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Is the Supreme Court messed up beyond repair?
- Virginia Thomas is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ spouse.
- Virginia Thomas is on record as calling our current President a “tyrant”
- Virginia Thomas is the President and Founder of Liberty Central, a conservative organization which lists FreedomWorks as a “friend of Liberty Central” and “Coalition Partner”.
- At least two directors of Liberty Central have strong direct ties to Koch Industries.
- One director had direct input to the Bush administration with regard to the selection of John Roberts and his elevation to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Liberty Central will directly benefit from the Citizens United ruling as a recipient (past, present or future) of undisclosed corporate donations.
- Justice Thomas supported the Citizens United decision.
The wife of a Supreme Court justice is the president of a tea party organization and this is supposed to be ok? Yes, I know that legally it is allowed but how about ethically? Virginia Thomas’ teabagging outfit has two donors – one who gave $50K and another who contributed $500K. While it shows up in the paperwork as individuals contributing to the cause, it is not too difficult to imagine that any corporation wanting to contribute could easily disguise their involvment.
Clarence Thomas was a player in the Supreme Court’s ruling of the Citizens United case which banned all caps on corporate spending in elections. Justice Thomas ruled in favor of any corporation being allowed to inject as much money as they wished in support of any politician who they ideologically agreed with. Think BP, think any health care industry giant, think Wall Street financial institutions…and think tea party candidates. Who do you think these corporations are going to put their money behind.
With Justice Thomas’ wife as president of Liberty Central, a supporter for all things Republican (e.g. fewer regulations on corporations), and a likely recipient of big money from big business, should Thomas not have recused himself from that Supreme Court case?
What a stinking rotten operation.
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Truer words Rhena were never spoken
The motto on that seal should be “E Pluribus Meum” rather than “E Pluribus Unum”.
Obviously no spouse of a judge should ever have any political viewpoint because that could lead to the judge being involved in a case that involves that viewpoint! Should any judge recuse themselves from any case that ever involves unions if their spouse is a Democrat because the judge might rule in favor of their spouse’s viewpoints? Maybe we should just ban judge’s family from being involved in politics at all because at some level you can reduce any connection to anyone as having some effect on some cases in some way.
Or maybe your whole article is speculative garbage that assumes there was any influence from the wife on this justice. You have no proof to support your assertions, just a bunch of speculation and random connections to various groups. Not that I’d expect anything more from some random nobody spouting off on his own website.
The wife of a Supreme Court judge working as a political activist is a little more serious than the wife of the Justice of the Peace serving on the town council. Or maybe you totally discount that a conservative can do any wrong and believe that IOKIYAR. You have not proof to support the notion that Virginia Thomas’ activism has no effect on her husband other than talking points delivered by right wing talking heads. Not that I’d expect anything more from some random nobody who doesn’t even have her own website.
Bonny avoids mentioning that it is not about a judge’s spouse having a political viewpoint but about a judge’s wife being president of a Tea Party organization that seeks funding from corporations.
Not that I’d expect anything more from a troll.
Damn that Virginia Thomas daring to have a life! Why isn’t she in the kitchen?!
If this was one of the left leaning judges and the wife was a Democratic player, it would be a non-issue and you know it.
But since it’s Republicans or conservatives it must be wrong.