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Slate: The One Reason a Second Trump Presidency Would Be So Much Worse
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/2016-election-supreme-court-helps-trump.html
Comment: "And so, in a sense, the many questions posed by this showdown boil down to just one: Will the next president embrace the traditional role of a commander in chief with robust yet limited powers, with a fundamental obligation to serve the citizenry over her parochial needs, and with ultimate accountability to the people and the law? Or will the next president fit the role, newly fashioned by John Roberts and his far-right colleagues, of a self-interested monarch who conflates his own grudges with the interests of the public, sits high above the law, and relentlessly persecutes his perceived enemies?"
"Legal journalists have been asking ourselves whether John Roberts’ court would throw the 2024 election to Trump. That is the wrong question. The real question is whether that court would throw out the rule of law in favor of Trumpism. That happened in July."
This article is referencing the Supreme Court's ruling giving Trump immunity from certain criminal prosecution.
PolitiFact: What’s behind recent false claims about immigrants and crime?
https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/sep/27/whats-behind-recent-false-claims-about-immigrants/
Comment: "Much of the rhetoric about a purported immigrant crime wave has stemmed from or was amplified by former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, his supporters and other high-profile conservatives on social media, such as X owner Elon Musk."
"But experts told PolitiFact — and crime statistics and studies show — that the rhetoric about immigrants and crime is often exaggerated or false."
"Studies have historically shown that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than U.S. citizens. No available data backs claims that there is a migrant crime wave happening in the U.S., despite the online and political rhetoric."
"Experts told us a false narrative about immigrants and crime has proliferated for decades and is often heightened by politics."
Court revives lawsuit of Black pastor who was arrested while watering his neighbor's flowers
https://www.yahoo.com/news/court-revives-lawsuit-black-pastor-201336849.html
Comment: "A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the three officers who arrested Michael Jennings in Childersburg, Alabama, lacked probable cause for the arrest and are therefore not shielded by qualified immunity."
"Qualified immunity protects officers from civil liability while performing their duties as long as their actions don’t violate clearly established law or constitutional rights which they should have known about."
ALos Angeles Times: Column: A Trump judge just overturned the government's most effective anti-fraud tool, which has stood for 150 years
Comment: "Since 1986, whistleblowers have been in the forefront of the government’s war on fraud, accounting for $53 billion, or more than 70%, of the $75 billion recovered from swindlers on defense contracts, from Medicare and from other federal programs."
"There’s no debate over what’s driving this record: It’s a 1986 federal law that awards whistleblowers up to 30% of the recovery. For the federal government, this is a bargain. Without the law, the government might never even know about most of the $75 billion in fraud that was unearthed."
"So perhaps it’s unsurprising that a Trump-appointed judge in Florida has just declared a key provision of the law unconstitutional. The provision concerns so-called qui tam actions, in which private litigants bring lawsuits on behalf of the government as well as themselves. (The Latin term came to us via old English law.)"
"The ruling came from federal Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, whom Trump named to the bench in 2020 despite her having been labeled 'not qualified' by the American Bar Assn. due to her 'lack of meaningful trial experience.' She did, however, boast a sterling right-wing legal pedigree, including service as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas."
The article goes on to describe the history of qui tam actions, going back to the civil war and beyond. It also describes some of the cases that qui tam actions have been used to fight fraud and corruption.
The New Republic: GOP: If We Can’t Win, We’ll Cheat. If We Can’t Cheat, We’ll Intimidate
https://newrepublic.com/article/185334/ken-paxton-texas-gop-cheat-intimidate-elections
Comment: Article describes voter suppression and voter intimidation efforts in Texas and Florida. Below are examples from Texas.
"The Republican attorney general of Texas sent armed police officers after Hispanic voters—some in their 80s—to intimidate, threaten, and destroy them financially by forcing them to hire lawyers to defend themselves, even though they are perfectly legal voters."
