Groups Target Thomas' Wife's Work to Force Him to Sit Out High Court Rulings on Health Care

foxnews.com ^ | 5-30-11

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Eyeing a potential 5-4 decision on President Obama's Affordable Care health care reforms, some Democratic lawmakers are trying to pressure Justice Clarence Thomas to sit out any health care case that may come before the Supreme Court.

And in an added tack to influence the court's decision-making, one election watchdog has demanded an FBI probe of the justice over a 2010 campaign finance ruling.

The months-long efforts to target Thomas focus on his financial disclosure forms, of which amended versions were filed earlier this month and released publicly on Friday. In them, Thomas reveals that his wife, Ginni Thomas, received a salary in 2010 from Liberty Central, a group that she helped found and which supports the repeal of the health care law.

"We knew that Justice Thomas' family had a financial stake in opposing health care reform. Now we know even more," Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said in a statement. "It's pretty clear the justice has one option here: recusal."

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[chris_bdba]

Time for our side to ramp up and do the same things to Kegan.Two sides can play this game!

[Mountain Mary]

I absolutely agree with you, BeT. No crack pipe needed to realize that in FNC’s attempt to be “Fair and Balanced” and as their ultimate goal is to keep viewers..aka linguine spined moderates, aka LIDS; Libs in Disguise, they have tilted LEFT and are doing it more so every day.
I find them unwatchable, except for Greta and Dennis Miller segments.

[Mountain Mary]

Sorry: I meant that I agree with YOU, ncalburt.

[opentalk]

They are trying to muddy the issue to cover for Kagan. She was dishonest about her involvement with Obamacare and needs to sit out.

newly released FOIA emails prove it.

[denydenydeny]

These are the same people who would recoil in horror at any suggestion that a wife must be dependent on her husband for her beliefs. They would consider the very thought as an outrage against feminism. Any university professor who advanced such an opinion would immediately lose his job.

And yet, their position on Clarence Thomas is just that: That a wife cannot have divergent opinions than her husband’s. ARCH hypocrisy.

[exDemMom]

Fox News is drifting farther and farther left reporting Weinerhead press releases as news .

Balanced reporting does not mean refusing to report any story that portrays the left and what it is all about. It is pretty clear that an effort was made to keep the article balanced.

Had this been an article typical of the leftist MSM, those groups calling for Justice Thomas to recuse himself would have been presented as completely serious organizations dedicated to doing the right thing. In that case, they might have made a token mention of Severino as some right-wing kook, with a quote taken out of context to show just how kooky she is, while subtly implying that anyone right of Kucinich is a nutjob.

But that's not what Fox did. They presented both sides. It is clear that those calling for a recusal (except for Weiner) are advocacy groups.