'Nothing Here Is Ok': Thomas, His Wife Seem Part of Attempted Coup
Ginni Thomas's texts show that she was pursuing “unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election.”
Even as he remains hospitalized for a non-specified illness, questions have begun swirling about the role that the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas played in the January 6, 2021, attempt to deny the lawful transfer of power to Joe Biden, and what appears to be Clarence Thomas’ effort to cover up his wife's activity.
Clarence Thomas, the longest serving of the nine justices currently sitting on the high court, will be hospitalized for a week Friday with an unspecified illness.
However, Thomas is in no danger, according to retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
The House select committee investigating the events around the deadly January 6 insurrection reportedly has text messages between Ginni Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas, and Trump administration White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
Further, The Washington Post confirmed that Ginni Thomas's texts show that she was pursuing “unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election.”
“It's also worth emphasizing Thomas was the *lone dissent* when SCOTUS authorized the National Archives to release documents. The only one. Even the Trump-appointed judges said yes. And he never explained why,” tweeted Amanda Carpenter, columnist at The Bulwark, an online publication.
“Question. Given that Justice Thomas did not write a dissent explaining his vote to block release of January 6th documents, which would include his wife's texts, doesn't he need to offer some substantial explanation now?” Carpenter added.
Nothing in this overly cozy game of political influence is normal, according to a former longtime federal prosecutor.
“There is something deeply broken in anyone who thinks this is justifiable or even just survivable. A SCOTUS justice’s wife was text buddies with POTUS’s chief of staff, topic: trying to interfere with the transfer of power to the next elected president. Nothing here is ok,” tweeted Joyce Vance, a US attorney during the Obama administration and a current legal analyst for MSNBC and NBC News.
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