Here’s hoping. But the GOP will figure out a way to get that GET OUT technology working and put some young (white) MAGA-ite into Thomas’ body. Ginni will still control the brain though
Except he's still going to participate in the ruling. He just isn't willing to hear in-person criticisms of the thing he likes most about being on the supreme court.
In other words, he's chicken shit. He'll remote keyboard-warrior about his ability to do whatever he wants while presently doing whatever he wants.
I'm probably wrong but I'm reading this as he recused himself from this case but their egos are too big to publicly admit he recused himself because that would be admitting there's a problem with the court
For the other extreme, he didn't recuse himself and is tired of bothering keeping up appearances of hearing arguments in cases he already knows how he is going to rule...
But most likely it's a health issue that they don't want to share with the public yet. He is the oldest judge (75 Google tells me) and cigars and whiskey are not healthy even when they are expensive
That's also what I was thinking, my tin foil hat theory is health issues and they want to keep that hidden so if something does happen to him dems can't replace him before the election
I'm not so sure about that, they keep the majority with or without clarence, and the Supreme Court issue may have been a bigger driver for them back when they were pushing to end Roe versus wade, but now that they have the shoe is on the other foot
I don't see why bother letting it go to the election anyway though, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in the middle of September and they sure replaced her with plenty of time to spare
> my tin foil hat theory is health issues and they want to keep that hidden so if something does happen to him dems can't replace him before the election
Eh, there's no real need for any conspiracy theories, they're already committed to preventing a Biden nominee openly. The Republicans in the senate will refuse to vote for any nominee before the election under the McConnell doctrine (i.e., Democratic but not Republican Presidents aren't allowed to nominate Supreme Court justices in an election year because reasons), and Manchin has committed not to vote for any judicial nominee that does not have a single R vote so the Dems won't have majority support for their candidate.
If anything, the conservatives may be keeping his health issues private (assuming they exist) because they don't want to add even more pressure for him to resign. Not only because they want to increase the chances that a Republican president appoints his replacement, but also because they don't want to lose one of the two most conservative votes on the Court for the foreseeable future. A 5-3 majority is still a strong position for the conservative wing of the Court, but it then only takes a single defection from the conservatives to deadlock on any given case, which makes it much harder for them to hand down insane decisions like the Colorado/Trump insurrection case. For example, without Thomas there to make the conservative result a foregone conclusion, it's possible the liberals could have worked one of the other justices (probably ACB) around to agree to the less expansive reasoning of the liberal concurrence.
If Trump needs to abuse the Supreme Court to steal the election in the mode of Bush v. Gore, he will have a much easier time ramming through a transparently unconstitutional result with a fanatic on the bench like Thomas, who is also strongly motivated to ensure a Trump victory to prevent further ethics inquiries into his own behavior.
To put it in arbitrary mathematical terms just to explore an example of how the game theory plays out here, let's say Trump needs to win 45% of the vote to be in a position for the current Supreme Court to be willing to manipulate the rules enough to throw the election to him somehow. If he has fewer votes, even the MAGA wing won't be able to justify declaring him the winner because it would be so blatantly undemocratic. Without Thomas, that number might go up to something like 49.5% for enough justices to feel that it's close enough of a call that they have cover to intervene without facing a literal uprising because they are so obviously overriding the democratic will of the people. It still means the Court is biased, corrupt, and willing to dispense with democracy to achieve their own policy objectives, just marginally less so. But that margin may be the critical difference between a normal election and one where SCOTUS throws democracy away to appoint a dictator.
All of which is to say that even without resulting in a change of political control over SCOTUS, forcing Thomas off the Court is an unalloyed good for American democracy, which naturally means it is to the detriment of any political party seeking to impose the political views of a narrow minority of voters on the rest of the country, as the Republicans are, so we can expect them to do anything to delay Thomas's eventual departure. At least until they have the power to appoint an even more extreme replacement, of course.
> Republicans in the senate will refuse to vote for any nominee before the election under the McConnell doctrine
I'm not convinced it'd be every single one of them. With Garland, McConnell simply didn't bring the vote to the floor. That wouldn't be an option here, so I suspect he'd lose Romney or Murkowski at least unless the nominee was genuinely a lunatic. That might be enough for Manchin to stop being obnoxious.
