'They had an insider on SCOTUS': Legal experts stunned by bombshell Clarence Thomas was seen as 'key

[turbinetree]

Full Headline:

‘They had an insider on SCOTUS’: Legal experts stunned by bombshell Clarence Thomas was seen as ‘key’ by Trump lawyers

By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
Published November 02, 2022

A Washington Post bombshell revealing Trump attorneys saw Justice Clarence Thomas as the key to getting the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election is leaving several legal experts stunned.

The Post reports eight emails "ordered released by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter of California, include correspondence between Trump lawyers Kenneth Chesebro, John Eastman and others discussing various legal strategies to convince Republican members of Congress to object to the official certification of electoral votes in a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021."

In one email "from Chesebro to Eastman and several others sent on Dec. 31, 2020, Chesebro argued that [U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence] Thomas would 'end up being key' to asking the high court to overturn then-President-elect Joe Biden’s win in contested states."

https://www.rawstory.com/they-had-an-insider-on-scotus-legal-experts-stunned-by-bombshell-clarence-thomas-was-seen-as-key-by-trump-lawyers/

[Ocelot II]

1. Well, now. Who do you suppose that insider could have been?

[underpants]

2. Not surprising at all sadly

[Grins]

3. Chief Justice Roberts...?

…you were saying something about the integrity of your court…?

[calimary]

17. WHAT integrity?

That’s been gone for awhile by now. Another lethal tumor on the national body politic - left behind by the orange plague.

[wryter2000]

4. Makes sense

However, either they didn’t try or they did and it didn’t work.

[gratuitous]

5. "Legal experts stunned"

By what? The sun coming up in the east? Days getting colder as the calendar flips to November? The wetness of water? No, nothing quite so arcane. These self-styled geniuses have been stunned to find out that Republican operatives have a direct pipeline to their favorite pet justices on the Supreme Court. As these legal experts emerge from their long hibernation, squinty eyes blinking tearily in the light of day, they are stunned - stunned, I tell you! - to find that conservatives have packed the Supreme Court so deftly that they now regularly petition the Nine Wise Souls for legal opinions to their liking.

Stunning.

[Effete Snob]

7. Lol

yep.

Does "STUNNED" work any better?

[Sympthsical]

11. Needs more exclamation points

And if you could work some 1's in, that would be great.

I have an Animal puppet on standby.

[dchill]

24. How about AGOG?

[Irish_Dem]

9. The media pretends to be shocked as part of the media kabuki theater.

It is part of the new post truth era. Where the GOP controls perceived reality.

When disturbing truths do emerge every one acts surprised, even though the facts have been out there all along.

So the public thinks it is one off, or outrageous, instead of in truth just a small part in a carefully orchestrated
destruction of US democracy.

[Permanut]

14. Next we'll be hearing that bears shit in the woods..

and that the Pope is Catholic.


The Stunning revelations just never stop.

[NullTuples]

23. If so, they need to have their "expert" titles revoked!

[Evolve Dammit]

25. deftly said!

[Effete Snob]

6. "Legal experts stunned"

I guess Rawstory forgot to capitalize "STUNNED".

Yes, "legal experts" are all just frozen statues of themselves at this pretty mundane fact.

[lindysalsagal]

8. None of the insurrectionists, at any level, attempted this without assurances from others who hold p

power.

Agreements were made between police, security services, Secret Service, members of the house and senate (Here, Pense idn't play along, so, tfg tried to coerce him) , and the slimeball amateur militia/hate groups and of course, the lame duck president.

But the one person tfg needed was Clarence Thomas. He needs to be impeached, and arrested, along with his wife.

[PortTack]

12. He does....I would be happy with a resignation

[calimary]

18. He will never resign.

Putz will never want to give the rest of us any satisfaction.

[DURHAM D]

10. Aren 't you surprised that Clarence does not react to

being treated like they own him?

[Mr.Bill]

13. It looks more to me

like they have six insiders on the Supreme Court.

[Evolve Dammit]

26. that's what I'm thinking as well

[sarcasmo]

15. Stunned experts were not paying close enough attention.

[ultralite001]

16. Let's confound any search...

"The emails, as produced to the committee, included formatting errors that removed “i”s and “l”s."


That is all...

[Turbineguy]

19. I must not be a legal expert

I am not stunned.

[rubbersole]

21. Get the stun gun!

[robbob]

20. I don't get it?

Yeah, ok, the “trump lawyers” thought Thomas would play ball. Did he? Are there any emails between them and Thomas? If not, that’s just trumps crazy lawyers fantasizing about things that never happened.

[rubbersole]

22. Maybe the assurances from sweet Ginni were enough.

[70sEraVet]

29. Good point. We' SEEM to be getting just one side of a 'maybe' conversation.

Time for Ginnie and Clarence to turn over THEIR emails and phone records.

[Mz Pip]

35. Wishful thinking

on their part maybe, but unless there’s some evidence that Thomas was in on this then that’s all it is.

If there are emails between Ginni and Eastman, well that would make this much more interesting.

[Initech]

27. How is Clarence Thomas still a justice?

He needs to be fired like now.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

33. It's a lifetime appointment? And if he croaks when Repubs are in charge, ...

... Herschel Walker would be a suitable replacement.

[Kid Berwyn]

30. Break it down.

An old story, relevant today:

Clarence Thomas at Bohemian Grove...

Justice Thomas reported a wealth of gifts

In the last six years he has accepted free items valued at $42,200, the most on the high court.

December 31, 2004|Richard A. Serrano and David G. Savage | Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts since joining the high court, including $1,200 worth of tires, valuable historical items and a $5,000 personal check to help pay a relative's education expenses.

SNIP...

He also took a free trip aboard a private jet to the exclusive Bohemian Grove club in Northern California -- arranged by a wealthy Texas real estate investor who helped run an advocacy group that filed briefs with the Supreme Court.

Those and other gifts were disclosed by Thomas under a 1978 federal ethics law that requires high-ranking government officials, including the nine Supreme Court justices, to file a report each year that lists gifts, money and other items they have received.

Thomas has reported accepting much more valuable gifts than his Supreme Court colleagues over the last six years, according to their disclosure forms on file at the court.

CONTINUED...

http://articles.latimes.com/2004/dec/31/nation/na-gifts31



Wanna bet that's just the tip of the iceberg, those gifts, Ginni?

[mwb970]

31. Stunned? I knew that Thomas was crap right from the start.

I did not originally realize that his intensely weird wife was mentally ill. What a couple. Disgusting.

[Kaleva]

32. Turned out that they didn't have an insider

[moondust]

34. Smells like conspiracy.

Eastman/coup plotters ◀▶ Ginni ◀▶ Clarence