Virginia Thomas hasn't been mentioned a single time today on Fox News
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 25, 2022
Mentions on Fox News so far today
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 25, 2022
Hunter Biden: 9
Virginia Thomas: 0
Conservatives: How dare you lump in Clarence Thomas with the actions of his wife.
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) March 25, 2022
Same conservatives: HUNTER'S LAPTOP
That's exactly right. The blackhole treatment of a story on Fox is always an indicator. https://t.co/Zdmw2es6Y7
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 25, 2022
It's absolutely wild to think that Ginni Thomas probably believes the things she texted Mark Meadows.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 25, 2022
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) March 25, 2022I’m sure she was joking, right? Or drunk tweeting? "Probably" is looking very lost and confused in that sentence.
Probably didn’t mean a literal army, right?A Supreme Court Justice's spouse texts you to encourage you to commit treason, wyd? pic.twitter.com/Q6TBVJmzUj
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) March 25, 2022
I wanna see the fight over that subpoena!House January 6 committee debating bringing Ginni Thomas before the panel for questions | @ryanobles, @jamiegangel, @GloriaBorger & @ZcohenCNN https://t.co/LbVolL0v35
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) March 25, 2022
It’s pretty much the only fight we’re gonna get.The Party of Law and Order are advocating for more government officials to defy the law. More wives to contact the Chief of Staff to overturn elections. More Justices to block information from investigators, all while screaming that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is “weak on crime”. pic.twitter.com/UTviIqh3lI
— Just Vent (@JustVent6) March 25, 2022
I don’t know. Your wife is a crazy seditionist conspiracy nut who thinks an entire political party is evil and should be treated en masse like terrorists, and absolutely anything done to stop them from gaining the White House is justifiable, including ignoring all the laws of the country and raising an army of opponents to that person (remind me again what armies do. Vote? Deliberate? Forcibly establish a debate society?) and your escape hatch as a Supreme Court Justice is: “She has her hobbies”? (And the gap between her crazy and his isn’t that wide, anyway. This isn’t Mary Matalin and James Carville we’re talking about.) Isn’t that like saying my wife is a Satanist but it doesn’t affect my role as a pastor? I’m sure I could convince a congregation of the validity of that argument.One more quick thought—Ginni Thomas’s extremism is so far beyond the pale that it’s completely understandable that people would worry if she had an impact on her husband. Nothing about those texts was normal! But still Thomas’s work stands on its own.
— David French (@DavidAFrench) March 25, 2022
Since so much of what I've been reading about the Supreme Court this week surrounds pretenses of "precedence" and the shifting, now and then, sometimes thing that it is in even official Supreme Court writing, what kind of precedence is letting Ginni and Clarence get away with not having to answer for this going to set for other Supreme Court couples in the future? Only I'm sure that "precedence" will apply differently to different "justices" and their spouses.
ReplyDeleteThe Supreme Court needs to have real and enforced ethics rules and standards and our Constitutional system doesn't really have a mechanism for that. Hey, maybe the Supreme Court could amend the Constitution by fiat to create one. They do it for the rest of us, anyway.
So if Jackson takes a seat on the bench and Thomas resigns how does that affect the right of justices to practice miscegenation?
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