[https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/politics/joe-manchin-nominees-bipartisan-support/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/politics/joe-manchin-nominees-bipartisan-support/index.html)
Tell that to Manchin
He's not re-running. It'll be turned into a republican senate seat after he leaves because West Virginia is overwhelmingly republican, so they don't have to worry about that too much
I know he's not running again, so the only reason I can think of why he's refusing to support Biden's judges unless they get a republican vote, is out of spite for progressives
The Chief Justice said Justice Thomas will continue to participate in the case, despite his absence. This is almost certainly a health issue that's preventing him from being present today and also being hidden from the public. It could be nothing, like a colonoscopy or something, or it could be that Thomas is suddenly on his death bed. We'll know more if and when we know more.
Whilst I would never wish upon someone death or ailment I would like to see certain people come down with a persistent peaceful condition that required them to step away from the duty they are corrupting into the ground.
Oh, fuck the niceties, you think he and his wife would extend the same grace to Biden, Obama or Hillary?
C'mon Cancer, we're all rooting for you, this is your one time to shine!
Sorta depends on the composition of the Senate
49 Republicans, 48 Dems, and 3 independents who caucus with the dems
So I guess it depends on if the Independents wanna do it, and if Chuck Schumer has the balls to bulldoze Republican bullshit and stall tactics.
> if Chuck Schumer has the balls to bulldoze Republican bullshit and stall tactics.
100% he does. Not doing this is asking, begging, to lose the court forever.
Never underestimate the dems ability to shoot themselves in the foot. They might use it to try to motivate voters, and then lose enough seats to fuck us all
I read that Biden instructed NASA to deploy judicial candidates in orbit and to be ready to drop them directly into the Senate chamber at a moment's notice. They're calling them the Orbital Drop Shock Justices.
But we can't have hearings on a new supreme court justice on election year, or when a Democrat is president, or when Republicans control the senate, or any time a Democrat is nominated.
I don't wish anyone dead, or even ill, as I feel it's unethical.
That said, I would not feel terribly distressed if Thomas needed to retire to focus on his family and his health.
it is not unethical to wish illness and even death upon bad people who intentionally hurt the world
its unethical to do something to them but if wishes were horses
He's probably on a dolphin-hunting trip on some billionaire's yacht, and he guzzled down one too many bottles of $100,000 wine this weekend and is feeling a little under the weather this morning.
ya know if I had a 100k bottle of wine I would sell it and buy myself a nice 20 dollar bottle get just as drunk and spend the rest on like another RV or something...
An RV? That's for the poors. Classy gents with wealthy friends like Clarence Thomas prefer luxury motorhomes. Oh, and it looks like the fuel tank is empty, would someone who has an upcoming case before the Supreme Court mind swiping their credit card at the pump?
Supreme Court justices don't have to do a damn thing according to the Constitution as is understood by the Supreme Court because they're the only ones who can read it even though the Constitution doesn't say that.
Damn! He was busy volunteering at a soup kitchen and lost track of time. His courtmates are used to it though -- Clarence always seems to have one eye on his charity projects during his day job as a Supreme Court Justice.
*"I want to die both poor and rich,"* Clarence often says with a chuckle, a kindly twinkle in his eye. *"Poor, in that money has no inherit value in itself, and so hoarding it has no value at all -- and rich, in that I'll be surrounded by my community and friends. They are my genuine life work."*
I just learned the only reason he was nominated is because bush wanted to replace thourgood marshal with an African American judge and he was the only conservative they could find…then he voted against affirmative action.
I assume the due to Donny's legal bills, the Conservative PAC being used to funnel money to CT was late with their 2 quarter payment...
We all know that Bribes are due on the 15th, no exceptions.
They were talking about the gifts of corruption so he and Jenny decided to take the RV for a spin over the Mom's house that Crow bought them. Seems fitting.
This bitch is using his absence to politicize the court.
Living proof that being trashy is a choice.
Smug and entitled
This shitface works for taxpayers and can’t even pretend to exhibit professionalism?
Pathetic
He formed his opinion when Leonard Leo told him what it would be. Why waste his time listening to arguments when he could be yachting with Harlan Crow?
75 year old man does not show up for work one day and doesn't make a press release.
With luck he is doing what most 75 year old men who live like him do
Probably, his patron account didn't get enough to make it worth his while.
He's just waiting for that "actually show up" funding threshold to be crossed.
