For years, Clarence Thomas has been showered with gifts. Flights on a billionaire’s private jet, lavish vacations cruising on his superyacht, summer stays at his Adirondacks compound, tuition for a child Thomas was raising, a quarter-million-dollar motorhome a wealthy friend paid for.
Those gifts were income, and income belongs on a tax return. Thomas treated them as nothing, and no public record shows he ever reported a dollar of it. Under Virginia law, leaving income that size off a return, if it was done to cheat the state, is a felony. The evidence is already public, and he could be charged on Monday.
Virginia law makes it a felony to file a state income tax return with a false statement on it, made with intent to defraud the Commonwealth. The statute is Virginia Code section 58.1-348, it carries up to five years in prison per count, and the clock has not run out on the returns Thomas filed for tax years 2020 through 2024. That is the whole case, and unlike everything else, it is a case a county prosecutor in Virginia has the plain authority to bring.
Yeah that’s what I told everyone when Trump was convicted of 34 felony charges :(
If it comes down to it, Trump will just pardon him as “a victim of the radical left”.
This is where we’re at. They’ve inoculated us with the DDOS of constant bullshit where it becomes normalized, you just can’t keep up. It’s a smash and grab. They’re literally seizing power. Kinda crazy seeing this happening. I don’t want to sound doom and gloom but I just can’t unsee how bad it is.
this looks like a state charge. trump (theoretically) has no control over state pardons.
Yes but there won’t be any charges. This article is only saying that the state could charge him, if it decided to.
The good news it’s the state of Virginia, not the federal government, that could file these charges, so the president would have no ability to pardon it. The bad news is that it’s purely hypothetical. We can all see the crime was committed, but that doesn’t mean a Virginia prosecutor will actually go through with pursuing the case on any particular day.
Watch thomas sue, let it get all the way to the SCROTUS and Thomas doesn’t recuse himself.
Well, that would be another way to reinforce to American public that SCOUTS is illegitimate.
A pardon requires an admission of guilt. An admission which would violate the good behavior clause of the Constitution. Meaning he’s no longer eligible to be on the court.
Huh? Why would you think that?
Since when does anyone care about the Constitution?