It doesn't matter if he broke the law. He will have no consequences. He is among those definitely-unworthy who are above the law under this SCOTUS and this US House and Mitch McConnell (who shoved several unfit judges down our throats).
To me, the impeachment point is that he broke one of the very few ethical rules of conduct imposed on itself by SCOTUS and thumbs his nose at that too. (The other reason to impeach him is that his wife runs the judiciary now apparently.) Thomas has never been a good jurist or an honest one. And like all Republicans nowadays he thumbs his nose in public at his many many perfidies (if no felonies...yet).
I am not a lawyer, however, there is an ethical question about right, about honor about integrity in question. Clarence has never had any concept of right, honor nor ethics
Something bad happened to Dahlia Lithwick early in the Trump Administration. For years, she was my favorite legal commentator, but she lost all objectivity then, and never got it back, as far as I'm concerned.
Do we really need to call her names? Some of us like her a lot. She was one of the reasons that I joined Bulwark+. Now I like Sarah Longwell every bit as much and JVL and Charlie and and and... but Mona first.
MonaтАЩs not forgiven for her tasteless opinion on President Carter as he was ill and dying! What kind of person writes this. I didnтАЩt care for Reagan at all, but when he died I focused on the fact he and his wife loved each other,and she stayed and cared for him to the end. Some people are capable of compassion,some not.
I like Mona. I don't agree with her take on all things, or many, but I am GLAD she is on the never trump bandwagon. I am not in favor of a purity test here.
Dahlia lithwick, in slate, completely disagrees with Mona and believes it's absolutely the case Thomas broke the law.
It doesn't matter if he broke the law. He will have no consequences. He is among those definitely-unworthy who are above the law under this SCOTUS and this US House and Mitch McConnell (who shoved several unfit judges down our throats).
To me, the impeachment point is that he broke one of the very few ethical rules of conduct imposed on itself by SCOTUS and thumbs his nose at that too. (The other reason to impeach him is that his wife runs the judiciary now apparently.) Thomas has never been a good jurist or an honest one. And like all Republicans nowadays he thumbs his nose in public at his many many perfidies (if no felonies...yet).
I am not a lawyer, however, there is an ethical question about right, about honor about integrity in question. Clarence has never had any concept of right, honor nor ethics
Something bad happened to Dahlia Lithwick early in the Trump Administration. For years, she was my favorite legal commentator, but she lost all objectivity then, and never got it back, as far as I'm concerned.
well, we're just going to have to disagree on this.
Nevertheless, I think Thomas may have broken the law.
I see that I am not alone in my opinion of Peggums Nooner.
Do we really need to call her names? Some of us like her a lot. She was one of the reasons that I joined Bulwark+. Now I like Sarah Longwell every bit as much and JVL and Charlie and and and... but Mona first.
MonaтАЩs not forgiven for her tasteless opinion on President Carter as he was ill and dying! What kind of person writes this. I didnтАЩt care for Reagan at all, but when he died I focused on the fact he and his wife loved each other,and she stayed and cared for him to the end. Some people are capable of compassion,some not.
I like Mona. I don't agree with her take on all things, or many, but I am GLAD she is on the never trump bandwagon. I am not in favor of a purity test here.
Ha,ha!
She is a lawyer.
No, Mona went to law school. She is not a practicing attorney.
No, she's not a practicing attorney, but an attorney she is nonetheless.
I don't believe she has ever passed the bar or worked as an attorney. So no, she is not an attorney "nonetheless"
And lots of lawyers out there squeaked by with "D" grades.