Jonathan Turley criticizes Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife for ‘injudicious’ Tea Party activism

Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley on Monday assailed the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas for her growing role in Tea Party political activism.

"It's, in a word, injudicious," Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University, said on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann. "The fact that this is news is an example of the self-restraint used by most spouses [of Supreme Court Justices] previously."

The Los Angeles Times brought the story to the nation's attention on Sunday:

In January, Virginia Thomas created Liberty Central Inc., a nonprofit lobbying group whose website will organize activism around a set of conservative "core principles," she said.

The group plans to issue score cards for Congress members and be involved in the November election, although Thomas would not specify how. She said it would accept donations from various sources -- including corporations -- as allowed under campaign finance rules recently loosened by the Supreme Court. ..

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