Clarence did not disclose his wife's income from the Heritage Foundation and Liberty Central, as was required, for twenty years, Clarence Thomas has never revealed the source of that income. Twenty. Years.
IRS a couple weeks ago:
"The Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty... “has shown a pattern of deliberate and consistent intervention in political campaigns” and made “repeated statements supporting or opposing various candidates by expressing its opinion of the respective candidate’s character and qualifications".
"...most recent tax return disclosed $343,503 in revenue for tax year 2012. In recent years, it’s become aligned with the Tea Party movement, contributing to at least one of the groups targeted for extra scrutiny by the IRS beginning in 2010. Also in 2010, the Patrick Henry Center merged with Liberty Central, an advocacy group headed by Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas."
The IRS evoked their tax-exempt status. Time to cough up on all those back taxes or go to jail.
Not to mention his failure to recuse himself when cases came before the bench in which his wife was directly involved. Lookin' at you too, Vaffanculo!
More, he failed to disclose $100,000 that Citizens United spent on his behalf in 1991 to support his nomination. That would be an in-kind contribution which should have been disclosed as such.
Thomas is in clear violation of Canon 4C of the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges, which bars federal judges from using the prestige of their judicial office for fundraising purposes and specifically states that “a judge may not be a speaker, a guest of honor, or featured on the program” of a fundraising event." In Nov. of last year, Thomas headlined a fundraiser for the Federalist Society, a group that regularly appears before the Court.
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