Hospitalized SCOTUS Thomas 'flu like' symptoms 03/24/22

She was also a 'lobbist' for 'Citizens United'

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Special piece in Mother Jones 2013..includes a whole lot more....
Virginia “Ginni” Thomas is no ordinary Supreme Court spouse. Unlike Maureen Scalia, mother of nine, or the late Martin Ginsburg, mild-mannered tax law professor who was good in the kitchen, Thomas came from the world of bare-knuckled partisan politics. Over the years, she has enmeshed herself ever more deeply in the world of political advocacy—all the while creating a heap of conflict of interest concerns surrounding her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Her role in Groundswell, the coalition of conservatives waging a “30 front war” against progressives and the GOP establishment that was revealed by Mother Jones on Thursday, revives questions about the propriety of Thomas’ activism on issues that have or could become the subject of Supreme Court cases.

www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/ginni-thomas-groundswell-conflict-interest/

Another, only the best...

Clarence Thomas exploits 'gaping hole' in ethics law to decide cases where his wife may have an interest: report
Matthew Chapman
January 31, 2022

On Monday, writing for The Washington Post, Michael Kranish explained the ethics law loophole that allows Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to ignore his own conflicts of interest — even those involving his right-wing activist wife.

"While the Supreme Court is supposed to operate under regulations guiding all federal judges, including a requirement that a justice shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned,' there’s no procedure to enforce that rule," wrote Kranish. "Each justice can decide whether to recuse, and there is no way to appeal a Supreme Court member’s failure to do so. Unlike in lower courts, there is no other judge that can step in, and thus a recusal by one justice would mean considering the case with only eight justices, increasing the chance it could not be resolved.

Thomas has taken advantage of this ability to police himself. He has recused himself 28 times while serving as a justice, mostly on petitions that weren't even heard by the Court — but has never recused himself on matters that intersect with the activism of his wife, Virginia Thomas, and one of the most recent examples involves the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Ginni Thomas’s name stood out among the signatories of a December letter from conservative leaders, which blasted the work of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection as 'overtly partisan political persecution,'" noted the report. Thomas went on to be the only justice who voted to grant a request by former President Donald Trump, who is accused of inciting the attack, to block release of White House records to the House committee investigating the matter. "That vote has reignited fury among Justice Thomas’s critics, who say it illustrates a gaping hole in the court’s rules: Justices essentially decide for themselves whether they have a conflict of interest, and Thomas has rarely made such a choice in his three decades on the court."

A recent report indicated that even Trump himself thought Ginni Thomas was a "wacko" — but kept silent about it as he unsuccessfully tried to push her husband off the bench to get another Supreme Court seat to replace.

www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-conflict-of-interest/

Must elect more for Senate, impeach Thomas!!

I'm not the only one ...

A CNN panel on Friday discussed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's apparent conflict of interest due to his wife engaging in activism against the January 6 Select Committee at the same time he was the sole justice voting to block transfer of documents to the committee.

CNN's Pamela Brown discussed the situation with University of Texas Law Professor Steve Vladeck, who outlined the clear risk of the situation.

"There are surely substantive reasons, consistent with his jurisprudence, why Justice Thomas dissented from the Court's decision to not help President Trump in that case," said Vladeck. "But for folks who are already skeptical of the Court, for folks who already view it as a deeply partisan, political institution, the fact that he is the sole dissenter, given what we know about Ginni Thomas's involvement, sets off alarm bells."
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"The debate has continued because of Ginni Thomas's ties to another issue before the court she sits on the advisory board of a conservative group, the National Association of Scholars," said Brown. "They submitted two legal briefs to the Supreme Court in favor of plaintiffs challenging affirmative action and admissions at two universities. Peter Wood is president of the organization, and said that she played no role in the legal briefs."

"Ginni Thomas's activism stands in contrast to the spouses of other justices," noted Brown. "Chief Justice John Roberts' wife Jane retired from practicing law and resigned from a leadership role with an anti-abortion group. When late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a circuit court judge, her husband left his law firm."

www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-2656562090/