Clarence Thomas Is Begging to be Impeached!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

There have been a string of good political stories coming out of Arizona over the past week, especially at the state level where Democrats were victorious in the US Senate race as well as in elections for Secretary of State and Governor.  The losing Republican candidates in all three of those races were conspiracy theorists who professed to believe that Trump had won the election in 2020 - and all three were personally endorsed by Trump.  The Republican nominee who lost the governor's race, former local newscaster Kari Lake, had reportedly even harbored ambitions to be Trump's running mate in 2024 - but then democracy happened and a house fell on her!

There was another story in the press yesterday related to Arizona and Donald Trump that did not receive the same level of coverage as the election returns, but it is impacting the credibility of a sitting United States Supreme Court Justice - and has to potential to alter the make-up of the Court.

And it is a story that is destined to grow.

Monday the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Arizona state GOP chairwoman, Kelli Ward, to block lower court decisions that ordered her to comply with a subpoena to turn over her phone records to the US House committee that is investigating the domestic terrorists attacks of January 6th on the US Capitol and the plots to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.  Ward was involved in plans to send a slate of fake electors to Washington, DC, to challenge the state's official electors, and Ward, herself, was to have been on of those fake electors.

When the US Supreme Court rejected Ward's appeal yesterday, it cleared the way for the January 6th committee to get her phone records.  However, two Justices dissented (without comment) in that decision:  Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.  Thomas's dissent is particularly troubling because it is widely assumed that Ward's text messages and emails will include contacts with Justice Thomas's wife, Ginni, an election denier who had contact with officials in the White House as well as with members of some state legislatures - including Arizona - regarding sending alternative slates of (fake) electors to Congress for the official election tabulations.

Yesterday US Supreme Court Justice Thomas may have, through his dissent, acted to shield his wife from a congressional investigation.  Previously the Supreme Court had voted not to block release of White House records held by the National Archives to the January 6th Committee.  At that time Clarence Thomas was the only Justice to dissent on that matter.  Those records subsequently revealed email communications between Ginni Thomas and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

At this point Clarence Thomas seems to be actively trying to shield his wife from the legal consequences of her election-related activities.  Since he has chosen not to recuse himself from matters involving his wife, and since he obviously has no intention of resigning his seat of the nation's highest court, impeachment is the sole remaining remedy for a Justice who will not honor his oath to the Constitution.

And Clarence Thomas seems to be begging  for it!