The attacks against Clarence go way back before the recent decisions
For years, Democrats have attacked Ginni Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, for being involved in conservative politics. The goal has always been the same: to discredit the justice and force him out of the Supreme Court.
In 2010, they railed against Ginni Thomas’s decision to form a Tea Party-linked group and argued the Tea Party had “infiltrated” the Supreme Court. A few years later, they slammed her for opposing Obamacare and demanded that Clarence Thomas recuse himself from hearing a challenge to the healthcare law. In both cases, ethical experts and Thomas’s own colleagues, including Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Stephen Breyer, made it clear that Ginni Thomas’s beliefs and involvement in Republican politics had no bearing on Clarence Thomas’s ability to do his job.
“This is a false issue in my mind,” Breyer
said back in 2011. “A wife or husband is an independent person, and they make up their own minds what their career is going to be,” he added, noting that his own wife’s career as a psychologist did not stop him from sitting on cases involving psychology.
Breyer’s comments are worth bearing in mind as the Democrats launch yet another attack against Ginni and Clarence Thomas, this time because Ginni Thomas dared to hold a controversial opinion about the 2020 presidential election that millions of people happen to share.
After the election, she reportedly
encouraged then-chief of staff Mark Meadows to challenge the results and expose alleged voter fraud by Democrats so that President Joe Biden’s win would be overturned. She voiced her support for Sidney Powell, a pro-Trump attorney who claimed to have evidence of this widespread fraud, and told Meadows that Trump should refuse to concede.
To be clear, these text messages from Ginni Thomas were crazy and conspiratorial and reflect poorly on her. But in no way do they indicate that Clarence Thomas was a part of some grand conspiracy to keep Trump in office or that he used his position to run cover for his wife, as Democrats are now claiming.
The Left is arguing that Ginni Thomas’s text messages are directly related to a Supreme Court case involving a tranche of documents regarding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot that Trump sued to keep secret from the National Archives. Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter who sided with Trump. His dissent, according to leftists, is evidence that he knew about his wife’s correspondence with the White House and wanted to keep it secret, which Democrats are arguing is cause for impeachment.
But here’s the problem: There is no evidence, none, that Ginni Thomas’s text messages were a part of the National Archives documents in question. In fact, there is much more evidence that they were
not. According to the
Washington Post, these messages were among the thousands of documents that Meadows voluntarily handed over to the Jan. 6 congressional committee when he was initially cooperating with their investigation. In other words, her messages were not among the documents Clarence Thomas ruled should not be released to the committee.
Democrats have also argued that a dissenting opinion Thomas wrote in response to the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear an appeal of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision regarding the 2020 election was proof that he shared the same beliefs as his wife. This, too, is untrue. Thomas’s argument was that the Pennsylvania case provided the court with an “ideal opportunity” to address election law and whether state lawmakers or state courts get the final say in how federal elections are carried out. His concern was with the legality of the election process — not with its outcome in 2020.
Indeed, Thomas had several opportunities to question the results of the 2020 election if he had wanted to. But each time Trump tried to bring his case before the Supreme Court, the justices turned him away without one dissent.
The attacks against the Thomases are dishonest but deliberate. The Left hates Clarence Thomas because he gets in the way of their agenda, and they have made it quite clear they will do anything to get rid of him — even if they have to accuse him of sexual harassment, dismiss him as a race traitor, insult his wife, and smear him with false allegations of corruption.
It’s what they’ve been doing for decades. Thank God it hasn’t worked.
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