With the crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court getting worse, Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to explain why Justice Thomas’s participation in oral arguments for Moore v. Harper was in violation of federal law.
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None of the ethics laws applying to judges has any teeth. That must change, if only allowing them to be quickly judged and removed for breaching ethics law.
I don't understand why he is still a sitting supreme court justice. This is ridiculous.
Anita Hill didn't lie!!!!
'Uncle' Clarence is all that she said he was!!!!
Time for him to retire!!!
He has been in a fog since the demise of Scalia!!!
The question should be… What are we 332 million strong Americans going to do about it?!!!
Nobody believes you anymore.
Their going to bring down every black man they can. Beware Black men
This shows that the plan by Republicans to disrupt this country started before Trump.
It's time for you to sign a coat of ethics or get the f*** out and I'm not kidding.
IMPEACH thomas NOW!
Congress: Write the LAW NOW to force SCOTUS to abide by rules for lower court judges.
Thomas is one of the few in the Supreme Court that has any integrity left
We regular people are totally sad and discouraged to see how the rules are so different for politicians, there's no rules for them.they don't pay for anything they do. We go to jail.
Failure to comply with laws for lower judges will open that scotus judge up to Federal and State prosecution, and citizen lawsuits. Penalty is immediate removal, jail time equal to10x whatever would be the sentence of a lower judge. Highest Court Gets Highest Penalty.
Isn’t violating the law an impeachable offense?
The founding fathers failed to take into account the possibility of a corrupt SCOTUS. Who checks them? Lifetime terms unchecked is a recipe for disaster.
Impeach Justice Ginni and her spokesperson Clarance
Impeach CT
Lawmakers are the ones who breaks the law . Mitch McConnell Grassley along with others pulled Clarence Thomas into the SCOTUS . Now they're the same ones who could reprimand IMPEACHMENT for Clarence Thomas acknowledgement of his wife Ginni Thomas involvement in January 6th insurrection . In Peru congress is bipartisan and all voted to impeachment Castillo . USA 🇺🇸 hear the bells ringing America 🇺🇸 is the strongest country and we the ppl must not sit back and watch what our republicans gop is allowing Donald Trump to remain the party leader . America 🇺🇸 is going to have blood all over this country if , elected politicians keep shaking hands with Qanon …. Oathkeepers …. WS …. Neo-Nazi …. Antisemitism .
So long story short, he broke some very important rules, but as always with Supreme Court Justices, the rules carry absolutely no weight and they'll just keep doing what want. Fantastic system we have here.
abort the court
Boy we screwed up with lifetime appointments for judges, and the SCOTUS can violate law with no consequences. How we gonna fix this mess? As well as the one big ugly political cult we let get out of hand.
Disbarment is what I am thinking!
If there is no specific penalty, could that mean *impeachment* would be the stopgap?
Dabminamerica, figure it out, pos.
W f n, figure that out to fool, if y can., smart boy.
Thomas and his wife should be in jail!
This is the start for the Democrats to go after all the Justices one at a time, all with BS claims and no pertinent evidence!! All to pack the courts and put in term limits…
Thomas has been a corrupt supreme court justice for years and years
The Supreme Court justices do not follow ethics rules. They are untouchable and above the law. That makes them very corrupt. They have no consequences for their actions and you can’t get rid of them. Eliminate lifetime appointments of Supreme Court judges and have a tribunal for crimes committed by these judges.
WHY can't the DOJ enforce this law against a Supreme Cort Justice? Even if there is no penalty, a conviction can greatly aid impeachment. Some may say a conviction on this law would require an impeachment.
Clarence is a crook and shouldn't be on SCOTUS. They need to be investigated.
msnbc Has been lying for years . No one is listening . Lets talk about our Open Southern Border . Or your son walking around in a Dress . And as of Opinion's msnbc has a Lot of them . And they use them as Truths .
Don't leave it to the politicians… Start a petition demanding the resignation of Clarence Thomas.
The new marriage law has been drafted so that Thomas can not challenge it without nullifying his biracial marriage. Nicely done, Congress!
He needs to be replaced.
Violence is called for now.
Any law is only as good as its ability to be enforced…when you give a "justice" a lifetime appointment and no one to answer to when it comes to the ethics that all other legal practitioners are bound by you get Thomas and Alito and the gutting of the legitimacy of what once was the highest court in the land. The current and wholly un-supreme court needs reforms like term limits, enforceable ethics requirements and accountability to all legal practitioners [on a non-partisan basis] who are to be bound by their rulings. The American people only has confidence in legal institutions that are transparent and held to enforceable ethics requirements- the current un-supreme court can claim neither. They earn a vote of "No Confidence" from this American
This man was nominated to the supreme court by a war criminal … that says everything.
TIme to REMOVE CLARENCE THOMAS TO MANY TIES TO INSURRECTIONIST TRAITORS!!!!!
Jinny Thomas is a big ol heffer.
Tribe is wrong he says (@4:30) that section 455 states "it shall be unlawful for a justice to do…" 455 DOES NOT STATE UNLAWFUL. It states, " (a)Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
(b)He shall also disqualify himself in the following circumstances:…"
yeah…he broke the law…so??…big deal…there's no law for him…these people have worked for 200 years to get this country where it is…and they have it right where they want it…rich people,…politicians…everybody in washington…no law for them…laws are to put people away and profit off of it…laws are only for everybody else …no law in washington….just crooks….
Clarence Thomas is an awesome judge!!!
This is the democratic answer to election deniers. Wild accusations with little to no proof simply to undermine an institution that they don’t agree with.
THE ONLY ONE WHO WOULD KNOW IF JUSTICE THOMAS WAS INFLUENCED BY ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE CONSTITUTION IS JUSTICE THOMAS. WHATEVER YOU ARE BLATHERING ON ABOUT OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T RISE TO THAT LEVEL…OR AN HONEST MAN MIGHT HAVE RECUSED HIMSELF…BUT BEING HONEST JUSTICE THOMAS DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
Limited terms for Supreme Court Justice's and all others holding national public office, no exceptions. It is unfathomable that anyone should get a lifetime position.
You are wanting a Court that was totally appointed by Politicians, who are themselves nothing but criminals, to be " Law Abiding"? Best sick joke of the year.
Thomas is not worthy of being on the Supreme Court!!
He's a disgrace