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Not sure if this was posted already:
NYT | Advocacy Group Says Justices May Have Conflict in Campaign Finance Cases
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/2…"WASHINGTON — When the conservative financier Charles Koch sent out invitations for a political retreat in Palm Springs later this month, he highlighted past appearances at the gathering of “notable leaders” like Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court.
A leading liberal group is now trying to use that connection to argue that Mr. Scalia and Mr. Thomas should disqualify themselves from hearing campaign finance cases because they may be biased toward Mr. Koch, a billionaire who has been a major player in financing conservative causes.
The group, Common Cause, filed a petition with the Justice Department on Wednesday asking it to investigate potential conflicts by Justices Scalia and Thomas and move for their disqualification from the landmark Citizens United case, in which the court last year lifted a ban on corporate spending on political campaigns. Common Cause also cited the role of Mr. Thomas’s wife, Virginia Thomas, in forming a conservative political group opposed to the Obama administration as grounds for his disqualification."
- Hopefully we'll see more about this in the next couple of weeksJosev
- What is your motive? You seem to be obsessed with conservatives?********
- Do you ever read an alternate point of view?********
- Do you VikingKingEleven? Not really.********
- Stop pretending to be neutral, everyone has their point of view********
- Yes, I read alternative points of view -- I see the bullshit you and chillmoron post here every dayJosev