Justice's wife plans tea party group

There's no legal rule banning her partisan actions.

The wife of a Supreme Court Justice is planning to start a tea party group.

Virginia Thomas, longtime conservative and wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, has been working against what she calls President Obama's "hard-left agenda" for months.

Her politics are no secret. Thomas has worked for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and alongside Republican leader and tea partier Dick Armey.

Now she's decided to start a nonprofit called Liberty Central to groom conservative activists and lobby lawmakers around conservative principles.

There's no rule stopping her from doing so, and the Justice could recuse himself from cases that presented a conflict of interest.

But the move is still stirring up controversy. Justices have traditionally kept their politics to themselves, but their spouses are free to do as they please, the Los Angeles Times reports.

-- Ambreen Ali, Congress.org

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