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Did the Thomas's pay taxes on the income from Ginni's political activism?

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Did he report his wife's income to the IRS?

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That's what amendments are for. The writers knew it was a framework, not a dogma. First thing they did was ratify 10 changes

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Congress does! The three branches provide checks and balances for each other.

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Don't be silly.

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"Ethics?! I don't even know her!"

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Leave 'im alone. Died in disgrace, on a "gun" trip in the middle of nowhere with his boytoy on Valentine's Day. His name shall live in infamy for his proudly ignorant and ugly writing.

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You know what the Supreme Court cannot do? Create money for its self.

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"

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The entire structure of our government relies far too much on people being decent, non-criminal human beings. Great when people are that way, but those days are long gone, if they were in fact ever a thing, which I doubt.

Gotta start putting in some hard limits on all three branches. I freely admit I have no idea how that's going to happen.

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They can find you guilty of it, but that's all. Congress does not have or maintain a jail facility.

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What is dismaying is not only how easy it seems to be, but how cheap.

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Isn't that the same movie where Jayne Mansfield can't find her bra after a tryst with Terry Thomas ("Maybe your wife will think its hers") and he's a broken man waiting for her to find it in their bedroom? Particularly funny because Thomas has a classic rant about the American obsession with bosoms in "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."

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"Well Mr Crow, I'm sure that Senators Sanders and Warren would probably have little trouble in requesting your returns for the last 20 years to verify if you paid the correct taxes on your gifts to Justice Thomas. Since your attorney referenced Mazars, I'm sure he can advise you that you are not the President of the United States, and we can ask for the returns of any citizen. We can do this the easy way, or the hard way. It's up to you.

Yours, etc etcRichard Durbin(You may call me Senator)"

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Another major civics FAIL! Judicial Review was talked about in the Federalist Papers (I know that you haven't read them. You should, so you don't sound so ignorant). It is also implied in the Constitution Article 3. In enacting the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress explicitly provided for the exercise of the power, and in other legislative debates questions of constitutionality and of judicial review were prominent. Judicial review was also present in several state constitutions when the Constitution was ratified.Hint: The Madison in "Marbury vs. Madison" (in 1803) is also known as the 'Father of the Constitution'. If you could think, you might possibly reason that if Madison DIDN'T accept judicial review he just might have said something.

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I had a client years ago whose wife developed a case of the crabs, which she absolutely knew to have originated with her husband. Why? Because she knew that she had been dutiful and faithful. So, when she confronted the husband with the fact that she had crabs, and he had crabs, she demanded to know who he had been sleeping around with to bring the affliction into the family. The husband, sensing that he needed to employ the "Deny, deny, deny" strategy, told her that she probably got crabs because she slept with the family dog.

The wife, being the circumspect type initially stopped to wonder whether that might be true. After about a three second delay in giving the husband's argument the light of day, she quickly responded, "No fucking way."

Needless to say, the marriage did not last much longer.

The husband, in the years that have ensued, has blown through about ten other relationships with women, some consummated by marriage, most not.

Life imitated art on that one.

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