they re going to continue to pressure him to recuse himself not just from campaign finance cases, which they say that his objectivity has been compromised by virtue of his wife running a gup that can accept the donations but the attendance at the coke donor conference that many of the money does go to the type of ads. the rules for supreme court justices are ambiguous. it s largely left to them when they have a conflict of interest and when they need to recuse themselves. legal scholars say the types of activity that his wife is involved in, speaking at this donor conference, they don t rise to the level of requiring a recusal, anyway. guinea thomas and clarence in the middle of another controversy. thank you. president obama s decision to stop legally supporting the defense of marriage act does not end the debate, but it does put advocate for traditional
their brief to the court? that argues that health reform is unconstitutional before he gets a chance to rule on the issue? we don t know. it was closed to the press. michelle bachman told nbc after the meeting that of the justice didn t talk about health reform and other than her saying that, we don t know. it was closed to the press. remember when conservatives say they hate activist judges, they say scalia is the model of a judge who is not activist. the word activist lost all meaning. that makes it hard to guinea thomas. she is herself a self described tea party activist. a complaint from the watch dog group common cause led the los angeles times to report that thomas failed to report his wife s conservative activist income when he was asked to by the court. there is a box on the supreme court financial disclosure forms where justices are supposed to