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Will Congress Investigate Justice Clarence Thomas?

And why are conservatives silent on the issue? Justice Thomas has sat on at least 11 cases where a Harlan Crow-affiliated group filed a brief — adopting the group’s preferred outcome in all but one case. Moreover, Thomas has yet to explain the full extent of his connections to Crow, despite news reports that Crow lavished gifts and other expensive favors on Thomas and his family. Nor has Thomas explained how his gifting scandal differs from the very similar gifting scandal that brought down Justice Abe Fortas.
There is one way, however, in which this scandal is quite different from the Fortas resignation. Fortas was a liberal justice, but many of the clearest calls for his resignation came from progressives such as Sen. (and future Vice President) Walter Mondale (D-MN) and Brown v. Board of Education author Chief Justice Earl Warren. As Murphy explains, however, Thomas’ ethics scandals have been met with “deafening silence from Republicans.” Unlike Mondale and Warren, who understood that the integrity of the judiciary must trump ideology, Murphy suggests Republicans have the opposite values:
One of the most shocking speeches that a Supreme Court justice has ever made was one that Justice Thomas made just a few months ago to a group of Virginia law students, in which – with his wife in the audience – he admitted, plainly, that his cause on the Supreme Court as a justice was the exact same cause that his wife was pursuing as the chief organizer of one of the nation’s most prominent Tea Party groups.http://www.truth-out.org/rep-murphy-says…

No Responses to “Will Congress Investigate Justice Clarence Thomas?”

  1. us citizen says:

    The only reason you libs are after him is because you know his vote will stop Obama care. With out it the Court will be ties 4-4 and the lower court ruling will stand.

  2. Little Princess says:

    Criticizing a black government official makes you a racist. There’s probably a bunch of people who are afraid of being seen as a racist so they don’t say anything.
    How is it that you are brave enough to withstand the criticism that you’re a racist?

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