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Don't Be Distracted by Weinergate: The Scandalous "Judicial Insider Trading" ofJusticeClarenceThomas, Wife "Ginni"

By BradFriedman 
Posted at June 13, 2011, 6:02 am

 

As we reported in January,Thomas appears to have "knowingly and willfully" filed falsified Financial Disclosure Forms which withheld disclosure of nearly $700,000 his wife received from the rightwing Heritage Foundation for the better part of the last 20 years. Only once it was pointed out publicly this year did Thomas bother to file "self-initiated amendments" to the forms he had signed just above the legal warning in bold and all caps which reads: "NOTE: ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO KNOWINGLYAND WILLFULLY FALSIFIES OR FAILS TOFILE THIS REPORTMAY BE SUBJECT TO CIVILAND CRIMINAL SANCTIONS (5 U.S.C. app. § 104)"

 

While there has been little indication that law enforcement is actually investigating the crimes of the U.S. Supreme Court Justice (which, as we pointed out in January, are punishable by up to $50,000 and/or 1 year in jail for each instance of falsification), last Friday when Thomas' Financial Disclosure Form for 2010 [PDF] was released, the matter appears to have gotten shadier still, leading at least one government watchdog organization to describe what Thomas and his wife Virginia "Ginni" Thomas may be been doing as "Judicial Insider Trading."

 

Connecting the dots, it would seem the couple made huge profits fromThomas' participation and insider knowledge of last year's Citizens United ruling at the U.S. Supreme Court, as we'll show you below.

 

While BarackObama's DoJ seems to be looking the other way, there was one person in Congress trying to bring attention to this issue last week with hisConflictedClarence.com website: Rep. AnthonyWeiner...

 

http://www.alternet.org/newsan...as,_wife_%22ginni%22

 

 

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Clarence Thomas's conflict of interest on Affordable Care Act

TUEMAY31, 2011AT06:01 PM PDT

 

Supreme Court Justice ClarenceThomashas somewhat of a conflict just being a justice, concerning the very right-wing and very prominent political activities of his wife, Ginni. But that conflict is particularly a problem since the Supreme Court will almost undoubtedly be hearing a case against the Affordable Care Act, the law that his wife has been paid handsomely to fight. A Friday afternoon news dump consisting of his financial disclosure form highlights this little problem he has.

 

The disclosure was apparently prompted in part by Rep. AnthonyWeiner

 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...-Affordable-Care-Act

 

 

 

House Democrats say Justice Thomas should recuse himself in health-care case

Posted at12:21 PM ET, 02/ 9/2011

 

Seventy-four House Democrats have signed a letter to ClarenceThomasasking the Supreme Court justice to recuse himself from any deliberations on the constitutionality of the national health care overhaul, arguing that his wife's work as a lobbyist creates "the appearance of a conflict of interest."

 

…Here is the full text of the Democrats' letter: …

 

…Given these facts, there is a strong conflict between theThomashousehold's financial gain through your spouse's activities and your role as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. We urge you to recuse yourself from this case. If the US Supreme Court's decision is to be viewed as legitimate by the American people, this is the only correct path.

We appreciate your thoughtful consideration of this request.

Sincerely,

ANTHONYD.WEINER
Member of Congress

http://voices.washingtonpost.c...-say-justice-th.html

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So, you still believe a hacker posted Weiner's crotch shots, despite his final admission. Plus, all the other nasty photos.  If so, then the hacker must have really incriminating evidence against Weiner to force him to resign.

 

Was Weiner going after very young girls, was he photographed in bed with the proverbial dead hooker, or live boy!  The Daily Kossacks have opened up a new avenue of inquiry! 

 

Thomas' day of reckoning is coming. 

 

In January of 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported that Common Cause found that Virginia Thomas earned over $680,000 from conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation over five years, but the justice did not include it on financial disclosure forms, consistently checking no spousal income. Once the news came out, Thomas amended 13 years’ worth of disclosure reports to include details of his wife's income, Politico reports. He wrote it was a “misunderstanding of the filing instructions.” Common Cause remained unconvinced.

