Justice Clarence Thomas checked out of the hospital Friday after a week-long stay and walked into the latest ethics controversy about the intersection of his Supreme Court duties and his wife’s political activism.
that Virginia Thomas, known as Ginni, repeatedly pressed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to pursue efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, at a time when President Donald Trump was saying he would challenge the results at the Supreme Court.
“Justice Thomas’ conduct on the Supreme Court looks increasingly corrupt,” Wyden said in a news release. “Judges are obligated to recuse themselves when their participation in a case would create even the appearance of a conflict of interest. A person with an ounce of common sense could see that bar is met here.
Adam White, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, said that, in general, previous criticisms of Ginni Thomas’s political work, as well as calls for the justice to recuse himself from participating in cases, were overstated and unfair. She should be allowed to have her own career, White and others have reasoned.
In January, he was the only justice to note his dissent when the court turned down Trump’s request to block the National Archives from sending White House documents requested by the House committee as part of its investigation. The text messages revealed Thursday did not come from those documents but were turned over to the committee by Meadows, before he ceased cooperating with it.
They noted that three years ago, Justice Elena Kagan told a congressional committee that the justices were “studying the question of whether to have a Code of Judicial Conduct that’s applicable only to the United States Supreme Court” and that it is “something that’s being thought very seriously about.”
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