the murky role of Ginni Thomas, wife of a Supreme Court justice

During the months leading up to the November 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump cast doubt on the legitimacy of the upcoming election and showed his determination to appeal to the Supreme Court to challenge his possible defeat. He seems to have had support close to the court: according to the “Washington Post”, the wife of one of the judges of the Supreme Court wrote to 29 elected officials in Arizona to call on them not to certify the results of the election in the state – one of those that swung the national election in favor of Joe Biden. The American daily found emails sent by Ginni Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas, to 29 elected House and Senate members of the state, which traditionally leans in favor of the Republicans. In the pre-written messages, she urges elected officials to “stand up to political and media pressure”, assuring them they have “the power to fight fraud” and “ensure that a healthy list of ‘voters be chosen’, in reference to the electors responsible for representing Arizona during the certification of the results before Congress.

Since last March, the American press has revealed the murky role of Ginni Thomas in the attempt of the Trump clan to reject his electoral defeat. In particular, at the end of 2020, she wrote to Donald Trump’s “chief of staff” Mark Meadows to encourage him to pursue the appeals brought. An implication that earned Ginni Thomas an invitation to testify before the parliamentary inquiry into the invasion of the Capitol, which seeks to shed light on the historic event and in particular on the role of Donald Trump and his obstinacy in the refusal of his defeat.

The Supreme Court ultimately did not help Trump

Democrats are crying out for a risky gender mix between the Trump administration and Ginni Thomas, whose husband could have taken part in a Supreme Court decision on the 2020 election. “The conflict of interest is glaringly obvious,” denounced the elected Californian Adam Schiff. “You have the wife of a Supreme Court Justice [qui essaie] to cause Arizona to illegally reject millions of votes. And to that must be added her Supreme Court husband, who is writing a notice of dissent in a case that allowed Congress to obtain documents that could have uncovered some of those emails,” he said. he sued, citing the fact that Clarence Thomas refused to recuse himself in the decision on granting access to confidential White House files.

But in December, the Supreme Court had rejected the procedure launched by the Texas prosecutor to have the results of the presidential election annulled, provoking the outgoing president’s anger: “So you are the President of the United States, and you have just finish an election where you got more votes than any incumbent in history, by far and you supposedly lost. You can’t “stand” in front of the Supreme Court, so you “intervene” with wonderful states who, after much thought and consideration, think you’ve been “cheated”, which hurts them too. Many more join the proceedings but, in an instant, it is dismissed and brushed aside, without so much as a glance at the many issues raised. A Rigged Election, the fight continues!”, he wrote in a series of messages published on his defunct Twitter account. “The Supreme Court really let us down. No Wisdom, No Courage!”, lambasted the man who believed that the three judges he appointed to the Supreme Court would repay him for their appointment.

A deep resentment he expressed again in February 2021, when the Supreme Court granted the Manhattan prosecutor access to his tax returns as part of an investigation into payments made to two of his alleged mistresses in exchange for their silence, before his election in 2016. “The Supreme Court should never have let this ‘expedition’ continue, but it did. It’s something that’s never happened to a president before, it’s instilled by the Democrats into a totally Democratic place, the city and state of New York, completely controlled and dominated by one of my known enemies, Governor Andrew Cuomo,” he angrily wrote in a press release. “It’s fascism, not justice – and that’s exactly what they are trying to do with me, except that the people of our country will not let it happen”, continued the one who was indicted, but acquitted by the Senate, for “incitement to insurrection” after the invasion of the Capitol by some of his supporters on January 6th.