{"id":1411962,"date":"2022-03-31T07:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411962"},"modified":"2022-03-31T07:46:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:46:01","slug":"mcconnell-accuses-democrats-of-trying-to-bully-thomas-off-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-accuses-democrats-of-trying-to-bully-thomas-off-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Accuses Democrats of Trying to \u201cBully\u201d Thomas Off Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-accuses-democrats-of-trying-to-bully-thomas-off-supreme-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411962&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">S<\/span>enate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday that Clarence Thomas is \u201can outstanding justice\u201d and accused Democrats of trying to bully him off the Supreme Court amid a scandal involving his spouse, Ginni Thomas.\n<\/p>\n<p>After the recent publication of text messages from Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist, to then-White House chief of staff <u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/north-carolina-investigating-mark-meadows-for-voter-fraud\">Mark Meadows<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u> about overturning the 2020 election, many Democrats called for Thomas to recuse himself from cases related to the Jan. 6 riot or from future cases involving former President Donald Trump, citing ethics concerns. Some of the text messages from Ginni Thomas appeared to embrace elements of the Qanon conspiracy theory, including subjecting elected officials and reporters to military tribunals at the Guantanamo Bay facility.\n<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, for many of whom Clarence Thomas is something of an icon, have largely defended the judge and argued the political opinions of Ginni Thomas have no bearing on the justice\u2019s work on the high court.\n<\/p>\n<p>In remarks on the Senate floor, McConnell said Thomas \u201cis a great American and an outstanding justice.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is faithful to the text of our laws and Constitution. His writing is clear. His reasoning is rigorous and transparent,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cI have total confidence in Justice Thomas\u2019s impartiality in every aspect of the work of the court.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>McConnell argued Democrats are on a \u201cquest to delegitimize the Supreme Court\u201d and that the Thomas scandal is \u201cits latest outlet.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFar-left activist groups mounted a public pressure campaign to push Justice [Stephen] Breyer to retire,\u201d McConnell said, arguing they are now conducting \u201ca coordinated effort to nullify the presence of Justice Clarence Thomas on the court.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe far Left wants another crack at what they tried and failed to do in 1991,\u201d McConnell said in reference to Thomas\u2019s tense confirmation hearing. \u201cWashington Democrats are now trying to bully this exemplary judge of 30-plus years out of entire legal subjects, or off the court entirely.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>McConnell called arguments from some House Democrats that Thomas should be impeached \u201cperformative.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis clumsy bullying from the political branches is beyond the pale,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cThe justice and the entire court should feel free to ignore it.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice Thomas is an exemplary jurist who has modeled fidelity to the rule of law for more than 30 years and counting,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope none of the justices give any of the radical Left\u2019s various pressure campaigns a minute\u2019s thought.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday that Clarence Thomas is \u201can outstanding justice\u201d and accused Democrats of trying to bully him off the Supreme Court amid a scandal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}