The magistrate is under scrutiny for his refusal to step away from Supreme Court cases after reports surfaced that his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, exchanged dozens of messages with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows weeks after the elections.
The email texts appeared to show her strategizing on how to circumvent the will of American voters to install Trump to a second term in the executive mansion in the face of Joe Biden’s victory, an outcome she described as an “obvious fraud” and “the biggest robbery of our history.
The Washington Post and CBS reported this week that Ginni Thomas revealed in an interview her participation in the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6 last year. .
During roughly the same post-election time frame, Clarence Thomas refused to challenge numerous pro-Trump legal challenges challenging the 2020 results.
In early 2022, the magistrate cast the only dissenting vote in a Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for the House committee investigating the assault on the US Congress to obtain Trump’s White House records.
The pair’s latest entanglement comes as the Supreme Court saw a deterioration in Thomas’s public image and calls for him to resign or be forced out of court.
“Clarence Thomas should be impeached,” Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) wrote on Twitter after Ginni Thomas’ messages with Meadows were posted.
Among the 29 texts exchanged was one dated November 10 – a week after the election – in which, according to the Post, she wrote: “Help this great president stand his ground, Mark! Most know that Biden and the left are attempting the biggest heist in our history.”
The Supreme Court of the United States has a composition of nine justices, six conservatives, one of them Clarence Thomas, and three liberals.
The confirmation hearings have just concluded before the Senate Judiciary Committee for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, who, if endorsed, will replace Stephen G. Breyer, who announced his retirement in January.
Jackson would become the first black woman to sit on the nation’s highest court of law and the third African-American to sit there after Thurgood Marshall and his successor, Clarence Thomas. ode/dfm
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