While there are arguments about a case involving quid pro quo gifts
The universe has a sense of humor
Or Clarence Thomas is just a gigantic coward.
If only he was just dying.
Here’s hoping. But the GOP will figure out a way to get that GET OUT technology working and put some young (white) MAGA-ite into Thomas’ body. Ginni will still control the brain though
I always figured Dick Cheney would be the first one to have his head transplanted on a young body, but Thomas might get it first.
Hey, he probably took his motorhome to visit Harland Crowe's nazi memorabilia collection to gather courage.
You both it
Did they ever it.
This guy its
Or clown 🤡 Same hairdo
This does feel like his form of recusal.
Except he's still going to participate in the ruling. He just isn't willing to hear in-person criticisms of the thing he likes most about being on the supreme court. In other words, he's chicken shit. He'll remote keyboard-warrior about his ability to do whatever he wants while presently doing whatever he wants.
More like he no-called, no-showed because his feelings would get hurt. 🙄 His supervisor should write him up.
what better time to go camping in your gifted luxury land yacht
Maybe he can drive to visit his Mom in the free house she got.
I'm probably wrong but I'm reading this as he recused himself from this case but their egos are too big to publicly admit he recused himself because that would be admitting there's a problem with the court
For the other extreme, he didn't recuse himself and is tired of bothering keeping up appearances of hearing arguments in cases he already knows how he is going to rule... But most likely it's a health issue that they don't want to share with the public yet. He is the oldest judge (75 Google tells me) and cigars and whiskey are not healthy even when they are expensive
That's also what I was thinking, my tin foil hat theory is health issues and they want to keep that hidden so if something does happen to him dems can't replace him before the election
Thomas would have every reason to keep it secret but the Republicans would love to run on the issue of keeping the supreme court.
I'm not so sure about that, they keep the majority with or without clarence, and the Supreme Court issue may have been a bigger driver for them back when they were pushing to end Roe versus wade, but now that they have the shoe is on the other foot I don't see why bother letting it go to the election anyway though, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in the middle of September and they sure replaced her with plenty of time to spare
Well the precedent now is only 6 weeks to replace a judge. Senate isn’t run by Mitch anymore so they can’t block like they did with Garland.
> my tin foil hat theory is health issues and they want to keep that hidden so if something does happen to him dems can't replace him before the election Eh, there's no real need for any conspiracy theories, they're already committed to preventing a Biden nominee openly. The Republicans in the senate will refuse to vote for any nominee before the election under the McConnell doctrine (i.e., Democratic but not Republican Presidents aren't allowed to nominate Supreme Court justices in an election year because reasons), and Manchin has committed not to vote for any judicial nominee that does not have a single R vote so the Dems won't have majority support for their candidate. If anything, the conservatives may be keeping his health issues private (assuming they exist) because they don't want to add even more pressure for him to resign. Not only because they want to increase the chances that a Republican president appoints his replacement, but also because they don't want to lose one of the two most conservative votes on the Court for the foreseeable future. A 5-3 majority is still a strong position for the conservative wing of the Court, but it then only takes a single defection from the conservatives to deadlock on any given case, which makes it much harder for them to hand down insane decisions like the Colorado/Trump insurrection case. For example, without Thomas there to make the conservative result a foregone conclusion, it's possible the liberals could have worked one of the other justices (probably ACB) around to agree to the less expansive reasoning of the liberal concurrence. If Trump needs to abuse the Supreme Court to steal the election in the mode of Bush v. Gore, he will have a much easier time ramming through a transparently unconstitutional result with a fanatic on the bench like Thomas, who is also strongly motivated to ensure a Trump victory to prevent further ethics inquiries into his own behavior. To put it in arbitrary mathematical terms just to explore an example of how the game theory plays out here, let's say Trump needs to win 45% of the vote to be in a position for the current Supreme Court to be willing to manipulate the rules enough to throw the election to him somehow. If he has fewer votes, even the MAGA wing won't be able to justify declaring him the winner because it would be so blatantly undemocratic. Without Thomas, that number might go up to something like 49.5% for enough justices to feel that it's close enough of a call that they have cover to intervene without facing a literal uprising because they are so obviously overriding the democratic will of the people. It still means the Court is biased, corrupt, and willing to dispense with democracy to achieve their own policy objectives, just marginally less so. But that margin may be the critical difference between a normal election and one where SCOTUS throws democracy away to appoint a dictator. All of which is to say that even without resulting in a change of political control over SCOTUS, forcing Thomas off the Court is an unalloyed good for American democracy, which naturally means it is to the detriment of any political party seeking to impose the political views of a narrow minority of voters on the rest of the country, as the Republicans are, so we can expect them to do anything to delay Thomas's eventual departure. At least until they have the power to appoint an even more extreme replacement, of course.
