Get Used To It

The investigation into Trump meddling in the 2020 Georgia elections looked to be picking up steam.  U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was ordered by a federal appeals court to honor a subpoena and testify over what he knew bout Trump's plan to overturn the presidential election results in Georgia based on phone calls Graham had made at the time.  Graham, insisting hat these phone calls were related to his legislative work, appealed to the Supreme Court, which convinced me that he would get a reprieve of some sort - because he wouldn't have appealed to the highest court of the land if he didn't think the Court would help him.

It did - in the form of Justice Clarence Thomas blocking Graham's subpoena temporarily.

Now why would Thomas do such a thing?  It's not because he, born and bred a Georgia man, just cannot believe that Trump would try to corrupt his (Thomas') native state by trying to overturn an election, is it?

No, of course not.  It's more likely because his wife, a conservative activist, was trying to help get the election overturned herself.

This is just the latest in a series of right-wing extremist rulings form the justice, whose reactionary jurisprudence was once explained by his supporters as the result of anger of women pushing sexual-harassment charges against him during his 1991 U.S. Senate confirmation hearings that left him bitter and vindictive.      

In other words, it's Barbara Boxer's fault.

Yeah, right.

Lindsey Graham will likely have to testify in the grand-jury investigation of Trump in Georgia.  But if Clarence Thomas can't recuse himself when the situation calls for it, how can we be assured that, in a ruling in which he speaks for the majority, justice will be done? 

In response to those who objected to his mere presence on the bench when he first joined the Supreme Court, Justice Thomas is said to have offered these two sentences, each comprised entirely of monosyllabic words - "I'm on the Court.  Get used to it."