For years, Clarence Thomas has been showered with gifts. Flights on a billionaire’s private jet, lavish vacations cruising on his superyacht, summer stays at his Adirondacks compound, tuition for a child Thomas was raising, a quarter-million-dollar motorhome a wealthy friend paid for.
Those gifts were income, and income belongs on a tax return. Thomas treated them as nothing, and no public record shows he ever reported a dollar of it. Under Virginia law, leaving income that size off a return, if it was done to cheat the state, is a felony. The evidence is already public, and he could be charged on Monday.
Virginia law makes it a felony to file a state income tax return with a false statement on it, made with intent to defraud the Commonwealth. The statute is Virginia Code section 58.1-348, it carries up to five years in prison per count, and the clock has not run out on the returns Thomas filed for tax years 2020 through 2024. That is the whole case, and unlike everything else, it is a case a county prosecutor in Virginia has the plain authority to bring.
Nothing will happen. He’s too important to the conservative (bowel) movement. If ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it, then machinations of enforcement, legislation, and interpretation of said law should be held to the highest standard. He should get triple the maximum sentence because of his position.
I agree nothing will happen, but not because conservatives want him to stay. In fact I think they would prefer he be removed now, when they can replace him with someone younger.
And more caucasion.
Actually, he’s super useful for being able to play the ‘black friend’ card
They’re just about past having a token at the party being useful. They are already in the process of dismantling the entire civil rights movement.
In fact I bet he retires himself before the Trump admin ends
He will never retire till the gravy train dries up.
At most he’ll have to pay the taxes and a small fee.
Baby steps in the right direction is still the right direction and still better than no steps.
A completely corrupt judge, and the only thing they can charge him with is tax evasion. It reminds me of Capone.
Probably nothing will happen, since the whole government is corrupt, but it’s nice to see someone try.
Republicans should welcome this. They can pressure Thomas to resign, since he’s old anyway, then appoint a successor before the Midterms. They don’t want to try to shove a MAGA SCOTUS nominee through a Democrat Senate.
He could. He won’t. And even if by some miracle he is, nothing will come of it.
Could use it as an opportunity to replace him with someone younger and whiter before the Republicans lose control of the Senate.
I assume MAGA considers Clarence “there’s a pube on my Coke can” Thomas to be one of the good blacks.
Yes, but you need to remember that to racists, a bad white is still better than a good black.
Isn’t Monday a federal holiday?
Yeah. The whole article is weird. Like it’s sound but also, no, there isn’t anything in the work, rights?
Okay, so they’ll appeal it all the way up to the Supreme Court, and Thomas will decide that there’s no need to recuse himself, no conflict of interest when he’s ruling on a case where he himself is the defendant.
I don’t think there is an avenue to the US Supreme Court. It would go to Virginia’s Supreme Court.
Can’t state supreme court rulings be appealed to the federal level?
Yes, but the state supreme Court is under no obligation to follow their directions.
But he’s a SUPREME COURT JUDGE! He CANT Break the Law!
-Law and Order Republicans!
Leona Helmsley was a prophet: “We don’t pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.”
