{"id":1549125,"date":"2022-07-11T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549125"},"modified":"2022-07-11T17:05:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:05:18","slug":"calls-to-impeach-justice-clarence-thomas-are-not-realistic-democratic-sen-dick-durbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calls-to-impeach-justice-clarence-thomas-are-not-realistic-democratic-sen-dick-durbin\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls to Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas Are \u2018Not Realistic\u2019: Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalls-to-impeach-justice-clarence-thomas-are-not-realistic-democratic-sen-dick-durbin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549125&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In an interview with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/transcript\/fox-news-sunday-july-10-2022\">Fox News Sunday<\/a>\u201d on July 10, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, brushed off efforts by some left-wing agitators and lawmakers to impeach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-supreme-court\">Supreme Court<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-justice-clarence-thomas\">Justice Clarence Thomas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A petition begun by MoveOn, a left-wing nonprofit advocacy group, has garnered more than one million signatures in the past three months, particularly in the wake of the SCOTUS decision to reverse Roe v. Wade and return the power to regulate abortion to the states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs to whether he\u2019s going to be impeached, that is not realistic, but he should show good judgment,\u201d Durbin said about Thomas. \u201cIf this court is going to be credible, it has to be as apolitical as possible. Exactly the opposite has been happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the MoveOn petition focused on Thomas\u2019s alleged connection to the so-called \u201cinsurrection,\u201d a term that has been blasted by conservative critics as a dishonest description of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, left-wing activists have taken issue with texts exchanged between Thomas\u2019s wife, Ginni Thomas, and then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, as well as Thomas\u2019s sole dissenting opinion in an 8\u20131 ruling stating that President Donald Trump could not block the House Jan. 6 panel from accessing documents related to the Capitol breach.<\/p>\n<p>Although he rejected calls to impeach Thomas, Durbin did echo others in his party stating that Thomas should recuse himself from all matters related to Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is, in my mind, a clear conflict of interest when it comes to Justice Thomas and issues related to the Jan. 6 insurrection,\u201d Durbin said. \u201cI would think that Justice Thomas should recuse himself from any decisions that relate to the Jan. 6 episode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, MoveOn updated the petition to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d on July 10, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, brushed off efforts by some left-wing agitators and lawmakers to impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. A petition begun by MoveOn, a left-wing nonprofit advocacy group, has garnered more than one million signatures in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}