{"id":1413393,"date":"2022-03-31T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413393"},"modified":"2022-03-31T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T19:45:53","slug":"speaker-pelosi-says-clarence-thomas-should-have-never-been-appointed-to-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-pelosi-says-clarence-thomas-should-have-never-been-appointed-to-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Pelosi Says Clarence Thomas Should Have Never Been Appointed To SCOTUS"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fspeaker-pelosi-says-clarence-thomas-should-have-never-been-appointed-to-scotus%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=1413393&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>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should never have \u201cbeen appointed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you agree with members of your caucus who are saying Clarence Thomas should resign?\u201d a reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pelosi-declines-to-call-for-clarence-thomas-to-resign-from-supreme-court-2022-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he should have ever been appointed so let me take it back there,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cI will say that H.R. 1, our bill to have a cleaner government, we have a call for the Supreme Court to have a code of ethics. They have no code of ethics \u2013 and really? It\u2019s the Supreme Court of the United States \u2026 and we don\u2019t know what their ethical standards are.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">REPORTER: Should Clarence Thomas resign?<\/p>\n<p>PELOSI: \u201cI don\u2019t think he should have ever been appointed.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wr5kl6gUvt\">pic.twitter.com\/wr5kl6gUvt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1509554855874019334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thomas\u2019 wife, Ginni Thomas, has faced backlash for allegedly texting then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after the 2020 election about overturning the election results. Her text messages were received by the Jan. 6 committee and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/24\/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> on by The Washington Post. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/clarence-ginni-thomas-recusal-ruth-bader-ginsburg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Liberals Want Clarence Thomas To Recuse Himself. Here\u2019s What RBG Did When Her Relatives Got Political)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some have called for Thomas to recuse himself from cases dealing with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Democratic Minnesota Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/27\/better-speak-out-sen-amy-klobuchar-supreme-courts-silence-ginni-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Klobuchar<\/a> said Thomas should recuse himself and noted federal courts, unlike the Supreme Court, have ethics rules requiring judges to recuse themselves from cases where they hold a personal matter or connection.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Clarence Thomas needs to be impeached <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZuZbxkMaYs\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZuZbxkMaYs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1507178853650812928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Klobuchar said \u201cthe entire integrity of the Court is on the line\u201d should Thomas not recuse himself.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said Thomas \u201cneeds to be impeached.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Martha MacCallum said calls for Thomas to recuse himself over \u201cGinni Thomas\u2019s political views\u201d are not a valid reason for Thomas to recuse himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ginni Thomas\u2019s political views are no reason for Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from elections cases. The pile-on is intended to delegitimize the current Supreme Court. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7nTV7ta7Ud\">https:\/\/t.co\/7nTV7ta7Ud<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Martha MacCallum (@marthamaccallum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marthamaccallum\/status\/1509535760420163591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe pile-on is intended to delegitimize the current Supreme Court,\u201d the host said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMattGaetz\/status\/1509583337672826895?s=20&#038;t=WbMgZ63glDR4qmsGnDpMjQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> on Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz\u2019s Firebrand podcast that attacks on Thomas are simply an attempt to protect Roe v. Wade because the left is \u201cscared to death\u201d of Thomas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pelosi should have never been Speaker, and won\u2019t be much longer.<\/p>\n<p>Stand with Justice Thomas! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LvM84rf0KM\">https:\/\/t.co\/LvM84rf0KM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1509557021259014154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The House Judiciary GOP wrote on Twitter, \u201cPelosi should have never been Speaker, and won\u2019t be much longer. Stand with Justice Thomas!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should never have \u201cbeen appointed.\u201d\u201cDo you agree with members of your caucus who are saying Clarence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"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-1413393","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\/1413393","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413393\/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=1413393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}