And no, this is not about IRS tax filing, these are judical t\ethics forms that all judges file so that their impartiality can be monitored. 

Most disturbing is that Thomas ruled on a case involving Monsanto, yet never revealed that he had been employed by Monsanto as a lawyer. 

Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

The media is after Thomas because hes black.  Black, and lacking in professional ethics that  lawyers have sworn to uphold.  ANd, getting to bring up his Long Jong Silver comments is just fun!

Since when have you seen a lawyer uphold ethic values? Of any party?  Ever?

OMG.

Who is the leader of the TEA Party?

What candidate is running for a TEA Party nomination?

Maybe you're confusing a citizens group with a political party?

 

I know you like to believe that lawyers dont have ethics, but I surmise that is because you have found that the legal system doenst always work the way you want, so it must not be fair and someone must be cheating and doing something illegal/unethical.   Its all a vast left wing conspiracy...   

For someone who says it doesn't exist, you started a whole lot of threads like this one, ditto.

 

Tea Party vs Repub Party
 

In the NY-26 special election, current polling show the Tea Party candidate sharing about 65% of the vote with the Repub candidate, while the Dem candidate has the overall lead with about 35% of the electorate.  Will the TEA-Repub infighting give the Dems another win as it did with the back in 2009 thanks to a split in the right-wing vote between two candidates, Doug Hoffman and Dede Scozzafava? 

 

Long Live JuanHunt!!!

No duffus, not like the KKK.  You dems get that one.

 

The Tea Party backs both dems and reps, you just missed that on your daily flier. It's whoever goes for the smallest government, least intrusive government and most open government.  That usually leaves the dems out.

 

You must have wrote this idiot's speech.

Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee wasn’t just content to compare Tea Party protesters to the Ku Klux Klan during an interview on The Young Yurks. The two-term congressman, who took office in 2007, also mocked Sen. John McCain’s experience as a prisoner of war during Vietnam.

“When I saw John McCain stand behind Sarah Palin, he looked more like a captured soldier in North Vietnam than he did a United States senator. It was very sad,” Cohen said.

“We saw opposition to African-Americans, hostility toward ***s, hostility to anybody who wasn’t just, you know, a clone of George Wallace’s fan club,” added Cohen.  When prodded by the host of the Internet talk show, he said that Tea Partiers had “taken over” the Republican Party.

The remarks have drawn outrage from Tea Party leaders in Memphis.

Which Tea Party Candidates Won?

 
 
 

Candidates backed by the Tea Party scored major victories in Tuesday's mid-term elections even as some of its most high profile candidates suffered upsets.

From South Carolina to Wisconsin, candidates endorsed by Tea Party groups defeated Democrats in unlikely states.

Nikki Haley became the first woman and Indian-American governor in South Carolina.

One of the biggest Tea Party wins was in Wisconsin, where Republican businessman Ron Johnson defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold.

Rand Paul, an ophthalmologist-turned-politician in Kentucky and one of the first major Tea Party candidates, defeated his opponent Democrat Jack Conway despite bitter campaigns that questioned his personal beliefs and ability to lead.

The Tea Party losses, however, were magnified in states that garnered the most attention.

Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell in Delaware lost by a wide margin to Chris Coons, her Democratic opponent. O'Donnell dominated the national spotlight after she released an ad in which she claimed she is "not a witch."

Sharron Angle, who won the prime spot to run against Senate majority leader Harry Reid, ultimately lost the election even as voters expressed discontent with the economy and the incumbent himself.

One widely discussed effect of public disenchantment this year was the rise of the Tea Party political movement. In preliminary exit poll results, 41 percent of voters described themselves as supporters of this movement; 21 percent supported it strongly. Thirty-one percent said they opposed the movement; the rest, 24 percent, were "neutral" about it.

Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

I was informed then that the TEA party didnt exist, and in the instance you site, the candidate was actually a Dem!!!!!  I was informed that the TEA party was just an idea, a yearning of the fiscal and social conservatives to return the USA to the conditions of Colonial times.  Kinda like the KKK. 

