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The Spectacle Blog
Politico’s Ken Vogel has a piece up on the left-wing war on conservative Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito (Alito has been attacked for speaking at the Spectator’s annual dinner). What’s clear from the article is that the criticism is coming exclusively from left-wing groups, as Vogel even quotes several liberal legal scholars who say the charges are baseless For instance:
And Michael Waldman, executive director of the left-leaning Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law, called the allegations that Thomas and Scalia were biased by their affiliation with the Koch retreat “meritless. We see no basis for the accusations that the Justices’ decisions are based on anything but the merits.” He warned that “people should think very hard before asking prosecutors to investigate judges just because they dislike the decisions they make.”
With challenges to the national health care law moving up the
judicial ladder, these attacks by the left are only going to get
more desperate.
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jharp| 3.7.11 @ 12:48PM
Nah nothing to see with Clarence Thomas. Just move along.
His wife collecting $700,000 from the teabaggers and him failing to disclose it coulda happened to any of the nine most powerful judges in the world.
And the fact that the same group that paid his wife profits of $700,000 is totally committed to having Thomas rules against ObamaCare is meaningless. Right?
God you people are stupid.
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.7.11 @ 12:55PM
Jharpie
Prove your allegations, Liar!
David W| 3.7.11 @ 1:02PM
he can't. He can't be too bright since he keeps saying the same thing over and over again.
jharp| 3.7.11 @ 1:56PM
Sure. Here you go. Justice Thomas admitted to it you idiot.
http://www.politico.com/news/s.....48086.html
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 1/24/11 6:09 PM EST
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has amended 13 years’ worth of disclosure reports to include details of wife Virginia Thomas’s sources of income, documents released on Monday show.
The documents indicate that Thomas’s wife, who goes by Ginni, had worked for Hillsdale College in Michigan, the Heritage Foundation and the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives, among other entities.
Like all federal judges, Thomas must file annual disclosure reports on his personal finances, but he had omitted details of his wife’s earnings in what he wrote was a “misunderstanding of the filing instructions.” He also had checked a box marking no spousal income.
Thomas did not include in his new submissions any information about Ginni’s work for Liberty Central, a tea-party-affiliated group. The group’s 2009 990 tax form did not include any payments to her and she stepped down from her official role with the group in November.
Last week, watchdog group Common Cause reported that none of the nearly $690,000 the Heritage Foundation said it had paid Ginni Thomas between 2003 and 2007 had been reported on Justice Thomas’s annual financial disclosure forms.
In a statement Monday, the group said did not believe Thomas’s explanation.
“Justice Thomas sits on the highest court of the land, is called upon daily to understand and interpret the most complicated legal issues of our day and makes decisions that affect millions,” said Bob Edgar, Common Cause’s president. “It is hard to see how he could have misunderstood the simple directions of a federal disclosure form. We find his excuse is implausible.”
Until 1996, Thomas included his wife’s income on his disclosure forms.
Patriot| 3.7.11 @ 2:27PM
What do you have against women who work outside the home, troll? Sexist! You're a racist, too.
jharp| 3.7.11 @ 2:34PM
I have nothing at all against women working outside the home.
I have a problem with a United States Supreme Court Justice lying on financial disclosure forms.
And profiting from his rulings.
As a matter of fact I'm spending a hundred thousand dollars so my daughter can get a good job outside the home.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.7.11 @ 3:28PM
I assume in that case you have a problem with damn near half the democrats cheating on their taxes? Rangel? Geithner? Daschle? Should I keep going?
Patriot| 3.7.11 @ 5:44PM
You Leftists tried to destroy Justice Thomas before and you didn't succeed--and you won't this time.
Admit it, you hate "uppity black men." Racist.
tj| 3.7.11 @ 2:17PM
2012 is coming and boy are the children in an up roar
Hey spooky dude keep spending your money. There are more of us than there are of you! And you will all be gone come 2012. One way or another! WAAAAAAA!
FastJohnny| 3.7.11 @ 1:04PM
He's a typical troll. Ignore him, he is only looking for a reaction.
Ellis Wyatt| 3.7.11 @ 1:26PM
Is this news to the Politico? These kind of baseless attacks have happened since before their confirmation hearings even began.
Patriot| 3.7.11 @ 1:30PM
I miss Liberal Reader. Troll quality has really taken a beating.
Axelrod Astroturf psy-ops quality control no longer exists because Obama's re-election campaign is heating up.
martin j smith| 3.7.11 @ 1:56PM
HEY JHARP (S/HE/IT ) HOW MUCH ARE YOU BEING PAID AND BY WHOM TO POST. YOU ARE AN IDIOT IF YOU THINK WE DO NOT SMELL OUT WHO YOU ARE. GET LOST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jharp| 3.7.11 @ 1:58PM
Nada. Just trying to highlight the bigotry, racism, and preposterousness of you idiot teabaggers claims.
Patriot| 3.7.11 @ 2:10PM
What beautiful Capitol building are you planning to stink up next, troll?
tj| 3.7.11 @ 2:20PM
Child, Child, Child and naming calling are we in the play ground?
tj| 3.7.11 @ 2:21PM
Well at least were not fleebaggering COWARDS! GO Wisconsin!
Skippy| 3.7.11 @ 3:35PM
Mrs. Thomas is as free to work for groups she supports as anyone.
She is not limited by her husband's employment.
Going after SCOTUS's is real smart.
Maybe they won't get reelected in 2012.
While you're at it, how about attacking soldier's wives for working to get conservatives elected.
There must be some moral imperative to protest that.
After all, if soldiers help get politicians elected, the pols might legislate in their favor.
Unlike public employee unions!
Wait...umm...gimme a sec...
tonypal| 3.7.11 @ 5:11PM
Not a day goes by without that worthless loser of a father jharp saying something dumber than he did the day before. Again, jharp would rather spend his time acting the buffoon here at TAS than doing what needs to be done to pay for his deaf daughter's health care.
jharp, like all leftists, has a fundamental problem with black people. As with any good leftist, he sees blacks as subhumans who are incapable of rational thought and civil behavior. The worst blacks of course are conservatives like Clarence Thomas. How dare an uppity black upset the world of jharp and his fellow band of racist lefties by leaving the democrat party plantation (plantations and democrats, still great together after all these years).
God jharp is a shitty sperm donor.
jharp| 3.7.11 @ 7:55PM
You are very weird. I will let you know I am 100% heterosexual and find your interest in my ejaculations pretty darn creepy.
Let's stick to politics here. I am sure TAS would agree.
Patriot| 3.7.11 @ 8:38PM
It's stupid of you to request civility when you're never civil. I am sure TAS would agree.