{"id":2144933,"date":"2024-01-09T20:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T01:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-demands-justice-clarence-thomas-recuse-himself-from-colorado-ballot-case-citing-wifes-conduct\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:40:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T01:40:48","slug":"aoc-demands-justice-clarence-thomas-recuse-himself-from-colorado-ballot-case-citing-wifes-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-demands-justice-clarence-thomas-recuse-himself-from-colorado-ballot-case-citing-wifes-conduct\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC urges Justice Thomas to recuse himself from Colorado ballot case due to &#8216;wife&#8217;s conduct"},"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\">30<\/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%2Faoc-demands-justice-clarence-thomas-recuse-himself-from-colorado-ballot-case-citing-wifes-conduct%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=2144933&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--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(L) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) attends a House Oversight \u200cSubcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services \u2063hearing on Capitol Hill December 5, \u20632023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images) \/ (R) US Supreme Court justice Clarence \u2063Thomas\u200b and his wife Ginni\u2064 Thomas attend \u200ba memorial service for former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O\u2019Connor at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, on \u200dDecember 19, 2023. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Ocasio-Cortez Calls for Clarence Thomas to \u200cRecuse \u200bHimself from Trump Case<\/h2>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke Mallory<\/a><br \/>5:28 PM \u2013 Tuesday, January 9, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is demanding that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself from the Colorado case involving\u200c former President Donald Trump&#8217;s eligibility\u200c for the 2024 ballot. Ocasio-Cortez claims that Thomas&#8217;s wife, Ginni, was involved in attempts to \u2062rig the 2020 election, making it \u200ba conflict of interest for the justice to participate in the case.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very \u2064clear: Clarence Thomas \u2064and, rather, his wife, Ginni, participated in the events \u200dof Jan. 6, and now what is likely coming before the Supreme Court is a judgment as to whether \u2063an event that his wife participated in, that his\u200b wife has been investigated by in the Jan. 6 committee, qualifies as an\u2062 insurrection,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said in an interview\u00a0with Anderson Cooper on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cClarence Thomas\u2019s decision on that, one way or another, and overall the court\u2019s \u200ddecision on that, would\u2062 directly implicate his wife, and so, this is just one \u200bof the most classic, textbook\u200b conflicts of interest, and\u200d it \u2063would frankly be a scandal if\u2063 he did not recuse himself,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According \u2063to \u200da letter that Ocasio-Cortez and seven other House Democrats wrote to the justice last week, Virginia \u201cGinni\u201d Thomas \u201cattended the January 6 \u2064rally,\u200d [and] \u2062 she was instrumental in planning it\u200c and bringing the \u200dinsurrectionists to the\u200d Capitol,\u201d they claimed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cIt is unthinkable that you could be impartial in deciding whether an\u2063 event your wife personally organized qualifies as an \u2018insurrection\u2019 that would prevent someone from holding the office of president,\u201d House Democrats \u200dcontinued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Supreme Court will decide whether or not Trump\u200c has presidential immunity\u2062 in the 2020 federal\u200d election subversion case, which is being handled by Special\u2062 Counsel Jack Smith. House Democrats \u2064have also urged Clarence\u2064 Thomas to withdraw from the case.<\/p>\n<p>After the committee sought an interview\u2064 with Ginni Thomas for months due \u2063to her alleged involvement \u200bin\u2064 the \u200dU.S. Capitol breach on January 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 2022, she appeared before the panel for \u2062almost three \u200chours\u2063 in September 2022. She maintained that there was fraud and irregularities in \u2063the 2020 election throughout the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the question of whether Ginni Thomas was instrumental in the attempts to have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-not-over-yet-kari-lake-files-74-page-lawsuit-against-katie-hobbs-election-officials\/\" title=\"Kari Lake sues Katie Hobbs and officials in 74-page lawsuit.