Is Ginni Thomas A Threat To The Supreme Court?
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Anonymous
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New article by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker points out Ginni Thomas' right wing political activity. She's the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas. She sits on the board of Turning Point USA. Founder of TP Charlie Kirk bragged right after 1-6-21 that they had financed 80 bus loads to the insurrection. She is also partnered with Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe in a fund raising group, Crowdsourcers.
She owns Liberty Consulting, a lobbying organization. As of 2019 she described herself as chairman of Groundswell, which has been described as waging “a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation." Other members include Sebastian Gorka. Steve Bannon and Ali Alexander. She's active on a Listserv for Thomas' clerks and posted frequently about the stolen 2020 election. According to legal analysts, she holds an outsized influence with Justice Thomas' employees. Frank Gaffney, a defense contractor has a lucrative (to Ginni) contract with Liberty Consulting and Justice Thomas completely left off mention of that income in his financial statements. The article also points out that Supreme Court Justices are not held to conflict of interest standards or ethics rules that lower court Federal judges are. Thomas fails to recuse himself from cases that may affect Ginni and her businesses and political groups. The article details several other conflicts. Stunning. The only remedy for crooked Justices is impeachment, which has never been successful. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court |
Anonymous
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I don't know how this isn't a conflict of interest for Justice Thomas. She's literally being paid by parties coming before the SC.
CJ Roberts's historical legacy is circling the toilet very rapidly. |
Anonymous
| Explain what threat you believe Ginni poses to scotus. |
Anonymous
Yeah, OP! Their legitimacy is already gone; the fact that Thomas never recuses no matter how bad the conflict of interest and that Roberts evidently doesn’t care that he’s presiding over a kangaroo court suggests that nothing Ginni does could be any worse!! RiGhT?! |
Anonymous
Oh, I think it’s gone already. |
Anonymous
Did you read the article or is too full of big words? I quoted the title of the article. Clarence Thomas has a ton of conflicts of interest, has failed to honestly report family income, and has never recused himself on cases she is associated with vis her lobbying group, Liberty Consulting. In addition, she's earned more than $650k from Family Research Council who has cases before the Court and Clarence has not recused himself. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
| I have to follow more ethical provisions in my activities than a supreme court justice. There is something very very wrong with that. |
Anonymous
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Except the very premise that Ginni Thomas - or Turning Point - funded any buses for 1/6 is a complete lie. Why don't you start there, OP - what else are you lying about?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ginni-thomas-buses/ |
Anonymous
Don’t expect people here to check their sources. |
Anonymous
So why did Charlie Kirk tweet that? |
Anonymous
I don't believe that poses a threat to scotus. I believe that poses a potential ethics dilemma for Justice Thomas. However, normally your spouse has to be substantially involved in the actual issue at hand. So the fact that she works for a lobbying group doesn't necessarily mean it's an ethics violation, if she is not involved in that issue or unless it appears to create a conflict of interest to a reasonable person. We don't know how long ago she earned money from Family Research Council, etc. There is not enough information in the original post to determine if there is a conflict of interest. Moreover, it is less clear why her activities threaten the entire court. |
Anonymous
| It's an interesting question. He was always going to vote for these right wing assholes, regardless of the merits of their legal arguments because he's a partisan hack. So, is it unethical for his family to pocket piles of cash for doing what he was going to do anyway? |
Anonymous
Oh so Snopes is now a believable source? "Snopes Retracts Dozens of Articles.." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/business/media/snopes-plagiarism-David-Mikkelson.html The fact is that Ginni Thomas is a co founder of Turning Point USA,still sits on the board, and Charlie Kirk claimed they sent 80+ buses to the 1-6-2021 protest. |
Anonymous
| To ask the question another way, how would you feel if the Supreme Court had been completely packed with liberals, and the Roe v Wade cases came before them, and the spouse of one of the Justices was sitting on the board of Planned Parenthood, the spouse of another Justice sat on the board of NARAL Pro Choice America, and they refused to recuse on any cases relating to abortion, and everyone pretended that was perfectly fine? |