"In 2021, Paxton bragged to right-wing hate purveyor and now-imprisoned criminal Steve Bannon that he’d successfully prevented Harris County—home to Houston and its 2.4 million mostly Democratic voters—from voting by mail in 2020, thus keeping Republicans in charge of the state."
MSNBC: LULAC asks DOJ to investigate Texas AG Ken Paxton's raid on Latino homes
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/texas-ken-paxton-lulac-doj-rcna168224
Newsweek: Supreme Court Justices Could Be Forced To Recuse Themselves Under New Plan
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-justices-forced-recuse-themselves-plan-1963203
Comment: "The New York City Bar Association's proposal for Supreme Court reform suggests empowering a panel to decide whether justices must recuse themselves from a case."
"The NYCBA released a report this week that said Congress has the constitutional authority to establish a binding ethics code for the nation's highest court."
"It comes as President Joe Biden and Democrats are seeking to reform the Supreme Court, including establishing term limits for justices and an enforceable ethics code. Republicans, however, have pushed back on such calls, arguing that it would be a breach of the separation of powers between the branches of the federal government."
While this report from New York might be a good plan, a real solution must come from either an effective and enforceable ethics code imposed by the Supreme Court itself, or come by legislation passed by the Congress that the Supreme Court won't overrule later.
ProPublica: Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: “Thank You So, So, So Much”
https://www.propublica.org/article/ginni-thomas-email-scotus-ethics-reform-first-liberty-institute
Comment: "Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, privately heaped praise on a major religious-rights group for fighting efforts to reform the nation’s highest court — efforts sparked, in large part, by her husband’s ethical lapses."
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's open to an 'enforceable' Supreme Court ethics code
Justice Thomas accepted previously undisclosed private jet flight to New Zealand, Senate Democrat says | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/05/politics/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-hawaii-new-zealand/index.html
Comment: The Clarence Thomas scandal keeps getting worse and worse. Even after he had revised his disclosure form once, back in June, to address another trip paid for by billionaire Harlon Crow, Thomas failed to disclose this newly discovered private jet flight to New Zealand, also paid for by Harlon Crow.
Schumer introduces the No Kings Act in attempt to reverse immunity decision | AP News
The Hill: Americans’ approval of Supreme Court near historic low: Gallup
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4799762-supreme-court-approval-rating-historic-low/
The White House: FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Bold Plan to Reform the Supreme Court and Ensure No President Is Above the Law
Biden unveils a proposal to establish term limits for the Supreme Court
Comment: "Vice President Kamala Harris says the proposal President Joe Biden has unveiled for changes to the U.S. Supreme Court would help restore confidence in the court. "
Judge Cannon Should Be Removed in Trump Case, CREW Argues in New Legal Filing — ProPublica
Comment: "Judge Aileen M. Cannon has shown bias in throwing out Trump’s classified documents case and must be replaced if the appeals court overturns her decision, argues public interest advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington."
NPR: Special counsel Jack Smith appeals ruling tossing Trump's classified documents case
Comment: "Special Counsel Jack Smith says U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon was wrong when she dismissed the case last month against former President Donald Trump for mishandling classified and top-secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida."
"In a brief filed with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Smith says Judge Cannon was also mistaken in ruling that the process used to appoint the Special Counsel was unconstitutional."
CNN: Judge dismisses classified documents case against Donald Trump
Comment: This is unbelievable corruption. Cannon just threw out an open and shut case against Donald Trump, dealing with serious charges and national security implications. If anyone else had done what Donald Trump did, he or she would be sitting in a cell at the Federal Supermax prison facility in Florence Colorado.
The Associated Press: Judge's order dismissing Trump classified docs case won't be final word as long court fight awaits
Newsweek: John Roberts Could be Aileen Cannon's Undoing
Comment: Excerpts from article: "Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts was instrumental in creating special counsel regulations that were struck down by Judge Aileen Cannon in the classified documents case, a legal scholar has said." "'Our recommendation was unanimous in our group. Including the now-Chief Justice. The regulations have been affirmed over and over by multiple courts. Except the renegade Judge Cannon. Will be fascinating to see what [Roberts] says, and how he votes, if and when this issue gets to the Supreme Court,' Ornstein added."
