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    He’s not resigning from a position that is a lifetime appointment.

    So sick of hearing these moronic articles.

    Either get the goddamn Department of Justice or IRS involved in this and see if these trips and other gifts were illegal, or STFU. Yes, we all know he’s a corrupt piece of shit, but he’s not resigning, and it sure as hell doesn’t look like any governmental departments even want to try going after him for corruption.

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      These “Moronic articles” places him into the spotlight.

      There is very few things that can be considered an “Annoyance” to rich folk, being in that spotlight is one of them.

      People like Clarence Thomas want to go on vacation and not worry about being recognized in public.

      Being in the spotlight means they have to hire more security, it means background checks, it means more people in your private life, it means always looking over your shoulder because the “media” is everyone with a smart phone nowadays.

      So while I would love to see less topics on Clarence Thomas that doesn’t involve a jail cell. The attention on his shadiness, is the 2nd best for now.

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      Unfortunately, you are not the target audience for this article.

      Most Americans are not informed at all, and no matter how stupid it may seem, they need the most watered down solution shoved in their face repeatedly just so they recognize the problem in the first place

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      Based on how often he and Alito are crying out about his unfair it is that they’re being scrutinized for corruption, I think this is really bugging them.

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        Believe me, I hope to hell you’re right, but when it comes down to it, it seems like wishful thinking from the Internet.

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    is it SO fucking insane that we all know he’s corrupt but he’s still able to go to work and put on his fucking robe and ruin people’s lives and we’re meant to keep respecting that. fucking dogshit country

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      The GOP spent the last 2 decades getting to an overwhelming 6-3 majority on the court. They won’t risk that over something they find as superfluous as integrity.

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      We are rapidly approaching a point where the SCOTUS can rule and states, or even the federal government will simply… ignore it.

      I’m not sure which party will cross that line, but we’re real close. And when it happens, we almost immediately devolve into an epic shitstorm.

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        We have already reached that point. You’ve got Democratic-majority states that, despite Bruen, continue to pass legislation banning firearm types and features. Just like Republican states pass bans on abortions and birth control when Roe was still good case law. This shit happens all the time, and SCOTUS keeps working and slapping states and the fed. gov’t down.

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    Dissolve the court. Arrest Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh. Bring in an independent investigator and if any of the others have so much as gotten a ride to their car from someone with business before the court arrest them too. No more “well it’s only a little bit corrupt” or “yeah but you’ve gotta understand” or that horse shit. You want your word to be the literal law that almost 400 million people have to live under? You need to be fucking flawless.

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      While I agree with the sentiment, there’s technically no laws against the corruption. You can’t just arrest people because you don’t agree with them and think they’re immoral. Do that and imagine what a republican regime will do with that ability.

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        Because an unelected council of lifetime appointed politically motivated actors who can arbitrarily decide whether democratically instilled laws are valid on a case by case basis is fundamentally stupid and obviously prone to corruption.

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          Also because there is no legal construct that gives SCOUTS the specific powers it currently wields. Article 3 of the US constitution is an outline that lacks specifics. The federal government decided SCOTUS would rule on case law without encoding it in law. It was a subjective decision. We can make another subjective decision.

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            Just the Supreme Court, thanks. Though I’m not super happy about those lesser courts being lifetime appointments either, so maybe they could do with some reform instead. We can always revisit those later, call it incremental improvement.

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              But the Supreme Court is part of the whole system of appeals courts. They all have lifetime appointments. It makes no sense. You’d just be giving regional judges more power and the country would have even more stark divided across state lines.

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                So you did read the part where I said that I’m not happy about the lesser courts being lifetime appointments? Why does it matter if the Supreme Court is part of the appellate court system? There are federal courts of appeal beneath the SC so idk how you think that’d be shifting more power into regional courts. And even if it did, so what? Breaking up concentrated sources of power is good, not bad.

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            There’s nothing to salvage, it should not exist. Whatever you could make of it out of reforms wouldn’t be worth the trouble. What function does it perform that is so vital it cannot be removed?

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              A check on power in the executive and legislative branches of government. A judicial perspective to our government. A longer term view on policy than 2,4,6 year terms. Glad I’m getting down voted for asking questions it makes this feel just like the reddit I missed haha

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                The role of the judicial can be fulfilled with lesser courts without the overreach provided by the SC; they’re meant to interpret and enforce, not invalidate.

                You don’t need a lifetime appointment for a long term view of the law, it’s not as if politicians in other branches retire after their terms or don’t serve as many terms as possible. The possibility of churn is, in theory, meant to keep those branches beholden to their constituents. Even that’s often insufficient to prevent corruption, but at least it’s something.

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        I’ll get downvoted for supporting your question in seek of an answer. Why dissolve the Supreme Court? Can reform not work? If you dissolve the Supreme Court then what is the proposed alternative?

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    And Clarence Thomas’ response is that the American Mullahs can do whatever they like and there’s fuck all anyone can do about it.

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      Except stay awake while hearing cases at the country’s top court. Thomas likes his naps as much as he likes his billionaire patrons.

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        Yeah the way the media works, he realistically just has to keep a low profile for maybe a year or even less, wait for them to fixate on something else and then it’s back to business.

        And he’s pretty much immune to any legal blowback - if anyone tried, I mean he’s 75, in his position he could easily jam that up in the courts for a decade or more and even if it somehow managed to progress, there’s the classic “I’m suddenly too old and frail to go through a lengthy trial” defence.

        I think realistically the absolute worst case scenario for him is being forced to retire and spending the rest of his days in opulence anyway. I don’t like it but that’s probably how it is.

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          Didn’t the chief justice decide not to do an investigation for corruption, because reasons? It’s basically the same when cops investigate themselves.

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    He won’t resign because the bar to remove him is too great. Now if they prosecuted him for tax evasion, that could get him off the bench before he dies.

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    Now that Thomas’s image can not get any worse, he’s just going to become more overt about trying to destroy the US government from the bench. That’s all that will happen.

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    Requesting him to resign is the same thing as asking cancer to just… please leave.

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    I skimmed the title and saw “Clarence Thomas resigns over calls […]” and my first thought was “I can’t believe it took this long.”

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      Unless there are dramatic political reforms, you’ll be waiting the rest of his life.

      You can’t shame him out of office. If he felt shame, he wouldn’t have taken so many bribes in the first place.

      It’s why lifetime appointments to powerful positions are a stupid idea.

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    Why would he resign? Like really why would he do it. You can’t force him to, his time won’t run out and corpos and lobbying will never let any sort of political entity take him from his place.

    Dude is there until death you can cry all you want but he’s not leaving.

    I will gladly be wrong about this btw but I know i probably won’t.

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    he won’t resign unless he is compelled by the law or court order. there are too many people who have invested in him for him to just walk away.

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        Well, he could be impeached. Simple majority in the house and 2/3 in the senate though, iirc. Don’t see that happening any time soon.

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          Republicans hold the house for now, so that’s absolutely not happening, esp. since the poorly-name “Freedom Caucus” would immediately move to remove McCarthy if he even brought it to the floor for a vote.