Congressional Democrats are united in their fury with Clarence Thomas, but they can’t agree on what they can really do about it
Congressional Democrats are united in their fury that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ruled on cases concerning the effort to overturn the 2020 election even though his wife, Ginni, was an enthusiastic player in that effort.That’s not to say different lawmakers haven’t workshopped a wide array of ideas since the bombshell dropped that Ginni Thomas texted President Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, dozens of times after the 2020 election urging him to keep Trump in power.
And nearly all Democrats have embraced the idea of passing ethics reform for the Supreme Court in the hopes of giving justices some basic ethical rules to abide by, since it remains the only court in the nation without one. That level of punishment is still the minority opinion. Even those most critical of Trump and the GOP’s right wing were not ready to call for impeachment of the justice at this point.
“The January 6th Committee has a lot of irons in the fire, including Ginni Thomas,” Johnson told The Daily Beast, “and I think that anything that interferes with their work is not something that I support.” The White House is apparently so disengaged from the Ginni Thomas discourse that officials weren’t aware thatlast week—even existed. Asked for a response to the allegation that the president’s family had been secretly arrested for sedition, a White House spokesperson responded: “Wait when did she say that?”
Some Democrats hope that even if they cannot hold Thomas accountable, the episode might breathe some life into the push to create some basic ethical standards on the high court.
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