Dismissal of Trump classified documents case was the goal of Justice Thomas, other conservatives
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dismissal-trump-classified-documents-case-185725918.html
Clarence Thomas Took Free Yacht Trip to Russia, Chopper Flight to Putin’s Hometown: Dems
The Supreme Court ruled that Trump has immunity for official acts. Here's what happens next. - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-immunity-official-acts/
US Supreme Court rules Trump has broad immunity from prosecution | Reuters
Sotomayor's dissent: A president should not be a 'king above the law' | AP News
Comment: On this 4th of July, please remember that the Declaration of Independence was written to throw off the tyranny of a monarchial reign. I believe in the position of Justice Sotomayor who called the Court's majority decision "utterly indefensible." I believe in the position of Justice Kentaji Brown Jackson who said that the decision would result in a metaphorical "five alarm fire." As a concerned citizen, I too state the only reasonable position: "I dissent." "I dissent" should be our rallying cry. No one should be above the law.
Supreme Court’s Radical Immunity Ruling Shields Lawbreaking Presidents and Undermines Democracy | Brennan Center for Justice
Comment: "Inspired by Justice William J. Brennan Jr.'s devotion to core democratic freedoms, the Brennan Center for Justice works to strengthen democracy, end mass incarceration, and protect liberty and security."
Ex-CIA Director Says What ‘Appalls And Worries Me Most’ About Trump Immunity Ruling
https://share.newsbreak.com/7qt7i7ov
ProPublica: A Supreme Court Justice Warned That a Ruling Would Cause “Large-Scale Disruption.” The Effects Are Already Being Felt.
Comment: The recent Loper Bright Supreme Court ruling overturned the Chevron Doctrine which had been legal precedent for 40 years. In her dissent of the Loper Bright ruling, "Justice Elena Kagan noted that federal courts had cited Chevron deference 18,000 times."
"Loper Bright has been celebrated by foes of regulation."
"Legal experts view Loper Bright as a major transfer of power from agencies to judges. 'You have incredibly technical areas of law for which the U.S. Supreme Court in Loper Bright has now paved a path for individual judges, or panels of three judges, to make decisions without having the technical expertise,' said Sanne Knudsen, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, whose scholarship on deference doctrines has been cited by the Supreme Court."
"The advocacy group Democracy Forward counted 110 federal cases in which parties or judges have cited Loper Bright as of Sept. 6 — and that figure will only rise in the coming months and years. Here are some of the most consequential pending cases."
"Who is eligible for overtime pay?"
"Does Obamacare protect transgender people from discrimination?"
"Can a federal agency force airlines to reveal fees?"
"Can the FTC ban agreements that prohibit employees from joining a rival company?"
"Can the government require background checks for firearms sold at gun shows?"
"Can federal aid for family planning be withheld from states that prohibit abortion?"
"Can the FTC stop a tax-preparation company from making misleading claims?"
"Can a judge review the revocation of an immigrant’s opportunity for citizenship by marriage?"
"It’s too early to say whether a legal tsunami is coming, but with the Supreme Court set to open its new term in two weeks, it’s clear that a wave is already growing."
Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine, Imperiling an Array of Federal Rules
Comment: The right-wing Supreme Court overthrows 40+ years of legal precedent, endangering federal regulations that protect the public from corporations and the powerful. Complex regulatory decisions will be taken away from agency experts and given to judges and politicians who will not be equipped to understand the technical issues involved.
Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron ruling
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/28/supreme-court-chevron-doctrine-ruling
The Supreme Court just limited federal power. Health care is feeling the shockwaves
Comment: This is just one of many impacts to our lives as a result of the Supreme Court's Chevon ruling, gutting the power of federal regulatory agencies. Trump's Supreme Court just got a head start in "deconstructing the administrative state." The public may get a rude awakening when they discover that Steve Bannon's plan to burn it all down includes the destruction of the shelter that protects them.
