Justice Thomas and possible ethics violation (Congress, attorney, health care, extremist)
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There is a God. This shameful member of the SC is facing a possible ethics violation. I hope it escalates to uncontrollable proportions and this intellectual lightweight iis thrown off the Court. He has been an embarrassment! His departure would signal the beginning of real progress and offset the regressive tendencies of right-wing Justice Roberts.
You really need to calm down. This isn't a major violation, it's the failure to report a spouse's income, which under the attached guidelines is usually only required if the spouse's company is doing business with the government or if the spouse is employed by a government entity. If anything the only penalty will be a "Bad Boy" letter saying don't do it again.
I'm currently working on my MD disclosure, which is much more stringent than the Federal one and requires me to disclose my adult, not living with me, children's income in addition to my wife's, from whatever source.
Last edited by North Beach Person; 02-06-2011 at 04:39 AM..
Neglecting to disclose this information would violate the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, which requires all federal officials, including Supreme Court justices, to disclose their spouse’s income. Thomas indicated “none” under the latter category on his disclosure forms from 2003 to 2009.
(11) a judicial officer as defined under section 109 (10);
And under Section 109 (10):
(10) “judicial officer” means the Chief Justice of the United States, the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, and the judges of the United States courts of appeals, United States district courts ...
Title I, Section 102 Contents of Reports:
(e)
(1) Except as provided in the last sentence of this paragraph, each report required by section 101 shall also contain information listed in paragraphs (1) through (5) of subsection (a) of this section respecting the spouse or dependent child of the reporting individual as follows:
(A) The source of items of earned income earned by a spouse from any person which exceed $1,000 and the source and amount of any honoraria received by a spouse, except that, with respect to earned income (other than honoraria), if the spouse is self-employed in business or a profession, only the nature of such business or profession need be reported.
Section 104 Failure to file or filing false reports:
(a) The Attorney General may bring a civil action in any appropriate United States district court against any individual who knowingly and willfully falsifies or who knowingly and willfully fails to file or report any information that such individual is required to report pursuant to section 102. The court in which such action is brought may assess against such individual a civil penalty in any amount, not to exceed $10,000.
(b) The head of each agency, each Secretary concerned, the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, each congressional ethics committee, or the Judicial Conference, as the case may be, shall refer to the Attorney General the name of any individual which such official or committee has reasonable cause to believe has willfully failed to file a report or has willfully falsified or willfully failed to file information required to be reported. Whenever the Judicial Conference refers a name to the Attorney General under this subsection, the Judicial Conference also shall notify the judicial council of the circuit in which the named individual serves of the referral.
(c) The President, the Vice President, the Secretary concerned, the head of each agency, the Office of Personnel Management, a congressional ethics committee, and the Judicial Conference, may take any appropriate personnel or other action in accordance with applicable law or regulation against any individual failing to file a report or falsifying or failing to report information required to be reported.
There is a God. This shameful member of the SC is facing a possible ethics violation. I hope it escalates to uncontrollable proportions and this intellectual lightweight iis thrown off the Court. He has been an embarrassment! His departure would signal the beginning of real progress and offset the regressive tendencies of right-wing Justice Roberts.
Translation: Liberals can't stand it that a black person is a conservative (and didn't use government programs to get where he is). We can't have this because it makes it harder to make our boorish and childish clamis that the right is racist. So let's search for anything, or just make stuff up, blow it out of proportion, and hope that we can keep brainwashing minorities to get their vote.
Translation: Liberals can't stand it that a black person is a conservative (and didn't use government programs to get where he is). We can't have this because it makes it harder to make our boorish and childish clamis that the right is racist. So let's search for anything, or just make stuff up, blow it out of proportion, and hope that we can keep brainwashing minorities to get their vote.
Exactly!!
And brainwashed those poor idiots are. You summed it up perfectly - "liberals can't stand it that a black is conservative and did not use government programs to get where he is." That defeats their whole purpose for entitlements and fleecing the rich so the lazy can do nothing but put their hands out for something that belongs to someone else.
The crazy lefties also learn from birth to lie and deflect. And right now they need to deflect to try to cover up a host of things their party is doing. They hope if they start a little fire in the wrong place, the right will spend time putting out the flames and therefore will not be able to concentrate on exposing their lies and bad deeds.
Translation: Liberals can't stand it that a black person is a conservative (and didn't use government programs to get where he is). We can't have this because it makes it harder to make our boorish and childish clamis that the right is racist. So let's search for anything, or just make stuff up, blow it out of proportion, and hope that we can keep brainwashing minorities to get their vote.
Hmmm health care bill is going to the SC. Now a Right leaning SC Judge is under investigation and potentially removed from the SC? A little fishy don't ya think?
There is a God. This shameful member of the SC is facing a possible ethics violation. I hope it escalates to uncontrollable proportions and this intellectual lightweight iis thrown off the Court. He has been an embarrassment! His departure would signal the beginning of real progress and offset the regressive tendencies of right-wing Justice Roberts.
No, it's just politics as usual and both sides are guilty of playing the same game. It's neither a left or right issue.
This is not "made up" and it's not a lie. That's a fact. Unfortunately, extremists can't see that and resort to their usual tired insults. Justice Thomas committed a violation of the ethics rules. That's another fact.
I agree with North Beach Person. This doesn't seem like a big deal to me - and I'm no fan of Justice Thomas. It would be incomprehensible to think that Justice Thomas omitted his wife's income on purpose, having known that every move he makes will be scrutinized. It's more a silly error than a deliberate attempt to defraud the government ~
Hmmm health care bill is going to the SC. Now a Right leaning SC Judge is under investigation and potentially removed from the SC? A little fishy don't ya think?
Yet nothing about Kagan and her history with advising Obama on the healthcare bill.
Someone trying to stack the deck before it gets there ?
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