Ms. Shipley said this could make accounting for investment income difficult with the 90 percent rule — mostly stemming from the lack of filing instructions.
A court spokeswoman said at the time that the information had been "inadvertently omitted due to a misunderstanding of the filing instructions".
In January, he issued a statement saying that information was "inadvertently omitted due to a misunderstanding of the filing instructions," even though the document clearly called for the Justice to provide "Spouse's Non-Investment Income").
Justice Thomas said that in his annual financial disclosure statements over the last six years, the employment of his wife, Virginia Thomas, was "inadvertently omitted due to a misunderstanding of the filing instructions".
The Virago archive is a treasure trove of correspondence with some of the best women writers of the 20th and current century, and founded as the company was before the advent of email, everything is still there in those files, letters often adorned with my filing instructions "put wherever".
Three years before, in 1937, the filing instructions were removed, leading the way for what is now known as the 1040i.
Justice Thomas dismissed his failure to report his wife's income -- not only from the right wing Liberty Central but also the conservative Heritage Foundation -- as a "misunderstanding of the filing instructions".
Justice Thomas wrote to the Committee on Financial Disclosure the same day and explained that he didn't disclose his wife's substantial income "...due to a misunderstanding of the filing instructions".
Some lawyers say this amounts to a confession of perjury, and add that the filing instructions merely ask if the filer is married, and if so, if the spouse had any non-investment income.
Of course, the excitement of "federal election commission paperwork, detailed filing instructions, and more legal disclaimers than you can shake a stick at" isn't the only draw: enclosed in the Super Fun Pack is a treasure map and decoder ring that will lead the victor to an actual treasure: a visit to his or her college by our brother, our captain, our king, Stephen Colbert, himself.
