Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressed Ariz. lawmakers to help reverse Trump's loss
Source: Washington Post
Virginia Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed Arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside Joe Bidens popular-vote victory and choose a clean slate of Electors, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post. The emails, sent by Ginni Thomas to a pair of lawmakers on Nov. 9, 2020, argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. Though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear.
Just days after media organizations called the race for Biden in Arizona and nationwide, Thomas urged the lawmakers to stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. She told the lawmakers the responsibility to choose electors was yours and yours alone and said they have power to fight back against fraud. Thomas sent the messages via an online platform designed to make it easy to send pre-written form emails to multiple elected officials, according to a review of the emails obtained under the states public records law.
The messages show that Thomas, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, was more deeply involved in the effort to overturn Bidens win than has been previously reported. In sending the emails, Thomas played a role in the extraordinary scheme to keep Trump in office by substituting the will of legislatures for the will of voters. Thomass actions also underline concerns about potential conflicts of interest that her husband has already faced and may face in the future in deciding cases related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
Those questions intensified in March, when The Post and CBS News obtained text messages that Thomas sent in late 2020 to Trumps chief of staff, Mark Meadows, pressing him to help reverse the election. The emails were sent to Russell Bowers, a veteran legislator and speaker of the Arizona House, and Shawnna Bolick, who was first elected to the chamber in 2018 and served on the House elections committee during the 2020 session. Article II of the United States Constitution gives you an awesome responsibility: to choose our states Electors, read the Nov. 9 email.
[P]lease take action to ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/05/20/ginni-thomas-arizona-election-emails/
Full headline: Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressed Ariz. lawmakers to help reverse Trumps loss, emails show
wildman76
(292 posts)Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,165 posts)What did her husband know about this?
Resign.
wildman76
(292 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,165 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,191 posts)wildman76
(292 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Good grief - something!!!! Shes obviously involved up to her eyeballs in this and you know she and ole Clarence strategized together.
Rebl2
(13,498 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)being indicted. Not seeing "them" go there. Also, rumor has it that Meadows is getting ready to throw that treasonous piece of trash under the bus, and you know her equally treasonous, sexual-harassing, Opus Dei, self-hating, husband WILL defend her to the death. My prediction: Treasonous thomas leaves the court citing medical necessity and they both bounce--with treasonous, self-hating thomas saving his guilty piece of racist, cultish treasonous trash wife. He had nerve to say that the leak ruined the High Court's integrity ..... Nah bruh, you and your Opus Dei, male singing plus one hand-maiden tale, Federalist's appointment to the court ruined Robert's reich-winged, Scalia driven, MoscowMitch hand-picked high court WAYYYY before the leak You self-hating, self-loathing, non-recusing, sexually perverted, guilty of treason clown take your just as equally treasonous, evil, cult-loving Karen of the high-court and bounce already, because of your so-called "medical reasons."
barbaraann
(9,151 posts)I have a relative who escaped a religious cult and is now in the MAGA cult.
SergeStorms
(19,200 posts)People with addictive personalities will go from one cult to another and many times one extreme to the other.
A Satanist will suddenly join a religious cult.
A gregarious bon vivant suddenly becomes a recluse.
An arch-conservative will suddenly become a bleeding heart liberal.
Their addictive personalities require they go "all in" on one side or the other. There's no middle ground.
dchill
(38,484 posts)...Move along, now.
GB_RN
(2,350 posts)And don't tell me her useless, POS of a husband (In)Justice Clarence "Uncle Slappy" Thomas (G卐P-No Questions Allowed) didn't know what she was up to. 🤬
KS Toronado
(17,224 posts)How can I type that? Or is it a copy & paste only thing?
BumRushDaShow
(128,920 posts)卐
https://unicode-table.com/en/5350/
But a good one nonetheless!
Yes you can just copy and paste that or use one of the codes at the link.
KS Toronado
(17,224 posts)Your link is interesting, bookmarked it into my "education" folder.
BumRushDaShow
(128,920 posts)All kinds of text codes out there!
ShazzieB
(16,389 posts)Click the button to copy it, then paste it wherever: 卐
BumRushDaShow
(128,920 posts)and paste.
(faster for me)
KS Toronado
(17,224 posts)Your link took me to a great site, I enjoy looking around websites like this for new stuff to play with.
It'll be copy & paste for me, have it saved in my "WORDS" notepad.
GB_RN
(2,350 posts)N/T
Jazzgirl
(3,744 posts)N/t
GB_RN
(2,350 posts)But I can't claim credit for it. That goes to my good friend, Bart (RIP), of Bartcop.com. He had a pic of Uncle Slappy in clown makeup with a ❓ inside a 🚫 on his forehead. Quite apropos, considering his streak of not asking a single question was ongoing during the time that Bart was alive and doing content. His site is still up and you can look at years of issues of his political humor.
