Clarence Thomas’ Wife May Have Benefitted from His Vote on Campaign Financing

[The Straight Story]

Clarence Thomas’ Wife May Have Benefitted from His Vote on Campaign Financing

By involving himself in the decision to throw out campaign contributions limits for corporations and unions, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas helped expand fundraising opportunities for his wife’s new political organization.

Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, the most partisan of any Supreme Court justice spouse ever, according to The New York Times, is the founder of Liberty Central, a conservative group that seeks to end the “tyranny” of President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.

In January, the high court ruled it illegal to limit the spending of businesses and organized labor, clearing the way for big-money interests to pour huge sums into the 2010 election. In order to cloak their spending, many contributors are giving to certain nonprofit groups, like Liberty Central, which are not required by law to disclose their financial backers.

Ginny Thomas launched her organization in late 2009 with two unidentified gifts of $500,000 and $50,000.

“It’s shocking that you would have a Supreme Court justice sitting on a case that might implicate in a very fundamental way the interests of someone who might have contributed to his wife’s organization,” Deborah L. Rhode, law professor and director of the Stanford University Center on the Legal Profession, told The New York Times.

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Clarence_Thomas_Wife_May_Have_Benefitted_from_His_Vote_on_Campaign_Financing_101011

[SpiralHawk]

1. Republicon Family Pharisee Values

Ptooey.

[ananda]

2. Shocking indeed!

And yet I am not surprised.

[devereaux]

3. Yeah, that is no surprise

I don't know why a bigger deal wasn't made of this at the time.

[Orsino]

4. I'm more worried about the other side of the coin.

Who's lining up to throw money at his wife to influence his next vote?

[ClassWarrior]

5. IMPEACH!!

NGU.

[Atticus]

9. Let's do it! Where do we sign? nt

[JerseygirlCT]

11. Oh please, yes! nt

[Billy Burnett]

6. Didn't Clarence Thomas have porn pictures on the walls instead of wallpaper in his bachelor pad?

I seem to remember that in testimony during his confirmation hearings.

[muntrv]

7. May have? I say "DID" benefit from his vote.

[muntrv]

8. May have? I say "DID" benefit from his vote.

[Bitwit1234]

10. See this I don't get....because

Kagan had to recluse herself from all those cases and Scalia didn't have to - after the hunting trip with Cheney and Thomas didn't have to when his wife got the benefit of corporation money. Gee again the ahole republicans and their reference to Democratic activist supreme court judges.

[butterfly77]

12. Kick..

[Historic NY]

13. I can't see how he cannot recuse himself... a local Town Justice of the peace would.

[Rex]

14. I can't believe the criminals are still in positions of power and not in jail.

Along with Scalia, wait if they let jails (private) run for President...hmmm...then...maybe a corporate warfare machine as VP? And here all this time we thought the SCOTUS couldn't make a worse decision than 2000! WRONG!



Vote for Corporate Killing Machine in 2012 or we will HUNT YOU DOWN! McJailMall-Mart(tm) as VP.

I can't wait to see the campaign ads! :crazy:

Thomas - Conflict of Interest? Not when you rule the country!

[Scurrilous]

15. K & R

:thumbsup:

[librechik]

16. no problem here. Show me a democrat that did that--we'll throw the book at him/her

[Supersedeas]

17. Cronies dressed as judges with their hands in the Citizens United till