Clarence Thomas -- the GOP will never rid us of this devil

Clarence Thomas never should have been appointed to the Supreme Court in the first place. Anita Hill was telling the truth about him, but the GOP/Good Ol' Pervs' club weren't going to let the truth get in their way of having an idiot ultra-conservative on the Court. There must be some special kind of afterlife reserved for people like Thomas and his wife...they have sold their souls and devoted their lives to making life miserable for others while basking in the luxury they have stolen for themselves. With the kind of Congress we now have in place, they probably won't get a comeuppance on earth, but a special kind of hell may await them where they will find themselves with the likes of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush (and many members of this Congress) for eternity. I can't think of anything much worse than that.

CLARENCE THOMAS MUST GO
By William Rivers Pitt
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/william-rivers-pitt/36956/clarence-thomas-must-go

EXCERPT: The lifetime appointment for a Supreme Court Justice is not set in stone, as Justice Abe Fortas found out to his woe forty years ago. Fortas, who was appointed to the bench by President Lyndon Johnson in 1968, was found to have taken large sums of money from litigants who appeared before the high court, including Phillip Morris. After a second pay-for-play arrangement benefiting Fortas was discovered, he was forced to resign in disgrace. As Ian Millhiser of ThinkProgress argues:

It is difficult to distinguish Fortas' scandal from Thomas'. Like Fortas, Thomas accepted several very valuable gifts from parties who are frequently interested in the outcome of federal court cases. One of Thomas' benefactors has even filed briefs in his Court since giving Thomas a $15,000 gift, and Thomas has not recused himself from each of these cases.

Of course, Thomas is also the least likely Justice to actually follow the command of precedent. Thomas embraces a discredited theory of the Constitution which would return America to a time when federal child labor laws were considered unconstitutional. His fellow justices criticize him for showing "utter disregard for our precedent and Congress' intent." Even ultra-conservative Justice Antonin Scalia finds Thomas' approach to the law too extreme - in Scalia's words, "I am a textualist. I am an originalist. I am not a nut."

But Thomas' disregard for what has come before him changes nothing about the precedent he faces. If Abe Fortas had to resign his seat, so too should Clarence Thomas.

Given the simple, unavoidable fact that Mr. Thomas is bereft of both shame and a code of personal ethics, it is highly unlikely he will resign, especially if his wife is raking in the cash thanks to his decisions. In that event, the final remedy of impeachment must be deployed. The Supreme Court must not be a place for partisan political fundraising or friendly-donor back-slapping. It is the place of last recourse in our system of laws, and must be as far above reproof as can be humanly managed. Clarence Thomas is an embarrassment to the ideals of our system of government, and must go. He can choose to leave, or be removed by Constitutional remedy, but his time on the bench must be concluded.

He and Ginni will just have to go find honest work like everyone else.