Here’s a simple fact, John: when the Supreme Court decides whether Donald Trump’s insurrection against our government should disqualify him from office, Justice Clarence Thomas is the furthest thing from a disinterested party.
Why? Because his wife Ginni Thomas was involved at the highest levels in trying to overturn a free and fair election. You read that right. Evidence uncovered by the bipartisan January 6th Committee revealed her as a key player in the Trump White House’s efforts to end American democracy itself. [1]
John, how can we trust Justice Thomas to rule impartially on an insurrection his own family was directly involved in?
Add your name if you agree: the public can’t trust Justice Thomas to rule impartially on Trump’s disqualification case or anything else related to the January 6th attack. He MUST recuse himself.
Let’s be clear: The Supreme Court adopted a non-binding code of conduct last year because a series of scandals – like this one – called Justice Thomas’s impartiality into question.
And their new code specifically states that a justice must recuse themselves if their spouse has a substantial interest in the outcome of a case. If they want us to believe it’s worth more than the paper it’s written on, this is the time to do it!
After all, this case hinges on a simple question: should a former President be subject to the U.S. Constitution? [2]
We know what Ginni Thomas thinks. In November 2020, she pressured lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin to overturn the election results and directly colluded with Trump’s chief of staff – urging him in a text to “release the Kraken and save us from the left taking America down.” [1,3]
But in spite of that, Justice Thomas has already ruled on several 2020 election-related cases – and in one, he was the only one to side with Trump in his attempt to block congressional investigators from obtaining White House communications, including those his wife Ginni sent. [3]
Sign the Petition: If the Supreme Court wants us to believe its new code of conduct is more than just a PR stunt, Justice Thomas MUST follow it and recuse himself from Trump’s disqualification case >>
John, if we don’t speak out now, Justice Thomas could continue to weigh in on these all-important cases despite his massive conflict of interest.
I hope you’ll join me in speaking out,
Aaron Scherb, Senior Director of Legislative Affairs
and the team at Common Cause
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts/
[2] https://coloradonewsline.com/2023/12/11/to-protect-our-democracy-donald-trump-must-be-barred-from-the-colorado-ballot/
[3]https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ginni-thomas-emails-show-she-urged-wisconsin-lawmakers-to-oveturn-2020-election
