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.
BS.
- Monday is a holiday
- everything said here has been true for years. Where are the charges?
I understand the desire for justice, I agree this case is egregious, and the proof does seem out in the open, but wishing doesn’t make it so
I have been hearing about this guys corruption and scandals since the early 90s.
Hes living proof of why lifetime Supreme Court appointments should not exist
Jesus Christ.
There’s a difference between possible and probable. This headline is extremely misleading. It might as well say Clarence Thomas could have monkeys fly out of his butt on Monday.
Is it possible? Yes.
Is it probable? No.
I understand this is “a call to action” but the headline is disingenuous.
That asshole really needs to fall for all the corruption he has been part of.
But it’s doubtful it will ever happen.
Americans simply don’t do enough against corruption, no matter how bad and no matter how obvious.I mean, let’s prosecute crimes and all but the timing of this kind of seems like we’re giving the pedos another lifetime appointment… dammed either way. Special shout out to disposing of the useful black idiot first
Would be charged, if the US wasn’t deeply infiltrated by Nazis.
Could be? Or will be?
It’s the US - I think we all know the answer.
That country needs to (for so many reasons) drop “In God We Trust” as an official motto - “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda” seems more apposite.
Fine, but do it in Latin… for the mystique…
𝓟𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓶, 𝓐𝓾𝓭𝓮𝓶, 𝓓𝓮𝓱𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓶
Possem, Audem, Dehibem
Your phrase is actually a mix of Latin and Portuguese, translating to “I can, praise to God, I got along well.”
Isn’t Monday a Federal Holiday? The courts will be closed.
Virginia’s CIA puppet governor won’t let it happen.
Nothing will come of it but it at least sounds funny.
Idk, I’m not saying that Clarence Thomas doesn’t have it coming. It looks like he took bribes.
I get kind of an ick about going after the black guy, when I doubt he was off on his own taking bribes and think it’s more of a structural issue.
So, I’m not sure which would be more repellent doing nothing or doing something in this case.
You do have to kind of admire the game though, which damnation would you prefer?
I get kind of an ick about going after the black guy, when I doubt he was off on his own taking bribes and think it’s more of a structural issue.
As a member of the black delegation, fuck that guy. We don’t claim him.
I think Uncle Clarence gave up his black guy card decades ago.
I get kind of an ick about going after the black guy
Seriously‽ The guy is corrupt. The law applies to all no matter the skin colour, and he of all people should know that (as a supreme court judge).
He’s the one that did it publicly and he’s an idiot for it. Gotta start somewhere with these Supreme Injustices. I fear if he’s impeached the replacement the orange one picks will be far worse, if that’s even possible.
Well he certainly had no problems going after the black guys. time for him to get what he gave
sounds like what a russian troll would say
Or an Israeli lobbyist.
Go back to Reddit
I’ve got to say it. This is a case the Biden DOJ could have brought too. And Obama. The Democrats have got to stop playing games. They should have immediately changed it up when Obama was denied justice picks.
DO IT.
Oh no how unfortunate.
how is this guy still employed? honest question - dude has litany of corruption accusations going back decades and he’s still holding a position? How does that work?
The legal system exists to serve these people and attack everybody else.
and it is absolutely disgusting
You obviously don’t remember the nomination hearings regarding the coke can. Should have never gotten the job
i’m not american so my knowledge about american supreme court is limited to corruption news which paints a lively picture of that joint
He’s rich.
and there is no law for the rich
Supreme court justices are appointed for life.
NOBODY should be appointed for life. That shit stinks of dictatorship real bad.
What bad could come of letting someone make important decisions, someone who has become deranged as their brain atrophies and also desperate as death looms large, someone with no future and no stake in the consequences of their decisions?
The idea behind the SC being lifetime appointments was to insulate it from political pressure, unlike the president and Congress which are suceptible to removal. The SC is (supposed to be) a rather apolitical body that determines if the laws passed are unconstitutional, in order to preserve basic rights.
Right now, it’s rife with partisan hacks, and it need to be removed and rebuilt from the ground up. Absolutely none of the current Republican justices meet the qualifications nor strength of character to be SC jucsticies.
Didn’t work. The highest prize for any president is appointing a SCJ from “their side”.
Given that a president can serve 8 years, I’d say a fixed term of 16 years so that they can outlast a hostile president. On average a position would come up every couple of years with the current 9 seats.
Does that include from behind bars?
TBH, I don’t know. If my highschool history was correct, along with my memory, it is unlawful to prevent a supreme court justice from carrying out their duties. Cops can’t even give them speeding tickets if they are heading to a sessions IIRC.
what can go wrong…
No, he won’t.
Should he? Yes, he should have been dragged out behind the courthouse 20 years. But he’s not going to ever face any consequences for betraying this country or for taking bribes, even though he’s made a career out of doing both.
