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.