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Originally Posted by aceventura3
How far would you go with an alleged conflict of interest based on an association?
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I'd go precisely as far as you're willing to lie.
I seriously doubt that Clarence Thomas, one of the supposed great legal minds of our time, can't understand a simple tax form for six years straight. And the part he made a 'mistake' on happens to be the part about his wife working for two conservative organizations, the Heritage Foundation and Liberty Central. I'm sure you're aware that these groups were very active in opposing healthcare reform. I'm also sure you're aware that the Affordable Healthcare Act's constitutionality has been challenged and may end up before the Supreme Court. Kagen promised to recuse herself from the same case because she used to be the solicitor general.
On top of that, he lied about an all expense paid trip in 2008 to Palm Springs to make a speech paid for by Koch Industries, who benefited directly from the Citizens United case which now is allowing them to significantly expand their influence in American politics. This is no small conflict of interest. Scalia is also guilty of speaking at the Koch event and should have similarly recused himself. The event was organized around the goal of creating new conservative strategies to affect political change and prevent liberal political movement, so it was clearly partisan.
BTW, Thomas had a 60 Minutes interview last year. I'm really disappointed that he didn't spend the entire hour in silence.