Calls to Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas Are ‘Not Realistic’: Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin

In an interview with “Fox News Sunday” on July 10, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, brushed off efforts by some left-wing agitators and lawmakers to impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

A petition begun by MoveOn, a left-wing nonprofit advocacy group, has garnered more than one million signatures in the past three months, particularly in the wake of the SCOTUS decision to reverse Roe v. Wade and return the power to regulate abortion to the states.

“As to whether he’s going to be impeached, that is not realistic, but he should show good judgment,” Durbin said about Thomas. “If this court is going to be credible, it has to be as apolitical as possible. Exactly the opposite has been happening.”

Initially, the MoveOn petition focused on Thomas’s alleged connection to the so-called “insurrection,” a term that has been blasted by conservative critics as a dishonest description of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.

Specifically, left-wing activists have taken issue with texts exchanged between Thomas’s wife, Ginni Thomas, and then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, as well as Thomas’s sole dissenting opinion in an 8–1 ruling stating that President Donald Trump could not block the House Jan. 6 panel from accessing documents related to the Capitol breach.

Although he rejected calls to impeach Thomas, Durbin did echo others in his party stating that Thomas should recuse himself from all matters related to Jan. 6.

“There is, in my mind, a clear conflict of interest when it comes to Justice Thomas and issues related to the Jan. 6 insurrection,” Durbin said. “I would think that Justice Thomas should recuse himself from any decisions that relate to the Jan. 6 episode.”

In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, MoveOn updated the petition to