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Justice Clarence Thomas Amends 1997-2009 Financial Forms
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyU.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas said Monday that he had misunderstood the filing and reporting instructions when he failed for 13 years to properly disclose his wife's income on federal financial forms. The justice then formally amended each of his forms, spanning the years 1997-2009, the accurate contents of which are required from the justices under the Ethics in Government Act. Justice Thomas, an appointee of George H.W. Bush who is now in his 20th year on the high court, was put on the defensive over the weekend following a widely circulated report in Friday's Los ...
Virginia Thomas Quits as Head of Conservative Group
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Nov. 15) -- Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, reportedly is resigning as the head of the conservative group she founded earlier this year. The Washington Post reports that recent "distractions" led Thomas to step down from her position at Liberty Central, a conservative advocacy group she launched in May. Charles Dharapak, AP Virginia Thomas is reportedly stepping down as head of conservative advocacy group Liberty Central. "She'll take a back seat so that Liberty Central can continue with its mission without any of the distractions," Thomas' ...
Virginia Thomas and the Optics of Faith
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyVirginia Lamp Thomas' politically misguided voice-mail message left at professor Anita Hill's Brandeis law school office earlier this month has had several consequences that the former U.S. Chamber of Commerce labor-relations attorney and Labor Department lawyer, who is married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, probably did not expect. Mrs. Thomas's recent high-profile political work running Liberty Central is unusual for the spouse of a Supreme Court justice and has led critics to wonder if she and her husband have conflicted interests. Her organization, bolstered by the high ...
Clarence Thomas' Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyApparently, all bets are off when you've got a book to sell. Just ask Lillian McEwen. This week the 65-year-old ex-girlfriend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, 63, decided that after two decades she should come clean about what she describes as her porn-obsessed former lover's penchant for harassing female co-workers. Of course, McEwen's pop-up conscience comes the same week that Justice Thomas' wife, Virginia, asked Anita Hill (famous for accusing Thomas of sexual harassment during his 1991 confirmation hearings) to "pray" and "apologize" for what she did to Thomas. Sound confusing? ...
Ex-Girlfriend: Thomas 'Was Obsessed With Porn'
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 22) -- The ex-girlfriend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says he was "obsessed" with pornography and made lewd sexual references to the women he worked with. Nearly two decades after Anita Hill testified that Thomas had sexually harassed her, Lillian McEwen, who dated Thomas in the 1980s, says Hill's allegations are not unfounded. Bill O'Leary, The Washington Post / Getty Images Lillian McEwen, recalls her experiences with Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday "He was always actively watching the women he worked with to see if they could be potential partners," McEwen, 65, ...
Juan Williams, Ginni Thomas Stories Converge -- Through Geoge Soros?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn Wednesday, the story of Ginni Thomas phoning Anita Hill and asking her to apologize was all the rage. One day later, that controversy was overshadowed by news that NPR had fired Juan Williams for comments he made on Fox News. While these back-to-back stories illustrated how fickle the news media are (obsessing over one story until a newer one takes its place), there are also some interesting parallels as well. First, there is the obvious ironic point that each story spotlights an African-American man who was attacked by liberals. What is more, both Thomas and Williams have largely ...
Hill v. Thomas: Still Angry After All These Years
By Andrew Cohen - Politics Daily"You called who?" It's difficult to imagine the contours of the marital interaction that surely took place recently between Clarence Thomas, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and his longtime wife, Virginia Thomas, a Tea Party activist and conservative advocate. We will likely never know for sure -- communications between spouses are generally covered from public airing by evidentiary privilege. Did Mrs. Thomas tell her husband in advance of her baffling plan to reach out to Anita Hill and request an apology for the sexual harassment allegations Hill leveled against ...
Why Did Virginia Thomas Call Anita Hill After All This Time?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyNearly two decades after their "she said, he said" public battle, Anita Hill and Justice Clarence Thomas are back in the news. The reason? Thomas' wife, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, left a voice mail message seeking an apology from Hill, who accused her husband of sexual harassment during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991. The bizarre incident has sparked speculation as to why Ginni Thomas decided to contact Hill after all these years. Appearing on MSNBC's "Jansing & Company" Wednesday morning, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist Eugene Robinson said, "One gets the ...
Anita Hill Won't Back Down: 'I Testified Truthfully'
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Oct. 20) -- This is not the first time that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has asked for an apology from Anita Hill. And to that blast from the past, her answer remains the same: No. Not then. Not now. "I testified truthfully," she said after The New York Times reported that Virginia "Ginni" Thomas left a voice mail earlier this month on Hill's Brandeis University phone asking for an apology and an explanation "of why you did what you did with my husband." What Hill did was ignite a fury nearly 20 years ago when she testified at Thomas' confirmation hearing before the ...
Ginni Thomas Abruptly Cancels NPR Interview After Anita Hill Message Reveal
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 20) -- No time for tea, after all? The news that Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, left a message on Anita Hill's answering machine on Oct. 9 asking the former staffer to apologize to her husband over past accusations of sexual harassment has been greeted with widespread puzzlement. Why dredge up the controversy now, after so many years? But Thomas isn't about to shed any light on her intentions: Shortly after the call went public Tuesday evening, she canceled an interview with NPR's "On Point" radio program. According to a statement from the ...
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