Who Is Ginni Thomas?

            My VIP for this week is Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Ginni is in the news lately because she is an activist for conservative causes. The Democrats in Congress are pressuring Justice Thomas to recuse himself from certain cases because of Ginni’s political activism according to Laurel Duggan. She continued: 

“The left’s partisan crusade to force Justice Thomas off of cases is not based on real recusal standards but on politics,” Carrie Severino, president of Judicial Crisis Network, said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Democrats in Congress sent a letter to the Supreme Court urging Thomas to recuse himself from cases involving Jan. 6 and efforts to overturn the 2020 election after The Washington Post published texts from Thomas’ wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas. She reportedly accused Democrats of attempting a “heist” and said “Do not concede” in messages to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the days after the 2020 election.

“Ginni Thomas is a private citizen who is entitled to her own opinions independent of her husband,” Harmeet Dhillon, chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “To impart to a spouse his wife’s private conversations as a recusal factor is both unprecedented and grossly sexist.”

“Ms. Thomas is neither a litigant, nor a lawyer, nor even a material witness, to any case presently before the court, nor is she likely to be, despite how hard the left is straining to make this sexist trope into an issue,” Dhillon continued.

A Supreme Court statement of its recusal policy, signed by seven justices in 1993, said justices should not recuse themselves from cases where relatives do not have a substantial financial or personal interest in the outcome or are not serving as an attorney in the case….

            Ginni is the wife of Justice Thomas as well as an American citizen. She has the freedom to speak to and associate with anyone that she chooses. She did not give up her rights to be politically active when her husband was confirmed to the Supreme Court.