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Throw Clarence Thomas Off the Bench

  • Ginni Thomas was paid nearly $700,000 by the Heritage Foundation, a “conservative think tank,” between 2003 and 2007, as well as an undisclosed amount by another lobbying group in 2009.
  • Clarence Thomas’ defense is that he didn’t knowingly violate the law, because he “misunderstood” the filing requirements.
  • It’s unlikely that Thomas will be disbarred, and even less likely that he’ll be prosecuted.
  • In the United States in 2011, we have a two-tiered system of laws:  With Liberty and Justice for Some.”
  • This in turn helps explain why a Supreme Court justice’s egregious flouting of the law doesn’t rise to the level of a significant public scandal.
    His wife’s employment created excellent grounds for requiring him to excuse himself from hearing the Citizens United case, which overturned federal campaign-finance laws–much to the delight of Ginni Thomas’ right-wing paymasters, who are now freer than ever before to purchase the best laws money can buy. (Federal judges are required to recuse themselves from hearing any case in which they or their spouses have any financial interest.)

    • "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."