Politics

Supreme Discomfort: Doubting the Thomases

By Brendan Fischer

Clarence and Virginia Thomas at Thomas's swearing inVirginia Thomas, wife of United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, recently created the conservative lobbying group Liberty Central, Inc. (http://libertycentral.org), raising concerns about political impartiality for the nation?s highest court. Although Americans generally expect justices to be politically neutral and judicial rules prohibit judges from participating in political activity, those rules don?t extend to spouses, and a justice?s decision to recuse him or herself from a case is theirs alone. Ms. Thomas? group, which has connections to the Tea Party movement, plans to be involved in November?s elections and issue ?score cards? rating Congress members on their conservatism. According to the group?s mission statement, "LibertyCentral.org will serve the big tent of the conservative movement? and aims to "make a difference in the fight for liberty and against the liberal Washington agenda."

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Full post as published by PR Watch on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).