RS: On Wednesday, in an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court rejected former President Donald Trump’s effort to block the release of presidential papers from the National Archives to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection — bringing an end to a heated legal battle and giving the committee a major win.
In the 8-1 ruling Clarence Thomas was the only dissenting vote.
It’s like he has something to hide…. pic.twitter.com/VbkVsFl0od— Abolish 🔥The🔥Filibuster (@NoelinSD) January 20, 2022
Supreme Court gets one right: It won’t block release by National Archives of the mass of presidential papers sought by the Jan 6 committee that Trump moved heaven and earth to keep hidden. THIS IS HUGE.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 19, 2022
The decision promptly triggered reactions from legal and political scholars. Former Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe praised the decision, calling it “huge.”
NEW: Clarence Thomas was the only Supreme Court justice to publicly say that he wanted to grant Trump’s request to stop the Biden administration from sending 1/6 documents to the House committee. His wife just signed a letter saying that the insurrectionists “did nothing wrong.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) January 19, 2022
Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas should be subpoenaed by the January 6 committee.
Pass it on.
— Pam Resists (@ResisterForever) January 14, 2022
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance similarly praised the decision, although she expressed surprise at the reasoning the Court stated in its decision.
SCOTUS cleared the way for release of Trump papers 8-1, altho it oddly bases its ruling on the point that even if Trump was incumbent POTUS, release would have still been proper, explicitly rejecting the Ct of App's analysis of former presidents' rights https://t.co/sI0YZO29YT https://t.co/tbzGlH6mLe
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) January 19, 2022
American Bridge attorney Brad Moss sardonically referenced the fact that former President Trump is unlikely to pay the lawyers who represented him in the failed suit.
I sure hope Trump’s lawyers demanded payment upfront. They’re definitely not getting paid now.
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) January 19, 2022
Political scholar Norm Ornstein, meanwhile, took aim at Justice Clarence Thomas — the lone dissenting justice — for not recusing himself from the case, given his wife’s public support for the Capitol insurrectionists as the attack was unfolding.
The fact that Clarence Thomas continues to fail to recuse himself, given the activities of his wife that are directly related to the insurrection, is mind-boggling https://t.co/wmuQbQbo6j
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) January 19, 2022
Yale Law School professor Scott Shapiro joked on Twitter that he wondered if there was a “legal claim so absurd that even Clarence Thomas wouldn’t dissent.”
Florida-based Democratic attorney Daniel Uhlfelder, meanwhile, wrote that “Justice Clarence Thomas really doesn’t want to the January 6th committee to see those documents.”
https://www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas/
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I see a lot of high praise for the SC, when this was neither controversial nor difficult.
It’s like running out with a parade and marching band, because the garbage man came on the right day. Geez. How did our bar get so low ?
Well, in current world that garbage man come on the right day is something to celebrate…
The pubes needed a token they could control, so they found a black guy with a pubic hair on a pop can. That is who Thomas is. His controller is easy to identify, because he kept his mouth shut for a decade right up until that dude was found dead of natural causes, with as pillow on his face. Nice bunch. Gut it, and get 13 Justices, then cap the terms.
I think the jubilant reaction to this run of the mill decision, needs to be observed carefully.
It is telling, of the need for unprecedented changes in our SC. There is no pride to be found there, by any US person or veteran.
Maybe its all reversed – the presidential documents already doctored and altered by whoever it is that has been overseeing them – and release of documents is going to reinforce Trumps “innocence” and they all know it, except for Clarence Two face dumber than doorknob. Have a cigar You’ll go far…
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