Supreme Court judges had major conflict of interest
ArchaeoBob printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Wed Jan 26, 2011 at 12:32:09 PM EST
It's disturbing when you learn that Supreme Court judges violate codes of ethics, and have secret meetings with people before ruling on things that affect those people.  It's even more disturbing when they violate the law.
The very judges who have Religious Right connections turn out to have violated the law.  Scalia and Thomas attended secret strategy meetings with the Koch Brothers before the Citizens United ruling that gave corporations the same rights as people.  (Source of information seems to be Common Cause.)

Also, it recently has been learned that Thomas was not reporting his wife's income (not small) from the Heritage Foundation, another familiar name.  (Discovered by Common Cause.)

That is a major and disturbing violation of ethics.  We here know about the Koch brothers and what they stand for.  The Heritage Foundation, as I remember, is more of the same.  I think these things (which I just learned about yesterday and today) call every ruling that favors Religious Right causes into question.  

I CALL FOR A PUBLIC SENATE INVESTIGATION, and if these charges are true - IMPEACHMENT OF SCALIA AND THOMAS!!!




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