[ [link removed] ]Join 1.2+ million and sign the petition: Investigate and impeach
corrupt, right-wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas!

Dear MoveOn member,

News about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s corruption just keeps
coming out, adding to a seemingly never-ending list of unethical behavior
where he abused his position of power to cater to a right-wing agenda that
continues to erode our rights and freedoms.^1

[ [link removed] ]Will you add your name to the petition to demand that Clarence Thomas
resign or be impeached?

Last week, it was exposed that lawyers who argued cases in front of the
Supreme Court sent money through Venmo to one of Thomas’s top aides.^2 In
April, it was revealed that Thomas accepted gifts worth hundreds of
thousands of dollars in value from a Republican billionaire and megadonor
Harlan Crow (who collects Nazi memorabilia, funds conservative causes that
come before the Supreme Court, and has refused to answer questions before
Congress) and never disclosed it.^3

Last year, Thomas refused to recuse himself from Supreme Court cases
involving the January 6 insurrection and Trump's attempts to overturn the
2020 election, despite his wife's direct role in those efforts.^4 The list
goes on and on.

It's painfully clear that instead of making unbiased decisions based on
the facts, Clarence Thomas is pushing a right-wing political agenda on the
Supreme Court—and is being bankrolled by Republican billionaires to do so.
It’s unacceptable. That's why more than 1.2 million MoveOn members have
already called for Thomas to resign or be impeached.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name to the petition to demand that Clarence Thomas resign or
be impeached NOW!

Yacht trips. Private jets. Exclusive retreats. Paid for and funded by
Republican billionaires. Thomas—and his right-wing activist and January 6
insurrectionist wife, Ginni Thomas—have taken advantage of all of this and
more. Just one more example of the rampant corruption, lack of ethics, and
tangled conflicts of interest that define Thomas's tenure on the Supreme
Court. Thomas must resign or be impeached, NOW.

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When the GOP-hijacked Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Thomas (whose
wife played an active role in the January 6 insurrection) wrote a
concurring opinion that Obergefell, Griswold, and Lawrence (the rulings
that protect contraception, same-sex sexual intimacy, and marriage
equality for the LGBTQ+ community) should be revisited next.^5 It is so
scary, but not surprising at all, especially since this is straight out of
the far-right playbook.

Just this month, these corrupt, Republican-appointed Supreme Court
justices shamefully ripped President Biden’s student loan relief away from
millions of Americans, gutted affirmative action (but left protections in
place for legacy admissions), and then made a decision that paves the way
for businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people.^6,7,8

[ [link removed] ]It is so wrong that—despite his corruption, unethical behavior, and
conflicts of interests—Thomas is able to continue to abuse his position on
the Supreme Court to pursue right-wing crusades that negatively impact our
rights and freedoms. He must resign or be impeached.

Republicans, who have won the presidential popular vote only once in the
last 34 years, have engaged in a concerted effort to pack the Supreme
Court with right-wing extremist judges. And time and time again, Thomas
and the rest of the far-right majority on the Supreme Court have put
special interests and politics ahead of people and above delivering
justice under the law.

Eventually, we need to expand and rebalance the court, pulling it back
from the right-wing takeover enabled by Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell's
court-packing efforts. And we need a real, enforceable code of ethics for
all justices.

But for now, it's clear: Thomas has abused his judicial position for
private gain, and his abuse of power, his conflicts of interest, and his
secrecy about his financial and political ties make him unfit to serve.

1.2+ million fellow MoveOn members agree: It is time that Thomas face the
consequences of his corruption. He must be impeached and removed NOW.

[ [link removed] ]Click here to add your name to this urgent petition, and then pass it
along to all of your loved ones to spread the word as far as possible.

Thanks for all you do.

–Jensine, Mana, Madeleine, Justin, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Clarence Thomas: Here Are All The Ethics Scandals Involving The
Supreme Court Justice Amid Horatio Alger Revelations," Forbes, July 10,
2023
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2. "Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via
Venmo," The Guardian, July 12, 2023
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3. "Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire," ProPublica, April 6, 2023
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4. "Clarence Thomas Again Moves To Block Jan. 6 Inquiry That Could
Implicate His Wife," Yahoo, November 14, 2022
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5. "Thomas wants the Supreme Court to overturn landmark rulings that
legalized contraception, same-sex marriage," NBC News, June 24, 2022
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6. "Supreme Court’s conservatives strike down Biden student debt
forgiveness plan," "PBS NewsHour," June 30, 2023
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7. "Affirmative action for white college applicants is still here," Vox,
July 6, 2023
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8. "Supreme Court Rules Businesses Can Discriminate Against Gay People,"
Rolling Stone, June 30, 2023
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