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WASHINGTON — Several Democratic politicians are calling for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be investigated for his failure to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars of income.

The investigation stems from Thomas’s wife, Virginia, who earned over $100,000 a year for several years from the conservative Heritage Foundation. Still, Thomas never indicated in his annual financial disclosure form that she earned any income.

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The Huffington Post reports:

The letter outlines how, throughout his 20-year tenure on the Supreme Court, Thomas routinely checked a box titled “none” on his annual financial disclosure forms, indicating that his wife had received no income. But in reality, the letter states, she earned nearly $700,000 from the Heritage Foundation from 2003 to 2007 alone.

Slaughter called it “absurd” to suggest that Thomas may not have known how to fill out the forms.

“It is reasonable, in every sense of the word, to believe that a member of the highest court in the land should know how to properly disclose almost $700,000 worth of income,” Slaughter said in a statement. “To not be able to do so is suspicious, and according to law, requires further investigation. To accept Justice Thomas’s explanation without doing the required due diligence would be irresponsible.”

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