Leftists Launch Plot to Sideline Clarence Thomas Rarely has so much been written about so little than the spate of recent articles from liberal journalists targeting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over the political activism of his wife, Virginia. The central point made in all of the stories is that Thomas should recuse himself in more cases because of his wife’s involvement in conservative causes, including statements she made in support of the Jan. 6, 2021, protests in Washington. And the justice’s response to all of it should be, and likely will be, to ignore the noise. Unless there is some clear conflict of interest — such as his wife, another family member or a close friend being a party in a case — Thomas has the latitude to make the call. All of these articles — the nearly 7,000-word tome in The New Yorker and the lengthy pieces by The New Republic, The Washington Post and CNN — correctly chronicle that D.C. is a small town when it comes to those in politics, and people or their spouses tend to know or have worked with each other at some point during their careers.
She has declared that America is in existential danger because of the “deep state” and the “fascist left,” which includes “transsexual fascists.” , “LOVE MAGA people!!!!” Later that January, the Washington Post revealed that she had also been agitating about Trump’s loss on a private Listserv, Thomas Clerk World, which includes former law clerks of Justice Thomas’s. The online discussion had been contentious. John Eastman, a former Thomas clerk and a key instigator of the lie that Trump actually won in 2020 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court