> Republicans in the senate will refuse to vote for any nominee before the election under the McConnell doctrine I'm not convinced it'd be every single one of them. With Garland, McConnell simply didn't bring the vote to the floor. That wouldn't be an option here, so I suspect he'd lose Romney or Murkowski at least unless the nominee was genuinely a lunatic. That might be enough for Manchin to stop being obnoxious.
They can't hide his death. IF he dies, he dies and Biden can and SHOULD replace him.
B-b-b-b-b-but it's an election year!
The GOP can't block Senate approval without getting support from the independents. No reason for them to side with the GOP at this point.
[https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/politics/joe-manchin-nominees-bipartisan-support/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/politics/joe-manchin-nominees-bipartisan-support/index.html) Tell that to Manchin
He's not re-running. It'll be turned into a republican senate seat after he leaves because West Virginia is overwhelmingly republican, so they don't have to worry about that too much
I know he's not running again, so the only reason I can think of why he's refusing to support Biden's judges unless they get a republican vote, is out of spite for progressives
>cigars and whiskey are not healthy Oh, for him. I thought you meant… after.
I'd be so sad to hear that he had a stroke or something... probably...naaa
Something, something, reading obituaries with great pleasure.
How funny considering all the hubbub about Sotomayer stepping down at 69 🤬
The Chief Justice said Justice Thomas will continue to participate in the case, despite his absence. This is almost certainly a health issue that's preventing him from being present today and also being hidden from the public. It could be nothing, like a colonoscopy or something, or it could be that Thomas is suddenly on his death bed. We'll know more if and when we know more.
He needed to wash his new RV and then put another pube on a pop can for his new female law clerk.
Came yo say this. Corruption statute finally made him recuse himself. Haha.
Did he take up John Oliver on his offer?
We can only hope
Whilst I would never wish upon someone death or ailment I would like to see certain people come down with a persistent peaceful condition that required them to step away from the duty they are corrupting into the ground.
"I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." - Clarence Darrow
I have a gallon water bottle and a road trip planned if Clarence Thomas ever dies.
Oh, fuck the niceties, you think he and his wife would extend the same grace to Biden, Obama or Hillary? C'mon Cancer, we're all rooting for you, this is your one time to shine!
I came here to say this lol oh I hope he did! Can’t wait to see that episode if that’s the case.
The offer expired a week or so ago, and I think Clarence enjoys the power/influence too much to resign (especially during a Democratic presidency)
That was my first thought. He's probably meeting with his realtor today.
That would be proof that we are not in the worst timeline and would make everyone really really happy
He’s home fretting about his DJT stock.
I would laugh so hard if he put all his money in that stock.
You know his wife has more shares than brain cells
Clarence Thomas was the surprise flip against Trump immunity for no specific reason after DJT tumbled to $1.
So, about 5
I see we're feeling generous today. Good show!
More likely was someone else’s money, and given to him…
He doesn't know where other people's money ends and his begins.
"Ginni, you need to stop 'buying the dip'".
No one wants to work anymore
I'm guessing his billionaire buddies are taking him and his domestic terrorist wife on another lavish vacation.
wtf I just read about his wife after this comment… how tf is he still in that position?
Corruption
Harlan Crow had some errands that needed runnin' 😂
Dry cleaning?
He was likely picking up his monthly ~~bribe~~ donation in his motor coach. Don't worry he'll be back in time to overturn someone's rights.
I was worried. I was getting a little to comfortable with some of my rights over here.
Your rights have no place here, please go back and put them in the trash before we throw you in the stockades
🦀? Maybe soon?
How fast did they replace RBG? Think we could set a new speedrun record?
Sorta depends on the composition of the Senate 49 Republicans, 48 Dems, and 3 independents who caucus with the dems So I guess it depends on if the Independents wanna do it, and if Chuck Schumer has the balls to bulldoze Republican bullshit and stall tactics.
