Washington – Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a conservative activist who is married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, revealed in a new interview that she attended the January 6, 2021 demonstration in front of the White House that took place before to bring down a crowd of supporters of former President Donald Trump. at the U.S. Capitol, interrupting the joint session of Congress.
Thomas told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview that he was in the crowd at the Ellipse on the morning of January 6, but left early when it got cold and returned home before the former president headed to the Ellipse. crowd of his supporters.
During his speech, Trump reiterated his baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was full of electoral fraud and urged those gathered to march on the Capitol in protest of the election result.
“I was disappointed and frustrated that there was violence after a peaceful rally of Trump supporters on the Ellipse on January 6,” Thomas told Free Beacon, a conservative publication. “There are important and legitimate substantive issues about achieving goals such as electoral integrity, racial equality and the political accountability that a democratic system like ours needs to be able to rationally discuss and debate in the political arena. I’m afraid we are losing that ability “.
The New York Times reported in February that Thomas played a “peacekeeping role” among the factions of the protest organizers, but rejected the claim and others involved in his alleged role in the demonstration.
“I didn’t play any role with those who were planning and leading the January 6 events,” he told the Free Beacon. “There are stories in the press that suggest I paid for or arranged buses. I didn’t. There are other stories that say I mediated between factions facing leaders that day. I didn’t.”
Conservative activism and Trump’s support for Trump have come under scrutiny in recent months, especially when the former president asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a dispute between him and the select committee of the House investigating the January 6 assault on the Capitol.
The judges in short rejected Trump’s emergency request to prevent the National Archives and Records Administration from returning bundles of his White House documents, although Clarence Thomas was the only member of the court to notice his dissent. .
Thomas, who runs a political consulting firm, defended her work in politics against the Free Beacon and tried to dispel any concerns about her husband’s work in court.
“Like so many married couples, we share many of the same ideals, principles, and aspirations for the United States,” she said. “But we have our own separate careers, and our own ideas and opinions as well. Clarence doesn’t discuss his work with me, and I don’t involve him in my work.”
The “legal lane” is that of her husband, Thomas continued, and told the Free Beacon that the couple will not discuss the cases until opinions are made public.
Decisions on when to challenge a case due to conflicts of interest are largely up to the courts themselves, but judicial groups have called for more transparency and accountability around challenges and disputes.
President Biden’s Supreme Court Commission, which considered possible reforms in the country’s highest court, said in its final report that requiring judges to explain their reasons for recusal “could improve the transparency” of the process and serve guidance to other judges.
Appointed to the Supreme Court by President George HW Bush, Clarence Thomas, 73, has served on the court since 1991 and is among its most conservative members.
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