April 10, 2023

Squad” stalwart [New York] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [AOC] says she’s willing to file articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for failing to report decades of luxury trips with a billionaire GOP donor … [saying] “I think this is an emergency. I think that this is a crisis.  I think we’ve had a crisis for some time on the Supreme Court.

—New York Post, April 7, 2023

The Democrat News-Media Complex (the DNC) has “discovered” another intolerable crisis that they hope may enable them to impeach the only black male, Clarence Thomas, on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in order to remove him from that position.

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That’s so that Joe Biden can put perhaps another black woman on the court who doesn’t know what a woman is, because that, not expertise in the Constitution, is the primary qualification for a SCOTUS seat by the Biden administration.  AOC, given her zeal for “social justice” [that is, injustice], says she is willing to file the articles of impeachment herself.  One might normally think that removing the only black male on the Court is a clear case of racism, but it is not because AOC is a Democrat and socialist and Justice Thomas is a Republican. Anyone who disagrees is a racist. 

There are in fact two crises, one more longstanding and one more immediate, that have been unhinging AOC and other Democrats for quite some time. 

The first and longstanding crisis is that since there are more Republican than Democrat justices on the Court right now, Democrats do not always get their way, which in their minds is a threat to democracy itself.

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The second more immediate crisis is that Justice Thomas and his wife Ginni have accepted lavish gifts, in the form of cruises around the world, for the past two decades from a major GOP donor.  Call this the “cruises crisis”! This article deals only with the more recent intolerable crisis that Justice Thomas and his wife took cruises with a friend.

There are, however, a few not-so-minor problems with the case for impeachment that are tacitly acknowledged by the Democrat responses to the “cruises crisis.”  The main problem is that as NBC News, not exactly a bastion of right-wingers, but, in fact, a left-leaning station, has reported, there has for “many years” been

a loophole that allowed Supreme Court justices to avoid disclosing certain gifts — including travel — funded by their friends ….  The federal judiciary just last month announced in a letter to lawmakers that it had tightened its rules for what judges and justices need to include in annual financial disclosure statements.

Since Boston University is, apparently, better at teaching dancing than it is at teaching what legal loopholes are, Comrade AOC does not appear to grasp that one cannot impeach Justice Thomas for passing through a loophole that existed when he took those cruises. 

Prof. Stephen Gillers of the New York University law school, who, unlike most dancers, actually knows something about the law, does, however, understands this:

“In my view, before the recent amendments, the situation was sufficiently vague to give Thomas a basis to claim that reporting was not required.”  

In other words, changes have recently been made to close this loophole, but before that Justice Thomas could reasonably claim to have done nothing wrong under existing rules.  That does not, of course, prevent Comrade AOC and other Democrats from wanting to impeach Justice Thomas for rules that they have not fabricated yet.  Maybe comrade AOC and what remains of the Democrat Party will try to get him retroactively next.