\">election results overturned<\/a>, committee members \u2062were divided.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez maintained\u2063 that Clarence Thomas had \u2064established a \u201cprecedent\u201d when he withdrew from a case involving John Eastman, a former Trump legal advisor, \u200cin October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Although Clarence Thomas \u2064did \u200cnot provide an explanation for his recusal, the New York Democrat said that a\u200d document sent to the\u2064 committee on January\u200d 6<sup>th<\/sup> revealed correspondence between Ginni Thomas and Eastman.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI think our hope is that Clarence Thomas has shown that he is \u200cgoing to recuse himself from a case, this \u2062is one of the most direct implications that he has with respect to perhaps one of any of the cases that has come before the\u200d court,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said. \u201cThis truly \u2064is not even about partisan point scoring. This is about the integrity of the court,\u201d the \u2063congresswoman said. \u201cAnd to not recuse oneself from a case where a\u200c justice is so deeply involved would have larger ramifications\u2062 not just for Clarence Thomas but for\u2063 the Supreme Court overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts\u200d directly to your inbox \u2063for free. Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Exclusive Interview: Congressman Biggs Predicts Contempt\u2064 Vote\u200b Against Hunter Biden<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In the second part of an exclusive interview, Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs tells One America News that he believes by the end of the week we could see a successful vote on the House floor to hold Hunter Biden in contempt.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>The US Government&#8217;s Involvement \u2063in &#8220;Shadow Wars&#8221; Around the World<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>As \u200cthe United States gets deeper involved into both the conflicts in Ukraine and now Israel, it\u2019s worth pointing out that \u200dthe US government is currently operating in no less than\u2062 15 so-called \u201cshadow wars\u201d around the world.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Congressman Biggs \u200bDisappointed with New Budget Bill<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Arizona \u2062Congressman Andy Biggs tells One America News he is disappointed with the new \u200cbudget \u2062bill house speaker\u200b Mike Johnson unveiled this week. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>House Oversight Committee Moves \u200dForward with Contempt of Congress for Hunter Biden<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The House Oversight Committee moves\u2063 ahead \u200dtowards holding the President\u2019s son Hunter in Contempt of Congress over his failing to appear\u200c before the council and testify in private. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Google\u200d Faces Patent Infringement Lawsuit<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Google is set to go before a\u200b federal jury in Boston on Tuesday over accusations that its processors infringe \u2063a \u200dcomputer scientist\u2019s patents.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>OpenAI and Microsoft\u2063 Sued Over Misuse of Authors&#8217; Work<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>OpenAI \u200band its financial backer Microsoft were sued in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who say the companies \u2063misused \u200btheir work to train the AI models behind AI-based services.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>SpaceX Fights Labor Board Lawsuit<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>SpaceX sued a U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/labor-board-dismisses-union-misconduct-complaints-following-biden-purge\/\" title=\"Labor Board Dismisses Union Misconduct Complaints Following Biden Purge\">labor board<\/a> to block its case \u2064accusing the company \u2063of illegally \u200dfiring \u2063employees calling CEO Elon Musk \u201ca\u2062 distraction and embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>ChatGPT Gains Popularity in \u20622023<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> Why does Ocasio-Cortez believe it is crucial for Justice\u200c Thomas to \u2062recuse himself \u200bfrom\u2062 the case, and what \u200dimplications could his non-recusal have on the integrity of the Supreme Court<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u200c Title: Ocasio-Cortez Calls\u2063 for Clarence Thomas to Recuse\u200c Himself\u200d from Trump