Democratic bill seeks to reverse Supreme Court ruling on federal agency power
Comments: Democrats in Congress seek to pass federal legislation returning regulatory power to executive branch agencies that help protect the public. These powers were upended by the recent Supreme Court Chevron ruling. Democrats understand that neither the Congress nor the courts have the technical expertise nor the time to deal with the issues that the regulatory agencies deal with on a daily basis.
The Guardian: The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery
Comment: So much for "draining the swamp."
The Hill: Law schools left reeling after latest Supreme Court earthquakes
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4754547-supreme-court-immunity-trump-chevron-law-school/
Comment: The Supreme Court has just upended judicial norms and legal precedence. Law schools and their students are challenged to keep up with the radical changes.
A Fractured Supreme Court’s Decisions Remade America in 2024 - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/us/politics/supreme-court-term-decisions.html
Comment: The impact of recent Supreme Court decisions.
How the Supreme Court came to dominate the US political debate - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crg4rz6zedyo
Comment: Good summary of the U.S. Supreme Court's role (perspective from across the Atlantic) and a discussion of its increasing influence on politics and by politics, especially in the last couple of years.
We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority
Comment: Article about Leonard Leo and The Federalist Society, the architects behind the right-wing's attempt to take over our judicial system.
The Guardian US: Leonard Leo-linked group attacking efforts to educate judges on climate
Axios: Scoop: Conservative activist Leonard Leo threatens funding for right-wing groups
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/12/leonard-leo-conservative-groups-funding
Comment: "Leonard Leo, the conservative activist with an estimated $1 billion at his disposal, is threatening to withhold money from the dozens of groups he supports unless they develop plans to "weaponize" their ideas.
Scheme 18: Leonard Leo’s $1.6 Billion Payday - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Comment: Speech from Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse outlining the dark money network financing the right-wing takeover of our judicial system. Note the roles of billionaires and the massive amounts of money involved.
What can Democrats do about Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito’s corruption? - Vox
https://www.vox.com/scotus/355259/supreme-court-thomas-alito-corruption-democrats-dick-durbin
Democratic senators call on DoJ to investigate Clarence Thomas | Clarence Thomas | The Guardian
CNN: Supreme Court upholds law barring domestic abusers from owning guns in major Second Amendment ruling
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/politics/supreme-court-guns-rahimi/index.html
Comment: Finally, a little common sense. But, of course, Clarence Thomas dissented.
The Hill: Schumer calls on Menendez to resign after conviction
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4775322-schumer-menendez-resignation-conviction/
Comment: Please note that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has asked NJ Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat, to resign from the Senate after his recent conviction. Please contrast this action with the response of Republicans after the conviction of Donald Trump. Democrats had already selected another NJ Democratic senatorial candidate to run for the office in November. However, after Menendez's conviction, Schumer wanted Menendez out now to preserve the dignity of the Senate. Not only did Republicans not condemn Trump for his actions, they have instead blamed our judicial system and our trial by jury process. Then Republicans united behind Trump as their candidate for President of the United States!
Biden says he won’t pardon Hunter Biden or commute his sentence in first public remarks after guilty verdict | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/politics/hunter-biden-joe-biden/index.html
Comment: Please contrast this position with Trump's pardoning of many of his political allies convicted of crimes (including but not limited to Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Charles Kushner, Elliot Broidy, etc.) and the sentence commutation for Roger Stone. Also contrast this position with the repeated attacks on America's justice system by Trump and Republican members of Congress, in an attempt to shield Trump from accountability for his actions.
Federal prosecutor accused of withholding evidence in Trump protest cases
Comment: "Muyskens’s cases involved charges of rioting, conspiracy and destruction of property during Trump’s 2017 inauguration, mostly targeting protest group DisruptJ20. A total of 230 people were arrested as part of the protests."
