[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to demand that Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas's insurrectionist wife, Ginni Thomas, be removed from the Board of
the Library of Congress NOW!

Dear MoveOn member,

Justice Clarence Thomas's wife, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, actively
participated in the effort to overturn the 2020 election both leading up
to and after the deadly insurrection and has yet to be held accountable
for it.^1 And on top of that, because disgraced former president Donald
Trump nominated her in 2020, she is still a board member of the Library of
Congress, the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and the
research arm of Congress.^2 It's completely unacceptable.

[ [link removed] ]Will you sign the petition to demand that Ginni Thomas be removed from
the board of the Library of Congress NOW?

In 2022, evidence revealed that Ginni Thomas texted Trump Chief of Staff
Mark Meadows—as well as legislators in Wisconsin and Arizona—urging them
to overturn the election results. And she even attended the Stop the Steal
rally preceding the insurrectionist attack on January 6, 2021.^3,4,5

But despite the mounting evidence of her corruption, she has remained on
this prominent board. The Trust Fund Board of the Library Congress manages
over $200 million in donations for the library. We cannot trust an
insurrectionist like Ginni Thomas to oversee and manage federal dollars.

[ [link removed] ]Ginni Thomas should not be rewarded for trying to overturn the 2020
election results. She must be removed from the board now. Click here to
sign the petition.

President Biden has removed many Trump appointees from their posts.^6 The
time is NOW to remove Ginni Thomas from the board of the Library of
Congress.

[4]Sign the petition

Ginni Thomas was a part of a group of far-right activists who pushed Trump
to get rid of members of his administration who were thought to be
"disloyal" to him and suggested that those members be replaced with people
they chose.^7 Months later, Trump nominated Ginni to the board of the
Library of Congress.

Justice Clarence Thomas has a clear conflict of interest, and despite
that, he has refused to recuse himself from Supreme Court cases related to
January 6 and Trump's claims of presidential immunity that would have
implications for his wife. The corruption knows no bounds.

[ [link removed] ]Ginni Thomas must be swiftly removed from the board of the Library of
Congress. Will you sign the petition?

Both Ginni Thomas and Clarence Thomas have ties to Leonard Leo, the chief
architect of the right-wing Supreme Court, and Harlan Crow, a billionaire
and close friend of Clarence Thomas.^8

Together, Leo, Thomas, and Crow have eroded our public institutions and
have been the architects behind packing the Supreme Court with right-wing
justices, and they've played a huge role in overturning legal precedents
like Roe.

The Library of Congress's mission is to "engage, inspire, and inform
Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of
knowledge and creativity."^9 Insurrectionists like Ginni Thomas who have
threatened our very government and democracy have no place on the board of
the Library of Congress.

[ [link removed] ]Enough! The time is now to remove Ginni Thomas from the Board of the
Library of Congress. Click here to add your name to this petition, and
then send it to three friends to spread the word.

Thanks for all you do.

–Jensine, Isbah, Ankur, David, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?" The New Yorker,
January 21, 2022
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2. "Ginni Thomas should be removed from board managing Library of Congress
funds," CREW, April 4, 2022
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3. "Ginni Thomas reportedly pressed Trump's chief of staff on overturning
the election," NPR, March 25, 2022
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4. "Washington Post: 29 Arizona lawmakers received messages from Ginni
Thomas in apparent bid to swap out Biden electors," CNN, June 10, 2022
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5. "Ginni Thomas lobbied Wisconsin lawmakers to overturn 2020 election,"
The Guardian, September 1, 2022
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6. "Biden administration works to clean house of Trump appointees," CNN,
February 6, 2021
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7. "The Supreme Court’s Ginni Thomas problem is bigger than legal ethics,"
MSNBC, March 31, 2023
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8. "What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice's wife and a
key activist started a movement," Politico, September 10, 2023
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9. "A Library for All," Library of Congress, accessed May 14, 2024
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