The Latest In A Long Line

 The two most depressing aspects of Life in Trumpistan are as follows:

1) Way too many Americans voted for Donald Trump.

2) There have been way too few consequences for rampant law breaking associated with Trump and his minions.

Trump's unique awfulness as a human being - associates have noted that Trump really doesn't have a best friend, because of course he doesn't - is NOT the worst part of Trumpistan, it is the fact that tens of millions of Americans would vote for him, because they hate their fellow countrymen that much.

The second aspect is what I want to talk about though.

First, we had the resignation letter of Mark Pomerantz from the NY County District Attorney's office. Alvin Bragg pulled the plug on the investigation for reasons that are as yet unclear. True, it would be very difficult to get a conviction on white collar crimes by a former president, but that's a piss poor reason for not prosecuting if you think he's guilty. Pomerantz makes clear that the team investigating him thinks he's guilty.

Could there be a central office in the DOJ or state's AG office that is consolidating all of Trump's crimes for prosecution? Sure, it's possible. But the history of Trumpistan is that Trump never seems to have the level of comeuppance that he deserves. The only real exception was the election of Joe Biden in 2020.

Which brings me to Ginni Thomas. Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was an active co-conspirator in the January 6th autogolpe attempt. We have written evidence that she was pushing Mark Meadows to embrace the most lunatic, OANN-type positions. There's this passage:

She also quoted language circulating on pro-Trump sites that said, “Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition.” She added: “I hope this is true.”

Now, Clarence Thomas is not the same person as Ginni Thomas. However, Thomas appears to have voted against enforcing the subpoenas on Meadows that exposed his wife's insurrectionist activity. He should have recused himself, and not for the first time. Thomas has routinely failed to recuse himself on cases where his wife is tangentially or directly involved.

The usual suspects on Twitter are calling on Clarence Thomas to resign, because both his wife is an insurrectionist and he failed to recuse himself. Of course, Thomas is not going to resign. And you're not finding 17 GOP Senators who will vote to convict him. Yes, they are hypocrites. Yes, they went apeshit because Bill Clinton met Loretta Lynch in an airport that one time. It doesn't matter.

At some point we need to write ethics rules for the Supreme Court, but for now, we are stuck with a deeply reactionary court with a member who is married to a QAnon activist.

At some point, Merrick Garland needs to get off his ass and do something about all this.