Rising Hegemon
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed over the course of at least five years to report his wife's income from a conservative think-tank on his financial disclosures, according to the watchdog group Common Cause.
Between 2003 and 2007, Virginia Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, was paid $686,589 by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, according to a Common Cause review of IRS records. Thomas failed to note the income in his financial disclosure forms for those years, choosing instead to check a box titled "none" where "spousal non-investment income" would normally be disclosed.
If say, Sotomayor or Kagan had this problem, we'd have bill of impeachment filed by Monday.
More than $150,000 a year is pretty good compensation for drunk dialing.
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A conservative thinktank paying a Supreme Court justice's wife $150,000 a year for doing nothing... Jesus H. Christ.
Have they no shame, these fucking rightwing lunatics?
Impeach this asshole, now, and take away the Heritage Foundation's tax exemption.
Let this be a lesson to other rightwing lunatics and their corporate sponsors.
I wonder if any of Thomas's brethren are receiving similar wingnut welfare?
not chump change for 2 chumps.
... And it's not like twelve years' income is a lot of money either. Why, any average joe would probably overlook that if it happened to show up in the cookie jar.
What a scheming little weasel.
Our exalted Supreme Court, ladies and gentlemen.
Poor Old Uncle Tom was embarrassed that his wife made so little money that he didn't want anybody to know.
It's been suggested that this could not have been an oversight--can I suggest it most obviously was not, and that it obviously calls into question decisions like "Citizens United" since political influence groups like those his wife was involved in are very much appropos to that decision. As in, he totally should have recused himself? If a clear line can be drawn from his decisions to his benefit--that's a big problem.
(Also a problem, Tony "Scales" lecturing the Teabagren on what is a "Constitution". There is something very not "checks n' balance-y" abaout that.)
I wonder why the resident troll hasn't yet showed up to defend the conservative justice's right to perjure himself, or to, alternatively, claim that "they all do it," or that Thomas' crimes are miniscule compared to those that are not to the right of General Franco, or, most likely, to make a failed attempt at a change of subject by whining about some crime of the "left" which is completely unrelated to the matter at hand.
Probably rummaging around in his paltry rhetorical toolbox for his lucky justice's pubic hair.
Good point, if some George Soros-sponsored foundaton were doing the exact same thing, he'd be full of righteous anger.
And it ain't just our friend OnAn who's suspiciously quiet about this matter...
Notice what we're hearing from the MSM... ***crickets****
... thus guaranteeing that the next time you mention this to your wingnut uncle, he'll accuse you of having made it up...
The corruption among the far right block on the court is breathtaking.
And it ain't just our friend OnAn who's suspiciously quiet about this matter...
Notice what we're hearing from the MSM... ***crickets****
{* yawn *}...
That's probably because it's pretty much a non-story.
If his wife had neglected in reporting her income to IRS then we'd have a story and the media would be circling like sharks with blood in the water.
But unless that actually does happen it will only be a story with leftist extremists like Montag and his ilk.
"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 noninvestment income' would be disclosed."
Supreme Curt Justice Thomas' action is not an omission. It's a lie. And liars gotta stick together, which is why we have shills like OnAn.
audit. can you jail him for tax evasion?
Koch funds Heritage. Koch employees only people who share their values, free enterprise, capitalism uber alles, less govt less taxes. Etc.
V Thomas deserves her high pay for being on the payroll. Right values top drinking problems.
vox
Completely predictable.
Right-wing Supreme Court Justice commits serial acts of perjury and O&A says, "nothing to see here, move along, this is not a story."
O&A continues to demonstrate why the right wing actively recruits jejune assholes.
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Oh boy!
I bet Montage was just itching to use his new word "jejune".
The fact that leftist slanted mainstream media consider it a non-story should be a strong hint that it's not newsworthy.
Of course, that's a viewpoint of a person able to reason, whereas a leftist ideologue would go that extra step and bald-faced claim that the MSM was somehow "right wing". (or reich wing for Pansypoo)
Somehow this is all possible in some alternate leftist dream-like universe where conservatives were sent to reconditioning camps or worse.
If his wife had neglected in reporting her income to IRS then we'd have a story and the media would be circling like sharks with blood in the water.
Since I pay my taxes in Canada and not in the US, I'm going to ask the rest of you for your opinion...
In Canada, the income tax form requires me to put my wife's net income on my tax return, and leaving it off would cause me, and probably my wife as well, to be audited by CCAC (our equivalent of the IRS)
I can't imagine that things are that different in the US...? Are they really?
Now I am assuming that Virginia and Clarence Thomas are married and filing as a married couple and not as individual, single taxpayers... actually, wouldn't that be fraudulent, too, since to the best of my knowledge they actually are married?
Just askin'...
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