Clarence Thomas' Criminal Behavior on Financial Disclosure
The Supreme Court justice broke the law by not disclosing his wife's $700K think-tank payday. Paul Campos on Clarence Thomas' "preposterous" defense and why he likely won't be punished


In fact Ginni Thomas was paid nearly $700,000 by the Heritage Foundation, a "conservative think tank," between 2003 and 2007, as well as an undisclosed amount by another lobbying group in 2009. Justice Thomas' false statements regarding his wife's income certainly constitute a misdemeanor, and quite probably a felony, under federal law. (They would be felonies if he were prosecuted under 18. U.S.C. 1001, which criminalizes knowingly making false statements of material fact to a federal agency.

This is the law Martha Stewart was convicted of breaking by lying to investigators

.......It's unlikely that Thomas will be disbarred, and even less likely that he'll be prosecuted, even though his conduct has been outrageous. That Thomas failed to disclose his wife's sources of income is not a trivial technicality: His wife's employment created excellent grounds for requiring him to excuse himself from hearing the Citizens United case, which overturned federal campaign-finance laws—much to the delight of Ginni Thomas' right-wing paymasters, who are now freer than ever before to purchase the best laws money can buy. (Federal judges are required to recuse themselves from hearing any case in which they or their spouses have any financial interest.)

Thomas' behavior raises three obvious questions, the answers to which are all inter-related: Why is it likely that no consequences will be visited on a Supreme Court justice who has committed a series of criminal offenses? Why is this story not a full-blown scandal? And why did Clarence Thomas do what he did?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-thomas-criminal-behavior-on-financial-disclosure

believe with emotion and the hell with the facts. It only works with the complicity of the corporate media.

Stateless richies say: " We don't need no stinkin' laws!"

That's the status their tools think they'll get if they support them:

Stateless non-accountablity for the masters. Law and order for the serfs.

If they decided to investigate Trump's very real crimes, they might have to stop investigating Hillary's emails for a couple of days.

Don't worry children, the cavalry is coming.