Revealed: Ginni Thomas's links to anti-abortion groups who lobbied to overturn Roe

[Nevilledog]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/09/ginni-thomas-abortion-roe-v-wade-supreme-court

No paywall
https://archive.ph/PMMqv


Ginni Thomas, the self-styled “culture warrior” and extreme rightwing activist, has links to more than half of the anti-abortion groups and individuals who lobbied her husband Clarence Thomas and his fellow US supreme court justices ahead of their historic decision to eradicate a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.

A new analysis of the written legal arguments, or “amicus briefs”, used to lobby the justices as they deliberated over abortion underlines the extent to which Clarence Thomas’s wife was intertwined with this vast pressure campaign.

The survey found that 51% of the parties who filed amicus briefs calling for an end to a federal abortion right have political connections to Ginni Thomas, raising concerns about a possible conflict of interest at the highest levels of the US judiciary.

The six-to-three rightwing majority of the court, supercharged by Donald Trump’s three appointed conservative justices, in June overthrew the constitutional right to an abortion. Clarence Thomas was among the six who voted for the hotly contested ruling, Dobbs v Jackson.

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[dchill]

1. I would be astounded if Ginni OR Clarence ever did anything...

... completely ethical.

[msfiddlestix]

5. or even anything close to being sort of ethical, and they sort of brag about it..out in the open.

[dchill]

11. 👍

[Mad_Machine76]

2. And

I imagine that abortion isn't the only thing he was lobbied on either...........

[crickets]

12. Likely every issue that has ever been in front of him. nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. From someone who has never been pregnant.

[thucythucy]

4. "a possible conflict of interest..."?

The corpse in the road raises the possibility that someone might have died...

[gratuitous]

6. Meanwhile the Supreme Court "investigation" into the leak continues

The smart money is on an "inconclusive" result, and nobody is found to be responsible for the leak. And nobody will have talked to either of the Thomases. And the story will die a very quiet death until years from now, when someone will say that "everybody knew" all along that it was Ginni. But now it's too late to undo all the damage done, and really, was it really all that unethical of Justice Thomas?

[Boomerproud]

7. I agree 100%.

nt

[Dustlawyer]

8. We cannot tolerate the highest court in the land to be exempt from conflict of interest rules

all other judges must follow! Impeach the bastard!

[Mr. Ected]

9. To these faith-based warriors against democracy

Any means justifies the end.

They are without remorse or guilt. They want us to live our lives the way they think we should live them. Not the way they live it themselves - because they're more important than we are - but the way they want the masses to behave.

I spit on every single one of them, with a big loogey reserved for Ginni Thomas.

[Bettie]

10. There need to be mandatory ethics rules

particularly around recusal imposed on the court.