Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, secretly encouraged Donald Trump’s chief of staff to help Trump steal a second term in office. “Release the Kraken and save us from the left taking America down,” Ginni Thomas texted Mark Meadows, the Washington Post first reported.
Your OneWordAnswer™: Nothing.
Just here to say that I’m not aware of any GOPers going to the mat for Thomas.
They’re definitely going to make her a cancel culture martyr.
To misquote Leona Helmsley:
We don’t hold ourselves accountable. Only the little people are held accountable.
It’s alway bad to get caught out when your coup fails. WaPo had the sad story of a man named Ted from Cancun.
Why does this topic warrant a Live Blog? Are there hearings, investigations, etc. that require real-time updates thereof?
What Will Become Of The Ginni Thomas Allegations?
Absolutely nothing, Fox News and the rest of the wingnut-sphere will circle the wagons, the Federalist Society will say that there is nothing wrong, Alan Dershowitz and others will be saying that it’s all Kosher just a lame attempt by the woke left to cancel a a brave and honorable black man who refused to live in the Democratic Plantation.
Clarence Thomas will remain in the SCOTUS without recusing himself of any case for as long as the FSM wishes to keep him in this world. And Ginni will be peddling influence all that time.
Josh Marshall writes in his column on Saturday titled, “Let’s Get Real about Ginni (And Clarence) Thomas” in his last sentence nail why we must now call for not only Clarence Thomas to recuse himself in cases involving 1/6/2021 but also resign from the Supreme Court.
“You cannot be a guardian of the constitution if you have also made war on it.”
Leading up to that conclusion,
“Ginni Thomas obviously discussed all of this with her husband. We can pretend not to know this but we do.”
“You cannot look at these texts and not know to close to a certainty, based on the texts, what is publicly known about their relationship and their history of shared partisan political activism and not know that they not only discussed the matter but that he was on the same page with her. So Thomas himself was also a party to this conspiracy, privy to its actions and goals if perhaps not taking affirmative steps to advance it.”
Those longtime friends and close allies are total imbeciles if they believed Ted Cruz had any principles.
Ted Cruz’s principles? Ted has principles? And long-time friends? I am not sure which claim I find less credible.
I appreciate our First Amendment right to free speech and that Ginni Thomas, even as the wife of a Supreme Court Justice, has those rights as an individual, but I am troubled when her actions actively insert themselves and are directed towards the individual in the Trump Administration whose job is to advise the President. At that point, and with those actions, she is no longer voicing her opinion but taking concrete actions to, in my opinion, overthrow a legitimate election that she does not agree with and doesn’t want to honor.
I will also say that I am troubled by the change in how people operate. In the past, individuals married to political leaders kelp their views private, but that no longer occurs. We are no longer operating under the conditions where people are satisfied with that approach. We need to stop remembering the way politics used to work and recognize how they appear to work now - full contact efforts where anything goes as there are no boundaries.
So I’ve circled back - she has a right to her views, but when someone crosses the line to activism and undermines the law or intentionally encourages those in authority to break the law, then her right to free speech is limited.
She needs to be held accountable and explain/defend her actions in a court of law. The allegations against her need to be fully investigated. They are serious.
Speaking as a person who professionally interacted with the man quite closely for a short period of time, I can confirm that he is deeply dedicated to the principle that he is at all times superior to everybody else in the room.
I don’t think anyone will dare to accuse him of betraying that principle.
The Dems will bring it up at a Jan. 6th Committee hearing?
What’s that, they haven’t held any hearings after more than a year? They’ve passed up golden opportunities to get the issues out in the open while they’ve diddled around to produce a comprehensive history of what happened for posterity? The don’t remember how effective the non-stop drum-beating over Benghazi was (and now they have real issues to air)? They don’t understand that posterity be damned if the idiots get back in charge? You bet!
I think this is a fair question. Of course, you can live blog anything. If there were any ethics left in SCOTUS, we would be counting the minutes until Thomas stepped aside. As it is, it’s more like watching and smelling camembert cheese ripen. At some point, the stink will reach a point where it’s either the “cheese or me” moment arrives, but we are far from that. Indeed, humans have some sort of stink toleration that builds up and according to a researcher who works with Finnish winos, there is a physical limit as to how stinky a human can get (at least in BO terms). In any case, I’d rather open a window than hot box with Thomas – it’ll be a while.
Why did Ginni text Mark Meadows? TFG already was publicly claiming fraud and had lawyers lined up.
Why of all people did she think Sidney Powell would be a good choice?
All the more reason to keep the story going to balance the corrupt entrenched Rethug party from continuing in their quest to kill a Democracy.
This is pretty good evidence that she was/is a True Believer in this particular cause.
Texting bad advice to Meadows broke no laws.