Democrats make demand in letter to attorney general Merrick Garland and condemn judge’s ‘blatant disregard for judicial ethics’

Five House Democrats led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote to the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, to demand a federal investigation of the conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, over his acceptance of undeclared gifts from billionaire rightwing donors.

“We write to urge the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into … Clarence Thomas for consistently failing to report significant gifts he received from Harlan Crow and other billionaires for nearly two decades in defiance of his duty under federal law,” the Democrats said.

    • Jordan LundEnglish
      3•11 months ago

      Kennedy died and we lost the 60 votes in the Senate.

      • duderium [he/him]English
        22•11 months ago

        Kennedy died several months after Obama took office. What were Democrats doing during this time, aside from bailing out bankers and dronestriking weddings?

        • Jordan LundEnglish
          4•11 months ago

          Kennedy died in August of 2009, in those 8 months they (and Obama) kind of saved the American economy?

          You have to remember, when Obama took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month and the stock market had PLUMMETTED TO $6,500.

          They managed to get the Recovery act passed in February, fought by the Republicans every inch of the way:

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009

          Which enabled the Tea Party movement and set the stage for the losses in 2010.

          Followed by the “Cash For Clunkers” act in July to prop up the American auto industry, an industry many Republicans (including Mitt Romney) at the time said we should just let die.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System

          https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html

          Then Kennedy died, we lost the 60 vote majority, and Republicans proceeded to use the filibuster more times than all the other Presidential terms combined.

          • silent_water [she/her]English
            19•11 months ago

            saving the economy by throwing poor homeowners under the bus. smdh why can’t leftists just appreciate how much Obama saved the bankers economy

            • Jordan LundEnglish
              2•11 months ago

              Which didn’t actually happen, but you do you I guess.

                • Jordan LundEnglish
                  1•11 months ago

                  “The Making Home Affordable initiative of the Secretary of the Treasury, as authorized under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008”

                  Hmmm… who was President in 2008? 🤔

                  Now, if you want to argue Obama should have stopped it, well, yeah, there’s a lot of things he should have stopped…

                  • JohnBrownsDream [he/him, comrade/them]English
                    8•11 months ago

                    That’s not a quote that’s even in the article. How about:

                    Given these differences in wealth portfolios, bailing out financial assets after 2008 while allowing homeowners to drown directly concentrated the national wealth into the hands of the richest white families.

          • duderium [he/him]English
            15•11 months ago

            Kennedy died in August of 2009, in those 8 months they (and Obama) kind of saved the American economy?

            “The economy” meaning rich people’s yacht money?

            Which enabled the Tea Party movement and set the stage for the losses in 2010.

            You can tell that the Democrats made a massive positive difference in the way that voters threw their asses out of power within two years of Obama’s inauguration, replacing him six years later with a game show host. If that isn’t victory, I don’t know what is!

            Can you name a bill the Democrats have passed within the last fifty years that has made a positive difference in your material life as well as the material lives of the people around you? Without doing research?

            Why has Biden refused to use the defense production act to pass universal health care? Why hasn’t he packed the courts? Why is it so hard for him to do these things but so easy for him to send tens of billions of dollars to Nazis in Ukraine?