Kevin Zeese, the Maryland attorney who filed the complaint for POE, says he sees this as a "multi-year effort." Weiner and his colleagues no longer control the House, so a motion to impeach Thomas is unlikely to come up. But the issue still could be a political headache for Republicans:
Mounds of complaints and legal maneuvers . . . would keep the issue before the voters through most if not all the 2012 election cycle, allowing Democrats to paint Republicans as hypocrites--if they defend Justice Thomas for voluntarily committing an offense for years that Bill Clinton had to be trapped into committing once--or as unprincipled and power-hungry if they abandon him.
And if Justice Thomas is prevailed upon to resign the bench, the Republicans lose their voting block on the Court.
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