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It seems that Justice Thomas has acted illegally and unethically, and questions about his actions have arisen that could lead to disbarment at the very least.
Now that Clarence Thomas has admitted his failure to file disclosure of his wife's income from the Heritage Foundation, he has broken the law. Such disclosure is required under the Ethics in Government Act.
Add his shilling for the Kochs and millions spent on his "museum" by Harlan Crow, and you've got a turbulent stew of troubles that threatens to eclipse the Anita Hill scandal.
What are the known facts?
Crow stepped in to finance the multimillion-dollar purchase and restoration of the cannery, featuring a museum about the culture and history of Pin Point that has become a pet project of Justice Thomas’s.
The project throws a spotlight on an unusual, and ethically sensitive, friendship that appears to be markedly different from those of other justices on the nation’s highest court.
The two men met in the mid-1990s, a few years after Justice Thomas joined the court. Since then, Mr. Crow has done many favors for the justice and his wife, Virginia, helping finance a Savannah library project dedicated to Justice Thomas, presenting him with a Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass and reportedly providing $500,000 for Ms. Thomas.
If that's not enough, Thomas should have withdrawn from deciding last year’s landmark Citizens United case on campaign finance because of both Mrs. Thomas’s founding of another conservative political group in 2009 and Justice Thomas’s own appearance at a private political retreat organized by Charles Koch, a prominent conservative financier.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/us/politics/25thomas.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/politics/19thomas.html
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article1177141.ece
Now that Clarence Thomas has admitted his failure to file disclosure of his wife's income from the Heritage Foundation, he has broken the law. Such disclosure is required under the Ethics in Government Act.
Add his shilling for the Kochs and millions spent on his "museum" by Harlan Crow, and you've got a turbulent stew of troubles that threatens to eclipse the Anita Hill scandal.
What are the known facts?
Crow stepped in to finance the multimillion-dollar purchase and restoration of the cannery, featuring a museum about the culture and history of Pin Point that has become a pet project of Justice Thomas’s.
The project throws a spotlight on an unusual, and ethically sensitive, friendship that appears to be markedly different from those of other justices on the nation’s highest court.
The two men met in the mid-1990s, a few years after Justice Thomas joined the court. Since then, Mr. Crow has done many favors for the justice and his wife, Virginia, helping finance a Savannah library project dedicated to Justice Thomas, presenting him with a Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass and reportedly providing $500,000 for Ms. Thomas.
If that's not enough, Thomas should have withdrawn from deciding last year’s landmark Citizens United case on campaign finance because of both Mrs. Thomas’s founding of another conservative political group in 2009 and Justice Thomas’s own appearance at a private political retreat organized by Charles Koch, a prominent conservative financier.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/us/politics/25thomas.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/politics/19thomas.html
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article1177141.ece