Ridding Ourselves of Corruption at the Highest Levels of Government
“Justice Thomas is compromised,” says Massachusetts junior senator and consumer activist Edward Markey.
“Compromised” puts it mildly; as we’ve come to learn, he’s a career criminal.
There is one aspect to all this that has me a bit befuddled, though, and that is the Justices of the Supreme Court are somehow not bound to a particular code of ethics. OK, but aren’t they bound to the U.S. Criminal Code? To the code of the American Bar Association?
We have laws that make bribery a crime. Let’s simply use them to remove Clarence Thomas from the SCOTUS and send him to prison.