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Mehdi Hasan says it's time Speaker Pelosi & @TheDemocrats seriously consider impeachment...

of Associate Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas.
MSNBC carries the story here:
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/why-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-could-be-impeached-n1292076

The conclusion of this Opinion piece:

Plenty of House Democrats will say there is no point even considering an impeachment of Thomas, correctly — if defensively — pointing out that the current Senate would never vote to convict. Can you imagine Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., or Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. — let alone 17 Republican senators — agreeing to vote to remove a Supreme Court justice for the first time in our history?

But from a purely political point of view, Democrats should be loudly drawing attention to the fact that the wife of a sitting Supreme Court justice supported Trump’s coup attempt. That justice then refused to recuse himself from a case involving the investigation of that coup attempt. There is a clear value in holding impeachment hearings to draw attention to Thomas and his wife and their inappropriate behavior, especially as an increasingly partisan, conservative-majority court guts voting and reproductive rights. What would Republicans be doing if they had held a House majority and, say, Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s spouse had supported attempts to block a duly elected GOP president from taking office and she refused to recuse herself from related cases?

Perhaps above all else, impeachment by the House is still impeachment, no matter what the Senate decides in the trial. A Supreme Court appointment may be for life. But so, too, are impeachments, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi aptly put it in 2020. Democrats in the House have both the constitutional authority and moral obligation to put a permanent asterisk next to Justice Clarence Thomas’ name.

[emphasis added for clarity]

You should read the entire thing, it’s quite convincing, relating historical context and the ethics issue plaguing our highest court due to what appears to be conflicts of interest on the part of Justice Thomas regarding the actions of his spouse and the Jan 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol building.

Of course, Thomas is currently hospitalized with “flu-like symptoms”, which in the COVID19 era generally is conservative speak for ‘he’s got COVID’. At the age of 73, even a flu infection could be fatal, so there’s that.

UPDATE: an astute reader informed me that I had mislabeled the author of the MSNBC piece, that it was not Ali Velshi who wrote the MSNBC opinion piece. PsychoSavannah was 100% correct the author of the linked story is Mehdi Hasan, a completely different NBC/MSNBC news person. My apologies to Ali Velshi, Mehdi Hasan and all the readers whom I mistakenly misinformed.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/21/2087188/-Ali-Velshi-says-it-s-time-Speaker-Pelosi-TheDemocrats-seriously-consider-impeachment?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended