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It sure looks like we know just how fringe Roberts beliefs are.
Yes, to the Obama Administration, proper protocol is a fringe thang.
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It sure looks like we know just how fringe Roberts beliefs are.
Dogbert, would you just clarify for everyone what your thoughts are regarding the article?? Is there an issue with her being the wife of a SCJ and/or a political activist and/or the full disclosure aspect and/or something else??
It sure looks like we know just how fringe Roberts beliefs are.
Virginia has the same right as any citizen to engage in the political process.
Right.
And if a more Liberal member's wife or husband of the SCOTUS created a Coffee Party and took unlimited amounts of donations from corporations, I don't think you'd be feeling the same way.
It sure looks like we know just how fringe Roberts beliefs are.
Roberts is sexing up Thomas's wife? Yeah?
The tea party is fringe even if you REFUSE to faced that fact.
The Weekly Standard"We share some of the views of the Tea Partiers," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on ABC's This Week yesterday.
What da problem is??
Every politician and political group benefits from the decision - it doesn't discriminate based on ideology.
Just sayin'.
What da problem is??
Conflict of interest.
While Justice Thomas was hearing and participating in the Citizens United case, Virginia Thomas was busy putting together a political organization which will benefit financially as a direct result of her husband's vote in that case.
Hardly coincidence.
What the Thomases have done here is no coincidental "everybody benefits" scenario. While Justice Thomas was involved in the Citizens United case, Virginia Thomas was, at the same time, organizing a group which will financially benefit from his vote. An organization whose first order of business, I might add, is to state they will accept the corporate donations directly affected by her husband's vote.
Ideology doesn't matter. Ethics and integrity do. At least to *some* of us.
Just sayin'.
What da problem is??
Conflict of interest.
While Justice Thomas was hearing and participating in the Citizens United case, Virginia Thomas was busy putting together a political organization which will benefit financially as a direct result of her husband's vote in that case.
Hardly coincidence.
without more, that is not a legal conflict of interest and no where near the level necessary for thomas to recuse himself...
Conflict of interest.
While Justice Thomas was hearing and participating in the Citizens United case, Virginia Thomas was busy putting together a political organization which will benefit financially as a direct result of her husband's vote in that case.
Hardly coincidence.
without more, that is not a legal conflict of interest and no where near the level necessary for thomas to recuse himself...
You gotta admit it looks bad, Yurt. Especially considering the SCOTUS' position as the final arbiter on ethics. All of the Justices should be completely beyond reproach ethically for that reason alone. Regardless of politics. The highest position creates the highest standard.
I wouldn't have a problem if she'd still been at the Heritage Foundation, then it would have been coincidental. But the timing of this smells questionable at least, and it's not Thomas' first time involved in something questionable involving his wife's activities.
I haven't found anything and it probably isn't public yet, but has anybody found anything on how much Virginia Thomas stands to make as head of this thing?
without more, that is not a legal conflict of interest and no where near the level necessary for thomas to recuse himself...
You gotta admit it looks bad, Yurt. Especially considering the SCOTUS' position as the final arbiter on ethics. All of the Justices should be completely beyond reproach ethically for that reason alone. Regardless of politics. The highest position creates the highest standard.
I wouldn't have a problem if she'd still been at the Heritage Foundation, then it would have been coincidental. But the timing of this smells questionable at least, and it's not Thomas' first time involved in something questionable involving his wife's activities.
I haven't found anything and it probably isn't public yet, but has anybody found anything on how much Virginia Thomas stands to make as head of this thing?
you're making a very serious accusation without much evidence. you haven't offered any evidence that thomas's decision was influenced by his wife's activities....and btw....corporate funding for her nonprofit organization is just one of many groups of people who she is seeking funding from....
i do not see the connection at all. you're basically suggesting that since thomas is a scotus justice, that his wife shouldn't be allowed to form nonprofit political organizations and that she should stay home and bake cookies....