A former House GOP lawmaker says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should be removed from the bench over his “unethical” behavior and taunted people to challenge him.
“Come at me. I got receipts,” Denver Riggleman posted to X, calling Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas, “disturbed.”
Riggleman posted in response to a clip of Donald Trump saying at a rally that “people should be put in jail for the way they talk about our judges and justices.”
“Clarence Thomas is, at the least, unethical. Should be removed from the bench. His wife, Ginni Thomas, is disturbed. Come at me. I got receipts.” Riggleman said.
Riggleman was a senior technical adviser for the January 6th committee that investigated the deadly insurrection that saw a mob of mostly Trump supporters overrun the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
In other words, he was the person who collected and analyzed the data collected from cell phones and other devices.
Ouch, so there’s no scenario in which Dems keep a majority?
Alas 50+10 (or 60) in the Senate is not good enough. To earn a conviction in the Senate, you need a two thirds majority, or 50+17 (67), https://time.com/6997811/impeaching-supreme-court-justice-judges-history/
It’s possible that with a good case, the judges could be convinced to resign prior to getting officially impeached or after impeachment but before conviction. But a major factor in Nixon’s resignation was that he didn’t have the votes to avoid conviction in the Senate, while both Clinton and Drumpf knew they’d be acquitted.
The only way I see this happening is under something like the 127 DC states plan, https://www.vox.com/2020/1/14/21063591/modest-proposal-to-save-american-democracy-pack-the-union-harvard-law-review
(The above would go like this: 50 Dems + 1 Dem VP vote to abolish the filibuster in the Senate, then a Dem majority House passes a bill to admit each neighborhood of DC as a separate state (127 in all), and then the same 50 Dems + 1 Dem VP pass the same bill. Once admitted, the extra states give the required supermajority to the Dems who can then move to a successful impeachment and conviction.)