Two images to go along with the first update below taken from two text messages between Mrs. Thomas and Mark Meadows from this MSNBC YouTube site [click to watch] along with many others there, too - good stuff:
The first:
“Congress
must move to impeach: Calls grow louder for Clarence Thomas to resign from
Supreme Court”
New info highlighted below:
Gabe Roth, executive director of
the nonpartisan advocacy group Fix the Court argues
this: “At the very least, the new revelations demonstrate why
Thomas must recuse from any Supreme Court cases or petitions related to the
January 6 Committee or efforts to overturn the election. Ginni's direct participation
in this odious anti-democracy work, coupled with the new reporting that seems
to indicate she may have spoken to Justice Thomas about it, leads to the
conclusion that the justice's continued participation in cases related to these
efforts would only further tarnish the court's already fading public
reputation.”
The New Yorker's Jane Mayer reported in January
that Ginni Thomas has in recent years aligned herself “with many activists
who have brought issues in front of the Supreme Court.”
Mayer also noted: “Ginni Thomas has been one of the directors of
CNP Action, a dark-money wing of the conservative pressure group the Council
for National Policy. CNP Action, behind closed doors, connects wealthy donors
with some of the most radical right-wing figures in America. She has also been
on the advisory board of Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump student group, whose
founder, Charlie Kirk, boasted of sending busloads of protesters to Washington
on January 6th.”
Mayer further observed: “That Ginni Thomas received payments from the Center for Security Policy (CSP), a right-wing anti-Muslim think tank. Despite disclosure requirements, Justice Thomas failed to report his wife's income from CSP in 2017 and 2018.”
MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan cited Mayer's reporting and argued logically in an op-ed published
before the text messages between Ginni Thomas and Meadows surfaced that: “Democrats
should be loudly drawing attention to the fact that the wife of a sitting
Supreme Court justice supported Trump's coup attempt. There is a clear value in
holding impeachment hearings to draw attention to Thomas and his wife and their
inappropriate behavior, especially as an increasingly partisan,
conservative-majority court guts voting and reproductive rights. What would
Republicans be doing if they had held a House majority and, say, Justice Sonia
Sotomayor's spouse had supported attempts to block a duly elected GOP president
from taking office and she refused to recuse herself from related cases?”
The Original Post Follows:
Major breaking story from CNBC with this headline:
“Wife
of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas texted Trump’s chief of staff about
overturning the 2020 election”
· The Washington Post and CBS News obtained copies
of 29 texts between Mark Meadows and Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas.
· Thomas urged Meadows in a series of text
messages sent shortly after the 2020 election to work to overturn Joe Biden's
victory.
· The texts were reportedly among the more than
2,000 messages Meadows gave to the House select committee investigating the January
6, 2021, Capitol riot by a mob of Trump's supporters.
After news outlets projected
Biden the winner of the 2020 election, Ginni Thomas on November 10 wrote Mark Meadows: “Help
This Great President stand firm, Mark!!! ...You are the leader, with him, who
is standing for America's constitutional governance at the precipice. The
majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our
History.”
On November 24, Meadows texted
Thomas: “This is a fight of good versus evil ... Evil always looks like the
victor until the King of Kings triumphs. Do not grow weary in well doing. The
fight continues. I have staked my career on it. Well at least my time in D.C. on
it.”
Neither messages directly
mention Justice Thomas, a staunch conservative who is the longest-serving member
of the current the Supreme Court (according to the Washington Post and CBS
stories).
Ginni Thomas further texted Meadows that she wanted Sidney Powell — the pro-Trump lawyer who had filed failed lawsuits challenging the 2020 results and sanctioned by a federal judge “to be the lead and the face of Trump's legal team.”
“Justice Thomas was the lone dissent in the Supreme Court's January order
rejecting Trump's bid to withhold documents from January 6 panel”
In January, the Supreme Court rejected Trump's bid to block the release of some presidential records to the House committee investigating the Capitol riot in a near unanimous 8-1 vote.
Only one justice dissented: Clarence Thomas.
At the time, the justice provided no
explanation for why he would have approved Trump's request — a standard omission
when the top court addresses emergency motions.
Now however, Thomas' objection
fell under scrutiny after The Washington Post reported that
the justice's wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, sent
multiple text messages to former White House chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging
him to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the aftermath of Trump's loss
Biden.
Ginni Thomas is a longtime conservative activist who has
come under fire in recent months related to her reportedly having ties to
organizers of the January 6 rally that preceded the attack, which she denied.
Earlier this month, she acknowledged that she attended the “Stop
the Steal” rally but said she got cold and left
before Trump spoke. She also denied having ties to the organizers of the
event.
Her comments came after multiple news outlets reported that she also was connected to January 6 rally organizers and served on the board of a conservative group that promoted overturning the 2020 election results.
She also has long been an active participant in partisan politics despite her husband's role on the nation's highest court.
In a recent interview with
the Washington Free Beacon,
she said the couple has their “own separate careers, and our own ideas and
opinions too. Clarence doesn't discuss his work with me, and I don't involve
him in my work.”
FYI: Business Insider reached
out to both Mark Meadows and Ginni Thomas for comment.
My 2 Cents: Whether
Justice Thomas knew or did not know about his wife’s post-election and January
6 involvement as she said in texts to Mark Meadows is important or not, since well,
frankly it’s hard to believe that he did not know.
She was involved in
sending some 29 by texts to Meadows and the sheer power of her name seeking
to overturn the 2020 results
That is painfully clear
and her involvement is a part of a larger serious criminal endeavor that she
must be held accountable for and by extension possibly her husband Justice Clarence
Thomas.
Time will tell on that
outcome or not, but it appears that the January 6 House Select Committee as
loads of info that will be cause for many person to be indicted, prosecuted,
tried, and receiving lots of prison time.
We shall see. Stay tuned.
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