Impeachment Resolution against Supreme Court Justices is a Tragic Milestone in the Crisis Threatening American Democracy

“The Supreme Court is the highest court in the land but has the lowest ethical standards, which means pay-to-play billionaires, right-wing dark money groups, and carbon-emitting special interests have the freedom to purchase the best justice money can buy.

- Marc H. Morial

Congress can’t stand idly by as this emboldened and imperious Court pursues a lawless right-wing agenda and strips our citizens of their Constitutional rights.” – U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin

Several paragraphs into a media account of the many undisclosed and unethical gifts Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted – including a yacht trip to Russia and a helicopter flight to Yusupov Palace in St. Petersburg – is a simple but chilling phrase:

“It’s unclear whether Thomas met with Putin.”

Did a member of the nation’s highest court, entrusted to ensure fair and free elections, meet with the corrupt tyrant who directed the most elaborate election sabotage operation in American history? It’s unclear.

It’s an extraordinary commentary on the depths to which the integrity of the Supreme Court has sunk.