Justice Thomas Must Resign!

Public trust in the Supreme Court is at an all-time low. The nine justices of the Supreme Court are largely unaccountable to the American people, whose lives they change with each new ruling. The Supreme Court should be the gold standard for judicial ethics, but today the justices are falling far short of that standard. While judges at every other level of our federal courts are bound by an enforceable code of ethics, Supreme Court Justices are not. Because of this, corruption within the Court has run rampant.

Supreme Court ethics has come to national attention recently due to numerous instances of Justice Thomas’s corrupt behavior. Most recently, ProPublica uncovered that Justice Thomas secretly participated in Koch Network donor events. He was the lone dissent on a January 6th Insurrection case, arguing to shield co-conspirators from accountability –despite the fact that his wife Ginni Thomas urged overturning the 2020 election. Justice Thomas also accepted dozens of luxury vacations from billionaire political donor Harlan Crow. These vacations, which included the use of Crow’s private jet and yacht trips, totaled several million dollars in value. The gifts were not disclosed as required by federal law. Also, Leonard Leo, the nation’s leading right-wing judicial activist, arranged for Justice Thomas’s wife Ginni Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work, but specified that her name be left off billing paperwork. Justice Thomas did not report this income.