Justice Clarence Thomas’ Wife Wants Her Own Tea Party – Update

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by Drew Grant | 2:41 pm, March 14th, 2010

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On the outside Liberty Central Inc. may look like another conservative tea partying lobbyist group, non-profit but accepting donations from corporate sponsors. Take a closer look though, and you’ll find the woman behind the organization is Virginia Thomas, the wife of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Which some critics are understandably worried might be a conflict of interest.

From an L.A. Times article from today: the issue here isn’t that Virginia is an activist – in fact, she has a long history of involvement in conservative think tanks and The Heritage Foundation, which have raised some eyebrows before – but that corporate money going directly to the wife of a Supreme Court Justice member’s lobbyist group could be bordering on gray ethical territory. So far the matter is unprecedented, so in future months we might see those on the left calling for the first limitations of the activities of judges’ spouses.

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air provides the counter-argument:

Liberty Central aims to give grassroots activists a broader understanding of the philosophy of conservatism rather than doing a lot of organizing themselves. I’m not sure why that gives Hennessey such heartburn, but it hardly sets up any conflict of interest for Thomas…

Obviously, the issue isn’t who is organizing what, it’s where the money is going. If Big Tobacco starts putting money into Liberty Central Inc., there’s a fear that it could influence Thomas’ rulings in health-related cases. But rest assured: there will be enough lefty watchdogs on this that any hint of favoritism towards Liberty’s donors will immediately be jumped on and exemplified on the front page of The Huffington Post.

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http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Boyer/602168764 John Boyer

Good point Ed
Caryson

Hmmmmmmm? Looks like another wife story like the one Mediaite did on Monica Conyers, the wife of John Conyers who was just sentenced to a 37-month prison sentence for a bribery conviction.

Wait a second? You mean Mediaite didn’t report on that WIFE?

In that case, let’s string up Virgina Thomas, the wife of Clarence Thomas for doing something totally legal !!!!
felixw

Drew, do you tell your wife what political campaigns she can support? Don’t you worry her activities might violate your integrity as a journalist? Blah, blah, blah….
Drew Grant

@felixw It would be illegal in most states for me to have a wife. Blah blah blah.
Jim R

I see no harm with her political activism at this point, now that the farce of conservative adherence to a “strict constructionist” interpretation of the Constitution and stare decisis has been laid bare for all to see.

From intervening in the 2000 elections to the rash of activist decisions by the Republicans on the court ever since, nobody should be surprised when the wives of the “Four Corporatists Of The Apocalypse”, bent on re-making the law to their pinched, elitist world-view, engage in political causes that further serve these ends.

Thanks, Bush, we’re stuck with these corporate tools for the next thirty years.
mcf1757

John Conyers wife going to jail is meaningless and no one covered it! Clarence Thomas’s wife a crazy, i guess that’s not a surprise, every other conservative have drunk the Kool-aid!
Cecelia

What a misleading headline!
Azarkhan

The Legacy Media’s War on Conservatives [Andy McCarthy]

So let me make sure I have this straight. If you’re a “progressive” lawyer who volunteers to represent America’s enemies for free in offensive lawsuits brought against the American people during wartime, and then you are placed in a policy-making position in the Justice Department, we’re not allowed even to suggest that you be identified, much less to infer that the sympathies that impelled you to donate your talents to al Qaeda might affect your decision-making at DOJ.

If you’re a hard-Left ideologue and pro-abortion zealot like Dawn Johnsen, who has analogized unwanted pregnancy to slavery, we’re supposed to avert our eyes from your record and put you in charge of DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel , an influential government position that calls more than any other for even-handed, non-partisan, non-ideological scholarship.

But if you are the wife of a Supreme Court justice — not the Supreme Court justice himself, mind you, but the justice’s wife — and you dare to have your own career and further dare to be a public conservative who defends core American principles of individual liberty against the Leftist onslaught, we are supposed to assume that the impartiality of the Supreme Court (on which the wife of the justice does not sit) has been compromised.

That’s the upshot of the Los Angeles Times hit job this morning by Kathleen Hennessey on Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas. It’s an unmitigated disgrace….

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGJlOTc1ZjI0ZGFkOTRmY2YyMTYwZmUxNmQ4Njk3Mjg=
m

Copying and pasting from other websites in the comment section, just to incite spite and create inflammatory discussions, should be instant permaban.
Fidoohki

M says,

Anything to get rid of opposing views huh M?
Nachi

ANOTHER new group of “normal” people bursts forth from the Vomitorium!

Remember the Thomas Coronation?? The famous public hair in the Coke?? Perhaps Mrs. Thamas will provide such a sampling to her new members. What a wonderful All-Murcuhn family!!!
Nachi

Make that “pubic.”