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"For four decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has extolled the importance of 'personal responsibility,'" Kali Holloway wrote in her piece, "Clarence Thomas Is What He Wrongly Accuses Black Folks of Being."

"He has chastised those who 'make excuses for black Americans' and argued there is a need to emphasize black self-help. He has denigrated affirmative action programs on the grounds that they 'create a narcotic of dependency' where there should be 'an ethic of responsibility and independence.' He bemoans the 'ideology of victimhood' that allows the marginalized to 'make demands on society for reparations and recompense.'"

Funny how a man who supposedly despises reparations had no problem accepting handouts from billionaire friends. Thomas didn't put in extra hours at work or find a nighttime job to help put his grandnephew through school. Nope, he took all the free money he could get his hands on. Thomas' admission into Yale was one of the university's first after they created an affirmative action program - the same program that Thomas effectively gutted as soon as he could.

To date, Thomas hasn't been reprimanded for laws he's broken - and make no mistake, he's broken laws. Thomas still has yet to speak in any substantial context about the gifts he's received will serving on the Supreme Court.

But what's most comical has to be Thomas' statement during his vetting for the Supreme Court - the same courtroom drama in which Anita Hill tried to warn America that Thomas had long been an embarrassment to those who came before him - when he claimed that the proceedings were a "high-tech lynching" against uppity Blacks who dare to think for themselves.

Good thing none of that has ever actually applied to Thomas. Thomas isn't uppity, he's raggedy. He always has been. And Hill tried to tell us this, but America doesn't care about Black women. She told us how Clarence Thomas is exactly who we thought he was.

Hypocrisy thy names are Clarence and Ginni Thomas.

I disagree whole heartedly "we" have not been suffering under an illusion, just pompous fools who have refused to recognize the blatant disregard by the majority of the need for the court to appesr fair and impartial. These corrupt openly, with grins on their faces, accept free trips and gifts which are obviously bribes to everyone except the most extreme psrtisan right wing hacks. The "liberal establishment" is so unwilling to call out the obvious bias of Justices that I wonder if they have been sleeping while hearing cases. What will it take to get these Justices for sale to notice that the American people do not think the present Supreme Court values justice when they are deciding about the lawlessness of Trump. I'm thinking pitchforks in front of the Supreme Court held by huge mobs of normal Americans angry about the court's apparent unwillingness to take the 14th amendment seriously. That amendment isn't vague and we watched as Trump encouraged his crazed MAGA upporters to g which turned out to be a lieo to the Capital and orevent the certification of the election he had clearly lost, even promising he would be thee too which turned out to be a lie but it was clear that he wanted them to prevent Congress from doing their Constitutional duty. The GQP keeps threatening Civil War and the Supreme Court is telling us they won't fairly hear cases about an insurrection we all watched on live national TV so the GQP may get their wish but if that happens the members of the Supreme Court will be responsible because they are making legal remedies useless and allowing insurrectionists to prevent legal elections to have more importance than liars who value their Party over democracy.

The justice was especially concerned with the idea that former presidents would be targeted for political prosecution by their rivals. When the government's lawyer, Michael Dreeben, argued that prosecutors don't always get grand juries to agree to indictments, Alito responded, "Every once in a while there's an eclipse too."

The risk of such prosecutions poses the biggest threat, Alito suggested: "If an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election knows that a real possibility after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement, but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?"

As Dreeben correctly responded, that is the literal inversion of the Jan. 6 case, which involves a defeated former president who, after pursuing several legal avenues to challenge the outcome and losing all of them, chose very clearly not to "go off into a peaceful retirement," but rather tried to overturn the election by illegal and unconstitutional means that resulted in a violent attack on Congress.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor was also perplexed by Alito's upside-down hypothetical, which actively avoided the facts of the case before the court. "A stable democratic society needs the good faith of its public officials, correct?" she asked, adding that the crimes Trump is charged with committing "are the antithesis of democracy" and that his immunity argument cast doubt on the principle "that no man is above the law, either in his official or private acts."

Today confirms that the conservative justices sitting on the Supreme Court are more than comfortable with the crimes Donald Trump committed while in office in order to illegally stay in office. Remember when these same justices bellowed from high that it was not their job to legislate from the bench or to guess at intent, their job was to deal with the facts of the cases brought before them as dictated by the laws enumerated within the Constitution? Well, that appears to have gone by the boards if Alito's juxtaposition of reality serves as the basis to find a presidential immunity no one ever quantified or even imagined until Trump came along and undertook activities no other US President ever did.

The question the SCOTUS was engaged to answer today was whether a President has "absolute immunity" for any and all acts undertaken while in office. Now that has morphed into the non-asked argument as to whether criminal laws need to specifically include the President as prosecutable if charged with violations of them.

It is clear as day that the right wing is actively delegitimizing historical constitutional checks and balances, heretofore thought to apply to every single American equally without fault or favor in support of the most corrupt, anti-liberal (small L), criminal President to ever sully the White House and Oval Office. Trump is everything our Founders tried to anticipate and created various means to thwart and remove from public service, understanding centuries ago that a popular demagogic leader could emerge and attempt to consolidate authoritarian power not unlike the King they fought a war of independence to escape from.

People are way over-reacting.

No, people are not overreacting. The Roberts Court was tasked to answer a simple question based on a known set of conditions that are real and not hypothetical. The question at issue was does Donald Trump possess ANY form of Presidential immunity for the specific acts he's being charged with regarding January 6th(?) The Roberts Court has told this nation repeatedly that's it's not their job to legislate or rewrite laws from their bench unless there is a constitutional issue at stake which they deem either Congress or the Executive have misinterpreted.

That is not the case with Trump v. U.S.. The ONLY issue before the Court was whether or not Donald Trump has inherent constitutionally-based immunity from prosecution for the criminal acts he's charged with committing on and around January 6th and his conspiracy to illegally remain in office against the expressed will of voters and the constitutional process of presidential succession.

Worrying about what presidential actions are "core" or "not core" is not germane to answering the precise question put before the SCOTUS. And the most insidious aspect of Alito's meandering rant is that he completely ignores that no former President EVER has been charged with a crime expressly by his successor - including Trump. So what basis of fact is his hypothetical point based on? N-O-N-E!

President Biden has nothing to do with the DOJ investigating and charging Donald Trump, but if one listens to Alito, that is the direct allusion his questioning promotes. No one is asking today's SCOTUS to set parameters for presidential conduct but for the SCOTUS itself. Instead of sticking to what has already occurred under an actual President, hours were wasted on hypotheticals which don't address the ripe issue they injected themselves into.

Presidents place their hand on a bible and swear to faithfully execute our laws under the Constitution. Unlike most every other President not named Nixon, Trump not only broke his oath by conspiring against the Constitution, he's now trying to undermine that Constitution in alliance with corrupted judges placing the protection of fantasy before the prosecution of criminality, turning the Constitution on its head.

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