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So you have no problem with a SCJ accepting $4 million in perks from a billionaire. Like I said, you have no ethical standards. It's the left's fault that Thomas has his nose in the trough. Too funny.

So you have no standards of behaviour for SCJ's. Why do you think the SCOTUS approval level is below 30% and your country has become a laughing stock?

So you don't think ethical standards should apply to SCJ's, they can take perks from anyone they want for whatever they want. Wow, something like this would sure cause a stink in my country. We know you would go apeshit if it was an Obama or Clinton appointee doing the same. Who knew your standards would be so low.

Only one SCJ has ever been impeached and that was in 1804. 49 have died when in office and only 55 have actually retired. Great system you go there. Thomas will abuse his position until he croaks and nothing will be done about it.

It's a dumb system. You have feeble minded old farts making laws and you can't get rid of them.

One problem with the US system is the lifetime appointment. I don't know of any other countries that don't have mandatory retirement of judges. In Canada it's 75.

Do you have a reading comprehension problem? Are you too stupid to look anything up before you just post bullshit? Appointees by President Nixon 4 Ford 1 Reagan 4 HW Bush 2 Clinton 2 GW Bush 2 Obama 2 Trump 3 Biden 1 You post ignorant nonsense and then call others dishonest when they post facts that contradict you.

McConnell blocked an Obama appointee supposedly because 9 months was too close to a presidential election then rammed Coney Barrett through two weeks before an election. Talk about cynical politics.

Since Nixon was president, 17 of the 22 appointments to the SCOTUS have been under Republican presidents. You really should do some fundamental research before you mouth off and call others dishonest. Something of a habit with you.

It's totally accurate and a big reason why the US system has lost much of the respect it used to have in the rest of the free world.

Putting people on the court who will advance your political objectives, is exactly that. It seems the checks and balances that Americans love to brag about are largely an illusion, they do not live up to their claims.

They were quite clear the intent was to pack the court. Trump even brags about it.

Both Trump and McConnell made it very clear that their intent was to pack the court with appointees that would overturn R v W. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-was-able-kill-roe-v-wade-rcna84897 https://www.businessinsider.com/mitch-mcconnell-national-abortion-ban-possible-roe-v-wade-overturned-2022-5?op=1

Unfortunately they have turned themselves political and that is why respect for them has collapsed. It was considered that they should at least appear unbiased but they don't even bother with that now. Six of the nine justices that ruled on R vs W in 1973 were Republican appointees.

I don't watch MSNBC, CNN or FOX. https://news.gallup.com/poll/394103/confidence-supreme-court-sinks-historic-low.aspx https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/supreme-court/

It is little wonder public confidence in the SCOTUS has collapsed. They are now just politicians in robes.

What regard?

Said no one. No one has ever said gun controls should only apply to a particular race. Do you think a gun gives a fat f*ck whether the hand holding it is black or white? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-we-know-about-mass-school-shootings-mdash-and-shooters-mdash-in-the-u-s/

The Earth doesn't give a crap about politics.

Based on the geological record, we were due for a mini ice age. The fact the opposite happened because our actions are changing that cycle should make you at least a little concerned. The planet is warming, that is not dogma, it is backed up with actual data and measurements. Blindly denying is not questioning, it is self imposed ignorance.

He will choose an ass kisser.

Keep your head up your ass o ignorant one, it seems comfortable there. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/methane-emissions-are-driving-climate-change-heres-how-reduce-them https://science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/unexpected-future-boost-of-methane-possible-from-arctic-permafrost/

"Anti democratic thuggery" coming from the only democratic government in the Middle East and the only country that has human rights and religious rights comparable to other western democracies. As long as the outrage isn't selective, I don't have a problem with calling it out regardless of who is doing it.

There are hundreds of billions of tons of methane locked in permafrost. Methane is a greenhouse gas many times more potent than CO2.