Clarence Thomas blaming the advice he got from his peers.

[Baitball Blogger]

Said that he checked before hand and he was told he did not have to disclose. But now there is new rules and he will begin to follow the new rules.

So, he knows what he did is wrong, but he is blaming whoever counseled him. The big ask that we should get is who did he ask? Was it Roberts? Or is he going to blame Scalia since he's dead and can't be exhumed for a rebuttal?

[malaise]

1. Bye Bye Uncle Tom Clarence

That is all

[Earth-shine]

7. Uncle Thomas?

[malaise]

9. Even better

[robbob]

22. I wish you were right,

but these people (reThugs) have no shame. The press will cluck disapprovingly and it will all go into the memory hole. I mean, he just got over being married to an insurrectionist, refusing to recuse from cases involving TFG and Jan. 6th, I don’t see him resigning now. Plus, his resigning would open the door for a Biden nomination, and the people who pays his bills don’t want THAT. So they’ll instruct him to sit tight until it blows over, which, given the corporate control of our media, shouldn’t be more then a week or two.

Again, I hope you’re right and I’m wrong…

[malaise]

24. We have an old proverb here from way back to the days of enamel buckets

‘Every day carry bucket go a well, one day di bucket bottom must drop out”.
The last straw is nigh for Uncle Thomas. 😀😀😀

[yonder]

23. He Better Call Saul

Maybe he can come up with advice.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. lol

Clarence should know there are government stings

[perfessor]

3. He will blame Scalia

… who also enjoyed his junkets.

[Marius25]

4. This wasn't a minor gift from a close friend.

This was things like a $500,000 trip to Indonesia on private jets and yachts with personal chefs, and long stays at luxury, exclusive resorts with members of the Federalist society.

It's another nail in the coffin of American Democracy that Thomas isn't forced to resign or facing criminal consequences.

[Me.]

6. Not To Mention Gifts

Like a portrait of he and his wife and Fredrick Douglas' bible.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. OK, so Clarence Thomas, a sitting Associate Justice on the United States

Supreme Court, wants us to believe that just asking his "peers" was sufficient advice. He didn't do his own research to confirm.

Sure. And does that mean that he also doesn't check the work of his law clerks for every brief submitted to the USSC? He trusts their due diligence?

Thomas has been a graduate of Yale Law School, an attorney, worked under Reagan's EEOC, was an associate justice on the D.C. Court of Appeals as well.

And he does shotty research for something as imperative as receiving gifts while on the Bench?

I'm not buying it.

[Shermann]

17. I was told...

How many lines of BS start with that phrase?

[sanatanadharma]

8. 30 years of bad advice, or ...

30 years of bad advice, or did he only ask once? Perhaps he asked the new clerk.

[Jarqui]

10. So a Supreme Court Justice needs a lawyer or someone to guide him in these basics of ethics?

He couldn't figure this out for himself?

Basically, he's admitting he isn't up to the job.
Of course, Anita Hill told us that in 1991.

[CrispyQ]

11. Hopefully someone with authority will give him a choice: resign or we go after both you & Ginny.

on edit: Actually I'd like them to go after both of them, but I doubt that would ever happen.

[Sneederbunk]

15. Won't happen unless Dems do full court press.

[Farmer-Rick]

12. Such a liar

He damn well knew he was taking bribes and didn't care. He wasn't violating tax code but he was violating the constitution.

Did he really think taking bribes from filthy rich greedy men was a good look?

He said well I know it's wrong but what are they going to do about it? Nothing. So, I'll do it until they scream then claim I didn't know. It worked when his wife was accepting bribes on his behalf.

Directly from the constitution:
"The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour,"

This is NOT good behavior. Anyone with common sense would have known. Any one can see it's a bribe nothing more or less.

[Meadowoak]

14. I just wonder who else has been bribing him? I bet he's been on the take

Since 1991.

[Qutzupalotl]

13. Brought to you by The Party of Personal Responsibility.️

[C_U_L8R]

16. "But... but... everybody's doing it

and Johnny said I could, kinda."

[sheshe2]

18. He probably asked Ginni.🤔

[Chainfire]

19. So, a SC justice is going to claim that he didn't understand the law?

That is pretty damn rich.

[Irish_Dem]

29. His accountants, law clerks, personal attorneys don't know the law either I guess.

[Polybius]

20. It's possible that Scalia and maybe even Rehnquist told him that advice

Scalia openly hung out with doners. Maybe Rehnquist just didn't get caught.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. This is the likely excuse.

[gratuitous]

25. Is ignorance of the law now an excuse?

Bog standard Republican responses to bad news:

1. I haven't seen what so-and-so said. "Oh, here it is on my phone." I don't have my glasses, so I can't read that.

2. Someone (not saying who) told me what I was doing was copacetic. "Aren't you a lawyer yourself?" [Silence]

3. I can't comment on an ongoing investigation. "Haven't you subpoenaed the prosecuting attorney?" That's different.

And so on, with the fearless bulldogs of the Fourth Estate swallowing every last ounce of bullshit as if it were proffered in good faith.

[Firestorm49]

26. If he's really that stupid, he doesn't belong on the bench.

As the old saying goes, ignorance is no defense.

[maxsolomon]

27. someday he will pass on,

and the GQP will nominate someone worse.

[Irish_Dem]

28. My friends say it is legal for me to rob a bank.

I should believe them and not follow the law?

[RobinA]

31. If All Your Friends

are lawyers from Ivy schools holding top jobs in this country, I would say go for it.

[Irish_Dem]

32. Ordinary Americans know the law and ethics more than Ivy League lawyers.

And certainly more that Supreme Court justices.
Sad, isn't it.

[RobinA]

30. Isn't This

dumb f*** supposed to be a lawyer? And a federal employee long before he was on the Court? Federal employees are not allowed to accept gifts.

[Irish_Dem]

33. For those who make the rules, there are no rules.

These idiots know the law, they just don't follow it.

[Baitball Blogger]

34. I don't think that sleazy guy really was asking about the law as written,

He was asking what the practice was for other justices. And they might have had an interpretation that might have involved a dinner. Maybe because of Scalia's excessive acceptance of gifts, Thomas took it beyond that exponentially.