Democrats make demand in letter to attorney general Merrick Garland and condemn judge’s ‘blatant disregard for judicial ethics’

Five House Democrats led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote to the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, to demand a federal investigation of the conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, over his acceptance of undeclared gifts from billionaire rightwing donors.

“We write to urge the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into … Clarence Thomas for consistently failing to report significant gifts he received from Harlan Crow and other billionaires for nearly two decades in defiance of his duty under federal law,” the Democrats said.

  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Kennedy died in August of 2009, in those 8 months they (and Obama) kind of saved the American economy?

    You have to remember, when Obama took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month and the stock market had PLUMMETTED TO $6,500.

    They managed to get the Recovery act passed in February, fought by the Republicans every inch of the way:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009

    Which enabled the Tea Party movement and set the stage for the losses in 2010.

    Followed by the “Cash For Clunkers” act in July to prop up the American auto industry, an industry many Republicans (including Mitt Romney) at the time said we should just let die.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System

    https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html

    Then Kennedy died, we lost the 60 vote majority, and Republicans proceeded to use the filibuster more times than all the other Presidential terms combined.

    • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      191·
      1 year ago

      saving the economy by throwing poor homeowners under the bus. smdh why can’t leftists just appreciate how much Obama saved the bankers economy

    • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      151·
      1 year ago

      Kennedy died in August of 2009, in those 8 months they (and Obama) kind of saved the American economy?

      “The economy” meaning rich people’s yacht money?

      Which enabled the Tea Party movement and set the stage for the losses in 2010.

      You can tell that the Democrats made a massive positive difference in the way that voters threw their asses out of power within two years of Obama’s inauguration, replacing him six years later with a game show host. If that isn’t victory, I don’t know what is!

      Can you name a bill the Democrats have passed within the last fifty years that has made a positive difference in your material life as well as the material lives of the people around you? Without doing research?

      Why has Biden refused to use the defense production act to pass universal health care? Why hasn’t he packed the courts? Why is it so hard for him to do these things but so easy for him to send tens of billions of dollars to Nazis in Ukraine?