Dear John,

SIGN NOW: Clarence Thomas must resign from the Supreme Court immediately or else be impeached.

More and more leaders and organizations are joining the demand to remove Justice Clarence Thomas from the Supreme Court as it’s clear he cannot be impartial.¹ Recently released text messages show how Justice Thomas' wife, long-time right-wing activist Ginni Thomas, actively urged the Trump White House to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, both leading up to the deadly January 6 insurrection and after.²

But despite his wife's active role in Trump’s attempted coup, Justice Thomas not only failed to recuse himself in a case regarding Trump's records on January 6, he was the only justice to dissent in the 8-1 Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for House investigators probing the insurrection to obtain Trump's records.³

This is a clear conflict of interest and shows Justice Thomas’ severely compromised sense of impartiality and morality.

Will you sign the petition to say that because of this abuse of power, Thomas must resign—or Congress must immediately investigate and impeach him?

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Justice Thomas' refusal to recuse is the latest in a long history of using his power to aid a right-wing agenda.⁴ He was involved in other Supreme Court cases about the 2020 election and the January 6 insurrection, and more are likely to come before the court. And Ginni Thomas is working with many right-wing groups directly involved in high-stakes cases before the court—on abortion, affirmative action, and gun rights.⁵

Clarence Thomas never should have been confirmed for the court. Now, it is clearer than ever that he must resign, or Congress must investigate, reveal what he knew and when he knew it about his wife’s work to push for overturning the 2020 election results—and impeach.

Will you sign the petition and add your voice to the masses calling for Justice Thomas to resign—or for Congress to immediately investigate and impeach him?

Thanks for all you do,

— MoveOn

P.S. This petition was created on MoveOn.org, where anyone can start their own online petitions. You can start your own petition to push for progressive change here.

Sources:

1. "Ethics experts see Ginni Thomas’s texts as a problem for Supreme Court," The Washington Post, March 25, 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/25/clarence-thomas-ginni-thomas/

2. "Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election, texts show," The Washington Post, March 24, 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts/

3. "Clarence Thomas was the lone dissent in the Supreme Court's January order rejecting Trump's bid to withhold documents from the January 6 panel," Insider, March 24, 2022 https://www.businessinsider.com/clarence-thomas-only-justice-dissent-in-trump-january-6-bid-2022-3

4. "The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas," The New York Times, February 23, 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/magazine/clarence-thomas-ginni-thomas.html

5. "Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?" The New Yorker, January 21, 2022 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court

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