Justice Clarence Thomas

2022 - 5 - 20

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Ginni Thomas Urged Arizona Lawmakers to Overturn Election (The New York Times)

The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote to legislators in a crucial swing state after the Trump campaign's loss in 2020.

Ms. Thomas also founded an organization called Groundswell that holds a weekly meeting of influential conservatives, many of whom work directly on issues that have come before the Supreme Court. But the committee has yet to do so, and its chairman, Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, told reporters that Ms. Thomas had not come up recently in the panel’s discussions. Those efforts have, in turn, cast a spotlight on her husband, who from his lifetime perch on the Supreme Court has issued opinions favoring Mr. Trump’s efforts to both reverse his loss and stymie a congressional investigation into the events of Jan. 6. “I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them,” he told a conference of fellow conservatives. In the text messages, she also indicated that she had been in contact with the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, about a post-election legal strategy. Ms. Bolick, who did not return requests for comment and is now running to become Arizona’s next secretary of state on a platform to “restore election integrity,” proved more of an ally. The emails, reported earlier by The Washington Post and obtained by The New York Times, were part of a letter-writing campaign hosted on FreeRoots, a political advocacy platform. The emails came as Mr. Trump and his allies were engaged in a legal effort to overturn his defeats in several battleground states. C.N.P. Action had also circulated a newsletter in December 2020 that included a report targeting five swing states, including Arizona, where Mr. Trump and his allies were pressing litigation. He ended up rebuffing all the requests to intervene, even in the face of protests outside his house. “Do your constitutional duty,” Ms. Thomas wrote the lawmakers on Nov. 9. Ms. Bolick’s husband, Clint, once worked with Justice Thomas and now sits on the Arizona Supreme Court.

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Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressed Ariz ... (The Washington Post)

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed Arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to ...

“Your argument is that essentially we have a failed election that would require the legislature to step in and assign electors. “This is a moment, a unique moment in American history, demanding that state legislators set America back on her foundations by using a power that you may never have known that you had — but you do have it.” By early December, Eastman and Giuliani were telling lawmakers in key swing states won by Biden that they had the authority and even the obligation to disregard the vote and select their own electors. The two-minute video it linked to, titled “A Word To Heroic Legislators,” has since been removed from YouTube for violating community guidelines. Under her message is an unusual tag line that has appeared in other emails that are confirmed to have been sent by Thomas, including in 2021 to the staff of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R): “Sent from Ginni’s iPhone, a by-product of entrepreneurial free market capitalism. Because that landing page is no longer online, it is no longer possible to click through on the link. In the reply, Thomas’s personal email address is visible, and it matches an address she has used previously, The Post confirmed. Thomas sent the emails via freeroots.com, a website meant to give political organizers an efficient means of conducting email campaigns. “Election integrity” was among the topics discussed in the group’s first months, the emails show. “… [P]lease take action to ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen.” Those questions intensified in March, when The Post and CBS News obtained text messages that Thomas sent in late 2020 to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, pressing him to help reverse the election. The messages show that Thomas, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, was more deeply involved in the effort to overturn Biden’s win than has been previously reported.

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Analysis: Clarence Thomas calls out John Roberts as Supreme ... (CNN)

There was a little-seen warm moment between Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas last November 1, just before the Supreme Court heard ...

Roberts, who has opposed abortion rights in the past, based his vote on adherence to precedent. Roberts, who dissented in that case, failed to persuade Kavanaugh, Barrett or any of the right-wing fivesome to shift. The Mississippi 15-week law conflicts with that guarantee but upholding it would not necessarily limit a woman's right to end a pregnancy in earlier weeks. And it seems highly unlikely that the Court would allow a State to enforce a law requiring a woman to provide a justifiable need before seeking an abortion." Roberts has a steep climb to craft a compromise that with keep Roe partially intact. Some conservatives still fault him for a late switch in votes to save the Obama-sponsored Affordable Care Act in 2012. Thomas has separately been at the center of another storm in recent weeks, tied to his wife, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas. Thomas is known for putting his cards on the table and abhorring gamesmanship. The two justices are now engaged in an epic struggle over a new abortion case that could mean the end of Roe v. It is not unusual to hear Thomas deride the court's traditional adherence to precedent, what's known by the Latin phrase of stare decisis. Protests erupted across the country and the Supreme Court erected an 8-foot, non-scalable fence to help secure its building. Roberts, with his institutionalist approach, is positioned as the one justice who might generate a compromise opinion that stops short of completely overturning Roe v.

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Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, pressured Arizona ... (AZCentral.com)

The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Arizona state lawmakers to reverse former President Donald Trump's election loss in 2020.

