The Ginni Thomas plot to overthrow the United States government is so much deeper than most people realize. Texas Paul reacts to the latest bombshell developments surrounding Ginni and Justice Thomas and lays out the case as to why Clarence Thomas must be impeached to save our Republic.
hey folks this is old texas paul i want
you to take a look at this video of
clarence thomas
and uh i’ll i’ll be right back one of
the things i say
in response to the media is when they
talk about especially early on about the
way i did my job i said i will
absolutely
leave the court when i do my job as
poorly as you do yours
and that was meant as a compliment
really
you hear that smoke some
do you hear that
can you listen to that and not tell me
that you believe that every word anita
hill said
was
absolute gospel
absolute gospel
you know i i want to read you another
quote
from and i wrote it down so that
made sure i got a word for word okay i
want to read you another quote from
clarence thomas
as a society we are becoming addicted to wantingwantsays the man that is overturning 50 years of legal
precedent by voting to drag down roe v wadeyeah i want to
just add a disclosure here okay this
isn’t just politics this this is
personal
i don’t just politically disagree with
clarence and jenny thomas
i
personally dislike them
they are a cancer on our country
and it is time to do something about it
it is time to do something about it you
know you go back to
take a look at clarence thomas
and he has been the worst
supreme court justice that i i i can you
know i’m a history buff and i i it’s
hard
to come up with one that has been worse
than clarence thomas he spent 10 years
10
years as a supreme court justice
and never asked a question
you know every once in a while
during the oral arguments a justice will
sit and listen
you know
maybe the questions that they had on or
whatever will be asked by another
justice whatever it’s not unheard of for
for a justice to sit quietly through
oral arguments occasionally but 10 years
10 years without a question that is a
record people
no one has ever even come close to that
just did not contribute to oral
arguments at all
and it’s not just lazy stupidity i mean
it’s it’s
he is a horrible
person
you look at the decisions
that that he’s he’s made you know like
flowers versus mississippi this was a
case that was clear clear-cut
this is a case that brett kavanaugh in
the majority opinion
said
the prosecutors were cartoonishly racist
brett kavanaugh called them cartoonishly
racist yeah clarence thomas said no that
was fine what they did was fine
yeah no no big deal
i mean he is
by far the worst
supreme court justice we have ever had
and his wife
has been flirting with the line between
activism and and just straight up
bribery
for a long time it goes back way back
when she worked with for the heritage
foundation if you remember if you’re old
like me you remember
the bush administration asked the
heritage foundation to give them a list
of
appointees the person at the heritage
foundation that was employed by the
heritage foundation and did that work
for bush
was jenny thomas while her husband
was listening to oral arguments
in bush v gore
i mean really that’s not a conflict i
mean you’ve got your wife working for
one of the people that is a complainant
it gets worse than that she started a
consulting company called liberty
consulting and she’s on
all of these radical right-wing
organizations boards
all i mean just
like turning point usa
if you don’t know who they are
they’re a group
that wants to recruit young people into
the conservative movement so they’ve set
up
you know organizations in on college
campuses all over the country
they just set one up in my grandson’s
college
um they’ve had a real problem they’ve
had a real problem they’ve had some
uh racism scandals
uh you know people that work there using
the n-word stuff like that but
by far the worst to come out was a woman
by the name of crystal clayton she just
flat out in one of her snapchats says i
hate black people
and bacon a day will keep the islam away
and she thought that was hilarious
that blew up and you know turning point
usa had had so many scandals
they ended up having to actually fire
her although actually they
guess they really didn’t because
uh jenny thomas was
on the advisory board for turning point
usa and crystal clayton went to working
from here
to working for jenny thomas
and she travels with her
she does some media work for her and
she’s
been to her home out in fairfax station
virginia and
taking pictures with her and you know
these are the kind of people that
that jenny thomas
works with and represents all the damn
time it’s really starting to get clouded
with her husband because
you know it’s like you’ve got this uh uh
center for security and policy there’s
another one uh the guy by then frank
gaffney runs that he’s paying jenny
thomas two hundred thousand dollars
for something
you know something we don’t know we
don’t know what kind of consulting she
does for him but at the same time frank
gaffney who has a real muslim problem
has been
identified by the anti-deaf defamation
league as putting forward conspiracy
theories about muslims and whatnot it
files an amicus brief
in trump’s muslim ban
yeah
the center for security policy files an
amicus brief on a case that’s before the
supreme court and has paid jenny thomas
two hundred thousand dollars and
clarence thomas uh
upheld the muslim play voted to uphold
the muslim ban it was uphill yeah
i mean
i i don’t know how more clear-cut that
that gets i mean you know i mean
you pumped two hundred 200 000 into the
thomas household
and you’re
filing amicus briefs on a case
that
thomas is hearing
yeah
and it gets worse people it gets worse
i mean
you think that’s bad i mean but it gets
they’re really a cancer on our society
it gets worse
we know that it had come out that jenny
thomas and all of her activism and
whatnot had been if you want to call it
