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.
Good, but unseating that lousy POS will take a lot more.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
The filing should be easy. Proving it might be tough. He knows enough to deny, defend, depose.
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”.
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.
A pardon requires an admission of guilt
Huh? Why would you think that?
which would violate the good behavior clause of the Constitution
Since when does anyone care about the Constitution?
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 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 Monday, or any other 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.
We may see a migration of Virginian motorcoaches into Florida and Texas.
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
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).
I think Uncle Clarence gave up his black guy card decades ago.
Go back to Reddit
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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.
sounds like what a russian troll would say
Or an Israeli lobbyist.
Well he certainly had no problems going after the black guys. time for him to get what he gave
Time to put him behind bars.
They should lock him in a cabin.
He will not be
Isn’t Monday a Federal Holiday? The courts will be closed.
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
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?
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.
Does that include from behind bars?
The legal system exists to serve these people and attack everybody else.
He’s rich.
and there is no law for the rich
You obviously don’t remember the nomination hearings regarding the coke can. Should have never gotten the job
DO IT.
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That specific black guy very much deserves to take a fall
Yeah, I’m jaded and cynical. Can you blame me?
Get him
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
Calling it now, nothing will come of this.
