![]() ![]() The online discussion had been contentious. 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. Her next status update said, “ GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU STANDING UP or PRAYING.” Two days after the insurrection, she added a disclaimer to her feed, noting that she’d written the posts “before violence in US Capitol.” (The posts are no longer public.) In a Facebook post that went viral, she linked to a news item about the protest, writing, “ LOVE MAGA people!!!!” Shortly afterward, she posted about Ronald Reagan’s famous “A Time for Choosing” speech. ![]() That morning, before the Stop the Steal rally in Washington, D.C., turned into an assault on the Capitol resulting in the deaths of at least five people, she cheered on the supporters of President Donald Trump who had gathered to overturn Biden’s election. Many Americans first became aware of Ginni Thomas’s activism on January 6, 2021. But now the Court appears likely to secure victories for her allies in a number of highly polarizing cases-on abortion, affirmative action, and gun rights. For the most part, it has been dismissed as the harmless action of an independent spouse. Her political activism has caused controversy for years. She has declared that America is in existential danger because of the “deep state” and the “fascist left,” which includes “transsexual fascists.” Thomas, a lawyer who runs a small political-lobbying firm, Liberty Consulting, has become a prominent member of various hard-line groups. The claim that the Justices’ opinions are politically neutral is becoming increasingly hard to accept, especially from Thomas, whose wife, Virginia (Ginni) Thomas, is a vocal right-wing activist. Such criticism, he said, “makes it sound as though you are just always going right to your personal preference,” adding, “They think you become like a politician!” Last fall, Justice Clarence Thomas, in an address at Notre Dame, accused the media of spreading the false notion that the Justices are merely politicians in robes. His statement followed a series of defensive speeches from members of the Court’s conservative wing, which now holds a super-majority of 6–3. “The Judiciary’s power to manage its internal affairs insulates courts from inappropriate political influence,” he wrote. Roberts’s report, however, defiantly warned everyone to back off. President Joe Biden recently established a bipartisan commission to consider reforms to the Court, and members of Congress have introduced legislation that would require Justices to adhere to the same types of ethics standards as other judges. According to a recent Gallup poll, the Supreme Court has its lowest public-approval rating in history-in part because it is viewed as being overly politicized. The issue of whether Hannity is a journalist or a commentator has been muddled and became an issue in recent weeks when it was revealed that he also accepted legal advice from Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen.In December, Chief Justice John Roberts released his year-end report on the federal judiciary. The Times had no comment on Hannity or the president, a spokeswoman said. His guest on Monday’s show, reporter Sara Carter, also said she believed the special prosecutor’s office was responsible for getting the questions out. Hannity did not outline why he believed the leak came from Mueller’s office and Fox had nothing to add to it on Tuesday. Trump “has to look at himself or his legal team, because that’s where this information came from,” Matt Miller, a former Justice Department spokesman and a commentator on MSNBC, said on Tuesday. He later resigned from Trump’s legal team since it became apparent that Trump did not want to take his advice, Schmidt said. Instead, the more he listened to what investigators wanted to ask, the less interested Dowd became in having his client submit to an interview. ![]()
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