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General Category => National/Breaking News => SCOTUS News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on August 12, 2023, 01:48:44 pm
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August 11, 2023 9:32pm EDT
AOC demands DOJ target Clarence Thomas over relationship with Republican megadonor
Ocasio-Cortez and four of her Democratic colleagues sent a letter to AG Merrick Garland demanding the investigation
By Brandon Gillespie | Fox News
Far-left "Squad" member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is demanding the Department of Justice target Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over his relationship with a Republican megadonor and others she claims he benefited from financially.
In a Friday letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Ocasio-Cortez, along with four of her progressive colleagues, called for the DOJ to launch an investigation into Thomas "for consistently failing to report significant gifts he received from Harlan Crow and other billionaires for nearly two decades — in defiance of his duty under federal law."
"First, Justice Thomas has received numerous undisclosed valuable gifts from Harlan Crow over the course of at least fifteen years, despite certifying repeatedly that his financial disclosure forms are "accurate, true, and complete," in certifications "subject to civil and criminal sanctions," the letter read.
more w/letter
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-demands-doj-target-clarence-thomas-relationship-republican-megadonor
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:facepalm2:
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But not Sotomayer's college book scam of course.
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I see AOC is speaking out to make a liberal fool out of herself. Nice.
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Clarence Thomas Says ‘Unreported’ Yacht Voyage With Oil Baron Seized On By Liberal Media… Never Actually Happened
(https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/20/clarence-thomas-propublica-paoletta/)
ProPublica’s latest story on Justice Clarence Thomas features “a previously unreported voyage on a yacht around the Bahamas” that the justice reportedly told a close friend never happened.
ProPublica reported that oil baron Paul “Tony” Novelly’s chauffeur in the Bahamas said his company once drove the justice to the marina where Novelly’s 26-foot luxury yacht, the Le Montrachet, often docks. Mark Paoletta, a Schaerr Jaffe law firm partner and close friend of the justice, wrote in a Friday Wall Street Journal op-ed that Thomas told him he has never even seen the boat.
“ProPublica’s claim that Justice Thomas was a passenger on any yacht owned by Tony Novelly, including the Le Montrachet, is completely false,” Paoletta told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “He has never ever laid eyes on this boat. Moreover, Justice Thomas has never been in the Bahamas with Tony Novelly.”
“He last visited the Bahamas in the 1980s, long before he went on the Supreme Court and long before he met Mr. Novelly,” he continued. “There is not a shred of truth to this story.”...
Excerpt: Rest at headline link
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Look at the choice of words - "DOJ target". Sounds like AOC wants a politicized, weaponized DOJ to serve at the DNC's beck and call.
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Look at the choice of words - "DOJ target". Sounds like AOC wants a politicized, weaponized DOJ to serve at the DNC's beck and call.
She already has one.
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She needs to somehow be voted out of office otherwise I think she'll be running in 2028.