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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
And they don’t notice the problem with their twisted logic. Go figure!
Media coordinating a half hearted attempt to get the greatest Supreme Court justice to finally say to hell with it and go cross country RVing in his golden years as he has always talked about, allowing the corrupt regime to slide in another one quickly.
May or may not work.
The Left has been trying for years to neutralize Clarence Thomas’ vote, because they know he’s a reliably sensible conservative
this is just the latest Leftist smear to get him disqualified
Good astute observation...
I see... and Stacy Abrams is the real governor of Georgia?
Remember all the concern about Obama’s close friendship with terrorists Angela Davis and William Ayers? It was all over the concern trolls’ writings back in the day.
Or maybe not...
Yet, the left doesn’t think placing two extreme left-wing vocally anti-Americans on the court was no problem.
It should read “INGSOC-NBC/Comcast”.
So, wives of Supreme Court justices need to leave their ‘brains’ at the door, and have nothing to say about weather, clothes sytle, time of day, preference of drink, or church preference. Be ZOOMBIES! You can’t go to a Football game and support ONE team over another! You can’t choose between RAP or Classical music, this would show partiality on your part.
So Mrs. Thomas.. leave your brains out of the public square.
They would love to force Justice Thomas to retire so they can fill his seat, and they’ll try and use Mrs. Thomas to do it.
Yet there was no Kagan problem during the obamacare rulings- effing hypocrites.
According to the left (and they would never say this aloud), she’s his white minder.
Did she enter the Capitol? Did she assault a police officer? If not, what’s the problem, that she went to a rally to see the President speak?
I know at least 10 people who were in DC that day, and fortunately, none of them went near the Capitol after Trump’s speech.
No thank you.
NEXT.
Like this Presstitute has any room to speak about associations and activities
They are intimating that Ginni Thomas influences Justice Thomas’ decisions when likely it’s the other way around.
JM2C
And NBC News/Comcast has a leftist bias problem.....
“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.”
But it’s okay when the liberal justices do it themselves.
Imagine a Bi-racial couple who one partner is a Supreme Court Justice harassed by Conservatives for the processive missions the other partner champions. Image how Libs would respond to such articles!
Ginni Thomas,... attended the Jan. 6 populist rally
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