Justice Clarence Thomas and Citizens United: A Conflict of Interest - ProtectOurElections.org

Clarence Thomas has been caught up in a swirl of controversy surrounding his 20 years of falsifying financial disclosure statements, including those during his nomination process, and using his judicial decisions to enrich his wife.

Virginia Thomas has launched two organizations --Liberty Central and Liberty Consulting -- to take advantage of last years Citizens United decision and raised hundreds of thousands in secret money to fund them and help conservative candidates. 

Common Cause has filed a conflict of interest complaint with the Department of Justice asking that it vacate the Citizens United ruling because of Justice Thomas' conflicts of interest. 

Well, Protect Our Elections has discovered another even more shocking conflict of Interest.

Citizens United actually supported Clarence Thomas during his nomination process and spent over 100,000 dollars running ads attacking Senators who opposed Thomas, controversial ads that generated millions of dollars of free publicity from the news flap.

Last June, the US Supreme Court was faced with an eerily similar conflict of interest case involving Massey Energy which helped fund the candidacy of Justice Brent Benjamin to the WV Sup Ct. 

Eventually Massey Energy was sued and the case was heard by the WV Supreme Court. The man suing Massey Energy, Hugh Caperton, moved to recuse Justice Benjamin on the basis of his previous support from Massey.  The motion was denied and Justice Benjamin cast the deciding vote in favor of Massey Energy. 

Caperton appealed to the US Supreme Court.  IT ruled last June that Justice Benjamin labored under a financial conflict of interest that denied Caperton due process, and they reversed the case. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented.

Applying the Caperton case to the facts of Justice Thomas' participation in Citizens United,

it is clear that he denied the appellants due process because he labored under a conflict of interest -- he owed them a payback and they would benefit handsomely by a ruling in their favor.

For more information, and to get involved and sign our petitions demanding investigations into these and other allegations surrounding Justice Thomas, please visit ProtectOurElections.org.

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[rivieracar1992]

What else is old? EVERY single elections all over the world is fixed in some evil ways. We CAN'T win. All we can do is expose the corruption. Maybe some vigilante will take the basta*ds out. One can only hope.

[rivieracar1992]

@3215murph You're so right. And they will get what they deserve eventually.

[luismiguel10486]

Impeach this dirty scoundrel. Impeach, Impeach, Impeach, Impeach, Impeach

before we lose our ass.

[luismiguel10486]

@funguyfirst1 Do you read? or just watch you tube Videos, this guys is a sold out, he does not care about this country.

[luismiguel10486]

Impeach this activist judge, this man is untouchable, just look at his arrogant demeanor, this country is going to shit with this people.

[funguyfirst1]

This text and video are nothing more than a series of non-sequiters that sound controversial for sure, but fail to make any sound, comprehensible argument; perhaps I'm just dense, but can anyone else read the text or listen the video and then actually explainto me what Clarence Thomas did wrong?

[jopaddy81]

this is why all politicians should have limited spending ability. 

[morse03]

What a hack job. Let me hear what he did claim and what she claimed independent of his salary. If such an offense had any basis, the IRS would be engaged in the investigation. BTW, if two like-minded people get married... it's common. If my wife was FORCED to pay union dues I would ask her to quit. If she doesn't, that has no reflection upon my judgment. I would still love her, but not be responsible for her individuality. Judge Thomas has served with honor. This is pathetic.

[hostilel7]

Clarence Thomas went from being a brother with a can of Coke to a justice with a whole case for the Koch brothers.

[DaddyFurr]

Hi sjduskin

It has been reported (by Rachel Maddow) that Ginny Thomas's income had, indeed, been reported UNTIL she started the receiving the questionablesalaries 5 years ago. Maddow reported that, at that point, Clarence Thomas listed Ginny's income as "None" on his required financial disclosure form. Which would have been a blatantly rather than forgetfulness.