The Smearing of Clarence Thomas
The Wall Street Journal | April 7, 2023The left’s assault on the Supreme Court is continuing, and the latest front is the news that Justice Clarence Thomas has a rich friend who has hosted the Justice on his private plane, his yacht, and his vacation resort. That’s it. That’s the story. Yet this non-bombshell has triggered breathless claims that the Court must be investigated, and that Justice Thomas must resign or be impeached. Those demands give away the real political game here.
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ProPublica, a left-leaning website, kicked off the fun with a report Thursday that Justice Thomas has a longtime friendship with Harlan Crow, a wealthy Texas real-estate developer. The intrepid reporters roamed far and wide to discover that the Justice has sometimes traveled on Mr. Crow’s “Bombardier Global 5000 jet” and that each summer the Justice and his wife spend a vacation week at Mr. Crow’s place in the Adirondacks.
The piece is loaded with words and phrases intended to convey that this is all somehow disreputable: “superyacht”; “luxury trips”; “exclusive California all-male retreat”; “sprawling ranch”; “private chefs”; “elegant accommodation”; “opulent lodge”; “lavishing the justice with gifts.” And more.
Adjectival overkill is the method of bad polemicists who don’t have much to report. The ProPublica writers suggest that Justice Thomas may have violated ethics rules, and they quote a couple of cherry-picked ethicists to express their dismay.
But it seems clear that the Court’s rules at the time all of this happened did not require that gifts of personal hospitality be disclosed. This includes the private plane trips. ProPublica fails to make clear to readers that the U.S. Judicial Conference recently changed its rules to require more disclosure. The new rules took effect last month.
I like Thomas. If I could I would take him canoeing in my homemade canoe I named The Wooden Mongoose.
Other Reasons Clarence Thomas Should Resign:
There are some questions about what Ginny was doing on January 12th.
Other Reasons Clarence Thomas Should Resign
Has no one noticed?? He’s black.
He was born a poor, black man… and didn’t stay that way…
He believes that the Constitution is worth defending…
Other Reasons Clarence Thomas Should Resign
He bases all his decisions on something written over 235 years ago. I mean, get with the times, Boomer.
He once accepted a free sample at Costco, and didn’t report it…
Other Reasons Clarence Thomas Should Resign:
Because the screeching harpies at NARAL and the NY Times say so, and screeching harpies would never advocate for something without carefully examining the subject in an objective and rational manner.
He’s a black Republican. The party of anything goes simply cannot allow that.
Other Reasons Clarence Thomas Should Resign
You cannot expect impartiality from a person who obviously prefers the green M and Ms.
Plain, peanut or almond.
Details matter.
nuts or no nuts is just a personal choice
He went over the schnitzengruben limit.
Plus he plagiarized the line “Where da white women at?”
He reputedly once watched “Hannity”
He’s disrespectful of Coke cans
…that would be making a mounting out of a Hill.
…besides Ginsberg he’s the only Supreme that could speak jive.
…he refuses to clarify things for impressionable young black voters by changing his first name to “Uncle”
Other Reasons Clarence Thomas Should Resign
Trump has been re-elected President.
Justice Thomas would be ok if he would just take the money from the CCP, like the President and his family did/do..
Ditched the Supremes to become a Pip.
Doesn’t need a gavel to bang.
Reading comprehension skills are off the charts. Plus, he can read.
Unlike his opponents in the annual Court vs. Cabinet basketball game he has absolutely no crossover dribble.
Unpaid gambling debt from when he put a twenty on Corn Pop.
Thinks Sotomayor should recuse herself in Sotomayor vs. Ugly Stick appeal.
Could somebody point me in the direction of ProPublica so I can say “that’s racist…you’re racist” ad nauseum…