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 freedom to purchase the best justice money can buy. 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 (TriceEdneyWire.com) – 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.” Related Stories 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. What is clear is that Thomas and his equally unethical colleague, Justice Samuel Alito, are not fit to serve on the Supreme Court. The effort to remove them...