Posted on 03/20/2022 7:23:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Many Americans have grown increasingly numb from a seemingly endless stream of dispiriting stories highlighting our political leaders’ fading commitment to democracy. However, if anything has the potential to awaken us from our stupor of exhaustion, it must be the recent news that Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, attended the Jan. 6 populist rally at the Ellipse in Washington, which preceded that day's Capitol riot.
Thomas and her political activities have long raised eyebrows. Thomas is a conservative activist, with close ties to organizations that support many causes and positions that parallel cases that have appeared, and will continue to appear, before the court. It is rare, if not unheard of, for the spouse of a justice to play such a prominent and active role in partisan politics, if only because this might create the potential appearance of impropriety. A judge, of course, is expected to objectively apply the law, without a preconceived commitment to a particular outcome.
The American people, however, are not fools. While we may hope, and believe, that judges make their best effort to remain fair and impartial, people likely understand that the modern Supreme Court decides many issues that overlap with our most deeply held beliefs — whether it is gun rights or abortion, LGBTQ rights or religious freedom. Jan. 6, however, is entirely different terrain.
As the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer warned us in his wise dissent in Bush v. Gore, a rare decision that diverged from the court’s democracy-sustaining record, the public’s confidence in the court is a hard-earned “public treasure” that we can’t afford to take for granted. For the sake of preserving that confidence, Justice Clarence Thomas should commit to recusing himself from any matters relating to the events of Jan. 6.
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Guess his wife isn’t a free American.
That’s racist.
Yes I see the talking points have all been distributed to usual agitprop outlets. Lol
Me thinks this gonna get good....
Yes, we must scrutinize all future SC nominees and their spouses and reject any that might hint at having political leanings.
And they refer to Bush being an illegitimate president while saying Mrs Thomas couldn’t attend a rally questioning an election.
According to the libs, wives with legitimate political interests are fair game coke infested sons with all sorts of conflicting interest, not so much.
But Ginsberg spouting off in support of liberal causes was okie dokie?
This is the Lefts strategy to deflect criticism of Biden’s easy on child molesters nominee to the Supreme court Kengi Brown.
No, it doesnt.
Pearl-clutching idiocy.
Latest Soros media mantra.
You got it. Classic deflection.
America has a NBC problem.
I’m not worried about our non-existent “democracy”, I’m concerned with our constitutional republic that is under siege from Leftist totalitarians.
Desperately seeking a counterbalance to the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Wayne didn’t write anything.
The article was assigned to a deep state narrative pool writer. ...or they may have bots that crank this stuff out now.
Wayne was just lucky enough to have kissed the right ass to get the attribution as its fake author.
No, sorry, he’s not going to resign. They’ll have to impeach him for nothing he’s done wrong...unless it’s a ‘high crime’ to marry a white activist.
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