John,
Ginni Thomas is at it again. We’ve long known that she helped gin up
Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election being stolen. But now we find
out that Ginni Thomas actually attended the January 6th “stop-the-steal”
rally near the White House – you know, the one where Trump fired up a
violent crowd and sent them to attack the Capitol building to stop
President Biden from being certified the winner?
Hank has been sounding the alarm over the conflict of interest that
Ginni Thomas creates for a while now. Being a paid consultant to
right-wing groups that have a stake in issues decided by the Supreme
Court means that she has a direct financial interest in the outcome of
those cases. That means that her husband – Justice Clarence
Thomas – also has a direct financial interest in the outcome.
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Did Justice Thomas do the right thing and recuse himself in the cases
where his wife had a stake in the outcome? No. Instead, he signaled
to everyone that he has no problem using his position on the nation’s
highest court to benefit himself and his wife.
Clarence Thomas even had the audacity to enlist the services of
Leonard Leo in promoting Thomas’ book. Leo is the former head of
the Federalist Society, the right-wing group intent on filling the
judiciary with ultraconservative judges and justices. Leo has made
a career out of funneling dark money into propping up conservative
causes before the Supreme Court. And Clarence Thomas has
proven himself to be perhaps the most conservative justice on the
Court. Then Clarence Thomas hired Leo to do his public relations
messaging? What!?
But here’s the catch. Justice Thomas is not technically doing
anything unethical by enriching the family income through
conservative lobbyists or by not recusing himself when his
wife has a direct financial stake in a case. That’s because the
Supreme Court has no code of ethics or conduct it’s required to
follow. What he’s doing is sketchy at best, and it’s damaging to
our courts and our democracy. But it’s technically allowed.
That’s why we need the Supreme Court Ethics Act, which Hank
has introduced to bring accountability to the Supreme Court by
creating and enforcing a code of ethics for Supreme Court justices.
Will you stand with Hank to hold people like Clarence and Ginni
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