{"id":1519173,"date":"2022-06-16T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519173"},"modified":"2022-06-16T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:34:18","slug":"the-jan-6-committees-targeting-of-ginni-thomas-is-despicable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-jan-6-committees-targeting-of-ginni-thomas-is-despicable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s Targeting Of Ginni Thomas Is Despicable"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fthe-jan-6-committees-targeting-of-ginni-thomas-is-despicable%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=1519173&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-16-at-1.40.56-PM-1-1024x590-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Jan. 6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanobles\/status\/1537457648060219393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a>\u00a0it\u2019s \u201ctime\u201d to drag Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in front of his partisan panel so they can grill her over some private text messages and emails. To this point, Thompson hasn\u2019t presented a scintilla of evidence implicating Ginni Thomas in any illegality, nor any evidence that she was in favor of rioting or violence. <\/p>\n<p>Thomas isn\u2019t an elected official, she wasn\u2019t running for office or working for the administration, nor was she imbued with supernatural powers that could compel anyone to act against their will or the Constitution. As a private citizen she was petitioning officials to engage in the political act of challenging election results\u2014something Democrats regularly do. As my colleague Tristan Justice has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/30\/the-attacks-on-clarence-and-ginni-thomas-are-merely-latest-in-a-decades-long-smear-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointed out<\/a>, not a single of the 29 texts exchanged between Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Thomas (of more than 2,300 text messages released to the committee) included a single direct reference to her husband or any other justice.<\/p>\n<p>Interactions between the White House and justices\u2019 wives might be fair game for journalists\u2014the same journalists, incidentally, who methodically avoid investigating interactions between the president of the United States and his shady son\u2014but a private citizen\u2019s opinions are none of Congress\u2019s concern.\u00a0Indeed, justices\u2019 wives aren\u2019t stripped of their right to free expression simply because it upsets Bennie Thompson. Democrats want to force Thomas to testify so they can keep tenuously cobbling together as many unrelated acts as possible in an effort to create the impression that there was a widespread coup. Every day proves that contention more risible.<\/p>\n<p>The second, perhaps more important reason in attempting to paint Ginni Thomas\u2019 political activism as part of nefarious, violent plot, is to pressure her husband into recusing himself from cases involving the executive branch. And if that fails, it gives leftists fodder to accuse Thomas of corruption. Justice Elena Kagan is free to help coordinate the defense of Obamacare while solicitor general and <em>then<\/em> rule on the same law. Justice Stephen Breyer is free to act as the Senate Judiciary Committee\u2019s chief counsel on sentencing guidelines and then rule on his own work.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Bader Ginsburg could rule on a slew of issues she had taken public positions on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/civil-liberties\/how-ruth-bader-ginsburg-got-her-start-at-the-aclu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">while working for the ACLU<\/a>. But Clarence Thomas\u2019s wife can\u2019t have opinions. The claim that Clarence Thomas has any legal obligation to recuse himself from any cases because his wife has opinions is a fabrication, as Andy McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/03\/the-smearing-of-clarence-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>The statute that governs judicial disqualification,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/28\/455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Section 455<\/a>\u00a0(of Title 28, U.S. Code), extensively addresses recusal on the basis of a spouse\u2019s potential connection to matters in litigation. Essentially, the triggers involve financial or legal stakes in the matter, or some connection to the matter as an attorney. Ginni Thomas\u2019s conservative political activism \u2014 up to and including the text messages to Mark Meadows about the 2020 election \u2014 does not activate those triggers. If it did, many judges appointed by Democrats would have been disqualified from cases over which they\u2019ve presided despite\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/baseless-recusal-attack-clarence-thomas-opinion-1686780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the political and legal activism of their spouses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Clarence Thomas is the most straightforward jurist of the modern age. The notion that he is in bag for any partisan special interest is preposterous beyond words. And that\u2019s the real problem for liberals. The intense loathing of Thomas by the left is propelled by his unadorned adherence to the Constitution and his reluctance to concoct rights or bow to vagaries of the public pressure. Nothing deters the progressive project more than those traits.<\/p>\n<p>The Jan. 6 Committee, stocked with its own mendacious conspiracy theorists and election deniers like Adam Schiff\u2014a committee that denied the duly elected opposition the ability to name members it wanted\u2014is targeting private citizens for wrongthink in an effort to undermine the court on issues completely unrelated to Jan 6. The left\u2019s concerted political efforts to delegitimize and intimidate the court are a more dangerous long-term threat to our institutions than anything Jan. 6 rioters could ever have accomplished.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post, and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson\u00a0says\u00a0it\u2019s \u201ctime\u201d to drag Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in front of his partisan panel so they can grill her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"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-1519173","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\/1519173","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519173\/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=1519173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}