There is no justice from a compromised Justice
Stamford, Conn.: The revelation that Clarence Thomas has been secretly taking gifts from a billionaire political donor for decades is a chilling example of unabashed and serious judicial misconduct (“Clarence Thomas got millions in travel for free,” April 7). It is now public record that Thomas has been a habitual violator of financial disclosure rules that bind all federal judges. Thomas’s objectivity and ability to engage in legitimate jurisprudence has been irreparably and permanently compromised.
Until now, Thomas generated plenty of smoke — failing to recuse himself in a Jan. 6 congressional committee case that impacted his wife, Ginni Thomas, as an example. But this new revelation, his acceptance of millions in undisclosed gifts, is a dumpster fire. It documents that Thomas is bought and paid for by a wealthy political operative. He is a blight on the Supreme Court bench and his improprieties establish the objective truth that he is unfit to serve as Supreme Court Justice.
Every first year law student is taught that even the appearance of impropriety can serve as the predicate for attorney discipline. With Thomas, appearances are the least of his problems. No reasonable person, regardless of politics, can now refute that Thomas has been on the take for decades.
There is no recovering from this bombshell. Thomas is damaged goods. He cannot rule credibly as a justice on the weighty matters that come before the highest court in our land. He owes it to our nation to promptly resign or face swift and certain impeachment proceedings.