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Post Has More Ginni Thomas Election Emails

They show she implored Arizona lawmakers to disregard 2020 vote, name 'clean' electors

(Newser) - The Washington Post has obtained more messages from Virginia "Ginni" Thomas in regard to her efforts to keep former President Trump in office. Thomas—wife of the Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas—emailed two Arizona lawmakers in November 2020 and implored them to disregard vote results showing a victory...

Thomas: Justices Don't Trust Each Other Anymore

Breakdown of faith could threaten the court, he says, while suggesting he preferred past colleagues

(Newser) - In his first public comments after the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion rights, Justice Clarence Thomas used words like "unfortunate" and talked around the issue. Thomas addressed the issues more directly in a speech Friday night in Dallas, the New York Times reports. "What...

Clarence Thomas Speaks On This Week's 'Unfortunate Events'

After leaked draft opinion tied to overturning Roe, justice says Supreme Court won't be 'bullied'

(Newser) - Chief Justice John Roberts has spoken out on the leak of the Supreme Court's draft opinion on its plans to dismantle Roe v. Wade. Now, another justice on the nation's high court is weighing in, if a bit more indirectly. On Thursday, a "relaxed and upbeat" Clarence...

Progressives: Clarence Thomas Must Go

AOC among those raising the possibility of impeachment

(Newser) - Clarence Thomas is back to his Supreme Court duties after a hospital stay , but if progressives have their way, his days on the court will be numbered. A number of lawmakers on the Democrats' left flank have raised the prospect of impeachment over the newly revealed texts of Ginni Thomas...

Report: Jan. 6 Panel Wants to Interview Ginni Thomas

Wife of SCOTUS justice urged Trump chief of staff to overturn election results

(Newser) - Ginni Thomas should expect a call from the House committee investigating the Capitol attack, sources tell CNN and the Washington Post . Insiders say the conservative activist, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is one of many people the panel has been looking at—and the news that she urged...

A Defense of Those Ginni Thomas Texts

'Wall Street Journal' editorial says they're embarrassing, but she's entitled to her views as a private citizen

(Newser) - The conservative editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is coming to the defense of Ginni Thomas, wife of the Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas. This week, the Washington Post and others reported on newly revealed texts showing that Ginni Thomas urged Mark Meadows , then chief of staff to President...

Clarence Thomas Hospitalized With Flu-Like Symptoms
Clarence Thomas
Released
From Hospital
UPDATED
Mar 25, 2022 9:55 AM CDT

Clarence Thomas Released From Hospital

Supreme Court justice had an unspecified infection

(Newser) - Update: Clarence Thomas is out of the hospital. The 73-year-old Supreme Court justice was released from Sibley Memorial Hospital in DC on Friday after a weeklong stay, reports CNN . There's still not much known about his ailment, beyond an earlier description from the court of flu-like symptoms and an...

Question in Ginni Thomas Texts: Who Is &#39;Best Friend?&#39;
Question in
Ginni Thomas
Texts: Who Is
'Best Friend?'
the rundown
Mar 25, 2022 9:26 AM CDT

Question in Ginni Thomas Texts: Who Is 'Best Friend?'

Clarence's wife urged Trump aide to fight election results, but importance of that is disputed

(Newser) - The buzzy story in DC Friday is the revelation that Virginia Thomas , wife of Clarence, urged then-President Trump's chief of staff in text messages to try to overturn the 2020 election results. At one point, she urged Mark Meadows to "release the Kraken and save us from the...

Clarence Thomas' Wife: I Was at Jan. 6 'Stop the Steal' Rally

But Ginni Thomas says she left before Capitol riot

(Newser) - Clarence Thomas' wife, who has already come under scrutiny , reveals to the Washington Free Beacon that she attended the Jan. 6, 2021, "Stop the Steal" rally that preceded the mob attack on the US Capitol. However, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas says she got cold and left before then-President Trump...

After Scrutiny of Wife, Thomas Blasts 'Cancel Culture'

In speech, he also worries about idea of 'packing' the Supreme Court with more justices

(Newser) - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says he's concerned that efforts to politicize the court or add additional justices may erode the institution's credibility, per the AP . Speaking Friday in Utah at an event hosted by former Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch’s foundation, Thomas said he worries about the...

