Thursday during a Capitol news conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stopped short of calling for the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, but did say that he never should have been appointed in the first place.

“If your wife is an admitted and proud contributor to a coup of our country, maybe you should weigh that in your ethical standards,” Pelosi said when asked if Thomas should recuse himself on cases related to the 2020 election or the January 6, 2021 Capitol breach, which Democrats insist on falsely labeling a “coup” or “insurrection.”

Many Democrats – including radical Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – have called for Thomas to resign or even be impeached after it was revealed that his wife Virginia (Ginni) sent text messages to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to challenge Trump’s 2020 election loss.

Asked whether Thomas should resign, Pelosi said she wouldn’t go that far but added, “I don’t think he should have ever been appointed.”

Pelosi said she wants to hold a congressional hearing on Supreme Court ethics soon. “They have no code of ethics,” she claimed. “They’re making judgments about the air we breathe and everything else. And we don’t even know what their ethical standard is.”

If Congressional leaders hold a hearing on which government body is in desperate need of a code of ethics, they should start with the Democrat Party.