The former president has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling in Colorado that he is ineligible to appear on the state primary ballot because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

The former president has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling in Colorado that he is ineligible to appear on the state primary ballot because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

A group of House Democrats on Thursday called on conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from a case involving former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on Colorado’s Republican primary ballot.

Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a Colorado court ruling last month that disqualified him from appearing on the ballot over his conduct leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The former president’s appeal came after the state’s Republican Party filed its own appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision. The state court put its ruling on hold to allow for appeals, meaning Trump could remain on the ballot pending U.S. Supreme Court action.

A group of House Democrats, led by Rep. Hank Johnson, of Georgia, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee’s courts subcommittee, demanded that Thomas recuse himself from the case in a letter dated Thursday.

  • xor
    15·
    11 months ago

    i feel like there’s a good Judge Dredd photoshop waiting to happen here…

    • shikitohno@kbin.social
      10·
      11 months ago

      If you could offer enough money, you could probably get him to show up to hear cases dressed liked Judge Dredd.

      • thefartographer@lemm.ee
        111·
        11 months ago

        That would be a bribe and Justice Clarence Thomas has proved time and time again that he’s never accepted a bribe!

        He’ll accept a gift, though. If you buy him, like, 300 Judge Dredd costumes and a couple for his mom, then it would just be bad manners not to wear them, right?

        • xor
          2·
          11 months ago

          maybe just a yacht would do it…

          • thefartographer@lemm.ee
            3·
            11 months ago

            And I’m here to remind you

            Of the mess you made when you killed Roe v Wade

            It’s not fair, don’t deny it!

            The bribes you bear you say they gave away

            You- you… Yacht ta know!

      • xor
        4·
        11 months ago

        well, at least AI is good for something

        • Telorand@reddthat.com
          4·
          11 months ago

          I mean, given that Roberts is scared of AI, and I’m not wasting more on Clarence than the four minutes it took to generate this, it seemed appropriate.