Clarence Thomas' Wife the Focus of Critical New Profile

'New Yorker' piece wonders about justice's potential conflicts of interest with Ginni Thomas' politics

(Newser) - It's no secret that Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is a staunch conservative . But now a lengthy profile by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker raises the question of whether she's so deeply embedded in conservative causes that it raises conflicts of...

Roe v. Wade Hangs in Balance on Wednesday
Clarence Thomas' Long
Fight Reaches Its 'Zenith'
THE RUNDOWN
Nov 30, 2021 1:14 PM CST

Clarence Thomas' Long Fight Reaches Its 'Zenith'

Supreme Court hears arguments in highly awaited abortion case out of Mississippi

(Newser) - It's seen as the best chance in 50 years to overturn Roe v. Wade. On Wednesday, the most conservative Supreme Court in decades will take up the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, which centers on a Mississippi law that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy....

Clarence Thomas Offers a Warning During Speech

We must be careful not to 'destroy our institutions,' SCOTUS justice says

(Newser) - Expand the Supreme Court? Sounds like SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas probably doesn't think that's a good idea. In a lecture Thursday at the University of Notre Dame, the high court judge twice warned against "destroying our institutions because they don't give us what we want, when...

Clarence Thomas: We May Not Need Federal Marijuana Laws

Because of the government's 'piecemeal approach'

(Newser) - One of the Supreme Court's most conservative justices thinks we may be able to do away with federal weed laws. Clarence Thomas released a statement Monday in connection with the high court declining to hear an appeal from a Colorado pot dispensary looking to block the IRS from getting...

Supreme Court&#39;s Interesting New Math: 3-3-3
Supreme Court's Interesting
New Math: 3-3-3
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Jun 18, 2021 9:40 AM CDT

Supreme Court's Interesting New Math: 3-3-3

The 6-3 conservative majority isn't issuing decisions quite as expected, at least so far

(Newser) - When Amy Coney Barrett replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court last year, it resulted in what is usually described as a 6-3 advantage for conservatives over liberals on the court. But two big decisions Thursday— one on ObamaCare and the other on a Catholic group that refuses to...

Court Decides Policy Change Didn't Make $1 Lawsuit Moot

Student stopped from handing out religious material on campus has graduated

(Newser) - The Supreme Court is reviving a lawsuit brought by a Georgia college student who sued school officials after being prevented from distributing Christian literature on campus. The high court sided 8-1 with the student, Chike Uzuegbunam, and against Georgia Gwinnett College. Uzuegbunam has since graduated, and the public school in...

One Word Used 10 Times in Thomas Dissent Raises Eyebrows

Supreme Court justice regurgitated baseless voter-fraud claims in election case out of Pennsylvania

(Newser) - While it may not have been a complete surprise that Clarence Thomas dissented from his more liberal colleagues in a Supreme Court election case on Monday, what is causing some head whips is his apparently firm support for former President Trump's debunked claims of election fraud. The case the...

Ginni Thomas Apologizes to Husband's SCOTUS Clerks

She raised tensions with post in support of 'Stop the Steal' rally

(Newser) - Conservative activist Virginia "Ginni" Thomas has apologized for inflaming tensions on the normally sedate email group for former law clerks of her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, with pro-Trump posts. The Washington Post says a member of the private Thomas Clerk World listserv shared some posts from the...

Rob Lowe Is Pals With a Supreme Court Justice

Who knew?

(Newser) - They say Hollywood is all about connections. And then there's Rob Lowe—who's got a friend in an even higher place, the Albany Herald reports. "It could be Brat Pack people, it could be West Wing people, Parks and Rec people," Lowe said recently about guests...

He&#39;s Been Tried 6 Times for Same Crime. It May Soon Be 7
Supreme Court Weighs In on
Unprecedented Murder Case
the rundown
Jun 21, 2019 11:25 AM CDT

Supreme Court Weighs In on Unprecedented Murder Case

Justices toss latest conviction of Curtis Flowers, who's already had 6 murder trials for same crime

(Newser) - A white district attorney in Mississippi has tried black defendant Curtis Flowers no fewer than six times for the murder of four people in a furniture store in 1996. That amounts to a "prosecutorial pursuit that may be without parallel," per the Washington Post . Now, thanks to a...

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