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Doubting Thomas 2

At AL.com, Frances Coleman looks at Justice Clarence Thomas’s acceptance of largess (actually, multiple largesses over multiple decades) from a politically active right-wing moneybags and reminds us that can appearances matter. A snippet:

Clarence Thomas only needed to read the rule from the Code of Conduct of United States Judges, which says in part: “An appearance of impropriety occurs when reasonable minds, with knowledge of all the relevant circumstances disclosed by a reasonable inquiry, would conclude that the judge’s honesty, integrity, impartiality, temperament, or fitness to serve as a judge is impaired.”

A judge breaks the rule even if he (or she) does things that don’t affect his decisions, but where a reasonable and well-informed person would believe that his conduct would affect his decisions.

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2 comments

  1. Grung_e_Gene

    April 17, 2023 at 2:43 pm

    EGADS! Clarence’s defense is that he didn’t know the law. The Supremacist Court is doing its’ best to hasten the demise of the Nation.

     
  2. Frank

    April 17, 2023 at 9:44 pm

    I can’t argue. The allegiance of the majority is not to the Constitution, but to the anti-“Federalist Society.”