that i call it insurrection had been
bombarding mark meadows with complaints
after the election she wanted sidney
powell
to represent
donald trump
she wanted to release the kraken and she
was putting forward all these q and on
conspiracy theories all over facebook
social media everywhere just bombing it
was just
nut balk and conspiracy theories and
blowing up mark meadows phone now i
i
don’t exactly know why the wife of a
supreme court justice would have the
president chief of staff’s phone number
but she did she’s just texting the
out of him trying to get him to
to overturn that election and not only
is jenny thomas telling mark meadows who
needs to lead trump’s legal defense
she’s telling him who to purge who to
fire in various departments and that she
wants to
to vet people and provide him with a
list of people she she is going to tell
the trump white house who to hire who’s
loyal to trump she wants to go through
and fire all the disloyal is that not
fascism i mean is that not pure fascism
she wants to go through and vet people
that she considers herself to be
disloyal to trump and provide them with
a list of people that she thinks will be
sufficiently loyal not loyal to the
constitution loyal to trump oh and
just an fyi one of the people on that
list serve
is john eastman
he’s a former clerk
of clarence thomas and if you
haven’t been following things john
eastman is trump’s lawyer
yeah he he just
was the one that lost his court case
uh to keep his coup memos he planned the
coup for donald
trump yeah
another
winner around
the uh
thomases
didn’t stop there she also got in touch
we find out with shauna bolek who is
at the time
right after the election working real
hard to get things overturned in arizona
she
being jenny thomas had contacted bolick
who is a good family friend her husband
clint bolick is on the arizona supreme
court and clarence thomas is their kid’s
godfather so jenny thomas is badgering
her to
set aside the
certification for the election just
undeclare biden the victor and create
their own slate of electors
i’m not even kidding
i’m not even kidding meanwhile clarence
thomas hears a case regarding
communications between the white house
and everybody trying to overthrow this
damn election and he doesn’t recuse
himself are you telling me that you
believe that clarence thomas didn’t know
his wife was contacting the bola
household i mean he’s he’s godfather to
their child you’re telling me he didn’t
know that he was contacting them asking
shauna bullock to to overturn this
election and shawna bullock didn’t shy
away either i mean she immediately told
jenny thomas how to protest you know
file protests and stuff in arizona and
the side note she’s running for
secretary of state now
yeah
good news there right because she
absolutely failed because she tried to
pass bill shauna bullock tried to pass a
bill in arizona that said the
legislature
could legally
just set aside
certifications
you know that was the problem they had
before is they couldn’t legally do it
they wanted to make it legal thank god
that got voted down but now she wants to
be secretary of state yeah folks these
people are a cancer they are a real
cancer
and we’ve got to root it out clarence
thomas needs to be impeached
he does
you know there there’s a
real problem
in our supreme court
it’s no longer
just calling balls and strikes
we’ve got people in that supreme court
that are
absolutely politically involved
they’re absolutely crossing the line
with where their money
and whatnot comes in blurring those
lines and jenny thomas is the worst of
it she had to apologize did you if you
don’t list service listserv is a lot of
people don’t listserv is just a service
where you
batch together a bunch of people on
emails and it and and you
create groups and you have discussions
back and forth
uh between people well all of clarence
thomas’s clerks are in a listserv group
together
jenny thomas just took over
clarence thomas’s
supreme court justice clarence thomas’s
list serve and tried to push this crazy
q anon
nut ball let’s overthrow the election
conspiracy
on the supreme supreme court justices
lister this is going out to judges these
former clerks are
all over the place she ended up having
to make a public apology for it but yeah
i mean think about that this is part of
his job now
she is getting involved in
all of his former clerks it’s insane
people it is just insane
this
is beyond the pale this has to stop
we have to impeach clarence thomas and
we have to impeach him now thanks folks
i
appreciate you texas paul out
Ginni and Clarence Thomas Have Done Enough Damage
What did Justice Clarence Thomas know, and when did he know it?
The question usually gets directed at politicians, not judges, but it’s a fair one in light of the revelation on Thursday that Justice Thomas’s wife, Ginni, was working feverishly behind the scenes — and to a far greater degree than she previously admitted — in a high-level effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
As The Washington Post and CBS News first reported, Ms. Thomas, a supremely well-connected right-wing agitator, was in constant communication with the White House in the weeks following the election, strategizing over how to keep Donald Trump in office despite his incontrovertible loss. “Do not concede,” she texted to Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, on Nov. 6, the day before the major news networks called the election for Joe Biden. “It takes time for the army who is gathering for his back.” (To date, Mr. Trump has not conceded.)
In dozens of messages with Mr. Meadows over several weeks, Ms. Thomas raged over baseless allegations of voter fraud and shared unhinged conspiracy theories, including one that the “Biden crime family” was in the process of being arrested and sent to Guantánamo Bay for “ballot fraud.”
“Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!” Ms. Thomas wrote at one point. “The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.”
