Friend,
In just one week, we've learned that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has:
- Accepted luxury trips and gifts from a billionaire conservative.
- Attended meetings of a secret club of billionaires and international power brokers.(1)
- Moved his mother into a rent-free property owned by the same billionaire.(2)
- Declared hundreds of thousands of dollars in income from a company that no longer exists.(3)
No wonder Thomas voted in favor of Citizens United, protecting monopolies, and rolling back workers’ rights, and against the Affordable Care Act, child labor laws, and the minimum wage.(4,5) He’s been paid handsomely for his votes.
An ethical Supreme Court is the cornerstone of our democracy, and our democracy cannot sustain having such a corrupt justice on the bench. Congress must investigate Clarence Thomas and establish strong rules to stop actions like Thomas’s from slipping through the cracks again. Courage California has joined a coalition to collect millions of signatures demanding that Congress act. Will you sign on?
Sign our petition calling for an investigation into Clarence Thomas’s corruption!
The Supreme Court’s purpose is to defend the Constitution and our civil rights as citizens.
Nine people hold our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in their hands. It is the branch of government that holds the power to enforce integration, stop cruel and unusual punishment, and protect abortion rights.
But in the last dozen years, the Supreme Court has lost its way -- allowing corporations to funnel billions of dollars into elections, ending reproductive care protections, and stripping voting rights. And now we know that at least for Clarence Thomas, there were significant bribes behind his actions.
This corruption cannot be allowed to stand if our democracy is to survive. Congress must support the people and hold Thomas and his colleagues accountable.
The U.S. Senate must launch an investigation into Thomas and take steps to require strong ethics for the Supreme Court. Sign now.
Yours in the fight for our democracy,
Irene, along with Annie, Angela, Isidra, Lindsay, Mai, Mai, and Scottie (and the rest of the Courage team)
Footnotes: 1. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2023/04/07/what-is-that-secret-mens-only-camp-visited-by-clarence-thomas-and-harlan-crow/ 2. https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3954866-a-dangerous-new-low-supreme-court-must-reform-or-be-reformed/ 3. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3953866-clarence-thomas-claimed-income-from-defunct-real-estate-firm-report/ 4. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1364/clarence-thomas 5. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/thomas.dec.html |