By Ken Zino
Virginia Thomas is a clear and present danger to democracy, based on publicly available information about her lobbying role promoting the overthrow of the legally and fairly elected president. It’s just the latest twist of the seditionist plot that is unfolding as the House Select Committee’s docudrama continues.
Worse, Ginni Thomas’ husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has already ruled in a case* where he had distinct personal and financial conflicts of interest. He didn’t recuse himself, because the authority to decide such conflicts of interest lies within the Supreme Court.
Perhaps, I shouldn’t be surprised over this latest travesty. No surprise that the January 6 Committee now wants Ginni Thomas to come forth and discuss her active role in the Stop the Steal Movement that led to the insurrection.
“We have sent Ms. Thomas a letter, asking her to come and talk to the committee,” the chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) told reporters after the three-hour public hearing last Thursday. Thompson and committee vice chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) said it was time for her to come in voluntarily to provide testimony to the nine-member panel after investigators discovered communications between her and John Eastman, the Trump personal attorney that the panel painted last Thursday as a key architect in the attempt to get Pence to reject the Electoral College ballot count on January 6.
This occurs while The Department of Justice is apparently deep into its own criminal investigation of the insurrection. It has requested the January 6 Committee provide it with transcripts from more than 1,000 interviews. The committee has publicly said there is a “cooperative process” with the department. Presumably, if or when Gini Thomas is interviewed, the tapes or transcript will also be headed DOJ’s way. It’s looking to me that she too will need an effing-good criminal lawyer.
It’s also clear more legal actions concerning the insurrection will be forthcoming. Moreover, the last stop before becoming a guest of the federal prison system is, ahem, the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court? The final say on all forthcoming insurrection matters will or could come from the same court that decided Dred Scott was property. The Supreme Court that also once claimed racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution if the facilities for each race were "separate but equal."
The Supreme Court that Clarence Thomas now is on.
So here we are on the sane side of the looking glass, once again bewildered. Go ask Alice; How this can be?
*In 2021, Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to block the turnover of documents from his White House to the January 6 House Select Committee, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said the documents were vital to investigators. On January 19, 2022, the Supreme Court published its ruling, which said that of its nine members, only Justice Thomas had voted to approve the former president's request. This allowed the presidential records of former President Donald Trump to be transferred to the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.