Congressional Democrats have pushed for ethics reform legislation, efforts publicly rejected by Samuel Alito

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[–] 174 points 3 years ago (3 children)

They can call for him to resign all they want. He won't. And he doesn't have to. We have a SCOTUS who is accountable to no one and can get away with anything. They're like the Mullahs of Iran.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I'm not American, so maybe that's a stupid question, but is there really nothing the rest of the government can do about it?

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  • [–] 63 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Maybe if congress got its shit together they could impeach him, but that won't happen.

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  • [–] 61 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Bingo. Each branch is supposed to act as a check on the power of the other two, but the current Congress would rather use its impeachment power to go after Hunter Biden - excuse me, Joe Biden - for being a Democrat.

    By all rights, Thomas should have earned immediate impeachment and removal the moment his frequent acceptance of bribes came to light. But bribery is no scandal for Republicans anymore. For most of their supporters, literally the only crime a Republican can commit is agreeing with a Democrat on anything.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Not as long as Democrats' voters stay home because "both parties are the same" and Republicans ' voters turn out in droves.

    Stop electing Republicans and you'll see a lot of problems solved.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I think you really overestimate the "both parties are the same" group/impact. The Dems need to do more to capture and inspire votes. Stop blaming people for not voting for them. You're supposed to earn their vote with good policy. It's not good enough to just be not as shite as the republicans.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I don't think they are under-estimating, or even close. It's like taking a solid b student and grading them next to the kid eating paint chips and torturing small animals and pretending it's the same. Even in modern times, look at economic accomplishments of this admin, legislative accomplishments, etc. Fighting for things like a higher min wage (though it failed.)

    Stop blaming people for not voting for them.

    Fuck no. Every time in my life we've voted in Republicans it's led to one catastrophe or another. Sure you can make an argument that Dems need to be pushed to the left, but the choices are between:

    a) the party who isn't improving your life fast enough
    b) the party these days that are literal fascists responsible for multiple financial collapses at this point, millions dead from wars they start, failure to manage a pandemic, extreme wealth concentration, that is looking at our planet on fire and still doesn't meaningfully acknowledge that our policy is causing it. Book bans, loss of bodily autonomy for half of the country, destroying education, ensuring discrimination in law, bringing back child labor.

    If you're voting republican in 2023 or not voting democrat, you're a sociopath, billionaire (whoops said the same thing twice), or a fucking moron*. There is no path to a more progressive country that comes through allowing fascists to burn it all down.

    * I suppose I could more charitably say "extremely, profoundly ignorant in a way that almost has to be a choice at this point."

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    [–] 118 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    We've known this dude was a piece of shit since the Anita Hill trial in the 90's. This motherfucker has been corrupt since the start, he doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself, just like every other rich fuck in this country. So hes not the exception here by any means, he just didn't really make much of an effort to hide it.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    He doesn't care, and none of the elite/handlers do, because it took 25 years for the blatant corruption to be exposed and make national headlines.

    I could understand if it took a few years, but 20+ reinforces what most of us already know; journalism is a captured industry, and most "news" exists as a for-profit tool to manufacture consent.

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  • [–] 81 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    And since his wife was active in the plot to overthrow the government, it's a safe bet he was in the know as well.

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  • [–] 59 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I don’t understand how this isn’t a criminal matter. If nothing else, it violates the Ethics in Government Act. Is there no law against soliciting and accepting bribes?

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The Supreme Court is the only arm of the federal judiciary that is not bound by a code of ethics.

    I read that in the article and learned something new.

    Apparently they are above the law.

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  • [+] 11 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I hear you have a couple things in your Constitution that might give you the power to do that.

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  • I hear you have a couple things in your Constitution that might give you the power to do that.

    Sorry, US guns are only for hunting, target practice, self defense, extrajudicial killings by police, and shooting up schools. The majority are in the hands of folks who want nothing more than the fascism express to roll on in so all the people they hate will be hurt.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 years ago

    He should not be allowed to resign.

    He should be censured, impeached, stripped of title and power, then replaced....and ultimately charged and tried.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Fuck corrupt politicians, in the ass, with a cactus

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago

    As if this piece of shit would ever resign. He has immense power. He loves it. He'll never give it up. And he revels in our inability to do fuck-all about it.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Is there any corner of American politics and business that isn't corrupt?

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago

    At least lock up his sedition wife.

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  • [+] 29 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    At any point in time since 2016 you can bet that at least 50 million Americans have adopted an 'anything goes' attitude towards people who share their conservative values. Next election is going to be historic and the part of me that is dead is really excited about it.

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    [+] 23 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago

    Fuck this guy.

    If it's all above board why didn't he declare it all when the first gift was revealed?

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago* (7 children)

    There really does need to be additional checks on Supreme Court Justices, because Congress clearly isn't doing its job. Both the Executive and the Legislative branches are directly answerable to voters, yet the Judicial branch is strangely absent from that ongoing check on their power. I get that we don't want Supreme Court Justices having to campaign for their position, but at the same time, voters should have some direct say in who gets to stay. We clearly had at least two unqualified justices added to the Court under Trump that should not be there.

    In the history of the Supreme Court, only one Judge has actually been impeached, but wasn't removed. Another ended up resigning after impeachment was threatened, but that's likely when people actually had a sense of shame and resigned when they were caught doing something wrong. We're at a point now though where one part will simply deny reality and/or any wrong-doing, claim it's just the other side being political, and ignore it.

    So calling for him to resign is just sort of a nice-to-say thing I guess, at least it's on record that somebody said it, but it will ultimately go nowhere.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    My desired state is that every governmental position at the senior level is subject to voter recall regardless of whether they are appointed or elected. All of them. I would still expect a high bar to be met to trigger that recall threshold, but the people should ALWAYS be the final say on those in power over them.

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    [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    Motherfucker doesn’t care. Fuck that guy and his wife. Fuck

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    Traitors, both he and his wife.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    I’ve given up on being bothered by this disaster of a political system. Now, it’s time to just sit back and laugh at all the futile attempts to reign in the corruption and criminal acts of this absolutely repugnant political party.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Are those judges above the law? What a weird system.

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