Case<\/p>\n<p>Introduction<\/p>\n<p>Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently made headlines by demanding that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself from the\u2064 Colorado case\u2064 regarding former President Donald Trump&#8217;s eligibility for the 2024 \u2063ballot. Ocasio-Cortez argues that \u200dThomas&#8217;s wife, Ginni Thomas, was\u2064 involved in\u2062 attempts to rig the \u200d2020 election, creating a\u2064 conflict of interest\u200b for\u200d the justice \u200din participating in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Allegations and Conflict of Interest<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Anderson Cooper, Ocasio-Cortez stated, &#8220;It&#8217;s very clear: Clarence Thomas and, rather, his wife, Ginni, \u2062participated in the events \u2063of Jan. \u20646,\u2062 and\u200c now\u200d what\u2064 is likely \u200dcoming before the\u200b Supreme Court is\u2064 a judgment as to whether an event that his wife participated in, that his wife has been investigated by in the\u200c Jan. 6 committee, qualifies \u2064as\u2062 an insurrection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez further highlighted that Thomas&#8217;s decision in the case directly implicates his wife, making it a \u200bclassic conflict\u2064 of interest. She emphasized that it\u2064 would be \u200dscandalous if Justice Thomas did not recuse himself from this\u2062 crucial decision.<\/p>\n<p>Claims Against Ginni Thomas<\/p>\n<p>According to a letter written \u2063by Ocasio-Cortez and seven other House Democrats, Ginni Thomas allegedly\u200b attended the January 6\u2064 rally \u2064and played an instrumental role in \u2064planning it. The letter claims she was \u2064involved in \u2062bringing the insurrectionists to the Capitol. House \u200cDemocrats argue that\u2064 it\u200b is inconceivable for Justice Thomas to be impartial in deciding whether\u200c an \u2064event his\u2062 wife personally organized qualifies as an\u200d &#8220;insurrection&#8221; that would prevent someone from holding the office of president.<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court Decision \u2062and Repercussions<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d Supreme Court \u2062is tasked \u200dwith\u200b deciding whether \u200dTrump has presidential immunity in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-demands-clarence-thomas-recuse-himself-from-colorado-trump-ballot-case-over-wifes-conduct\/\" title=\"AOC urges Clarence Thomas to recuse in Colorado Trump ballot case due to wife's behavior\">2020 federal election subversion case<\/a>. House Democrats have \u200curged Justice\u2063 Clarence Thomas to withdraw \u200bfrom the case due to his wife&#8217;s alleged involvement\u2064 in the Capitol breach.<\/p>\n<p>Ginni Thomas&#8217;s Testimony<\/p>\n<p>Ginni Thomas\u200d appeared before \u200bthe panel in September 2022, after \u2062the committee \u2064sought \u2063an interview with her for months \u2064regarding her alleged involvement in the\u200c U.S. Capitol\u2063 breach. \u2064During\u200d her testimony, she \u2063maintained that there were\u2062 fraud \u200dand irregularities in the \u20642020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Precedent of Recusal<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez cited Justice Thomas&#8217;s previous recusal in a \u2062case involving John Eastman, a \u200bformer Trump \u2064legal\u200b advisor,\u2062 as a precedent for his recusal in this case. Although no explanation was \u2064provided for his recusal, Ocasio-Cortez pointed to a \u2064document sent to\u200d the committee \u200bon\u2063 January 6, which revealed correspondence between Ginni Thomas and Eastman.<\/p>\n<p>Implications of\u2064 Non-Recusal<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez\u200c emphasized that the integrity \u2063of the court is at\u200b stake.\u2062 She\u200c stated, &#8220;To not\u200b recuse\u2064 oneself from a case where \u200da justice is so deeply involved would\u200b have larger ramifications not just for Clarence Thomas but\u2063 for\u200b the Supreme Court overall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s demand for Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from \u200bthe Trump case has shed light on \u200cthe\u2063 alleged involvement of his wife, Ginni\u200d Thomas,\u2063 in the events of January\u2062 6, 2022. Ocasio-Cortez argues that this creates \u2063a conflict of\u2063 interest and questions the impartiality of the \u2063Supreme Court&#8217;s decision. The outcome\u200d of this\u200d case and Justice Thomas&#8217;s decision\u2062 on \u200drecusal will have significant implications for both the\u2062 justice system and the credibility of the\u200c Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day O&#8217;Connor at the Washington National Cathedral on October 4, 2023 in Washington, DC. 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