Attacks On Clarence Thomas Fit Decades-Long Smear Campaign

"The messages, which do not directly reference Justice Thomas or the Supreme Court, show for the first time how Ginni Thomas used her access to Trump's inner circle to promote and seek to guide the president's strategy to overturn the election results," the Post reported with the paper adopting Pelosi committee's framing to indict private political views as a blockbuster scandal.

While the committee has made an open point to prosecute those who publicly sought to cast doubt on the fairness of the 2020 election results, the committee's targeting of Ginni Thomas for privately petitioning government officials on her own marks further escalation of the probe's assault on civil liberties, and makes Thomas case all the more unique.

Baseless criticism of Justice Thomas is warranted for his political heresy, starting with his own confirmation process three decades ago.

Publication of the text messages provoked immediate calls for Justice Thomas to recuse himself from any cases related to the Jan. 6 investigation for the crime of his wife's public political views raising concerns over an election with record mail-in voting and last-minute rule changes.

New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even demanded Justice Thomas resign or face impeachment.

As outlined Tuesday in The Federalist by former Thomas Law Clerk Wendy Long judges are never asked to recuse themselves over political views, whether their own or their spouse's.

Not only are the attacks on Thomas purely political, they're hypocritical.
 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/30/the-attacks-on-clarence-and-ginni-thomas-are-merely-latest-in-a-decades-long-smear-campaign/