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.

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    1 year ago

    If you think this man would ever agree to resign, you haven’t been paying attention. He has to be impeached or he’ll probably die on the bench. This republican ghouls (and anyone involved in American politics in general (have you seen or heard Feinstein lately?)) are so addicted to the money and power they just never retire. Look at this walking corpse that has her family fighting over the inheritance already that’s a US senator:

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        1 year ago

        Except there’s basically no way to do that… Kinda the whole issue. So, not sure wtf your really bad point is.