome, with a 5-4 majority that included one Clarence Thomas.

Oh, and Usha Vance clerked for Brett Kavanaugh, who is one of three Supreme Court justices who owe their seats to Donald Trump. The other three being John “Official Acts” Roberts, and Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas—‘nuff said. Quite the rogues gallery there.

Make no mistake, these are ideologically motivated political operatives, not “impartial judges.” They were put on the Court for a reason—their membership in the Federalist Society is evidence enough. And we’ve all seen how much damage they’ve done to our democracy and our rights already. How much more are we going to tolerate?

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