As a matter of fact, he gave THIS site a plug when DU opened up. Bart was one of the original liberal bloggers.
PSPS
(13,594 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,920 posts)instead of how "bad" Democrats are doing, then it can perhaps motivate some Democrats to VOTE in their elections.
Decades ago, I would think that He and His Wife would have been brought up on sedition charges by many of their own republican party. Even right leaning justices would have voted for his immediate removal......
And possibly that the FBI- DOJ would have escorted him out of the Supreme Court for his actions and those of his wife.....
Our Country and Democacy are indeed: CIRCLING THE DRAIN.........
Kavanaugh would never have made it. I dont understand how he made it in the first place but so many of them are dirty its not even funny.
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)on Hunter Biden's laptop.
groundloop
(11,518 posts)And I agree ........
KS Toronado
(17,224 posts)to tie Clarence to Ginni's shenanigans and kick him off of SCOTUS because of it.
BumRushDaShow
(128,920 posts)there is no other way to really kick someone off the court.
These loons have no shame so you really can't "shame them" out of their positions unfortunately.
groundloop
(11,518 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,841 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,818 posts)all the other right wing federalist Republicans on the Supreme Court........Gorsuch, Mr. I love beer, etc etc
Mr. Evil
(2,841 posts)Justice Black-Out-Drunk Beerbong Boof-Boy.
Used to be that being a Supreme Court Justice stood for something. Now, it's all about how much of a boot-licking lackey you'll be. I could make a whole bunch of other snarky comments about the SCOTUS but, I'd just be preaching to the choir.
But, it's actually quite sad when you think about it. It's very disconcerting how easy it is to sacrifice standards.
KS Toronado
(17,224 posts)One of our amendments says something along the lines of.......anyone involved in insurrection against
the United States can not be a Government employee.......it's what the voters in Georgia attempted
to use to rid themselves of M T Greene. Why couldn't it apply to Judges as well?
BumRushDaShow
(128,920 posts)was from the 14th Amendment -
Amendment XIV
(snip)
Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv
Not sure how it could apply to Thomas unless there is "proof" of him (vs his wife) doing it.
KS Toronado
(17,224 posts)that last line is gonna hurt us getting rid of congress critters like Gym Jordan
" two-thirds of each House,"
BumRushDaShow
(128,920 posts)goes for impeachments and removals.
LeftInTX
(25,305 posts)Elected officials, with the exception of elected judges, have lots of freedoms.
Govt employees have stricter rules than legislators.
I don't know where SC Justices fall....
Protesting the government/electioneering is prohibited for active duty military/civil service workers etc...(Conflict of interest)
The average civilian has the right to write a letter to their elected officials/govt etc if they don't like election results. It is not considered insurrection. It's called griping and complaining..(aka free speech)
However Clarence Thomas probably would not have that right. (He would have the right to write an opinion if a case falls on the SC docket, so we would get his unhinged opinion in some way, shape or form)
Ginni falls somewhere in the middle.
Probatim
(2,528 posts)I can't watch that movie with looking at that woman and thinking of violence.
Maybe the movie was too close to the the Bush/9-11 era and Laura Bush's smug, vacuous face, but some of these conservative women are downright creepy.
lees1975
(3,850 posts)that this woman was responsible for the leak?
Symbolic though it may be, Clarence Thomas needs to have an impeachment on his record.
GarColga
(124 posts)in the evening, milquetoast Clarence is subjected to a steady diet of FOX News and other right-wing media, plus nonsensical diatribes from his wife. I bet he is miserable.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)Last edited Fri May 20, 2022, 04:04 PM - Edit history (1)
I'm thinking he is also dominated by Ginni
I sure hope he is miserable.
drumpfsucks
(43 posts)there was a good group of ANTI-MAGA folks in AZ to YELL and SCREAM about this DC/SCOTUS invasion of political system.
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,418 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)the sideline still siding with the filibuster on Voting Rights, when a sitting US Supreme court justice is basically just saying FU to the entire country his wife and the federalist society sitting on the bench is basically saying FU to the voters, and too just add more insult, the country now has a party a full blown authoritarian wanna be party going over to a authoritarian country and looking at a right wing state authoritarian model to turn this country into a nationalist state just like Hungary.....the same country that is going around spewing the same replacement theory BS, so that "he" and his party can stay in power because Orban also uses the racists card a lot.............
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)Link to tweet
?s=20&t=Ayi7RB8LV7lCXyEwlSc6Tg
BWdem4life
(1,665 posts)and install someone who got several million fewer votes nationwide, so why not just start doing that at the state level as well?