The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas

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In a sane world, Jane Mayer’s excellent piece on Ginni Thomas in The New Yorker would set off a series of events that would lead to her husband Clarence Thomas’s impeachment and removal from the Supreme Court. Ginni is involved with numerous far-right organizations and schemes that take very public positions on court decisions across a range of social and political issues, such as last week’s 8–1 holding that Donald Trump could not block the release of documents related to the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

Thomas was the lone dissenter in that case. His wife sat on the advisory board of a group that sent busloads of insurrectionists to Washington on January 6. In addition, she cheered the insurrection on Facebook. It’s just the most recent example where she has been involved in activities that directly or indirectly place her activism before the court, and her husband does not care how corrupt it looks.

They’ve been doing this for years. This first occasion was back in 2000, in a case Mayer doesn’t even go into, when it was revealed after that election that as a Heritage Foundation staffer, Ginni was screening résumés for the incoming Bush administration while the nation awaited a ruling from the court on the Florida recount. There was pressure then on Thomas to recuse himself.

8to24 on January 24th, 2022 at 14:23 UTC »

His wife is a far right political lobbyist who advocates for matters that routinely make it across his desk. It is a disgrace. Recusal laws exist. Thomas gets away with this crap because one cannot appeal a SCOTUS. It's disgusting.

Dontlookupnever on January 24th, 2022 at 14:22 UTC »

Sure there's a great case, but the Senate is completely broken so this is a waste of time.

M00n on January 24th, 2022 at 14:16 UTC »

The Supreme Court justice refuses to recuse himself from cases in which his right-wing activist wife, Ginni, has a clear interest. She is nuttier than a fruitcake.

In a sane world, Jane Mayer’s excellent piece on Ginni Thomas in The New Yorker would set off a series of events that would lead to her husband Clarence Thomas’s impeachment and removal from the Supreme Court. We are banning books. We have Fox news using Russian propaganda to start a civil war. We have a great number of mostly republicans openly hostile to protecting their neighbors by getting vaccinated OR wearing a mask. This is NOT normal times.

If there were a liberal justice on the Court with a spouse who was involved in every major ideological battle of our time, you can be sure the following process would have played out... Fox News and other right-wing media would have picked it up and turned the spouse into a symbol of liberal corruption.