"Please take action to ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen.” And It would be pretty difficult because he would take governors and legislators with collective will and backbone to do that. If it found misconduct, the commission would release a public report and the Legislature could then, by a two-thirds vote, decide which slate of electors to endorse. On Friday, Bolick did not respond directly to The Republic's inquiry about whether Ginni Thomas' efforts played any role in her decision to introduce House Bill 2720. She didn't mention any candidate by name, but given Biden's apparent victory at the time, the messages unmistakably urged a different result. It is a good, democratic check and balance," she said in a statement. If I understand right most of those states have Republican Legislature's. It seems to be comport with glorified Bush as well as the Constitution. And, well highly controversial, it can't be much more controversial than the lunacy that were sitting out there now. "It is to encourage the state legislatures to appoint a look doors in the various states where there's been shenanigans. But in backing legislation that would give the Arizona Legislature the ability to pick the winning slate of electors, Bolick's bill was in line with the intent of Thomas' appeal to state legislators nationwide. Bolick in early 2021 sponsored legislation that would have given the Arizona Legislature the authority to set aside the secretary of state's certification of a presidential election and allow the Legislature to pick the slate of electors. In a February 2021 op-ed in the Washington Examiner, Bolick wrote that she envisioned her bill would have led to the creation of a bipartisan legislative commission to review election results. Her Arizona outreach came in a pair of emails to Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa, and state Rep. Shawnna Bolick, R-Phoenix, who was part of the committee overseeing elections, the Post reported.

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Justice Clarence Thomas' wife pressured Arizona lawmakers to ... (12news.com KPNX)

Ginni Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, emailed two prominent Arizona lawmakers in the days after the 2020 election, ...

PolitiFact - Image of Clarence and Ginni Thomas enjoying bottle of ... (PolitiFact)

The image seems innocent enough. It shows U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with his wife, attorney and conserv.

But some social media users claim that the couple posted it following the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that would strike down Roe v. This is miscaptioned. Image of Clarence and Ginni Thomas enjoying bottle of wine predates Roe v. RT IF YOU THINK THAT THEY ARE A DISGRACE!" a May 6 tweet by Occupy Democrats read. This is miscaptioned. Image of Clarence and Ginni Thomas enjoying bottle of wine predates Roe v.

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Clarence Thomas' wife Ginni urged Arizona lawmakers to overturn ... (Daily Mail)

The wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pressed Republicans in Arizona to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 election victory there, according to ...

Biden won the state by about 10,000 votes. 'Great American patriot, Ginni Thomas, the wonderful wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, is reported to have fought for voter integrity in the great state of Arizona,' he posted on Truth Social. Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist wife of Justice Clarence Thomas pressed Republicans in Arizona to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 victory there, according to emails published on Friday Democrats and ethics campaigners have called on Justice Thomas to recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 election because of his wife's efforts to reverse the result The wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pressed Republicans in Arizona to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 election victory there, according to emails published on Friday. The swing state of Arizona was central to Trump's claim that he was cheated of victory - and he was quick to come to Thomas' defense on Friday, calling her 'a great American patriot.'

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Emails from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife deepen ... (Los Angeles Times)

Newly revealed Ginni Thomas emails show a deeper involvement by the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the effort to overturn the 2020 ...

“Never before in our nation’s history have our elections been so threatened by fraud and unconstitutional procedures.” committee. The documents were held by the National Archives and included presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts and handwritten notes dealing with Jan. 6 from Meadows’ files. The court turned away every challenge without a hearing, though Thomas was among three conservative justices who said cases from Pennsylvania should be heard. Clarence doesn’t discuss his work with me, and I don’t involve him in my work,” Thomas told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview published in March. Ginni Thomas has said she and her husband keep their work separate. Justice Thomas, meanwhile, has taken part in the court’s consideration of lawsuits challenging the election results.

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Ginni Thomas urged Arizona Republicans to overturn 2020 result ... (The Guardian)

Wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas emailed six days after election already called for Joe Biden.

Nor did Ginni Thomas. The Post said a supreme court spokesperson did not respond. It did increase Biden’s margin of victory. Ginni Thomas is an activist with deep ties on the Republican far right. Please reflect on the awesome authority granted to you by our constitution. It did not reveal substantial electoral fraud. Botkin did not comment to the newspaper.

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Comments from Clarence Thomas suggest 'antagonism' with Chief ... (AlterNet)

Over the years, far-right U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has had his conflicts not only with the liberals and centrists on the High Court, ...

“Roberts has a steep climb to craft a compromise that will keep Roe partially intact,” Biskupic notes. “Thomas and Roberts have different negotiating patterns,” Biskupic explains. CNN legal analyst Joan Biskupic, in an article published on May 20, explains, “Thomas' blunt remarks suggest new antagonism toward Roberts and added to the uncertainty regarding the ultimate ruling in Dobbs v. Thomas’ comments come at a time when the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to overturn Roe v. Over the years, far-right U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has had his conflicts not only with the liberals and centrists on the High Court, but also, with some of its right-wingers — most notably, former Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose libertarian leanings on abortion and gay rights were a sharp contrast to Thomas’ severe social conservatism. Discussing the atmosphere on the High Court before 2005, Thomas told the Dallas crowd, “We actually trusted each other.

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Texas Cites Clarence Thomas to Defend Its Social Media Law (WIRED)

As Big Tech tried to block the state's ban on content moderation, Texas leaned on the US Supreme Court justice's interpretation of free speech law.

Paxton also quoted Thomas' statement that the social networks have become "dominant digital platforms." The similarity between online platforms and common carriers "is even clearer for digital platforms that have dominant market share," Thomas also wrote. Digital platforms lay information infrastructure that can be controlled in much the same way."

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