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1StrongBlackMan

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5. Nice framing Politico ...
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 01:14 PM
Jun 2012
The law's supporters launched a similarly unsuccessful attempt to remove Justice Clarence Thomas from the case because his wife was actively trying to repeal the law.


First, Supporters of the law/Liberals did call for Thomas to recuse himself because of his wifes activities; rather the call was based in Thomas' benefiting financially from his wife and his own activities in opposition to the healthcare law.

Secondly, there is that false equivilence thing again. There is a real difference between extra-congressional calls for recusal and a congressman calling for an investigation into a Justice's involvement in the planning of the health care law.

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