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Lawyer, get lawyeristic on thyself! I thought there was enough ink spilled on Ginny Thomas and her political activity until this tidbit arose:
"WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed for at least five years to report on his financial disclosures his wife's income from a conservative policy group, according to the watchdog group Common Cause.
Between 2003 and 2007, Virginia Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, was paid $686,589 by the Heritage Foundation, according to a Common Cause review of Internal Revenue Service records. Thomas failed to note the income for those years, choosing instead to check a box titled "none" where "spousal non-investment income" should have been disclosed...
Steven Lubet, an expert on judicial ethics at Northwestern University School of Law, said the failure to disclose spousal income "is not a crime of any sort, but there is a potential civil penalty."
U.S. Justice Thomas didn't disclose wife's pay for years | Columbus Dispatch Politics (http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2011/01/23/copy/u-s--justice-thomas-didnt-disclose-wifes-pay-for-years.html?adsec=politics&sid=101 - broken link)
Now, for historical comparison, Jerry Ford as house minority leader, tried to get Biil Douglas on the court impeached for writing an article in a racy magazine (and marrying his young secretary!).
At the very least, Thomas needs to straighten up his act.
Lawyer, get lawyeristic on thyself! I thought there was enough ink spilled on Ginny Thomas and her political activity until this tidbit arose:
"WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed for at least five years to report on his financial disclosures his wife's income from a conservative policy group, according to the watchdog group Common Cause.
Between 2003 and 2007, Virginia Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, was paid $686,589 by the Heritage Foundation, according to a Common Cause review of Internal Revenue Service records. Thomas failed to note the income for those years, choosing instead to check a box titled "none" where "spousal non-investment income" should have been disclosed...
Steven Lubet, an expert on judicial ethics at Northwestern University School of Law, said the failure to disclose spousal income "is not a crime of any sort, but there is a potential civil penalty."
U.S. Justice Thomas didn't disclose wife's pay for years | Columbus Dispatch Politics (http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2011/01/23/copy/u-s--justice-thomas-didnt-disclose-wifes-pay-for-years.html?adsec=politics&sid=101 - broken link)
Now, for historical comparison, Jerry Ford as house minority leader, tried to get Biil Douglas on the court impeached for writing an article in a racy magazine (and marrying his young secretary!).
At the very least, Thomas needs to straighten up his act.
Are you against the Thomases because of race or because of politics?
If he reported before, and didn't report for that period, it gives the appearance of willfully failing to report.
He should be dismissed from the court if this is so.
Well let's be clear...it's his politics. Go and wonder no more.
TB
Some people will never understand that Obama's race has nothing to do with the dislike of him from people like me. Sure it is his politics, as far as I am concerned.
Some people will never understand that Obama's race has nothing to do with the dislike of him from people like me. Sure it is his politics, as far as I am concerned.
Until the last couple of decades, concerns about Justices did not include their politics. Obviously, in this day and age, their politics is showing mightily.
If he reported before, and didn't report for that period, it gives the appearance of willfully failing to report.
He should be dismissed from the court if this is so.
Are you against the Thomases because of race or because of politics?
Wow...the race card got thrown pretty quickly on this one. Especially because i didn't see anything in the OP that mentioned Thomas' race.
In any case, maybe this tax disclosure was just a mistake on their part. Surely he's intelligent enough to know that earnings that large aren't going to get past an investigation. In fact, there is no doubt in my mind that this was an oversight.
How about....and this may strike people as weird....
But how about all those government employees....go ahead and pay THEIR taxes....
Not gonna help you find a link....
Just Google...
"government worker do not pay taxes"
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