The Atlantic‘s Andrew Cohen has issued a startling new challenge: he believes that the public should investigate the constitutional theories of federal judges’ spouses. 
Of course, Cohen has one and only one judicial spouse in mind: the wife of (surprise!) Justice Clarence Thomas. Virginia Thomas has announced that she’s starting a political advocacy group to “get the Constitution back to a place where it means something.”  Cohen wants more details — specifically, he wants to know precisely where she stands on such constitutional issues as federalism and the enumerated federal powers: