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
    1·
    1 year ago

    “The Making Home Affordable initiative of the Secretary of the Treasury, as authorized under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008”

    Hmmm… who was President in 2008? 🤔

    Now, if you want to argue Obama should have stopped it, well, yeah, there’s a lot of things he should have stopped…

    • JohnBrownsDream [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      That’s not a quote that’s even in the article. How about:

      Given these differences in wealth portfolios, bailing out financial assets after 2008 while allowing homeowners to drown directly concentrated the national wealth into the hands of the richest white families.