"Disciplinary counsel Hamilton Fox claims that Muyskens relied upon video evidence provided by Project Veritas, a conservative activist group infamous for undercover video, to back the prosecutions, knowing the video was misleadingly edited."
Divided Supreme Court rules no quick hearing required when police seize property | AP News
Comment: "By a 6-3 vote, the justices rejected the claims of two Alabama women who had to wait more than a year for their cars to be returned. Police had stopped the cars when they were being driven by other people and, after finding drugs, seized the vehicles."
"Civil forfeiture allows authorities to take someone’s property, without having to prove that it has been used for illicit purposes. Critics of the practice describe it as 'legalized theft.'"
USA TODAY: Old legal quirk lets police take your money with little reason, critics say
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/18/civil-asset-forfeiture-explained/74802279007/
Comment: "Law enforcement was able to take the money through a controversial practice called civil asset forfeiture. Advocates against the practice say it amounts to legalized government theft, at times from ordinary, innocent Americans."
Officials release video of officer fatally shooting Sonya Massey in her home after she called 911 - CBS Chicago
Comment: Yet another outrageous police shooting of a black citizen in her own home.
Alabama town's first Black mayor, who had been locked out of office, to return under proposed settlement
Comment: "Newbern, a tiny town of 133 people about 40 miles west of Selma, has a mayor-council government but has not held elections for six decades. Instead, town officials were 'hand-me-down' positions with the mayor appointing a successor and the successor appointing council members, according to the lawsuit filed by Braxton and others. That practice resulted in an overwhelmingly white government in a town where Black residents outnumber white residents by a 2-1 margin."
Senate Republicans block Democrats' Supreme Court ethics bill
Comment: "The legislation would establish a code of conduct for the justices, as well as recusal rules and new requirements for disclosing gifts and travel. Republicans blocked it from advancing."
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted gifts worth millions of dollars over 20 years, analysis finds
Upside-down flag at Justice Alito’s home another blow for Supreme Court under fire
https://www.yahoo.com/news/upside-down-flag-justice-alito-153157721.html
Roger Stone Seems to Imply Trump Totally Controls Judge Cannon
https://newrepublic.com/post/182935/roger-stone-trump-judge-cannon-classified-documents
Comment: Long time GOP operative, Roger Stone was sentenced to over 3 years in prison for obstructing a congressional investigation, lying to Congress, and witness tampering. Of course Trump commuted his sentence. Based on Judge Cannon's later dismissing of Trump's classified documents case, perhaps he did have some sort of control.
Judge Aileen Cannon rips up court schedule in Mar-a-Lago case in ways that benefit Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/politics/cannon-trump-special-counsel-hearing/index.html
Comment: The classified document case in Florida, which many consider an open-and-shut case against Trump, will almost certainly be postponed until after the November election, thanks to some unusual rulings by Judge Aileen Cannon.
Shameless Judge Cannon May Have Killed Trump’s Classified Docs Case
https://newrepublic.com/post/181351/judge-aileen-cannon-killed-trump-classified-docs-case
Judge Cannon's secret right-wing getaway: Why didn't we know about this? | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/05/07/cannons-secret-right-wing-getaway-why-didnt-we-know-about-this/
Comment: "Why are we talking about luxury hunting lodges and right-wing “colloquiums” for judges? Because one of our favorite federal judges, Aileen Cannon of Florida, currently presiding over the case against Donald Trump over the secret documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago, was a guest at that same 2021 'colloquium' at the Sage Lodge, and the one held in 2022 as well. The thing is, Cannon failed to file the form known as a Privately Funded Seminar Disclosure Report, which lists whoever paid for the judge to attend the seminar, who the speakers were and what topics were discussed. The form is supposed to be posted on the website of every federal court within 30 days of the time a judge attending such an all-expenses-paid seminar. Cannon, however, somehow forgot to do so, so anyone who might be interested in learning who was paying for Cannon’s vacations and the nature of her judicial education would have been out of luck."
