Clarence Thomas

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Should Clarence Thomas Be Impeached Over Ginni Thomas's ... (Vanity Fair)

In more than two dozen extremely manic, conspiracy-riddled text messages, Ginni insisted that Democrats had stolen the election from Donald Trump, and that ...

Of course, the Archives situation wasn’t the first time Clarence should have declined to participate in a case due to Ginni’s work but refused not to. Not only did he not recuse himself, but Clarence was the only justice to vote against releasing the documents. Except, Ginni is not married to someone else, she‘s married to a Supreme Court justice—and one who has consistently refused to recuse himself when his wife’s work has provided massive, flaming conflicts of interest for his own. Clarence doesn’t discuss his work with me, and I don’t involve him in my work.” Which seems dubious at best.) It comes a month after The New York Times Magazine’s Danny Hakim and Jo Becker reported that Ginni sits on the board of a group that circulated a memo in November 2020 telling its members to “pressure Republican lawmakers into challenging the election results and appointing alternate slates of electors.” And it comes just over two months after The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer published a massive profile of Ginni Thomas, detailing years of work by Ginni that has ultimately made its way into Clarence’s work. Release the Kraken and save us from the left taking America down.” (Ginni Thomas did not respond to multiple request for comment from the Post.) The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.” Two weeks later, she told Meadows not to “cave to the elites,” and later, “I can’t see Americans swallowing the obvious fraud.” Midway through the month, she urged Meadows to make Sidney Powell—the lawyer who promoted claims like “there is a secret server that all the votes go to where they [are] manipulate[d]”—“the lead and the face” of Trump’s legal team.

Opinion | Ginni and Clarence Thomas Are Making a Mockery of the ... (The New York Times)

What did Justice Clarence Thomas know, and when did he know it? The question usually gets directed at politicians, not judges, but it's a fair one in light ...

The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. If Justice Thomas were sitting on any other federal court in the country, he would likely have been required by the code of judicial ethics to recuse himself many times over. It is hard to imagine that the other justices, regardless of their personal politics, aren’t bothered. He would do the country a service by stepping down and making room for someone who won’t have that problem. All the while, he has looked the other way, refusing to recuse himself from any of these cases. The most obvious way for justices to demonstrate that independence in practice, of course, is to recuse themselves from any case in which their impartiality might reasonably be questioned. Legal-ethics experts are not even in agreement that her recusal would be necessary, but Judge Jackson is right to err on the side of caution. That’s all I need to know.” He said he has over the years resisted calling for Justice Thomas’s recusal based on his wife’s actions, “but they’ve really abused that tolerance.” The Supreme Court is the most powerful judicial body in the country, and yet, as Alexander Hamilton reminded us, it has neither the sword nor the purse as a means to enforce its rulings. You’re going to jeopardize any faith in the legal institutions.” And yet the public’s demand for basic fairness and judicial neutrality is not only proper but critical to the court’s integrity, as the justices, whoever nominated them, are well aware. As The Washington Post and CBS News first reported, Ms. Thomas, a supremely well-connected right-wing agitator, was in constant communication with the White House in the weeks following the election, strategizing over how to keep Donald Trump in office despite his incontrovertible loss.

Text messages show wife of U.S. Supreme Court justice urged ... (CBC.ca)

Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent weeks of text messages imploring White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to act to ...

Thomas urged lawyer Sidney Powell, who promoted false claims about the election, to be "the lead and the face" of the Trump legal team. In February 2021, the Supreme Court rejected challenges to the election. The texts between Thomas and Meadows stop after Nov. 24, 2020. Copies of the texts — 21 sent by her, eight sent in reply by Meadows — were provided to the House select committee investigating the deadly insurrection that saw a mob of mostly Trump supporters overrun the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Virginia Thomas has also previously denied conflicts of interest between her activism and her husband's place on the high court. The Post reported that on Nov. 10, one week after the election and three days after The Associated Press and other news outlets declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner, Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist, texted to Meadows: "Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!! ... You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America's constitutional governance at the precipice.

Clarence Thomas has some good advice for his wife (The Washington Post)

Ginni Thomas's overwrought texts to Trump's chief of staff raise the increasingly legitimate question of whether her political agenda influences her ...

Might he have had reason to know that the material could include communication between his wife and the White House? Ginni Thomas had also been among the signatories of a letter by conservative leaders blasting that committee’s work as “ overtly partisan political persecution.” Whether they continue to in the future, however, is far less certain. As recently as Wednesday, an independent review in Arizona found, yet again, that Maricopa County’s results were on the up and up. She acknowledged this month, in an interview with the conservative Washington Free Beacon, that she attended the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, though she denied reports that she helped organize it. In other texts, she begged the White House chief of staff to take a look at bizarre conspiracy theories making the rounds with QAnon, including a preposterous one that Trump had secretly watermarked real ballots so he could identify frauds. Those texts were revealed Thursday in a blockbuster article by The Post’s Bob Woodward and our former colleague Robert Costa, who now works for CBS News. “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!" Ginni Thomas wrote.

US Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas released from hospital (unknown)

Thomas, 73, was treated for an infection with intravenous antibiotics, the court said, and did not have COVID-19.

The court gave no further information. Thomas, 73, was treated for an infection with intravenous antibiotics. BREAKING: Clarence Thomas was discharged from the hospital today, the Supreme Court said.

Now there's no doubt Clarence Thomas should be recusing (unknown)

Clarence Thomas and Virginia Thomas talk to each other. Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, conservative activist Virginia Thomas. (Drew Angerer / Getty ...

That certainly applies to Clarence Thomas. The cloud he’s cast over the court is as ominous as any in memory. “Both have crossed a line and deserve no benefit of the doubt,” Gillers said. The Washington Post and CBS News on Thursday evening reported on 21 post-election text messages that Ginni Thomas wrote to Mark Meadows, Trump’s White House chief of staff. When Justice Sonia Sotomayor publicly warned four months ago of a partisan stench at the court, she was specifically referring to the conservative majority’s tacit support for Republican-led states’ laws that plainly violate decades of the court’s abortion rights precedents. And Americans now view the court less positively than at any time in many years. Her husband, the Supreme Court justice, has been implicated only by the questions her politicking has raised generally about his impartiality in politically tinged cases before the court.