Justice's wife launches 'tea party' group .

LaTimes ^ | 03/14/10 | Kathleen Hennessey

[American Dream 246]

The nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court. Reporting from Washington As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the "tea party" movement is the tale of an average citizen in action. "I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you," she said at a recent panel discussion with tea party leaders in Washington. Thomas went on to count herself among those energized into action by President Obama's "hard-left agenda." But Thomas is no ordinary activist.

[Servant of the Cross]

Uh oh. Liberal heads will EXPLODE.

[neodad]

SCOTUS pushback on Bambi...

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Awesome!

[who knows what evil?]

Saw this at ‘Ace of Spades’ earlier...was wondering when it would get posted here...popcorn is ready.

[Sister_T]

The nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court.

Oh, please. Liberals are political activists on the bench, making up laws out of whole cloth out of THEIR sense of "justice" and the media hardly bats an eyelash.

[Drango]

Virginia Thomas is not an indentured servant and the 1st amendment right of assembly applies to her, even if the liberals don’t like it.

[Balding_Eagle]

9th circuit court Justice Stephen Reinhardt is one (of many I assume) who can be used to refute leftists who claim this is improper. Reinhardt, known as one of the most liberal justices on the court of appeals, is married to Ramona Ripston. She is the Executive Director of the ACLU of Southern California.

8 posted on Sunday, March 14, 2010 1:39:24 AM by Brugmansian

[tflabo]

Certainly the LSM will lamblast this decent citizen while the convicted wife of Rep. John Conyers gets a pass.

[jessduntno]

ANOTHER RACIST WHITE WOMAN...heh heh...

[FlingWingFlyer]

I have great admiration and respect for this woman. People should be in prison for the way she was treated by the commie ‘RATS during their Anita Hill hoax and fiasco.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Well, well well. I have never see the head of a dem go nuclear.

I am looking forward to it.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Surely the libs won't complain it is inappropriate because she is an appendage of her husband?

hehehe

[HiTech RedNeck]

Can’t complain about Ms. Thomas unless they complain about this one too!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Hohoho!

[Mamzelle]

re: Uh oh. Liberal heads will EXPLODE.)))

I KNOW. wow. They are sure to overreact and show themselves for the true racists they are.

Can't wait.

[Eterna1Soldier]

Nice to see the LA Times insinuate a “conflict of interest” through this whole piece. No dishonest reporting here /sarc

[bray]

I love Justice Clarence Thomas, perhaps the smartest man on the Court.

Pray for America and the Tea Parties

[Brugmansian]

Reinhardt just wrote a 132 page dissent in the Newdow case which ruled “Under God” is constitutional in the pledge. The ACLU has been involved on the side of Newdow on those cases for a decade (Newdow filed two). No conflict there with Reinhardt’s wife Ramona Ripston being Executive Director of the ACLU in his own 9th circuit district.

Ramona has been with the ACLU since 1972. Jimmy Carter put Reinhardt on the bench. Only time Ripston left the ACLU was for a couple months when she worked for “People for the American Way”.

[Exton1]

Re: Justice’s wife launches ‘tea party’ group

Dear Ms. Hennessey;

This article is nothing but “yellow journalism.” You would never say this about an ACLU lawyer, or attack Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Sonia Sotomayor in this way. In fact there were a number of times Ginsburg should have recuse herself for a conflict but didn’t, where were you then? You are nothing more that a Marxist propagandist. The left has far more scandals that your biased press fails to even mention. Where is this type of story on Nancy Pelois’s booze cruses, where she spends $1,000 each week on booze when traveling from Wash. DC to Cal.?

And frankly you are an idiot, for you have not researched either the US Constitution or the Tea Party groups. Gee how shocking a Supreme Court Justice that wants to follow the US Constitution in steady of pushing a Socialist agenda.

As for your love of Socialism let me ask you this: Liberals never gets the most obvious question: Why has the Left killed 100 million people in the 20th century, according to French Marxist historian Courtois and his team? The Left must be made to answer: why does its blind “idealism” and its unquenchable power-craving lead to such disastrous results, over and over again? Why does the British medical system have patients parked on gurneys in dirty hallways? Why are their waiting times for life-saving operations so much longer than ours?
Why does Prime Minister Gordon Brown advocate using your organs after you die, without your permission?

Thomas Sowell also wrote: “It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon—that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.”

R. Exton