It is all over the news, so I’m sure you have seen the story, but I wanted to be sure to have it posted here for future reference. Good for Mrs. Thomas!
From the Wall Street Journal:
We’ve got to get the Constitution back to a place where it means something . . . or we’re headed for tyranny.
– Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, during an interview at a Conservative Political Action Committee meeting in February.
It’s a provocative quote, one you’d expect more to hear from the head of a lobbying and political-organizing group than from the wife of a Supreme Court justice.
Well, lo and behold, Ginni Thomas is both the latter and the former. She recently founded a new nonprofit lobbying and political-organizing group meant to appeal to folks aligned with the “tea party” movements. Click here for Tuesday’s Washington Post story; here for a recent LA Times story.
Thomas’s group, called Liberty Central (click here for the group’s Web site), was founded in January. But partly spurred by recent press coverage, a debate has broken out about the propriety of a justice’s spouse diving headlong into a political movement.
Mrs. Thomas’ bio says she worked with Dick Armey, let’s hope she maintains her independence from him on issues involving immigration and national security.
Ann Corcoran
Judy K. Warner