Many judges fail to fully disclose free luxury trips, NPR finds : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1247512187/federal-judges-disclosures-luxury-trips
Comment: "Dozens of federal judges failed to fully disclose free luxury travel to judicial conferences around the world, as required by internal judiciary rules and federal ethics law, an NPR investigation has found. As a result, the public remained in the dark about potential conflicts of interest for some of the United States' top legal officials."
Justice Clarence Thomas chooses not to recuse himself from another January 6-related case
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/politics/clarence-thomas-january-6-case/index.html
Newsweek: Clarence Thomas Faces Backlash Over Jan. 6 Case Comments: 'What a Disgrace'
The turnout gap between White and Black voters is growing, study finds
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/turnout-gap-white-black-voters-growing-study-finds-rcna141512
Part of the reason is the Supreme Court's weakening of the Voting Rights Act
NBC News: Supreme Court rules gun 'bump stocks’ ban is unlawful
Comment: "In a loss for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that a Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks, gun accessories that allow semiautomatic rifles to fire more quickly, is unlawful."
"In a 6-3 ruling on ideological lines, with the court's conservatives in the majority, the court held that an almost 100-year-old law aimed at banning machine guns cannot legitimately be interpreted to include bump stocks."
It's a win for the NRA, but a loss for a public who wants to avoid massacres like the one that occurred at an outdoor Las Vegas concert.
Thousands Sign Christian Petition Rebuking Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito
https://www.newsweek.com/faithful-america-condemn-clarence-thomas-samuel-alito-1875306
Comment: "In its petition from Wednesday with a goal of 15,000 signatures, Faithful America, an organization of Christians supporting social justice causes while opposing 'Christian nationalism,' wrote that the Supreme Court is in 'crisis, due in part to deep-seated corruption as religious-right activists and billionaires lavish gifts, houses, and vacations' on Thomas and Alito and called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to act."
Opinion | We don’t need DEI in Alabama. Just ask the Gunn family how equal things are
Comment: Excellent opinion piece suggesting that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) teaching in Alabama might help combat the racial insensitivity and injustice found in our state government and its judicial system. Attorney General Steve Marshall's arbitrary release of a policeman convicted of manslaughter for the killing of an unarmed black citizen in Montgomery (Greg Gunn) is discussed. Although not mentioned in the article, the policeman was convicted right here in Dale County by a Dale County jury. For more information about the Gunn case, Google "Greg Gunn Alabama."
AL.com: Archibald: Juries don’t get respect in Alabama, so 33 people could die
Baltimore Bridge Collapse Blamed On DEI As The Attack On DEI Continues
Comment: Just how silly and how racist can some people be?
What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Resumes to U.S. Jobs
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/upshot/employment-discrimination-fake-resumes.html
The nation’s largest credit union rejected more than half its Black conventional mortgage applicants
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/business/navy-federal-credit-union-black-applicants-invs/index.html
Comment: "While many banks also approved White applicants at higher rates than Black borrowers, the nearly 29-percentage-point gap in Navy Federal’s approval rates was the widest of any of the 50 lenders that originated the most mortgage loans last year."
"The disparity remains even among White and Black applicants who had similar incomes and debt-to-income ratios. Notably, Navy Federal approved a slightly higher percentage of applications from White borrowers making less than $62,000 a year than it did of Black borrowers making $140,000 or more."
Clarence Thomas accused of ‘new low’ for hiring clerk accused of texting ‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/clarence-thomas-accused-low-hiring-143814318.html
Clarence Thomas’ Money Complaints Sparked Resignation Fears — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-complaints-sparked-resignation-fears-scotus
Comment: Article describes Supreme Court Justice Thomas' gifts from wealthy benefactors and describes the circumstances leading to these benefactor gifts.
The Saga of Clarence Thomas and His Luxury RV Takes a Disturbing Turn
https://newrepublic.com/article/181627/clarence-thomas-rv-loan-democrats-letter
Comment: Democrats are checking to see if Clarence Thomas owes any federal taxes, resulting from his special RV deal, that he failed to report and pay.