Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden, both Democrats, asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to name a special counsel to investigate Justice Clarence Thomas.
Unless there are 17 senators willing to cross party lines to actually remove him from office, any investigation will be an elaborate waste of time. His corruption is already documented. Either you have the votes to remove or you don’t.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m all for getting rid of both Thomas and Alito. But I’m not in favor of wasting yet more taxpayer money holding hearings to “investigate” something we already know already and that has a zero percent chance of leading to removal from the bench, or even any meaningful change.
If Thomas didn’t pay his taxes, he can be convicted and punished as the law stipulates. He just doesn’t lose his job without impeachment. Impeachment is political.
Unless there are 17 senators willing to cross party lines to actually remove him from office, any investigation will be an elaborate waste of time. His corruption is already documented. Either you have the votes to remove or you don’t.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m all for getting rid of both Thomas and Alito. But I’m not in favor of wasting yet more taxpayer money holding hearings to “investigate” something we already know already and that has a zero percent chance of leading to removal from the bench, or even any meaningful change.
If Thomas didn’t pay his taxes, he can be convicted and punished as the law stipulates. He just doesn’t lose his job without impeachment. Impeachment is political.
Even if the Senate voted unanimously to remove him, the Supreme Court would just rule it unconstitutional.