Sen. Whitehouse and Lawrence Bash Justice Thomas's Billionaire-Funded Lifestyle
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- čas přidán 10. 08. 2023
- August 10 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joins MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell discuss ProPublica’s latest bombshell report further exposing the breadth of undisclosed billionaire-funded gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Whitehouse has long been the Senate’s leading voice for improving transparency and accountability at the Supreme Court. Last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed Whitehouse’s Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act, legislation that would help restore the American public’s sinking trust in the Supreme Court by fortifying regulations regarding judicial conflicts of interest and recusal. The bill was endorsed by The New York Times editorial board.
It is time to impeach the grifter justice Thomas.
@@tradde11Gotta hope the next two election cycles are fruitful for the liberal minded candidates so real progress can be attained.
impeach how about charge him and the other s for tax evasion . not reporting those gifts and avoiding paying the taxes.
and his gf
It's time for the public to realize that the whole concept of impeachment is a joke.
In what other trial is a jury composed not of a group of randomly selected people who are vetted to make the jury fair and impartial, but instead composed of your political friends and enemies, in which the makeup of that group honestly means more than the seriousness of any crimes committed.
How can anyone so corrupt make unbiased, constitutional focused decisions??? Bravo Senator Whitehouse! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 For enlightening the public!
Well, Whitehouse and Durbin had months to issue subpoenas to SCOTUS and the donors, but instead ran out the clock with feckless letters and rambling hearings. What use is power if Whitehouse and Durbin are terrified to use it?
Well, to go even further....
even if he wasn't corrupt, through money issues.. He still has terrible "conservative" views that align with the worst of the "conservative" ideology in America, and wouldn't be able to make fair judgement in many cases...
@@hw-rg7gn And what you did was fantastic. Congress is holding hearing on stoves. Vote
Funny how the judges funded by billionaires, vote to pass laws benefiting billionaires. I wish that greed was a curable disease.
Greed is totally curable, as the species will discover in the next decade or so. Greed only exists as long as the human race exists, and we are killing off ALL mammals in the rush to own EVERYTHING.
Some people have said that bullets and cyanide cure greed rather swiftly.
That might be a pretty radical path though... Especially for a pacifist like myself
We need to bring back the tax code that Dwight Eisenhower had of 79 percent on the top percent above 279 thousand dollars per year and that made the 1950 's and 1960 's a lot better times than today. The ultra rich people spent their money on cars and private vacation and lived large and then people could work for them and make good money for a family and only one would have to work and mom could stay home and take care of their children. And own a new car and home and take at least one week long vacation. Tax the powerful billionaires boys back into being just millionaires and limit ownership of homes to 10 max other wise we will become a rental property nation
It is! Look to France late 17hundreds! As well as many other countries solutions!
Is this justice? Pay to pass laws in favor of the rich? Two-tier justice system?
No wonder why public trust is at an all time low.
All 6 of these conservative justices need to be removed.
Especially Thomas!!!!
And Alito!!
KAVA NAH! AND THE HAND MAID NUT CASE TOO
And The Handmaid, GOD has NO PLACE in American Justice.
And at the same time, we need to examine closely the liberal judges to ensure they aren't also ensnared in similar actions.
That way the damned nutjob christofascist "conservatives" can't "whatabout" with any legitimacy..
We need term limits for all elected officials of 8 years max per person lifetime total and judges for 10 years total lifetime max per person and no retirement benefits or health insurance benefits if they want health insurance benefits they can pass it for everyone and 65 year old max before they are elected. And then they can live with the same laws they pass for us minions.
@@Harkart59. Crybaby Kavenaugh!
Remedy for SCOTUS: Remove corrupt judges. Institute term limits. Eliminate ALL ‘gifts’ of ANY type/value. Establish harsh punishments and automatic expulsion for violation.
Gifts more like lavish bribes and then tax evasion
I wish I could like this 100 times.
Praise and love for Senator Whitehouse who cares so much about the American people
He is one of the best Senators we have in Congress
Best senator, period.
This situation must be addressed. It is ridiculous that the Supreme Court is above the law. This cannot stand.
After Thomas's stupid statement, it seems like he's doing us a got damn favor by sitting his mediocre, very well endowed ass on the bench.
The two of you are shining the light on this dark side of justice. Keep it up.
Thank you, Senator Whitehouse. ⚖️🗽🇺🇸
No one is above the law.
Thank you, Senator Whitehouse, for being vigilant from the beginning with this corruption within the Supreme Court.
If being a SCOTUS isn’t paying him enough, then Thomas needs to resign from the bench.
The honor of serving your country should outshine the dollar value of the salary.
Don't talk about it,be about it. Impeach this corrupt "Judge".
Talk won’t cook rice!
You can thank Bush for this fucker
Stop telling us it's going to get worse and how bad it is already.
Impeach him and implement a no gifts policy as well as term limits and age limits.
Congress is all maga. Don't shoot the messenger. ✨🇺🇸✨
some MUST follow laws. too bad repubs and right-wing-christofascists feel no compunction to follow the law.
