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It's so exhausting when ethics are considered a partisan issue and the ones against ethics and oversight will not shut up accusing others of unethical behavior. Also, the 'ethics codes' congressmen and senators are supposed to abide by aren't enforced in anything like a rigorous or consistent way.
At the very least, congressmen, senators, and justices ought to be held to standards higher than the standards they're responsible for holding others to. Unfortunately, holding them to those higher standards is a sort of power that would be instantly abused the moment anyone with an agenda and crap ethics has it, another 'who will watch the watchmen?' conundrum
This shit is why we can't have nice things apparently
I have an idea.
When there is a legitimate ethics violation why don't we get a referee and then get a random group of 12 people to decide if it was worth them being penalized?
I know i'm just talkin crazy here but...
TLDR; Clarence Thomas took bribes, the only way it would be more obvious would be if they gave him the money in a bag with $$$ printed on the outside. Throw his corrupt ass in jail.
Sad situation, I don't understand how do many people are OK with it, but they are. The GOP and still obtain a significant victory in the next election. We need to make sure to get out and vote.