M.D. Rawlings
Classical Liberal
by Michael Barone
09/01/2011
National Review Online
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09/01/2011
National Review Online
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The nightmare appears in last weeks issue, in Jeffrey Toobins lengthy article on Supreme Court jurisprudence, titled Partners and subtitled Will Clarence and Virginia Thomas succeed in killing Obamas health-care plan?
Its possible to read Toobins article as a partisan hit job, echoing the demands of 74 Democratic congressmen that Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself from sitting on a case challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare because of his wifes involvement in the Tea Party movement.
Never mind that this is a standard neither Toobin nor the Democrats apply to other public officials with spouses active in public affairs or that theyre not asking justice Elena Kagan to recuse herself because of her work in the Justice Department on the issue.
Its possible to read Toobins article as a partisan hit job, echoing the demands of 74 Democratic congressmen that Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself from sitting on a case challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare because of his wifes involvement in the Tea Party movement.
Never mind that this is a standard neither Toobin nor the Democrats apply to other public officials with spouses active in public affairs or that theyre not asking justice Elena Kagan to recuse herself because of her work in the Justice Department on the issue.
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