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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Democratic Underground: Supreme Clarence Thomas failed to disclose wife's income

Clarence and Gini Thomas

Common Cause said Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report his wife's income from a conservative think tank on financial disclosure forms for at least five years.

Between 2003 and 2007, Virginia Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, earned $686,589 from the Heritage Foundation, according to a Common Cause review of the foundation's IRS records. Thomas failed to note the income in his Supreme Court financial disclosure forms for those years, instead checking a box labeled "none" where "spousal non investment income" would be disclosed.

Federal judges must disclose the source of spousal income, according to Stephen Gillers, a professor at NYU School of Law.

Thomas' omission, which could be interpreted as a violation of that law, could lead to some form of penalty, Gillers said. Gillers added:

It wasn't a miscalculation; he simply omitted his wife's source of income for six years, which is a rather dramatic omission, It could not have been an oversight.


Essentially Thomas failed to disclose his wife earned more than $100,000 a year as a Republican activist.

Democrats should call for the resignation of this useless Supreme who is so ideological you can predict his vote in the Supreme Court almost every time.

Based on recent relations by an old girl friend that Thomas was really a 'dirty old man" when he was younger and this revelation, the Senate should impeach Thomas. 

The Gini Thomas  biography notes that she is a fan of Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, author of "Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America."

She is also the Founder of Liberty Central, Inc., a nonprofit. this development is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court.

"She is intrigued by Glenn Beck and listening carefully," her bio says.

Source: Los Angeles Times

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