Posted on 03/25/2022 3:06:54 PM PDT by lowbridge
The revelation of Ginni Thomas' text messages with former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows almost immediately drew calls for an event not seen in more than two centuries of American history: the impeachment of a sitting Supreme Court justice.
Late Thursday, the Washington Post and CBS reported that Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, exchanged more than two dozen text messages with Meadows as she pressed to overturn former President Donald Trump's electoral defeat in 2020.
The messages — 29 in total — do not directly reference Clarence Thomas or the Supreme Court. But they have fueled ethics questions that had already been swirling around Thomas, who at 73 is the longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court.
Even before the text messages became public, Justice Thomas faced calls for his retirement or resignation as the New Yorker, New York Times, and other media outlets illuminated his wife's political activism. But the text correspondence brought a new tenor to the pressure on Thomas to step down from the Supreme Court.
"Clarence Thomas should be impeached," wrote Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, in a Twitter post late Thursday.
Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, called on Thomas to recuse himself from cases involving the January 6 investigation and 2024 election because his "conduct on the Supreme Court looks increasingly corrupt."
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said it would be up to Thomas to decide whether to recuse from cases involving the investigation into the Capitol attack.
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I want to say a really bad word about Omar but it’s Lent, so I’ll refrain.
But I could say this: good luck getting the 67 votes needed to convict.
Will never happen.
These attacks on Justice Thomas and his wife tell me the radical Democrat Party (but I repeat myself) want to transform this court while Biden is still there to be controlled.
This window of opportunity will pass with a Republican in the White House after that.
They should know that’s a big fat Red Line. But then look what the fools did to Ukraine.
The system is a loser’s game. Quit playing, get out.
uh no that would be thurgood marshall
You bastards are trying to do bad things to this man.
Be very careful Clarence. The WEF/ leftist criminals are running things.
This is revenge for the scrutiny the Republicans are giving biden’s pick and because they will lie, cheat and steal to protect their precious abortion.
I think Thurgood Marshall was the first black justice.
OMG! Stop the craziness! Please! The lefturds are DESTROYING this Nation with their fake outrage and political posturing on ANY and EVERY splinter they get in their collective paw.
Are they claiming that wives don’t have the ability to think and act independent of their husbands? Because that sure sounds like what they are saying.
“This crock of a topic came up about two years ago. The left has a feather up their ass about destroying Justice Thomas.”
At least since 1991.
Go ahead and impeach a black man. Then when Obama is impeached. Shut up about “Oh, you did this to a BLACK man. Oh the humanity, is his has never been done before”
Liberal fantasy dressed up as a “news” article.
No, House Minority Leader. The correct response is the Democrats can go f*$& themselves.
“Can we impeach the pResident over what his son did then?”
Not with the dens in control.
“She”, under her turban, she’s a supposed woman but don’t ask the nominee, she don’t know what a woman is. (improper grammar deliberate). “She” even married her brother to get in this country. Top quality congress critter right there.
All of the sitting justices should be impeached for their refusal to examine the evidence of massive election fraud in 2020.
They’re just mad he didn’t die, like they wanted and planned. The much bigger problem is the communists who cheated their way into the presidency/government that are currently murdering Americans and destroying our country.
So if I understand this correctly, the Democrats want to punish a black man for something a white woman did?
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