Some of my friends, Lefties, have been reacting to articles that have been attacking Justice Thomas’s wife for some of her political efforts (she wants to be a liaison to the Tea Party).
Bless her and bless Justice Thomas.
The Left is morally corrupt in this issue.
Justice William O Douglas, (a weirdo Lefty) spent his entire time on the Supreme Court as a political activist in the environmental area. He wanted to save this river, this mountain, this forest in Eastern Washington or wherever else he was hiking. A lifetime of lobbying and not one progressive, not one liberal ever complained about his conflict of interest on the Court. He was even on the board of a foundation connected to the mob.
There is a story I can tell here, which to my knowledge has never been told before.
Douglas’ fourth wife, Cathleen Heffernan, (who was 23 when he married her at age 67) very soon after the wedding went to the President, Nixon, and offered to talk her husband into leaving the bench in return for her appointment to chair of the Atomic Energy Commission.
At the time, Douglas was incontinent and having numerous other medical problems, so the offer probably seemed genuine to Nixon.
Nixon did not take the offer. I don’t know why. Possibly he didn’t trust the young woman to deliver her end of the deal.
I got the story from a good friend of mine who observed it all.