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Dems demand Thomas recuse in CO Section 3 appeal for wife's part in J6 and fake electors scheme... [1]

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Date: 2024-01-06  

Letter of the law

In a letter written this week and signed by six of his Congressional colleagues, Rep. Dan Hank Johnson (D, GA demanded again that Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself== this time from the Colorado Supreme Court case that disqualified the former president from the 2024 election ballot. The Democrats sent similar letters to the Court in September and December that asked Thomas to recuse himself in a case involving Koch Network staff lawyers in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, and any ruling on United States of America v. Donald J. Trump— requests Thomas ignored. Thomas did, however, recuse himself in a case involving his former law clerk, John Eastman without comment. Eastman, of course, differs from the other close associates whose cases Thomas steadfastly insists on hearing. They have far more influence and wealth.

Rep. Johnson, of Georgia, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee cites Ginny’s association with a conservative group that helped organize the “Stop the Steal” rally that incited the insurrection. Ginny’s involvement in the Trump effort to overthrow the 2020 election runs deep and we have her texts to suggest that she urged the president on in the weeks leading up to the insurrection and afterward that show her active support of Trump’s unconstitutional attempt to hold onto office despite his election defeat:

Nov. 10, 2020: “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!! … You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History,”

Nov. 24, 2020 : “I can’t see Americans swallowing the obvious fraud. Just going with one more thing with no frickin consequences… the whole coup and now this… we just cave to people wanting Biden to be anointed? Many of us can’t continue the GOP charade.”

Jan. 2021: “We are living through what feels like the end of America. Most of us are disgusted with the VP and are in a listening mode to see where to fight with our teams. Those who attacked the Capitol are not representative of our great teams of patriots for DJT!! Amazing times. The end of Liberty,”

Meadows now has admitted that it was known to those around Trump as early as November 2020 that the claims of election fraud were false. On November 23, Bill Barr, Trump’s AG informed the former president that the election was lost and that claims of election fraud were “bullshit.” The J6 Committee has produced evidence that the claims of a stolen election was a strategy cooked up by the Trump campaign— if not Trump himself— as early as the summer before the election as the then-president became aware of his vulnerability in the upcoming election. At that time Trump was actively sowing the seeds of doubt about a “rigged election” while trying to get dirt on his opponent whose poll numbers were rising even during the pandemic.

the fraud begins

In a July 30, 2020 press conference Trump presaged the tactic the campaign had designed to put the election results in question in response to a reporter’s question about an earlier release that day suggesting a delay in the election:

I — I just feel — I don’t want a delay. I want to have the election. But I also don’t want to have to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn’t mean anything. That’s what’s going to happen, Steve. That’s common sense, and everyone knows it. Smart people know it. Stupid people may not know it. And some people don’t want to talk about it, but they know it. And, no, we want to have an election where people actually go in and — “What’s your name?” “My name is so-and-so.” Boom, you sign the book, like I’ve been doing for years. It’s very, very unfair to our country. If they do this, our country will be a laughingstock all over the world because everyone knows it doesn’t work. How many ballots is he sending in California, as an example? Twenty-eight million or some massive number? Other states are sending out millions and millions of ballots. Well, they’ve done it. They had experiments. They had news organizations experimenting. And, look, read the story in the Washington Post about mail-in voting; it’s a disaster. I’m very surprised to see that story, frankly, from them. The story is a disaster. So we’re asking for a lot of trouble. And, no, do I want to see a date change? No. But I don’t want to see a crooked election. This election will be the most rigged election in histor y. — July 30, 2020 Press Conference

Within the word salad is the germ of the election fraud claims that would begin with the “Stop the Steal” nonsense and end in the J6 attack on the Capitol.

Ginny Thomas was early to the crusade to create fake electors as a way to subvert the rightful election of Joe Biden by electors on January 6:

Her plea to Russell Bowers on December 13 suggests Thomas’s deep involvement in the planning and carrying out the various aspects of the Trump plan to remain in power. The House Democrats acknowledge the impropriety of Justice Thomas standing in judgment in cases that involve matters that surround the January 6 insurrection based simply upon the perception of judicial objectivity and fairness, They point to the obvious potential bias of a husband ruling on affairs so heavily impacted by a spouse’s political activism and public disclosures. Neither of the Thomases has been forthcoming about the evidence that Ginny Thomas was not only an attendee of the rally on the Ellipse that day, but also heavily involved in the machinations to subvert the constitution throughout the post-election period. On the day of the insurrection, Thomas posted cryptic messages on her Facebook page that were later removed that suggest a more seminal role in the events that occurred that day:

Many of the rally organizers and those advising Trump had connections to the Thomases, but little has been known about what role, if any, Ginni Thomas played, beyond the fact that on the morning of the March to Save America, as the rally was called, she urged her Facebook followers to watch how the day unfolded. “LOVE MAGA people!!!!” she posted before the march turned violent. “GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU STANDING UP or PRAYING!” But her role went deeper, and beyond C.N.P. Action. Dustin Stockton, an organizer who worked with Women for America First, which held the permit for the Ellipse rally, said he was told that Ginni Thomas played a peacemaking role between feuding factions of rally organizers “so that there wouldn’t be any division around January 6.” “The way it was presented to me was that Ginni was uniting these different factions around a singular mission on January 6,” said Stockton, who previously worked for Bannon. “That Ginni was involved made sense — she’s pretty neutral, and she doesn’t have a lot of enemies in the movement.” — NYTimes Magazine, “The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas,” By Danny Hakim and Jo Becker Published Feb. 22, 2022Updated Sept. 1, 2022

‘Til wealth do them part...

What the latest letter suggests is that it matters little whether the Justice and his wife had discussed or shared similar views regarding Trump, that it is the appearance of such pillow talk that matters. Clear evidence does exist that because of the subsequent public release of information, the cases in question are specifically covered under the codes of judicial conduct the Court has just adopted. Critically, the letter identifies the financial benefits of Ginny’s involvement in conservative causes related to Trump and his legal entanglements as specific causes of concern:

“A Justice should disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the Justice’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, that is, where an unbiased and reasonable person who is aware of all relevant circumstances would doubt that the Justice could fairly discharge his or her duties.”2 The Code details such instances, including those in which “The Justice knows that the Justice…or the Justice’s spouse… has a financial interest in the subject matter in controversy or in a party to the proceeding, or any other interest that could be affected substantially by the outcome of the proceeding,” or those in which “The Justice or Justice’s spouse…is known by the Justice:…(iii) to have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding.” — Canon 3B, Code of Judicial Conduct

The financial benefits that Justice Thomas has enjoyed from wealthy friends and conservative political activists are more than mere breadcrumbs leading skeptics to believe that Clarence Thomas has tempered his judicial objectivity to serve conservative causes who also fund action groups associated with his wife. As with most questionable political skullduggery, following the money is usually a good first tug on a suspected thread:

That and the lack of openness, when confronted with uncomfortable facts, indicate the Thomases share much they seek to hide from us. Recusal is simply a shield for justices to ensure the perception that their decision-making is based upon an impartial hearing of the arguments put before them.

Justice Thomas and his wife have gravely called into question the entire Court’s objectivity and integrity— items the Thomas couple have sold off long ago.

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