I understand that some liberal judges have had 'reporting issues.' they should also face punishment
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These judges need to be fired right away!!!
Clarence Thomas actually believes everything he's gotten are things he is entitled to. For someone so anti-entitlement, he sure reaps the benefits of his sense of entitlement. And so does his wife.
The true entitlement people!
They should impeach these guys. What an ego Thomas has.
I watched , Anita Hill , testify about Clarence , and I have never been surprised by anything regarding Clarence . I am not surprised , shocked , by anythiing someone with power does . Only disgusted , angry , disillusioned, disappointed .
Me too✨🇺🇸✨💙✨
Up until very recently, I thought he was a mute.
he's a rotter but worse, more interesting and powerful, is the entire system around him, every single person who let it go on for year and years and years.
Absolute power guarantees absolute abuse.
Can we just "bounce" him off the Supreme Court already?!
Thank You Senator Whitehouse✨🇺🇸✨💙✨
Hold them accountable!
Thank you for investigating crooked Thomas and any cheaters!! 💙🇺🇸💙
I live on 24K a year, raising grandkids, and get no help..Im over qualified! But please do let these thieves live like kings and get paid for it? They need to be drug out of the highest court in the land, and charged with their financial crimes, and any other crimes they have committed during their time as SCOTUS! ENOUGH is ENOUGH! 😠
EXACTLY!
Enough is enough? Not if you're Republican - or a SCOTUS Injustice. Too much is never enough.
It is sickening to see the people who are supposed to oversee the highest court in America be so corrupt! They must be brought to justice.
Whitehouse for the white house.
Wouldn't that be cool to hear that everyday.. " President Whitehouse is doing "blank"at the Whitehouse today" 😊
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Thank you Senator Whitehouse for your efforts to clean up the court. Get the fat off the bench and install unbiased followers of constitutional law. Overturn Citizens United to get big money back out of politics. Buying Congress and SCOTUS should be against the law. Lobbyist's should not be allowed to purchase votes! Get them out of the Halls of Congress.
Exactly.
Whitehouse always the BEST!!!
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Please stay with the course! People must know this! We must stand for decency in ethics! These are moral concerns and define our Democracy for what it can become out of what it is right now!
Thankyou so much for your work, Sen. Whitehouse!
A bold faced liar packed the court ! When he is convicted his picks should be rescreened, and perhaps rejected.. Thomas is on the road to damnation ! term and Age limits Please !
Everyone is so surprised that Thomas is corrupt ? One only has to watch the Anita Hill hearings and listen to this Virginia Thomas phone call many years later, where this woman ask Anita Hill for an apology. Well, well, well........
And the corrupt people who confirmed him. ✨🇺🇸✨
fingers crossed SCOTUS gets cleaned up.
WHY IS HE STILL SITTING ON THE SUPREME COURT WHAT CAN WE DO TO OUST HIM?
Vote blue?
Can Whitehouse submit an Impeachment bill in Congress against Thomas?
But congress are maga💙💙💙💙💙✨🇺🇸✨
He can but dems don't have enough votes in Congress...yet
If the job isn't worth doing we can find someone else to do it. Easily.
And as a bonus it will definitely be someone who can do the job better.
Small minded people value money over morals
One needs to look back at rulings from the SC involving those billionaires.
Keep shining the light on this!
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolute!
Make it law that public servants income taxes be part of the public record. They will run like cockroaches with the light cut on.
Thank you for looking to the bottom around the Thomas's finances.
Thank you for demonstrating two aspects of the Tripartite process.., and why the Voting Public is required to take appropriate responsibility at the Ballot.
So Thomas never escaped being a slave?
Never‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Did he pay taxes on all these bribes?
Probably not. They'd have to be listed as gifts with an estimated value. He could lie about their value, too.
When will this treason end.
He should resign ASAP if it isnt worth it.
There should be NO lifetime appointments to any office.
The entire quote by Clarence Thomas is “The job is not worth doing for the pay. It's not worth doing for the grief. But it is worth doing for the principle.” But if you are corrupt how principled are you?
Thank you for all your efforts in holding the supreme court justices to account.
Thank goodness for Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Please keep your sense of mission strong for the people of the United States.
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Thank you both! The Press and Congress ~~~ no one is above the law! No One!!!
Thank You Lawrence✨🇺🇸✨💙💜💚
We should have a Special Counsel to investigate THIS mess....just sayin
Good job Senator.
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It is distressing to find so many small-minded punks at the top of our current government. There once was a time when we would say that after we have had the "best", we could forget the "rest". Thomas is certainly Not going to be one of the "rest" to disprove that rule. Instead, we will be pulling his name out of the history books as an example of "What Not to do" for hundreds of years.
So.......HE chose the Wrong Job!...........He isnt qualified for it anyway!
Senator Whitehouse is bringing the hotness back to DC❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Need to be removed how can we trust him. Disgustingly greedy
💲💲💲The Supreme Court is the best Court that money can buy! 💲💲💲
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United States supreme court judge. The best judge money can buy!
