Spouses Of Supreme Court Justices Are Seldom In The News
Now the public is getting to know the wife of one justice
It is due to the 2020 election for the White House
As a new potential Supreme Court Justice has been grilled by members of the United States Senate before confirmation, the eyes of the country have been on the first Black woman nominated for that high position. Her husband has been in the news a little because of the unusual stockings he wears. The media has found them interesting.
Spouses of the Justices seem to seldom be in the news, but one wife is making headlines at the present time.
Although there are photos of Justice Clarence Thomas being sworn in with his wife in the picture, she has kept out of the news for the large part. She is his second wife whom he married after he was divorced from his first wife.
His wife, Virginia Thomas, is a conservative activist and attorney. It is quite likely that no one paid much attention to her previously, but now she is in the news because she was present at the rally in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. It was not made known until over a year after the event. Now she is being investigated as one who was definitely supporting Trump in his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. That part is no surprise.
It had looked as if the news would blow over because she said she had simply been at the rally where Trump spoke to supporters for just a short time. She said she had left early because it was cold. She denied participating in the rioting at the Capitol. Now texts have emerged and are being made public.
The news is reporting that “Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows texted about overturning 2020 election.”
Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in urgent text exchanges in the critical weeks following the vote, according to copies of the messages obtained by CBS News and The Washington Post.
Those messages — part of 29 total messages obtained — reveal an extraordinary pipeline between Virginia Thomas, who goes by Ginni, and then-President Donald Trump’s top aide during a period when Trump and his allies were vowing to go the Supreme Court in an effort to subvert the election results. [CBS News]
The political leanings of the Supreme Court Justices are no secret. It is a highly partisan body of justices who are supposed to be fair and just.
It is unusual for the spouses of Supreme Court Justices to become embroiled in such matters as political elections or rallies and riots. This situation with the wife of Clarence Thomas is likely unprecedented.
