Do you think that they aren't participating in the insurrection? The presidential immunity question should be enough to answer this for you, before even considering that Thomas' wife was actively helping coordinate J6.
There's a coup still underway and SCOTUS is right at the front of it.
Are you serious? You didn't think that you're splitting hairs a bit?
"Yup. We have to let them go. Sure, they overthrew the government, but some pedantic arse said they need to be directly involved in violence, not just undermine democracy from the bench, in order for it to count."
Alito and Thomas have been biding their time on the Court, waiting for the 50 year conservative project to come to fruition, and now that it is they're no longer willing to play pretend as objective neutral jurists. Their argument is simple "we won, we can do whatever we want".
They’d be willing to pretend if they had to, but now there’s no need.
Unless a super majority were to get elected to congress, that could either impeach them or at least pass laws governing their emoluments and conflicts of interest.
Just need a trifecta with a spine to kill the filibuster and pass laws. Or some executives with balls of steel to take the fight to the court and flex their own power in the law-enforcing part of the equation. They aren't omnipotent determiners of law.
I wouldn't call it an exception (although there are always exceptions), the problem here lies in the word "sympathizers", it's too ambiguous. The answer is technically no, they're just conservatives who are technically not insurrectionist sympathizers. But they are.
I applaud the effort. But either they are or they aren’t.
Thomas is married to an insurrectionist, allito is flying symbols used by the insurrectionists.
And the other conservatives on the court are all ardently supporting Trump with half baked rulings buying increasing amounts of time to- they hope- delay the trial long enough for it to not matter.
I wouldn’t actually call them sympathizers- I’d just call them insurrectionists.
Of course it's convoluted reasoning, I'm repeating what the conservatives believe? The effort does not come from me.
Let's not pretend they openly admit it was anything close to an insurrection, theyre just trying to "bring us back to Jesus". We all know what it was and what they are trying to do
Yes. Coup plotter sympathizers, too. Don't forget the coup plot. The insurrection was more exciting to cover; the coup plot was (and is) the real danger to our country.
Side note, as much of a piece of shit that Thomas is...his love of RVs is a bit endearing. Like watching a middle-aged autistic incel playing with his model trains. Except he's really smiling because he shit in your cereal, not because of the trains.
