He's not resigning from a position that is a lifetime appointment.

So sick of hearing these moronic articles.

Either get the goddamn Department of Justice or IRS involved in this and see if these trips and other gifts were illegal, or STFU. Yes, we all know he's a corrupt piece of shit, but he's not resigning, and it sure as hell doesn't look like any governmental departments even want to try going after him for corruption.

is it SO fucking insane that we all know he's corrupt but he's still able to go to work and put on his fucking robe and ruin people's lives and we're meant to keep respecting that. fucking dogshit country

Why are we waiting on a resignation? Kick him the fuck out.

Dissolve the court. Arrest Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh. Bring in an independent investigator and if any of the others have so much as gotten a ride to their car from someone with business before the court arrest them too. No more "well it's only a little bit corrupt" or "yeah but you've gotta understand" or that horse shit. You want your word to be the literal law that almost 400 million people have to live under? You need to be fucking flawless.

Clarence Thomas resign

YES

calls

Oh…

And Clarence Thomas' response is that the American Mullahs can do whatever they like and there's fuck all anyone can do about it.

He won't resign because the bar to remove him is too great. Now if they prosecuted him for tax evasion, that could get him off the bench before he dies.

Now that Thomas's image can not get any worse, he's just going to become more overt about trying to destroy the US government from the bench. That's all that will happen.

clarence thomas to Americans: “fuck you, got mine”.

Requesting him to resign is the same thing as asking cancer to just… please leave.

Clarence hears ya.

Clarence don’t care.

I skimmed the title and saw "Clarence Thomas resigns over calls [...]" and my first thought was "I can't believe it took this long."

Harlan Crow is such a comic book vilain name too. Maybe it makes me think of the Harlans in altered carbon.

he won't resign unless he is compelled by the law or court order. there are too many people who have invested in him for him to just walk away.

Why would he resign? Like really why would he do it. You can't force him to, his time won't run out and corpos and lobbying will never let any sort of political entity take him from his place.

Dude is there until death you can cry all you want but he's not leaving.

I will gladly be wrong about this btw but I know i probably won't.

There is literally nothing compelling him to resign and if he did resign under democrat rule, the republicans would make sure that he will never feel safe again.

The only way he'll ever leave his position is feet first. Just like RBG and Scalia.

Can any overly-conservative and/or overly-corporate decision that was 5:4 thanks to him be recalled, too?

Maybe a system where someone can be this openly corrupt while making decisions for a large group of people shouldn't exist?

That would be ethical and the right thing to do so there's no way in hell that corrupt sex pest would ever resign.

Lol over half the court was bought and put in place by right wing billionaires to push their agenda. They've spent millions to put them in power and like heck they are going to let Congress remove them. The US government is not for the people it's for the billionaire oligarchs.

we will never have better way this show is playing out even biden does it with clarence's age and job security and the people that are to supposed to check and balance each other doing the same bs and people voting for the same people this might never change

if people really truly cared about living better there would be riots the in streets over all the current mess or lack of votes for the demopublicans

might be some propaganda article out soon to smooth this over out by your local news which is owned by the same megacorp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClatchy it might read out that the "insert scapegoat here" are to blame for this immorality not poor clarence and we as citizens will be back at each other's throats instead just like other times in our history all over the world

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Calls for Justice Clarence Thomas to resign have intensified after documents released this week revealed more trips gifted to the U.S. Supreme Court by wealthy benefactor Harlan Crow.

"This late-come effort at 'Clean-up on Aisle Three' won't deter us from fully investigating the massive, secret, right-wing billionaire influence in which this Court is enmired," wrote Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.

Earlier this year, ProPublica—a New York-based non-profit, independent newsroom conducting investigative journalism in the public interest—revealed that Thomas had accepted gifts from friend Crow, a Republican donor, for the past two decades.

The trips included a voyage on a yacht around the Bahamas, several private jet and helicopter flights, luxury stays and a dozen VIP passes to professional college sporting events, among others.

In the aftermath of the revelations by ProPublica, which sparked outrage among members of the public and Democratic lawmakers and questions over increasing ethics requirements for Supreme Court justices, Thomas defended himself, saying he had always "always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines."

A group of House Democrats, including New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the DOJ to launch an internal inquiry into Thomas's billionaire-funded trips.

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