[ New polling shows 61% of Americans support a congressional
investigation into the Supreme Court justices potential conflicts of
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AS JAN 6. COMMITTEE EYES GINNI THOMAS’ ROLE, FRESH CALLS FOR
JUSTICE THOMAS TO RESIGN  
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Julia Conley
June 16, 2022
Common Dreams
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_ New polling shows 61% of Americans support a congressional
investigation into the Supreme Court justice's potential conflicts of
interest. _

Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife
and conservative activist Virginia Thomas, next to Mitch McConnell,
Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate, while he waits to speak at the
Heritage Foundation, October 2021., Photo: Drew Angerer // Slate

 

Progressive advocacy groups on Thursday intensified calls for U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign or face impeachment
after new reporting revealed that his wife, right-wing activist Ginni
Thomas, corresponded with former President Donald Trump's attorney in
the weeks between the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on
the U.S. Capitol.

_The Washington Post _revealed
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the House committee investigating the insurrection has received emails
between Thomas and John Eastman that were sent around the time that
the attorney pushed
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President Mike Pence to block or delay the certification of the
election results. 

"We have discovered in those Eastman [emails] some information that
refers to Ginni Thomas... We think it's time that we, at some point,
invite her to come talk to the committee."

Eastman also said in an email with Trump campaign officials on
December 24, 2020 that he had information about a disagreement among
the Supreme Court justices over whether to hear arguments pertaining
to the former president's claims of election fraud.

_The Post _did not reveal exactly what the correspondence between
Thomas and Eastman said, but two people involved in the committee's
investigation said it showed "that Thomas's efforts to overturn the
election were more extensive than previously known."

On Thursday, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chairs the January 6
committee, said the panel will "soon" ask Thomas to testify.

"We have discovered in those Eastman [emails] some information that
refers to Ginni Thomas," Thompson said
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think it's time that we, at some point, invite her to come talk to the
committee."

Thomas has claimed that her work as a conservative activist is kept
separate from her husband's Supreme Court work—for whom Eastman once
served as a clerk.

With the news of the correspondence following earlier revelations
about Thomas's push to overturn the election, however, Demand Justice
issued a new call for Justice Thomas to be held accountable for what
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) called
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conflict of interest [that] just screams at you."
 

Demand Justice also released
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poll Thursday revealing that a large majority of Americans backed an
investigation into Justice Thomas "even before new reports showing
Ginni Thomas may have leaked confidential information about the
Supreme Court to a lawyer attempting to overturn the results of the
election."

The poll, conducted by Hart Research Associates on behalf of the court
reform group, found that 61% of respondents favored Congress opening
an investigation.
 

In addition to her correspondence with Eastman, Thomas wrote
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at least 29 Arizona lawmakers after the election asking them to
"choose" electors who would grant Trump a victory in the state
and texted
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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows dozens of times asking him to
"save us from the left taking America down" by helping to reverse the
election results.

Thomas has not recused himself from any cases in which his wife's
activism could pose a conflict of interest and was the only justice to
dissent when the high court rejected Trump's attempt to block the
release of White House documents to the January 6 committee.

Democrats in Congress have demanded that Justice Thomas resign or face
impeachment proceedings, but the party's leaders have not joined those
calls.

It "feels like Democratic leaders are underestimating support for
holding this court accountable," tweeted
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strategist Sawyer Hackett.

_[JULIA CONLEY is a staff writer for Common Dreams.]_

_Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to
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