Think Progress has a good article on the ethics problems of Justice Clarence "Long Dong Silver"* Thomas, which include some unseemly acceptance of favors from right-wing sugar daddies. In the latest revelation, the Justice's flaky wingnut wife, Ginnie, received $500,000 from Dallas real estate mogul Harlan Crow (of the Trammel Crow fortune) for her tea party organization, in addition to a bible once belonging to civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass valued at $19,000.
Think Long Dong will recuse himself from matters involving the teatards or Harlan Crow? Riiiiight. You would be wrong, because hizzoner will always see himself the victim of a left-wing "lynch mob" because he chose to cash in with the Strom Thurmonds and Trent Lotts of the Rethuglican movement. And perish the thought that he would resign. He's a bitter ender if there ever was one.
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* Lest we forget, here's the context for his nickname.
