{"id":4971,"date":"2011-10-07T19:42:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T00:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2011-10-07T19:42:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T00:42:50","slug":"house-democrats-call-for-investigation-of-justice-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/house-democrats-call-for-investigation-of-justice-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats Call for Investigation of Justice Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On Thursday, 20 House Democrats, led by Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY), called for an ethics investigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for allegedly failing to report that his wife was paid $700,000 for her work at the Heritage Foundation between 2003 and 2007. <\/p>\n<p>The Democrats issued a letter requesting that the Judicial Conference determine whether the matter should be referred to the Justice Department to decide whether Thomas violated the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. The Act mandates that all federal justices disclose spouse&#8217;s or dependent&#8217;s place of employment and financial holdings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/uswirestory.asp?id=13254\">Details here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, 20 House Democrats, led by Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY), called for an ethics investigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for allegedly failing to report that his wife was paid $700,000 for her work at the Heritage Foundation between 2003 and 2007. The Democrats issued a letter requesting that the Judicial Conference determine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/house-democrats-call-for-investigation-of-justice-thomas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House Democrats Call for Investigation of Justice Thomas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1ib","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}