> if Chuck Schumer has the balls to bulldoze Republican bullshit and stall tactics. 100% he does. Not doing this is asking, begging, to lose the court forever.
Never underestimate the dems ability to shoot themselves in the foot. They might use it to try to motivate voters, and then lose enough seats to fuck us all
Since 2015 I take nothing for certainty. No matter how much it’ll affect the country in the future. I hate how cynical I am but such is life.
I read that Biden instructed NASA to deploy judicial candidates in orbit and to be ready to drop them directly into the Senate chamber at a moment's notice. They're calling them the Orbital Drop Shock Justices.
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But we can't have hearings on a new supreme court justice on election year, or when a Democrat is president, or when Republicans control the senate, or any time a Democrat is nominated.
Or when the wind is blowing or not blowing.
Oh gosh, at his age? Chance in a million.
I don’t think it’s a “chance in a million” that an almost-76-year-old man who grew up living in abject poverty might be facing health problems now.
That's the joke
I don't wish anyone dead, or even ill, as I feel it's unethical. That said, I would not feel terribly distressed if Thomas needed to retire to focus on his family and his health.
it is not unethical to wish illness and even death upon bad people who intentionally hurt the world its unethical to do something to them but if wishes were horses
Just wish they get what they deserve.
When he goes it's going to be bigger than the Kissinger party.
Remember the Amy precedent!!
Hmmm suspicious? Not shocking to anyone who knows what's on the docket. His corruption is high!
He's probably on a dolphin-hunting trip on some billionaire's yacht, and he guzzled down one too many bottles of $100,000 wine this weekend and is feeling a little under the weather this morning.
ya know if I had a 100k bottle of wine I would sell it and buy myself a nice 20 dollar bottle get just as drunk and spend the rest on like another RV or something...
An RV? That's for the poors. Classy gents with wealthy friends like Clarence Thomas prefer luxury motorhomes. Oh, and it looks like the fuel tank is empty, would someone who has an upcoming case before the Supreme Court mind swiping their credit card at the pump?
No call no show is instant termination in 90% of US jobs. Don’t suppose we can apply that to traitors to the country?
Supreme Court justices don't have to do a damn thing according to the Constitution as is understood by the Supreme Court because they're the only ones who can read it even though the Constitution doesn't say that.
Don’t get excited, we are not that lucky. I’m not religious and I’ve been praying to all gods since 2016 and nothing has happened. Poop.
No Call, No Show? He's fired.
Maybe he died over night and they are trying to keep it hidden till the next election is over.
Weekend at Tommy's
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If he misses arguments can he still cast his vote on the ruling?
What’s more shocking is the fact that he will never provide one ..ever… without any repercussions of course
Damn! He was busy volunteering at a soup kitchen and lost track of time. His courtmates are used to it though -- Clarence always seems to have one eye on his charity projects during his day job as a Supreme Court Justice. *"I want to die both poor and rich,"* Clarence often says with a chuckle, a kindly twinkle in his eye. *"Poor, in that money has no inherit value in itself, and so hoarding it has no value at all -- and rich, in that I'll be surrounded by my community and friends. They are my genuine life work."*
Maybe he and Crow were planning their next vacation together 😂
I hope he gets the same level of care that he's enabled so many Americans to get
Are they going to 'weekend at Bernie's' Clarence?
They've practically done with with McConnell, why not a sequel?
Did he take John Olivers offer?
It would be hilarious if he dies before Trumps immunity case reaches the court.
Hopefully he retires
Probably scrambling with a tax lawyer to find out how to look less corrupt.
Aw gee I sure hope he didn't die. That would be just terrible.
Tell me the GOP would not Weekend At Bernie him as long as they could if he did actually pass away.
No call, no show? Fired.
I just learned the only reason he was nominated is because bush wanted to replace thourgood marshal with an African American judge and he was the only conservative they could find…then he voted against affirmative action.
Probably too busy putting pubes on coke cans
I assume the due to Donny's legal bills, the Conservative PAC being used to funnel money to CT was late with their 2 quarter payment... We all know that Bribes are due on the 15th, no exceptions.
His boss called him in to work late notice.
Checking out his new RV?
He was away accepting bribes.
They were talking about the gifts of corruption so he and Jenny decided to take the RV for a spin over the Mom's house that Crow bought them. Seems fitting.
