What were they saying about activist judges?....

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Secret donors make Thomas's wife's group tea party player

When Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife announced in 2008 that she was going to help run Washington operations for a Michigan college once described as “a citadel of American conservatism,” she said the move was her “way of pulling away from politics” and the “safest place for me to be when it comes to conflicts” with her husband’s position on the court.

But, less than two years later, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas has returned to partisan politics as a fully engaged opponent of President Barack Obama, whom she has described as “hard left” and steering the nation “for tyranny.” As founder and president of a think tank and advocacy group called Liberty Central, she quickly established herself in the tea party movement by drawing on her longstanding ties to Washington’s conservative establishment and by landing two big donations — one for $500,000 and another for $50,000 —that put her group on the map.

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In an appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show — arranged after she and her husband ran into Hannity at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding last month in Palm Beach, Fla. (Justice Thomas performed Limbaugh’s previous wedding, in 1994, at the couple’s Northern Virginia home) — Thomas suggested that in her new role she’s drawing liberal criticism in much the same way her husband did during his Supreme Court confirmation battle.

“They're after me now sometimes,” she told Hannity. “And so, we're not going to be dissuaded. We are in the fight for our country's life.” But she said she would “watch for conflicts” between Liberty Central and her husband’s post. “There's a lot of judicial wives and husbands out there causing trouble. I'm just one of many,” she said.

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Jenny Beth Martin, an Atlanta tea party activist who co-founded the influential national coalition group Tea Party Patriots, said Thomas has used her insider connections to help the movement, volunteering since December as sort of a Washington shaman for the Patriots, and “helping to navigate some of the waters in D.C.,” partly by making introductions.

“She’s been kind of a mentor, and when we had questions about things that we were doing, we bounced a few of the ideas off of her and also off of a few other people in D.C. just to make sure that what we were doing made sense,” Martin said.

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