That’s Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, speaking to National Public Radio about the widespread criticism she’s received for her involvement in the conservative activist website LibertyCentral.org . Sunday’s LA Times , for instance, worried that the “tea party-linked group…could test the traditional notions of political impartiality for the court”: The move by Virginia Thomas, 52, into the front lines of politics stands in marked contrast to the rarefied culture of the nation’s highest court, which normally prizes the appearance of nonpartisanship and a distance from the fisticuffs of the politics of the day…. “I think the American public expects the justices to be out of politics,” said University of Texas law school professor Lucas A.
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“I did not give up my First Amendment rights when my husband became a justice of the Supreme Court.”
