Ginni Thomas: The January 6th Activist Whose Husband Refused to Recuse
The Conflict No One Will Enforce Virginia “Ginni” Thomas is not a private citizen who happened to marry a Supreme Court justice. She is a professional conservative activist who spent months working to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election—texting the White House chief of staff, emailing swing-state legislators, and attending the rally that preceded the January 6 Capitol attack. Her husband, Justice Clarence Thomas, then participated in Supreme Court cases directly related to that effort. He was the lone dissenter when the Court allowed the House January 6 Committee to obtain Trump White House documents. He participated in cases involving the immunity of the man whose election her efforts sought to restore. He never recused himself from a single related matter. ...