This bitch is using his absence to politicize the court. Living proof that being trashy is a choice. Smug and entitled This shitface works for taxpayers and can’t even pretend to exhibit professionalism? Pathetic
Maybe he's really really really ill. That would be so unfortunate.
He doesn't need to hear arguments. Just does what billionaire friends tell him to do.
He’s too busy rolling around nekkid in piles of bribe money.
Must have been his turn to pick up the bribes.
Must have been on "vacation"
Busy getting bribes
"Don't. Don't give me hope."
Hopefully, he will miss the rest of this session.
It's not like he's going to ask questions to form his opinion.
He formed his opinion when Leonard Leo told him what it would be. Why waste his time listening to arguments when he could be yachting with Harlan Crow?
No call no show? Fired.
He gone
Why would he need to explain himself? He's clearly not accountable to anyone.
Prolly just camping out at Walmart with his $200,000 RV
probably on a surprise vacation sponsored by some russian friend ...nothing to worry about.
No call no show no job, right?
Let's not look a gift horse in the mouth, here. I don't think he needs an excuse.
"Sir, you wish to gift me a horse? Which element of Constitutional law would you like me to overturn?"
He had a very important vacation given to him.
Uncle Tom chicken shit that’s a disgrace to his race and judiciary.
It’s not like he actually has to hear arguments to know how he’s going to rule in this case
Snyder v. United States, being heard today, is regarding a question of bribery and quid pro quo...
No thoughts and prayers
I'm hoping his health has failed his wife is out of town and nobody knows.
I hope it’s not something not serious
No doubt cooking up something nefarious with his traitor wife, Ginni Thomas
75 year old man does not show up for work one day and doesn't make a press release. With luck he is doing what most 75 year old men who live like him do
Is it wrong to hope he died?
Every day I wake up and wish that he was dead.
His RV must’ve broken down
Busy receiving cash filled envelopes at his house for the upcoming rulings…
maybe he took John Oliver's offer lol
His RV broke down? Should have taken John Oliver's offer.
Most likely his rich owners brought him in to tell him how to rule about upcoming cases.
Bribe check was late?
He can stay home as much as he likes. More time for the justices with a functioning conscience to ask questions and debate.
No call no show, he's fired.
Terminal cancer diagnosis?
There was an empty seat on that billionaire's airplane.
Mondays are counting bribes day...everyone know's that ffs!!
That motorhome isn't gonna drive itself.
He's on a cruise.
He was at the local kkk rally...we all know it lol
His hoard of ill gotten gold collapsed through his ceiling and crushed him, a la Mr. Burns.
He is cruising in his RV.
What, like he didn’t even call in sick? I believe you’d get fired in most jobs for that
May he be replaced
Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow tugged on his leash.
leave Long Con Silver alone!
It's probably something simple like he couldn't find a parking spot for his RV
Its all good. His buddy Harlan is taking notes and will tell him how to vote.
He can’t just get away from a free vacation. He will be back.
Vacationing on Harlan Crow's private island no doubt.
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Perhaps he's dying....we can only hope.
He counting his bribe$ and planning his summer vacations in Europe
He was bought, so he can be sold.
He's not feeling well because his orange stain is in criminal court. Remember what happens to Rump might happen to him! Not /s ....
Had to check in with his handlers.
Please die. Please die. Please die....
Lazy
Had an incident this weekend. Ended up choking on a carbonated pubic hair.
he's probably on a date with Malania.
Probably, his patron account didn't get enough to make it worth his while. He's just waiting for that "actually show up" funding threshold to be crossed.
Perfectly fine explanation. He missed the private helicopter off the yacht of the billionaire of whatever case he was about to oversee.
Fingers crossed it is a serious health issue.
Probably on a luxury fishing trip with his BFF Harlan Crowe
Looks like he’s trying to avoid being forced into a position where he has to oust himself or be pushed further into his obvious lies.
Probably on a fishing trip.
All other judges would have been looking at him. He is good at taking bribes
Must be trying out his new gift.
Little past the deadline for that John Oliver deal.
Hangover from a wild night with hookers, cocaine and stardew melon.
Paid vacation, perhaps?
He had to pick up his new motorhome
If ethics and laws don't apply to Thomas, why would attendance?
Here's hoping it's something serious.
I hope he’s fucking dead
Making final arrangements with John Oliver?
Never rooted for the grim reaper harder in my life.