Critics were stunned on Saturday after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was scolded by Americans for not accepting controversial rulings – as his own wife fought against the results of a legitimate presidential election.
Thomas rebuked a distraught public at a judicial conference in Atlanta on Friday in comments after a draft Supreme Court opinion was leaked, which Roe v. Wade and would end half a century of abortion rights.
He complained that Americans are “accustomed” to the results they want – while they are “not living up to the rules” they oppose. He warned that the court would not be “threatened” in the event of a protest. Undermining respect for law and institutions, Thomas warned, is “detrimental to a free society.”
Thomas was a protestant. Not only did his wife, Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, refuse to “stay together” for the presidential election, he was the only Supreme Court judge to vote that former President Donald Trump release his White House documents to a House committee. should not have. Inquiry into last year’s rebellion
Ginny Thomas, who had special access to the Trump administration because of her husband’s position, presented White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows with dozens of texts as he worked feverishly to bolster the results of the election. That revelation in March prompted calls for Justice Thomas to recuse or impeach himself from all rebellion issues.
Thomas has also repeatedly attempted to break the legal precedence set by the court.
“The irony is so thick it makes you wonder if it’s the Clarence Thomas impersonator,” former US attorney Harry Littman said on MSNBC Saturday.
Littman said, “Among other things, this is a man who throughout his life has tried to take a thrashing Ram to all the prime precedents of the Supreme Court.” “He is now saying that people do not respect the law enough. Even he is leaving all the controversies he has created as his wife. It is just… remarkable. “
Ted Liu (D-Calif.) wrote that it is the Supreme Court whose goal is to “threate” women into “government-mandated pregnancies”.
Representative Corey Bush (D-Mo.) reported before the speech that both Thomas and Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh were questioned about credible allegations of sexual misconduct at their confirmation hearings, yet set reproductive rights for women. are.
And that was just the beginning.
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