Provided that the United States ever returns to a day where it’s a functioning democracy with the integrity it had in the mid 1980s (which is right at Iran-Contra, so that’s a low bar), history will wonder how it was that a SCOTUS Justice could possibly stay on the bench and hear cases involving a president and his policies while having a wife so entangled in all of it that she nearly strangled herself. Today, for the first time ever, Ginni Thomas admitted to being present on January 6th.

In an article from the very conservative Free Beacon, Ginni Thomas admits to having gone to the January 6th rally, but then says she went home before Trump spoke because she got cold. Now, if you are cynical, you could say that what Ginni really got was “cold feet,” knowing what they had planned – because nothing is proven, one would have to read-in a lot between the lines. There is no available evidence out there that Ginni knew anything more. But she was there:

Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, attended the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the deadly riot at the Capitol, she said in an interview with The Washington Free Beacon. Thomas, a well-known conservative activist, said she attended the “Stop the Steal” rally held at the Ellipse in the morning, but got cold and left before Trump’s speech, where he told his supporters they should “fight like hell” to disrupt the electoral college vote count.

Thomas said that she “played no role with those who were planning and leading the Jan. 6 events … There are stories in the press suggesting I paid or arranged for buses. I did not. There are other stories saying I mediated feuding factions of leaders for that day. I did not.” The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine both published stories alleging that Thomas had played a larger role in the Jan. 6 rally.

Both the New Yorker and The New York Times have a far better fact-checking record than either The Free Beacon or Ginni Thomas, who had to scrub her Facebook posts after it looked too awful with her cheering on the “patriots.”

Ginni Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas, for the first time has publicly acknowledged that she participated in the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, raising questions about the impartiality of her husband’s work. https://t.co/rg9Op1mUxf

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) March 14, 2022

We need the judiciary council to start hearings as soon as possible.

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