Posted on 01/28/2022 7:36:37 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
larence Thomas, the hardline conservative supreme court justice, is facing calls for his recusal in the case over race-based affirmative action in college admissions that the court agreed to hear this week.
Related: US supreme court will hear challenge to affirmative action in college admission
The case, which is being brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, is the latest potential conflict of interest involving Thomas and his wife Virginia Thomas. Ginni, as she is known, is a prominent rightwing activist who speaks out on a raft of issues that frequently come before the nation’s highest court.....
SFFA’s lawsuit seeking to strike down affirmative action has received the enthusiastic backing of the conservative National Association of Scholars. It filed an amicus brief in support of the suit, accusing Harvard admissions officials of being prejudiced against Asian students and stereotyping them as “uninteresting, uncreative and one-dimensional”.
Ginni Thomas sits on the advisory board of the National Association of Scholars. Observers are concerned that her position with a group that has intervened in the affirmative action case could present appearances of conflict of interest.
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This will be a huge fail. It would be different if his wife had a huge financial interest in a case because that would benefit her husband, but that’s not it. They’re simply talking about her viewpoint/opinion. Spousal viewpoint/opinion is never grounds for recusal.
Thomas was picked to replace Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice. No doubt Bush believed he was expected to replace a black justice with another black justice, so Clarence Thomas was arguably the beneficiary of affirmative action (as was Sotomayor). If both recused themselves it would be a wash.
BS
If these leftist activists truly believed in affirmative action, they would point to Clarence Thomas as a shining example of a minority reaching the highest levels in the land. Or better still, instead of pushing for him to recuse, they should give him 2 votes, instead of 1, because the other members of the court only got where they are through systemic racism, while he earned his spot.
I’ve held that affirmative action is unconstitutional from the first time I heard of it. 30 years maybe?
Because he’s a conservative.
More importantly, will this former dean of Harvard Law school recuse herself?
Clarence Thomas, the hardline conservative supreme court justice, is facing calls for his recusal in the case over race-based affirmative action in college admissions that the court agreed to hear this week.
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Bwahahahahaha! The Left only wishes this were true.
Why? Because he’ll follow the Constitution and they know it.
Libs never recuse.
The headline was answered in the first sentence of the excerpt. Didn’t have to read further.
Pelosi and her hubby and stock purchases and sales?? She helps make the laws that regulate this stuff.
Thomas shouldn’t but Sotomayor should.
Just this session Sotomayor began publicly testifying with fake facts in the COVID OSHA case. Nobody introduced those fake facts but her. When that came out she should have recused herself for obvious bias but nope, leftist so it’s fine.
Who was the justice doing same-sex marriages before they legalized them?
In the federal government, they all have loads of potential conflicts of interests.
I believe the Supreme Court knew it was unconstitutional but assumed it was a temporary measure - and 50 years later it has only worsened the situation in terms of true gains by the “beneficiaries”.
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