The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas

[DonViejo]

February 18, 2018 at 10:04 pm EST By Taegan Goddard

Jill Abramson: “It’s also worth looking closely at, because… Thomas’s inappropriate behavior — talking about porn in the office, commenting on the bodies of the women he worked with — was more wide-ranging than was apparent during the sensational Senate hearings, with their strange Coke-can details.”

“But, most of all, because Thomas, as a crucial vote on the Supreme Court, holds incredible power over women’s rights, workplace, reproductive, and otherwise.”

“And given the evidence that’s come out in the years since, it’s also time to raise the possibility of impeachment. Not because he watched porn on his own time, of course. Not because he talked about it with a female colleague — although our understanding of the real workplace harm that kind of sexual harassment does to women has evolved dramatically in the years since, thanks in no small part to those very hearings. Nor is it even because he routinely violated the norms of good workplace behavior, in a way that seemed especially at odds with the elevated office he was seeking. It’s because of the lies he told, repeatedly and under oath, saying he had never talked to Hill about porn or to other women who worked with him about risqué subject matter.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2018/02/18/case-impeaching-clarence-thomas/

[hlthe2b]

1. yeah, THAT's going to happen. Of course it SHOULD

[genxlib]

2. They are for all practical purposes untouchable

Thomas regularly votes on items that his wife gets paid big bucks to lobby for.

In any other world, that kind of corruption would be grounds for removal. Here it is just another day in paradise.

[DeminPennswoods]

3. Yeah, was going to post the same thing

Thomas has a huge conflict of interest on nearly every case because of his wife's ongoing political activity in support of conservative causes. AFAIK he has never even hinted at recusing himself from any case that's come before the USSC.

[IluvPitties]

4. Thomas will die in there.

[MFM008]

5. Maybe sooner

Than later.
Bet it surprised the hell out of Scalia.