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High Court Justice Camps at Wal-Mart

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(Aug. 7) -- You never know who you'll find at Wal-Mart. The guy stepping out of a big recreational vehicle in the parking lot might just be a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, Ginni, told 'The Takeaway,' a public radio show, she and her husband have stayed overnight in dozens of Wal-Mart lots while traveling around the country in their 40-foot bus.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in April 2009.
Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is spending part of his summer vacation driving around the country with his wife. Wal-Mart parking lots are among their favorite places to camp, Ginni Thomas said.

"It's one of our favorite things to do," she revealed in a phone interview this week while on the road in the Adirondacks.
The Thomases like to keep a low profile when they travel and the parking lots provide a measure of anonymity. So many people recognized the justice at one campground, Mrs. Thomas recalled, they had to stop going there.
"The best thing is when they don't know who we are," she said.
Clarence and Ginni Thomas have driven their RV through 27 states since they bought it in 1999.
"It's the best of America out here," Mrs. Thomas told the show.
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2009-08-07 09:53:47
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NTHPTC58

07:39 PMAug 07 2009

It's a sad state of affairs when a Supreme Court Justice has to stay away from RV parks because he's bothered so much...Treat him just like any other person when he travels....And to the classless racist's commenting here today....You really need to get a life & maybe a full set of teeth! LOL

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Angel38Donnie42

07:26 PMAug 07 2009

Haven't you all realized yet that we don't pay them enough. $125.000 annually plus paying their gas as well is just getting them by in life, so its our fault they don't live better live's!

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IwasTheWolf

07:23 PMAug 07 2009

Cpslm52 Drawled (to the sound of dueling banjos)--------OBAMA IS NOT OUR PRESIDENT HE USE THE BAD BIRTH DOCUMENT DOES NOT SAYS HE WAS BORN IN HAWAII AT ALL HE WAS BORN IN KENYA AFRICA, NO QUESTION ASK. WHERE IS THE REAL BIRTH DOCUMENET? HIS GRAMMOTHER HAS IT NOW ..........etc etc etc----------Face it Opie, our president is black and all of this silliness won't change this. No git along home, I hears y'alls sister is a fixin ta go skinny dippin!

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Hitman Blues

07:17 PMAug 07 2009

In touch with America, right, tell him and his wife that to be in touch with America you have to suffer the way the rest of us do and live as cheap as possible and from one day to the next and not in some expensive RV either

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Haveletgothecoat

07:12 PMAug 07 2009

Clarence Thomas never gets the respect he deserves. He is more a man of the people than just about anyone in Washington - including our illustrious, though incompetent, president.

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Mysticwolf011

07:06 PMAug 07 2009

We would park our mobile home in Wal-Mart and dump the sewage in there lot, because it's free.

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Jtiche

07:04 PMAug 07 2009

I saw Justice Thomas' car in town the other night. Its easy to spot, its a cadillac eldorado with those 27 inch chrome wheels, fuzzy dice, big wide white walls, that bumpa bumpa bumpa blasting out of the stereo and a big fat white woman in the passenger seat. That boy is livi'in the dream.

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MisSE1027

07:02 PMAug 07 2009

I heart Clarence Thomas-- he has the guts to go against the majority of his race in favor of what he truly believes (and take the criticism for it)! and as a law student I appreciate his strict view of the Constitution and his true impartiality-- what the Constitution says goes, no matter what

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Blditrt1

06:58 PMAug 07 2009

Good for him! Glad to see that he has not lost touch with reality!

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Cpslm52

06:58 PMAug 07 2009

OBAMA IS NOT OUR PRESIDENT HE USE THE BAD BIRTH DOCUMENT DOES NOT SAYS HE WAS BORN IN HAWAII AT ALL HE WAS BORN IN KENYA AFRICA, NO QUESTION ASK. WHERE IS THE REAL BIRTH DOCUMENET? HIS GRAMMOTHER HAS IT NOW IN THE SAFE. NOW WE MUST IMPEACH THIS CLOWN OUT OF MY OFFICE NOW. WHY HIS GRAMMOTHER DIED THIS IS QUESTION HOW SHE DIED FROM? AND WHY HER BODY WAS CREMATION AND DUMP HER ASHES. OK WE NEED THE TRUE O'BAMA; WHERE???????

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(Aug. 7) -- You never know who you\'ll find at Wal-Mart. The guy stepping out of a big recreational vehicle in the parking lot might just be a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.