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Supreme court justice Clarence Thomas must recuse himself from ruling on Donald Trump’s eligibility for the 2024 presidential election, a prominent Democrat said Sunday, warning that the leading Republican candidate is seeking to become a “political martyr” as he pursues a second presidency.

Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin was speaking ahead of the nation’s highest court stepping in to adjudicate recent state rulings in Maine and Colorado that struck the former president from the general election primaries under the US constitution’s 14th amendment insurrection clause.

Thomas, whose wife, Ginni, a hard right conservative, was a vocal proponent of Trump’s big lie that his 2020 defeat to Joe Biden was fraudulent, should stand down ahead of the supreme court hearing the case, Raskin argued. Trump’s legal challenges could begin as early as Tuesday.

Raskin led the push for Trump’s second impeachment following the deadly January 6 riot that the ex-president’s supporters staged at the US Capitol.

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[–] orangeNgreen@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Clarence Thomas took the matter under consideration and determined that it’d be no problem for him to ~~rule in Trump’s favor no matter what~~ fairly consider the issue.

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Clarence Thomas: "lololololololol"

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

"....Ahahdhahalololoolol. Pay me....."

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He "must" recuse himself?

Or what?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

Or what?

The iron clad, completely enforceable, code of ethics they adopted the other month duh!

/s

[–] kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“He absolutely should recuse himself. The question is, what do we do if he doesn’t recuse himself?”

Raskin also cautioned that Trump, the runaway favorite in the Republican primary, would inevitably try to overturn the 2024 election if he were to lose again.

FTA

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That didn't answer the question at all!

[–] PopcornTin@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Checks and balances. Now we just need five more congressman to do the same and we can finally have a truely supreme court.

[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

why is he still in office? this country is such a fucking joke

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

Lifetime appointments is why.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 41 points 10 months ago

Thomas should have recused over a lot of things..

But of course he didn’t and he won’t, because fuck you.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nobody:

Clarence Thomas: Make me