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Chief Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, the ultraconservative Ginni, showered messages on thenWhite House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
Between the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, the most conservative on the Supreme Court, sent a spate of text messages to thenWhite House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, asking him to take action the voting result. “Save us from the destruction of America by the left,” wrote the ultraconservative Ginni Thomas, referring to one of the popular slogans on rightwing online platforms. The reference related to the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump would actually end up winning an election that would then be “stolen” from him. The outgoing president himself spoke for weeks of a “stolen election”.
Ginni Thomas called election day on November 3 a “theft” and in her messages also spoke of voter fraud for example in Arizona. Ginni’s contacts in the Trump White House also included Jared Kushner, adviser to the former president’s soninlaw, and Sidney Powell, one of the tycoon’s attorneys.
Text messages from Clarence Thomas’ wife cast a shadow over the Supreme Court, which is already seen as overly politicized with Trump’s appointments. Among his judges, Thomas is the former president’s most loyal defender. Now his standing and role within the court appear to be in some jeopardy: the office of Supreme Court Justice is for life, but the work of Ginni Thomas threatens the credibility and reputation of the “wise men” according to the justices of the Supreme Court of the Court of Justice already conspicuous by an appointment and confirmation system that arouses much criticism.
The most recent example in chronological order is that of Ketajin Brown Jackson, who was nominated for the Supreme Court by Joe Biden. During the confirmation hearings, Brown Jackson was attacked and criticized by Republicans, even those who voted for the previous post two years ago. In the courtroom, we witnessed a political circus that diminished the scope of a historic event, such as the possibility of having the first AfricanAmerican woman on trial, and risks having far longerterm repercussions.
March 26, 2022 (Modification March 26, 2022 | 09:46)
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