It is clear to everyone that there is a radical conservative majority in the Supreme Court. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has described how a group of billionaire oil company barons have systematically and successfully taken over the Court by supporting and campaigning for jurists who will do their bidding [1].
By refusing to accept President Obama’s nominee for the Court when a vacancy arose in 2016, Mitch McConnell violated the U.S. Constitution in order to steal one extra conservative Justice.
The Court now supports radical positions that are opposed by a large majority of Americans (on environmental issues, legalizing corruption in political campaigns, abortion, global warming). There is no longer any pretense about the Court applying the Constitution. The Court is an overtly partisan group determined to overturn American democracy. They have little choice because their beliefs are so divergent from those of most Americans.
The clearest demonstration of this corruption is that the spouse of a sitting Supreme Court Justice played an active role in the effort to overturn the result of a presidential election, hand victory to the loser, and unravel American democracy [2]. Clarence Thomas’ wife is a member of the “Council for National Policy,” an influential group of radical conservatives who dictate policy to Republican Congressmen, who supported and helped organize the January 6 insurrection and have been instrumental in rewriting the history of that infamous day to turn it into ordinary discussion of ideas.
Their goal was to overturn state electors so the Supreme Court could decide the 2020 election. Justice Thomas cannot be allowed to remain on the Court. His shameless support for the overthrow of democracy led him to be the sole dissenting vote when the Court required former President Trump to release documents to the Congressional Committee investigating the events of Jan. 6.
Thomas must be impeached. Would this be a strong move by those who love American democracy? Yes, but it is clearly far more legitimate than was McConnell’s refusal to allow a sitting President to appoint a Justice. It is time for patriotic Americans to stand up to these traitors. They will destroy America if we let them do it.
[2] The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/magazine/clarence-thomas-ginni-thomas.html
Tom DeCoursey
Oak Park