Former CNN legal analyst and infamous Zoom masturbator Jeffrey Toobin returned to the network on Thursday to promote his new book on Timothy McVeigh, but also to pile on Justice Clarence Thomas for being unethical and the rest of the Supreme Court for allegedly putting themselves “above the law.”
Co-host Kaitlin Collins began by reading a statement from the office of Thomas friend Harland Crow that decried the attempt to portray the effort to provide tuition assistance to disadvantaged youth as something nefarious. Crow had paid for Thomas’s great nephew’s tuition for one year at a private school and another at a Georgia boarding school.
Still, Collins tried to turn the molehill into a mountain, “Not a denial from Harlan Crow and this seems pretty far outside the norm when it comes to these payments.”
Attempting to turn the story into something bigger, while claiming Thomas has a catch-me-if-you-can attitude towards the whole thing, Toobin claimed “What we have to remember about Clarence Thomas is he knows that there is exactly one thing that you can do to a Supreme Court justice, which is impeach him and remove him, which is not going to happen here and is never happening here.”
Toobin also declared, “So, what he has done is simply defy all the rules that are technically imposed on Supreme Court justices, which are extremely minor. It's okay to take money. But you have to report it. He obviously hasn't reported benefits of hundreds of thousands of dollars he's received from Harlan Crow, but his attitude, it appears, is what are you going to do to me? And the answer is nothing.”
Co-host Poppy Harlow then expressed shocked that the Court does not seem all that concerned, “Wow! And all nine justices unified in that statement about not going before the Ethics Committee.”
Toobin agreed, “I mean, you know, they have put themselves not just above the law, but above other federal judges. Who have a set of obligations that are not exactly onerous but the Supreme Court doesn't even follow those.”
Meanwhile, Harlan Crow does not have business before the Court, but the publishing company Random House did and liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to recuse herself from a case involving the company despite receiving over $3.6 million, according to The Daily Wire. CNN This Morning couldn’t be bothered to report on that.
This segment was sponsored by Lexus.
Here is a transcript for the May 4 show:
CNN This Morning
5/4/2023
6:56 AM ET
KAITLAN COLLINS: Not a denial from Harlan Crow and this seems pretty far outside the norm when it comes to these payments.
JEFFREY TOOBIN: What we have to remember about Clarence Thomas is he knows that there is exactly one thing that you can do to a Supreme Court justice, which is impeach him and remove him, which is not going to happen here and is never happening here.
So, what he has done is simply defy all the rules that are technically imposed on Supreme Court justices, which are extremely minor. It's okay to take money. But you have to report it. He obviously hasn't reported benefits of hundreds of thousands of dollars he's received from Harlan Crow, but his attitude, it appears, is what are you going to do to me? And the answer is nothing.
POPPY HARLOW: Wow! And all nine justices unified in that statement about not going before the Ethics Committee.
TOOBIN: I mean, you know, they have put themselves not just above the law, but above other federal judges.
HARLOW: Yeah!
TOOBIN: Who have a set of obligations that are not exactly onerous but the Supreme Court doesn't even follow those.
