New emails indicate that Virginia “Ginni” Thomas — a far right conservative activist, Trump loyalist and wife to conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — was more involved in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election than previously understood.
According to a Washington Post report that was published late last week, the far right activist sent emails to Republican lawmakers in Arizona, urging them to disregard voters’ preferences in the state and to select their own slate of electors for the Electoral College. Her email included false and baseless claims about election fraud, as well as a faulty reading of the U.S. Constitution.
Thomas sent the emails on November 9, 2020, to Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives Rep. Russell “Rusty” Bowers (R) and Rep. Shawnna Bolick (R), who served on the state House Elections Committee at the time. The conservative activist sent the emails to lawmakers just days after the state was elected in favor of Joe Biden.
“Article II of the United States Constitution gives you an awesome responsibility: to choose our state’s Electors. [P]lease take action to ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen,” Thomas wrote in her communications to the lawmakers.
In fact, Article II of the Constitution grants states the right to determine how electors are chosen — most states allow residents to vote for their slate of electors — but the Constitution does not allow state legislatures to select new electors simply because they disagree with an election’s outcome.
Nevertheless, Thomas encouraged the Republican lawmakers to illegally “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure,” errantly telling them the choice of electors was “yours and yours alone,” and insisting that they had “power to fight back against fraud.”
Despite the fact that multiple investigationsAnd phony audits in the stateNo evidence of widespread fraud in Arizona’s 2020 presidential election has been found.
Thomas begged the Arizona legislators to “consider what will happen to the nation we all love if you don’t stand up and lead,” adding that they had a duty to “put things right” and “not give in to cowardice.”
Although there is evidence that Thomas tried to rig the election, her emails sent to Republican lawmakers in Arizona show that she did. showcase her most brazen attempt yetTo illegally keep Trump as President.
It was previously reported that Thomas sent texts to Trump’s then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows following the former president’s electoral loss, You must message him at least 29x to encourage him and other officials to take action to block Biden’s win.
Thomas also attended the “Stop the Steal” rally that Trump held outside the White HouseJanuary 6, 2021. Thomas later claimed that she didn’t help plan the event, and that she didn’t take part in the subsequent march toward the Capitol, where a mob of Trump loyalists violently attempted to disrupt the certification of Biden’s victory.
The texts and emails showcasing Ginni Thomas’s attempts to undo the 2020 election results Many people have been sceptical about whether Justice Clarence Thomas is impartial. on the Supreme Court, particularly in cases that involve his wife’s far right advocacy.
The Supreme Court’s longest-serving member has never withdrawn from any case involving his spouse. Although no formal rule or law requires him to do so, justices are encouraged to recuse themselves from “any proceeding in which his [or her] impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
Clarence Thomas was the only dissenter in an earlier case in which all eight justices agreed that documents from Trump’s White House must be turned over to the House select committee. Many commentators said that the justice’s involvement in the case was a clear-cut conflict of interest, as the communications between his wife and Meadows may have been included in the documents the committee was seeking.
