{"id":6146,"date":"2011-10-17T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/cain-picks-the-supreme-courts-9-9-9\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T00:01:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T07:01:18","slug":"cain-picks-the-supreme-courts-9-9-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/cain-picks-the-supreme-courts-9-9-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Cain Picks the Supreme Court&#8217;s 9-9-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Asked to pick an ideal Supreme court judge, Herman Cain had no trouble doing so.&#160; Which one?&#160; You can dismiss the four Justices on SCOTUS.&#160; He would never pick one of them.&#160; That leaves the five Injustices on SCROTUS.&#160; Figuring out the answer is easy.&#160; Just ask yourself, which Injustice has the most in common with 9-9-9?<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In an interview with Meet the Press\u2019 David Gregory this morning, GOP presidential frontrunner Herman Cain endorsed Justice Clarence Thomas as a model a President Cain would follow in making appointments to the Supreme Court&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Watch it:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lAeVppWuBTg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"17CainsIdealJudge\" alt=\"17CainsIdealJudge\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/17CainsIdealJudge.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"277\" \/>For the record, we on \u201cthe left\u201d do not attack Justice Thomas for any reason other than the fact that he is a terrible judge. His record on the Supreme Court is marred by <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/progress-report\/the-clarence-thomas-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\">conflicts of interest and other ethical scandals<\/a>, and he embraces a discredited understanding of the Constitution that would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2011\/09\/tea_party_constitution.html\" target=\"_blank\">declare everything from child labor laws to the ban on whites only lunch counters unconstitutional<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas accepted lavish gifts from wealthy benefactors and even from corporate-aligned interest groups with business before his Court. Leading conservative donor Harlan Crow, whose company often litigates in federal court, provided $500,000 to allow Thomas\u2019s wife to start a Tea Party group and he once gave Thomas a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines04\/1231-04.htm\" target=\"_blank\">$19,000 Bible<\/a> that belonged to Frederick Douglass. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank which frequently files briefs in Thomas\u2019 Court, also gave Thomas a <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/06\/21\/249512\/thomas-aei\/\" target=\"_blank\">$15,000 bust of Abraham Lincoln as a gift<\/a>. This last gift is particularly egregious because Thomas <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/06\/21\/249512\/thomas-aei\/\" target=\"_blank\">continued to sit on three cases where AEI filed a brief<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Significantly, a justice was forced to leave the Court for a very similar gifting scandal. In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/06\/19\/248151\/clarence-thomas-resign\/\" target=\"_blank\">resigned in disgrace<\/a> after the nation learned that he had accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts from corporate executives and other wealthy benefactors. Justice Thomas, by contrast, remains <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/03\/01\/146975\/why-we-doubt-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\">openly defiant<\/a> at the mere suggestion that he has done anything wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is Thomas\u2019 taste for expensive gifts his only ethical lapse. Thomas <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2010\/10\/20\/125384\/scalia-thomas-koch\/\" target=\"_blank\">unethically attended a political fundraiser<\/a> hosted by right-wing billionaire Charles Koch. He illegally <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/01\/22\/140253\/thomas-disclosure\/\" target=\"_blank\">omitted hundreds of thousands of dollars of his wife\u2019s income<\/a> from conservative organizations from his financial disclosure forms. And he has not disclosed whether his wife, a Tea Party lobbyist, is lobbying on any laws that are before his Court \u2014 a problem that could <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2011\/02\/09\/143196\/thomas-recuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">potentially raise recusal issues in the Affordable Care Act case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/10\/16\/345127\/herman-cain-clarence-thomas-ethics-child-labor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">See?&#160; that wasn\u2019t hard was it?&#160; Clarence \u201cTeabag\u201d Thomas is the 9-9-9 of judges, because, like 9-9-9, he is thoroughly dishonest, favors the rich above all else, and has no redeeming qualities.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked to pick an ideal Supreme court judge, Herman Cain had no trouble doing so.&#160; Which one?&#160; You can dismiss the four Justices on SCOTUS.&#160; He would never pick one of them.&#160; That leaves the five Injustices on SCROTUS.&#160; Figuring out the answer is easy.&#160; Just ask yourself, which Injustice has the most in common <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/cain-picks-the-supreme-courts-9-9-9\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}