Clarence Thomas's wife is a Bush Family right-wing operative. Period.

[Atman]

This comes from a post in another thread, but I think it needs its own. I'm not sure most people realize how seriously the Bush family has corrupted our Supreme Court.

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Job of Clarence Thomas's Wife Raises Conflict-of-Interest Questions
by Christopher Marquis

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said today that she was working at a conservative research group gathering resumes for appointments in a possible Bush administration but that she saw no conflict between her job and her husband's deliberations on a case that could decide the presidency.

The comments from the justice's wife, Virginia Lamp Thomas, a former Republican Congressional aide, came as a federal judge in Nashville said Justice Thomas faced a serious conflict of interest as a result of his wife's work for the Heritage Foundation.

The foundation has close ties to the Republican Party and would probably have a say in the hiring of key government officials if Gov. George W. Bush assumed the presidency. In e-mail distributed on Capitol Hill earlier this month, Mrs. Thomas solicited resumes "for transition purposes" from the government oversight committees of Congress.

A decision by Justice Thomas to recuse himself could alter the outcome of the case now before the court, which is weighing whether to allow a manual recount of votes in Florida. On Saturday, by a vote of 5 to 4, the court blocked the recount for now. Justice Thomas, who was appointed to the court by President George Bush, Governor Bush's father, was in the majority.

If Justice Thomas were to recuse himself, it could result in a 4-to-4 tie in the case now before it, which would allow the ruling by the Florida Supreme Court to stand.

"There is no conflict here," Mrs. Thomas said in an interview. She insisted that she rarely discussed matters before the Supreme Court with her husband and that Justice Thomas therefore should not consider recusing himself from the landmark case.


http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/121200-02.htm

[CatWoman]

1. .....

:)

:hi:

[Atman]

2. Thanks...

Great post, needed to be seen!

:hi:

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[CatWoman]

3. anytime

:)

[notadmblnd]

4. I was just wondering earlier what Thomas did for Bush I that got him appointed to the SC

[upi402]

5. KO: 'conflict of interest' ?

Countdown will cover the question, coming up on my local cable.
And now with unlimited funds cuz of Clarence's vote.

[TexasObserver]

6. recommend

[anigbrowl]

7. Interesting, I had forgotten about that

I commented earlier today that she has a right to engage in her tea-party activities despite her husband's job, but this is quite a different kettle of fish.

[grasswire]

8. maybe she's his "minder"

Remember that story about the girl that George W. allegedly impregnated -- the one who got married to an FBI agent that many of us assumed was a "minder" to keep her quiet cuz she'd had an abortion that would reflect badly on W?

Maybe this is that kind of Bush "minder."

[Atman]

9. Just want to keep this on the radar

I can't believe we still have to put up with BUSH. The righties whine that we whine "It's Bush's fault." Well guess what...It's fucking Bush's fault! Not just W, but the whole fucking family of criminals!

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[Maru Kitteh]

10. Everything old and dirty is new again, isn't it Mrs. Thomas?

They find nothing wrong with these kinds of things because they do not believe anything they do could be wrong. They're all Republican Popes. Infallible.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. And so many of us thought Thomas was just a GOP "storefront Negro".

Nope, he's a made man. Paid his dues to The Family.

[ChicagoSuz219]

12. So is he. n/t