To my slight surprise, the Ginni Thomas story – the texts about her involvement in the January 6th conspiracy – appears to be escalating rapidly. Politico’s Playbook is in such a case is a good barometer. A couple days ago I felt I was pushing the envelope by saying Justice Thomas should recuse himself from any Jan 6th or Trump election (past or future elections) related cases. Over the last 36 hours, though, calls for this are not only coming from standby legal ethics experts but from a number of conservative legal types who have in the past been either indifferent to or protective of Ginni Thomas’s fairly open involvement in GOP partisan politics. (Justice Thomas was already the sole dissent in a case that could quite likely have involved – though in the event it apparently did not – communications from his wife to other participants in the Jan. 6th conspiracy.) Now the Jan.6th committee seems prepped to ask her to testify and, if she doesn’t agree, subpoena her, though here there appears to be a division centering around Liz Cheney.
Let’s Get Real about Ginni (And Clarence) Thomas

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March 26, 2022 11:32 a.m.
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