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WASHINGTON, March 26 (RHC) — United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas faces ethical questions surrounding attempts to keep Donald Trump in power despite his 2020 election defeat.
The judge is being investigated for his refusal to step down 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 election would have.
The email texts appeared to show her strategy for circumventing the will of American voters to inaugurate Trump for a second term in the executive mansion in light of Joe Biden’s victory, a result she described as “blatant fraud” and ” the greatest” labeled robbery in our history.
The Washington Post and CBS reported this week that Ginni Thomas revealed in an interview that she attended the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6 last year.
Around the same post-election period, Clarence Thomas refused to challenge numerous pro-Trump legal challenges that challenged the 2020 results.
In early 2022, the judge cast the only dissenting vote in a Supreme Court ruling that paved the way for the House committee investigating the attack on the US Congress to obtain Trump’s White House records.
The pair’s latest entanglement comes as the Supreme Court found a deterioration in Thomas’ public image and demanded that he resign or be coerced out of court.
“Clarence Thomas should be impeached,” Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) wrote on Twitter after Ginni Thomas’ messages with Meadows were released.
Among the 29 texts exchanged was one dated Nov. 10 — a week after the election — in which she wrote, according to the Post: “Help this great President stand his ground, Mark! Most know that Biden and the Left are attempting the biggest heist in our history.”
The United States Supreme Court consists of nine justices, six conservatives, including Clarence Thomas, and three liberals.
Confirmation hearings have just concluded before the Senate Judiciary Committee for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, who, if confirmed, will replace Stephen G. Breyer, who announced his resignation in January.
Jackson would become the first black woman to sit on the nation’s highest court and the third African American woman to sit there, after Thurgood Marshall and his successor, Clarence Thomas. (source: Latin Press).