When Ditzy is has his back to the wall, he goes into desperation mode.  He descends into the crypt, opens his copy of the Necromicon and invokes one of its foul spells, raising the rotting specter of the long dead KKK.

 

According to the the Anti-Defamation league, there are 40 KKK organizations with a total membership of 5,000.  That's about 125 per Klavern.  That's his final shot.

http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/default.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=4&item=kkk

 

Historically, the KKK was the paramilitary arm of the Democrats. Rather like the brown shirts of the NSDAP.  They attacked blacks, Jews, Catholics and and Republicans.  Rather, like the brown shirts, again.

 

Ditzy will plead that there are more than the JDL total. More, perhaps, in his fervid imagination!

Originally Posted by interventor1212:
Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

I was informed then that the TEA party didnt exist, and in the instance you site, the candidate was actually a Dem!!!!!  I was informed that the TEA party was just an idea, a yearning of the fiscal and social conservatives to return the USA to the conditions of Colonial times.  Kinda like the KKK. 

When Ditzy is has his back to the wall, he goes into desperation mode.  He descends into the crypt, opens his copy of the Necromicon and invokes one of its foul spells, raising the rotting specter of the long dead KKK.

 

According to the the Anti-Defamation league, there are 40 KKK organizations with a total membership of 5,000.  That's about 125 per Klavern.  That's his final shot.

http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/default.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=4&item=kkk

 

Historically, the KKK was the paramilitary arm of the Democrats. Rather like the brown shirts of the NSDAP.  They attacked blacks, Jews, Catholics and and Republicans.  Rather, like the brown shirts, again.

 

Ditzy will plead that there are more than the JDL total. More, perhaps, in his fervid imagination!

 

 

 

Where's rocky when you need him?

Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

You guts are funny!!!!

I am trying to imagine going to a KKK meeting, there was one right on Hwy 72 north of Sboro just a few weeks ago, and finding a bunch of Anti-gun, Pro-governement, Pro-*** rights, Pro-*** marriage, college intellectual types standing around a burning cross!!! 

No doubt, the KKK is full of Dems!!!

More likely a few sad snaggle toothed, tobacco stained, junior high dropout, wretches in 10-year old rusty pickups. The genetic bottom of the barrel scum who must find someone to hate to justify their existence. 

 

Ditzy,  those people are mainly a threat to themselves. 

Originally Posted by dogsoldier0513:
Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

The media is after Thomas because hes black.  Black, and lacking in professional ethics that  lawyers have sworn to uphold.  ANd, getting to bring up his Long Jong Silver comments is just fun!

Then, using this logic, the media should also go after Obozo.....

Obozo? Seriously? You aren't even trying to hide you racism. At least the KKK wore hoods.

Originally Posted by JimiHendrix:
Originally Posted by dogsoldier0513:
Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

The media is after Thomas because hes black.  Black, and lacking in professional ethics that  lawyers have sworn to uphold.  ANd, getting to bring up his Long Jong Silver comments is just fun!

Then, using this logic, the media should also go after Obozo.....

Obozo? Seriously? You aren't even trying to hide you racism. At least the KKK wore hoods.

You're funny. Obozo has nothing to do with race.

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Anything that has to do with Obama is racist. That's why the libs wanted him elected. No critique of his policies, his rules, his regulations, his health care, his azz licking, his big ears, his prize winning, his choice of gifts, his inner circle, or his recess appointments.

 

Any comment HAS to be racist.

 

Originally Posted by JimiHendrix:
Originally Posted by dogsoldier0513:
Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

The media is after Thomas because hes black.  Black, and lacking in professional ethics that  lawyers have sworn to uphold.  ANd, getting to bring up his Long Jong Silver comments is just fun!

Then, using this logic, the media should also go after Obozo.....

Obozo? Seriously? You aren't even trying to hide you racism. At least the KKK wore hoods.

You must have had a double dose of the kool aide... Dude, you are a hoot! You often provide fodder for much laughter... to bad you're not in on the joke...

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