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Jackie Calmes

Jackie Calmes: Why are we stuck with a Supreme Court justice who doesn't follow the law?

No sooner had Donald Trump finally been fingerprinted and booked than we Americans were reminded of that other V.I.P. scofflaw who, by his repeat offenses, has long mocked our national conceit that no person is above the law.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Teflon Don has found that his own seeming shield against legal accountability isn't impervious, and the former president likely faces more arraignments before long. Don't, however, expect Thomas to similarly face indictment or impeachment after the latest revelations of his nose-thumbing at ethics and the law.

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