Pro-seditionist Virginia Thomas
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is missing. But it gets much weirder than that. Thomas was hospitalized a week ago with “flu-like symptoms.” We didn’t hear about that for several days. Since then, there has been no information forthcoming as to Thomas’ condition, or even whether he is still in the hospital. News reports keep referring to “the Supreme Court” saying nothing, but that really means Chief Justice John Roberts, who is in charge of the Court’s administration. Such a wall against information about the health of a top government official is something we might expect from the Kremlin rather than the United States of America. We do know that Thomas missed three Supreme Court oral arguments this week, and did not even participate remotely by video.
Later this week, however, we learned new information that further feeds speculation about Justice Thomas. The Washington Post and CBS News reported yesterday that Thomas’ wife, Virginia, a prominent right-wing activist, “repeatedly pressed [Trump] White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in a series of urgent text exchanges in the critical weeks after the vote.” According to the Post, “the text messages were among 2,320 that Meadows provided to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.” Virginia Thomas even attended the January 6, 2021 rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol. And when Donald Trump‘s phony 2020 election challenges reached the Supreme Court, it rejected hearing the challenges by a vote of 8-1. The lone dissenter was Clarence Thomas.
All of this presents an incurable conflict of interest for Clarence Thomas based on his wife’s activism:
https://twitter.com/theblatt/status/1507131433151655973
https://twitter.com/theblatt/status/1507133293380079618
Moreover, this is not the first such conflict for Clarence and Virginia Thomas:
Remember: SCOTUS stopped 2000 FL recount to install W as 43. Ginni made news then for conflict of interest involvement then too. This wasn’t their first coup. They thought they could just overturn elections. https://t.co/SAZUwjGxmv
— MadDogPAC (@maddogpac) March 25, 2022
So now we are left with a couple of possibilities: One possibility is that Clarence Thomas is very ill, or even dying. He may have COVID. He may be on a ventilator. Another possibility is that Thomas is in hiding and not doing his job because of the breaking news about his wife’s seditious activities. Either way, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas cannot be a fair and effective arbiter of justice on our nation’s highest court, and he should resign immediately. As for Virginia Thomas, she needs to be hauled in front of the Congressional committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack asap.
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