Clarence Thomas Dumps Financial Records Just Before Long Weekend

Clarence Thomas was called out on Twitter Friday afternoon for releasing financial-disclosure documents at the last minute. Right before Memorial Day weekend. Suggested Reading Here Is Everything You Need To Know About Bloody Sunday The Internet is Losing Its Mind Over Oprah’s Crop Top and Fly Looks ‘Mean Ushers, Peppermints’ and 15 Other Blackity-Black Church…

Clarence Thomas was called out on Twitter Friday afternoon for releasing financial-disclosure documents at the last minute. Right before Memorial Day weekend.

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Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) was awaiting Justice Thomas’ disclosures at 4:30 p.m. He tweets: “Pretty crazy that the Scotus does a pre-memorial day friday dumping of its financial forms.”

The forms disclosed information about Thomas’ role on the board of the Horatio Alger Association and that he made $10,000 for a speech at the University of Minnesota. But it was his wife’s role with Liberty Central and Liberty Consulting that was driving Weiner’s all-day tweetathon. Because of a potential conflict of interest, Weiner thinks that Thomas should recuse himself from all rulings on the health care reform law.

“We knew that Justice Thomas’s family had a financial stake in opposing health care reform. Now we know even more,” Weiner said. “It’s pretty clear the Justice has one option here: recusal.”

Read more of this story at the Huffington Post.

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