Ginni Thomas and the Conservative Rot at the Supreme Court

[pecksniff]

Intelligencer.

There are many reasons why the Supreme Court has fallen into unprecedented disrepute, but chief among them is the conservative justices themselves — whether it’s their rulings in particular cases or their dubious non-jurisprudential conduct, like screaming at senators. This week brought another credibility-damaging revelation in the form of deranged text messages between Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, and Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s chief of staff, in which she lobbied and advised Meadows on trying to keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election — referring to the “Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators,” claiming the “Left” was “attempting the greatest Heist of our History,” and arguing that Biden’s victory would be “the end of Liberty.”
The revelations follow two major journalistic accounts in recent months — one from the New Yorker and the other from the New York Times Magazine — about the ways in which Ginni Thomas’s work as an ultra-right-wing activist has repeatedly intersected with her husband’s work on the Court, where he rules on the very issues that she advocates on in the political realm. As the Times put it, “Since the founding of the nation, no spouse of a sitting Supreme Court justice has been as overt a political activist as Ginni Thomas.” According to that story, she once attended a meeting in the Trump White House that an aide described as “the craziest meeting I’ve ever been to,” with talk of “the transsexual agenda” and parents “chopping off their children’s breasts.”

The text messages with Meadows, however, have broken through in a way that none of this other material has, spurring a variety of ethical and legal questions about the Thomases.

The most proximate of these is whether Clarence Thomas should have recused himself when the Court resolved an effort in January by Trump to block the release of records from the National Archives to the House select committee investigating the siege of the U.S. Capitol. The Court ruled against Trump 8-1, with Thomas as the lone dissenter, so as a practical matter at least, any conflict would not have affected the outcome, but the question exposes the broader absurdity and tenuousness of the Court’s conflicts and recusal regime. The justices are not bound by a judicial code of conduct, and they make their own decisions to recuse from cases — or not — with no obligation to explain their reasoning. A federal law ostensibly requires the justices to recuse themselves in any case “in which [their] impartiality might reasonably be questioned” and in a variety of specific situations — including, among others, when they know that their spouse has “an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding.”

 

[Dribble]

And what's new? They have always ruled based on politics and not legal precedent

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Lol. SCOTUS is not in disrepute. Libs are just butt hurt that Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and ACB got confirmed under Trump. Also a little grumpy that the wife of the great Justice Thomas is a conservative.

 

[pecksniff]

Lol. SCOTUS is not in disrepute. Libs are just butt hurt that Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and ACB got confirmed under Trump. Also a little grumpy that the wife of the great Justice Thomas is a conservative.

Conservative?! Is that kind of insanity what you want to associate with conservatism?!

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Conservative?! Is that kind of insanity what you want to associate with conservatism?!

If you are referring to her belief in those election conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines and nonsense like that, no. Those theories are as insane as the Steele dossier and Russia collusion hoax the left swallowed. Now some of them think her texts are incriminating and that her husband should be lose his seat on the Supreme Court. Insanity is bipartisan.

 

[PaxNurgle]

A theory is only a valid theory until it is debunked. Claiming that Trump had any valid claim to the white house after legitimaly losing the election, and after all claims of fraud had been disproven after multiple audits- that IS insanity. Plain and simple, it's a cognitive dissasociation from reality, or at best, childish stubbornness and refusal to accept defeat in a civilized and democratic society. And while in all fairness it should have no bearing on whether Clarence Thomas himself should sit on the Supreme Court, such ideas should preclude Ginni Thomas herself from ever serving in government.

People are not butthurt about Gorsuch and Kavanaugh getting confirmed under Trump, rather, they are justifiably upset that Merrick Garland was NOT confirmed under Obama, as he should have been. And if there was any fairness, then Barrett should never have been confirmed for the same reason that Garland was not- a lame-duck president should not be allowed to pick a Supreme Court Justice. They denied Garlands nomination with a year left in Obama's term but rushed through Barret's- the hypocracy of that is sickening.

 

[pecksniff]

If you are referring to her belief in those election conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines and nonsense like that, no. Those theories are as insane as the Steele dossier and Russia collusion hoax the left swallowed. Now some of them think her texts are incriminating and that her husband should be lose his seat on the Supreme Court. Insanity is bipartisan.

The Russian collusion was no hoax and you know it.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

The Russian collusion was no hoax and you know it.

Lol. Yes, the Steele Dossier was real and those Dominion voting machines were programmed in Venezuela.

 

[pecksniff]

Lol. SCOTUS is not in disrepute.

Actually, it has been for a very long time.

 

[phrodeau]

The odds are better that a conservative Justice would be corrupt. There are more of them.

 

[Gorgoroth]

And what's new? They have always ruled based on politics and not legal precedent

Tell us more about how "shall not be infringed" means totally infringe all you like because PROGRESS!!! .... LOL

 

[Rightguide]

Intelligencer.

This story is another inflated fart balloon pumped up by the gas supply in the left.