Ms. Thomas had already acknowledged some involvement in the fight over the 2020 election count, recently confirming that she attended the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally in Washington, but she said she went home before Mr. Trump spoke to the crowd and before a mob of hundreds stormed the Capitol in a violent attempt to block the certification of Mr. Biden’s Electoral College victory. The texts reveal that her efforts to subvert the election were far more serious than we knew.
Now recall that in January, the Supreme Court rejected Mr. Trump’s request to block the release of White House records relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Mr. Meadows had submitted a brief in the case supporting Mr. Trump. The court’s ruling came as an unsigned order, with only one noted dissent: from Justice Thomas.
Perhaps Justice Thomas was not aware of his wife’s text-message campaign to Mr. Meadows at the time. But it sure makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
And that’s precisely the problem: We shouldn’t have to wonder. The Supreme Court is the most powerful judicial body in the country, and yet, as Alexander Hamilton reminded us, it has neither the sword nor the purse as a means to enforce its rulings. It depends instead on the American people’s acceptance of its legitimacy, which is why the justices must make every possible effort to appear fair, unbiased and beyond reproach.
That may seem naïve, particularly in the face of the crippling assaults on the court that Mitch McConnell and his Senate Republicans have carried out over the past six years in order to secure a right-wing supermajority that often resembles a judicial policy arm of the Republican Party — starting with their theft of a vacancy that was President Barack Obama’s to fill and continuing through the last-second confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett while millions of voters were already in the process of casting Mr. Trump out of office.
And yet the public’s demand for basic fairness and judicial neutrality is not only proper but critical to the court’s integrity, as the justices, whoever nominated them, are well aware. Partly in response to the court’s tanking public-approval ratings, several of them have grown increasingly outspoken in defense of their independence. (Though not all of them.)
The most obvious way for justices to demonstrate that independence in practice, of course, is to recuse themselves from any case in which their impartiality might reasonably be questioned. It does not matter whether there is, in fact, a conflict of interest; the mere appearance of bias or conflict should be enough to compel Justice Thomas or any other member of the court to step aside.
Many of them have over the years, out of respect for the court as an institution and for the public’s faith in their probity. Just this week, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson vowed that if confirmed she would recuse herself from an upcoming case challenging Harvard’s affirmative-action policies, because of her multiple personal and professional connections to the university. Legal-ethics experts are not even in agreement that her recusal would be necessary, but Judge Jackson is right to err on the side of caution.
Justice Thomas has paid lip service to this ideal. “I think the media makes it sound as though you are just always going right to your personal preference,” he said in a speech last year. “That’s a problem. You’re going to jeopardize any faith in the legal institutions.”
Bench memo to the justice: You know what jeopardizes public faith in legal institutions? Refusing to recuse yourself from numerous high-profile cases in which your wife has been personally and sometimes financially entangled, as The New Yorker reported in January. Especially when you have emphasized that you and she are melded “into one being.” Or when you have, as The Times Magazine reported last month, appeared together with her for years “at highly political events hosted by advocates hoping to sway the court.”
Ms. Thomas’s efforts, and her husband’s refusal to respond appropriately, have been haunting the court for years, but this latest conflagration shouldn’t be a close call. “The texts are the narrowest way of looking at this,” Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor and one of the nation’s foremost legal-ethics experts, told me. “She signed up for Stop the Steal. She was part of the team, and that team had an interest in how the court would rule. That’s all I need to know.” He said he has over the years resisted calling for Justice Thomas’s recusal based on his wife’s actions, “but they’ve really abused that tolerance.”
Yes, married people can lead independent professional lives, and it is not a justice’s responsibility to police the actions of his or her spouse. But the brazenness with which the Thomases have flouted the most reasonable expectations of judicial rectitude is without precedent. From the Affordable Care Act to the Trump administration’s Muslim ban to the 2020 election challenges, Ms. Thomas has repeatedly embroiled herself in big-ticket legal issues and with litigants who have wound up before her husband’s court. All the while, he has looked the other way, refusing to recuse himself from any of these cases. For someone whose job is about judging, Justice Thomas has, in this context at least, demonstrated abominably poor judgment.
If Justice Thomas were sitting on any other federal court in the country, he would likely have been required by the code of judicial ethics to recuse himself many times over. But the code does not apply to Supreme Court justices, creating a situation in which the highest court in the land is also the most unaccountable.
This is not tolerable. For years, Congress has tried in vain to extend the ethics code to the Supreme Court. For the sake of fundamental fairness and consistency, the code must apply to all federal judges; it would at the very least force the hand of those like Justice Thomas who seem unmoved by any higher sense of duty to the institution or to the American people who have agreed to abide by its rulings.
The court is in deep trouble these days, pervaded by what Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently called the “stench” of partisanship — a stench arising in no small part from the Thomases’ behavior. It is hard to imagine that the other justices, regardless of their personal politics, aren’t bothered.
No one should have to choose between their devotion to their spouse and their duty to the nation. But Justice Thomas has shown himself unwilling or unable to protect what remains of the court’s reputation from the appearance of extreme bias he and his wife have created. He would do the country a service by stepping down and making room for someone who won’t have that problem.