Justice Thomas Crushes Left's 'Billionaire-Funded-Trips' Impeachment Dreams

Ever since the rapist-accepting nazification of The Supreme Court during President Trump's term in office, the left has been desperate for ways to counter the trans-friendly conservative majority.

The latest cunning plan was to demand Justice Clarence Thomas be immediately impeached for - what can only be summarized as - having rich friends.

In case you missed it, the left was gleeful and cries of 'we got em this time' rang out on Twitter after:

ProPublica revealed in so-called bombshell reporting that right-wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been taking luxury trips funded by a billionaire Republican megadonor for more than 20 years without formally disclosing them - a likely violation of federal law.

The investigative outlet reported Thursday that "for more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year" from Dallas-based real estate magnate Harlan Crow.

"These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas' financial disclosures," the outlet noted.

"His failure to report the flights appears to violate a law passed after Watergate that requires justices, judges, members of Congress, and federal officials to disclose most gifts, two ethics law experts said. He also should have disclosed his trips on the yacht, these experts said."

Thomas’s critics in Congress promptly seized on the report last week of the vacations, suggesting it raised the appearance of impropriety.

As The Epoch Times' Matthew Vadum reported, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) demanded that the justice be impeached, saying his actions evidenced an “almost cartoonish” level of corruption.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee’s panel on federal courts, called for an independent investigation of the justice, who has long been a target of the left.

Whitehouse and other critics also say that justices whose spouses are involved in political activism, like Thomas, whose wife, Ginni Thomas, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, is active in conservative politics, should have to recuse themselves from involvement in cases related to that activism. Despite pressure, the justice declined to recuse himself from the various challenges to the disputed 2020 presidential election that made it to the Supreme Court.

Billionaire businessman and Republican Party donor Harlan Crow, who made the gifts to Thomas, has reportedly not had any business before the Supreme Court, so any allegation of a conflict of interest rests on weak grounds.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/justice-thomas-crushes-lefts-billionaire-funded-trips-impeachment-dreams

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Must be civil war inside Twitter going on

Residents of the Democratic stronghold of Chicago just elected another Democrat Mayor to replace Lori Lightfoot…

…yet, instead of perhaps voting for a centrist, mayor-elect Brandon Johnson is anything but - and the city is now bracing for more taxes.

As Bloomberg notes;

The mayor-elect’s proposed levies on corporations, financial securities and the rich would add pressure on the business community in the nation’s third-largest city that’s already grappling with rising crime, high-profile headquarter departures and fragile finances.

"He wants to put more of the burden on the business community," said Richard Caccarone, president-emeritus of municipal bond research firm, Merritt Research Services. "There’s some anxiety about the approach that he’ll use and solutions. You don’t want to start a negative spiral."

Johnson's unexpected victory on Tuesday comes as the city's finances are under increasing strain - with pension funds short $34 billion as the city projects a $474 million deficit. In short, Chicago - which has been slower to recover from the pandemic than most other major cities - has to manage its way out of a mess amid high crime and several high-profile corporations bailing for greener (and safer, and lower-tax) pastures.

During his campaign, Johnson proposed $800 million in new taxes, without raising property levies, to deal with the deficit and invest in residents and neighborhoods across the city, not just downtown.

He also favors a $4-per-employee tax on large companies that have at least half of their operations in Chicago and has floated taxes on airlines that pollute the city’s air. Additionally, his plan includes a $1 or $2 tax per securities-trading contract — a measure opposed by Chicago’s iconic exchange giants, CME Group Inc. and Cboe Global Markets Inc. -Bloomberg

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chicago-braces-more-taxes-after-even-more-progressive-mayor-wins-election