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Clarence Thomas failed to report wife's income, watchdog says
Los Angeles Slimes ^ | January 22, 2011 | Kim Geiger

Posted on 01/22/2011 5:39:24 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
Did not include it on financial disclosure forms.

I'm guessing he didn't need to...the last time I heard this issue, it had to do with liveshot and his alcoholic wife. She didn't have to report income on his filings.

21 posted on 01/22/2011 5:52:32 PM PST by gogeo ("Every one has a right to be an idiot. He abuses the privilege!" Groucho Marx)
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To: Kaslin
UHH, OHH ! Clarence Thomas might be in BIG TROUBLE the next time he's up for reelection!

...yes that was a joke, I know he's got a life appointment.

22 posted on 01/22/2011 5:52:38 PM PST by apillar
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To: maine-iac7

financial disclosure forms......not income tax!!!!!!!!1


23 posted on 01/22/2011 5:53:31 PM PST by is_is (VP Dad of Sgt. G - My Hero - "Sleep Well America......Your Marines have your Back")
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To: Kaslin

Ha! What’re they gonna do to him??


24 posted on 01/22/2011 5:53:56 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: Kaslin
...the watchdog group Common Cause said Friday.

Common Cause?

Does any suspect that the W.H. might be behind this, ultimately, in order to tilt the court?

Just a guess, of course, but who knows what all those "czars" are really doing or influencing?

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25 posted on 01/22/2011 5:55:00 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Da Coyote

Hence my Loss Angeles Slimes as the source


26 posted on 01/22/2011 5:55:07 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: NativeNewYorker
Ummmm. The Supremes don't pay federal taxes to the IRS. They ruled that Article III, Section I of the US Constitution; "The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office." meant that they don't pay taxes on their income from the US government.

I wish they could read the 2nd amendment as clearly.

/johnny

27 posted on 01/22/2011 5:59:20 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Kaslin

Sounds to me like it was income from a job, not an investment.

THe RATS are trying to oust Thomas before Zero loses the 2012 election and they lose the Obamacare case in court.


28 posted on 01/22/2011 6:02:39 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: bboop

The lunatics in Boston Tea Party Chat are all salivating over it, hoping he get kicked out and be replaced by a liberal judge from their side


29 posted on 01/22/2011 6:06:09 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Coming from the L.A.Slimes whats the odds this is bull squirt..


30 posted on 01/22/2011 6:08:49 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Kaslin

This has nothing to do with taxes, as I understand the article.

By the way, is the L.A. Slimes interested at all in Hussein’s overseas funds, like from the Gaza strip?


31 posted on 01/22/2011 6:09:21 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: JRandomFreeper

He should just file an EEO complaint. They usually take about 10 years to finalize. I’d say a black man married to a white woman could make a really good case. I’m sure that would make their heads explode. Maybe he could get the NAACP to assist him with his claim (sarc).


32 posted on 01/22/2011 6:13:01 PM PST by MotherRedDog
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To: Kaslin

It doesn’t say they didn’t report it on their IRS forms, they are saying he didn’t report it on his disclosure forms. I don’t know the rules about reporting the spouses income on disclosure forms.


33 posted on 01/22/2011 6:15:36 PM PST by McGavin999 ("I was there when we had the numbers, but didn't have the principles"-Jim DeMint)
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To: gogeo
From the article

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Federal judges are bound by law to disclose the source of spousal income, according to Stephen Gillers, a professor at NYU School of Law. Thomas' omission — which could be interpreted as a violation of that law — could lead to some form of penalty, Gillers said.

"It wasn't a miscalculation; he simply omitted his wife's source of income for six years, which is a rather dramatic omission," Gillers said. "It could not have been an oversight."

But Steven Lubet, an expert on judicial ethics at Northwestern University School of Law, said such an infraction was unlikely to result in a penalty. Although unfamiliar with the complaint about Thomas' forms, Lubet said failure to disclose spousal income "is not a crime of any sort, but there is a potential civil penalty" for failing to follow the rules. He added: "I am not aware of a single case of a judge being penalized simply for this."

34 posted on 01/22/2011 6:15:41 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Nothing more than puppies biting at his ankles.

This is part of Common Causes efforts for the Justice Department to “investigate” Scalia and Thomas and force them vacate last years decision on campaign finance.

Crying “conflict of interest,” the smear job begins all because since they did not get the bench to legislate as they wanted.

Our constitution is but a roll of toilet paper to the left.

If they were really worried about “conflicts of interest,” wouldn’t they have been outraged over an openly gay federal judge deciding Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was unconstitutional last September?

Just a power grab unlike any other we have seen from these people.

All hail Obama, there will be no more separation of powers.


35 posted on 01/22/2011 6:17:44 PM PST by DakotaRed (Why not just pass a law requiring criminals to obey the laws?)
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To: saganite
Ruh Roh

rut roh my @ss. Like he's stupid enough to cheat on taxes after the living hell the left put him through already.

36 posted on 01/22/2011 6:20:57 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (talk to the hand.)
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To: maine-iac7

How dare you ask any relevant question that gets in the way of the leftist narative.


37 posted on 01/22/2011 6:20:57 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: Kaslin

If they are filing separately, there is nothing to disclose.


38 posted on 01/22/2011 6:27:08 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
"0bama’s hoofprints on this one for sure. He just needs to knock off one conservative, and the court will be forever locked in the left’s favor. For some reason, Thomas is the chosen target. Probably not a rational reason, either."

You don't really believe the House would vote to impeach Thomas do you? And the Senate to convict?

Not a chance.

39 posted on 01/22/2011 6:28:50 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: NonValueAdded
Why is Common Cause aiming at the only black on the USSC? Well, maybe it's because they want to shoot him down!

They've always been into this targeting stuff you know.

40 posted on 01/22/2011 6:30:07 PM PST by muawiyah
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