I'm sure there are many people that make 30k a year that would gladly swap places with Thomas! It would take someone 10 years at 30k a year to earn what Thomas gets per year! And he sits there on his high horse moaning that's not enough? Possibly he should go into private practice as a lawyer and actually do some work for that money. I hear 45 is always looking for attorneys!
LOL you just said work for the money. Trump doesn't pay his bills.
Uncle Thomas has to keep Miss Ginny in style and she has spensive taste.
She makes more than him. It's more like she's keeping him,and he's got expensive tastes.
Thank you Senator Whitehouse!! ⚖️☮️♥️
It’s amazing that a billionaire donor can stop the student loan forgiveness terrible
They are making policy. That is not the job they are paid for. ✨🇺🇸✨
Serving the people isn't supposed to make you rich. It is supposed to be a privilege and honor.
Thank you for having the guts to broadcast this. We desperately need more mainstream media to inform the American People of these corrupt actions by the not so supreme court justices.
Teachers like me can't afford a vacation.
so what did the country expect to happen when donnie padded the courts
Thomas, and Roberts, both have to go! They're both crooked as hell.
and Alito!!!
Crime don't pay.
Hey, get off his back. It aint easy earning those bribes.
Apparently is is otherwise he wouldn't have so damn many 😅🤣😂
Thank you Senator Whitehouse for your clear voice and integrity...we support you. Leigh Martin
Well, he hold the highest position for a judge/lawmaker in this country. If he is so unhappy in his current role as a SCJ, perhaps he should seek employment elsewhere? I'm sure his wife can get him a job? Or maybe he should go rogue in a private firm and not in the us govt?
Chief Justice John Roberts silence on these matters is deafening...
Well done, Senator, well done, Lawrence, thank you for your hard work for decency and justice, without resentment or name calling. This is what we are losing ...
It’s no wonder Thomas barely spoke a word in the court FOR YEARS. He was probably never adequately prepared, having been living the high life all this time. He’s just hard-right placeholder on the SCOTUS, bought and paid for, and seems perfectly willing to be just that. A vacuous nobody on the most powerful court, arguably, in the world.
Wow, he thinks a lot of himself!! I am getting tried of hearing these greedy people, working for our government, complaining about what they earn, when there are so many homeless people in the USA. How corrupt!
they have no conscience, which begs the question, HTF are they judges?????? They are CRIMINALS without conscience.
Thomas need to go to jail, along with his wife.
No taking advantage of the taxpayers. 1% millionaires. Congratulations Judge Thomas
The criminal judge
Unbelievable. Thank you to Sen. Whitehouse for his persistence. I think part of the problem is that when our system was set up, our culture was based on a positive outlook. People were counted on to strive to "do the right thing", and the concept of "evil" we have allowed to permiate our world didn't exist back then, at least not in the way it does now. Our supreme court justices were counted on to be pillars of our society with a profoundly comprehensive grasp of the law and the fortitude and character to be able to carry it out. Unfortunately, our world, culture and methods of operandi have declined, and the character of some to go along with it. It won't add up in our supreme court.
Thanks and appreciation for a good report. Hang in there, Sen. Whitehouse.
Why would they get the right to behave that way.i wasn't following this that close but knowing this information its time to clean our Supreme Court up!!
Hey hey, ho ho, Clarence Thomas has GOT TO GO!
Thomas was taking inproper gifts when he worked for the equal opportunity employment division. He can be prosecuted.
We DO have a problem and that problem is the greed in humans. The only way to kill this in humans is to bring the greed to the courts and prosecute. No one is above the law, not even the wantabe king makers. Justice demands the prosecution of the greed.
Unless he's impeached, none of the bashing matters.
Most of these justices should have been kicked off the bench years ago.
VOTE 🔵 ACROSS THE BOARD ALWAYS! 👍 👊 ⚖️
Thank you for all the information!
The Supreme Courtrupt !
Talk about draining the swamp, here you go GOP
I love your show, Lawrence, especially when you have great guest like Senator Whitehouse. That’s good reporting and politics 💙💙💙
that judge should be watched good 👍
The problem is that Thomas and Alito don’t give a damn what anyone thinks. They think no one has a right to question anything they do.
Senator Lee, CA has called for his resignation.
Here is a simple statement. True leaders lead in front.
Supreme Court justices, please think. The consequences will be too much to bear. It will be colossal.
A US Supreme Court judge receives §285,000 in salary annually. A primary school teacher earns §46,465 annually.
A Supreme Court judge's income is about 6 times that of a primary school teacher.
I Thank you both for this update 👍 I hope their ship sinks ! 👏👏⚖️
You are right Senator! i wish i had never heard these !
Willful. Since 1991.
Thomas has to go😂
So the laws they hold all of us to aren't the laws they have to follow? REMOVE ALL CORRUPT JUDGES❗️
“Captured” is a good read. Just more stuff to get angry over.
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I wrote the name of the book down . IAlways like to read a well recommended book
It sounds to me that there is no endpoint accountability. Even if the justices stop receiving favors, what is to stop them from giving favor?