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Nevilledog

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Tue Feb 22, 2022, 11:53 AM Feb 2022

The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas



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Trump courted Justice Thomas…Ginni Thomas used that courtship to gain access to the Oval Office, where her insistent policy and personnel suggestions so aggravated aides that one called her a ‘wrecking ball.’ Thomas doesn’t belong on the Supreme Court.

Clarence and Ginni Thomas at a Heritage Foundation event to celebrate his 30 years on the Supreme Court last October.
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The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas
The Supreme Court justice and his wife battled for years for a more conservative America. New reporting shows how far she was willing to go after Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.
8:40 AM · Feb 22, 2022


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/magazine/clarence-thomas-ginni-thomas.html

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The call to action was titled “Election Results and Legal Battles: What Now?” Shared in the days after the 2020 presidential election, it urged the members of an influential if secretive right-wing group to contact legislators in three of the swing states that tipped the balance for Joe Biden — Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania. The aim was audacious: Keep President Donald J. Trump in power.

The group, the Council for National Policy, brings together old-school Republican luminaries, Christian conservatives, Tea Party activists and MAGA operatives, with more than 400 members who include leaders of organizations like the Federalist Society, the National Rifle Association and the Family Research Council. Founded in 1981 as a counterweight to liberalism, the group was hailed by President Ronald Reagan as seeking the “return of righteousness, justice and truth” to America.

As Trump insisted, without evidence, that fraud had cheated him of victory, conservative groups rushed to rally behind him. The council stood out, however, not only because of its pedigree but also because one of its newest leaders was Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas and a longtime activist in right-wing circles. She had taken on a prominent role at the council during the Trump years and by 2019 had joined the nine-member board of C.N.P. Action, an arm of the council organized as a 501(c)4 under a provision of the tax code that allows for direct political advocacy. It was C.N.P. Action that circulated the November “action steps” document, the existence of which has not been previously reported. It instructed members to pressure Republican lawmakers into challenging the election results and appointing alternate slates of electors:
“Demand that they not abandon their Constitutional responsibilities during a time such as this.”

Such a plan, if carried out successfully, would have almost certainly landed before the Supreme Court — and Ginni Thomas’s husband. In fact, Trump was already calling for that to happen. In a Dec. 2 speech at the White House, the president falsely claimed that “millions of votes were cast illegally in swing states alone” and said he hoped “the Supreme Court of the United States will see it” and “will do what’s right for our country, because our country cannot live with this kind of an election.”

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The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2022 OP
Was Clarence Thomas married to this woman, Bayard Feb 2022 #1
yes northoftheborder Feb 2022 #3
K&R UTUSN Feb 2022 #2
Mr. and Mrs. Scumbag. (nt) Paladin Feb 2022 #4
For this thread LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 #5
Miss Disinformation Kid Berwyn Feb 2022 #6

Kid Berwyn

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6. Miss Disinformation
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 04:42 PM
Feb 2022
Ginni Thomas, Wife of the Supreme Court Justice, Helped Advance the Election Disinformation Campaign – Here’s How

by Kristin Doerr, Right Wing Watch
New Civil Rights Movement, Jan. 13, 2021

Excerpt…

In the days leading up to the Jan. 6 mayhem, and on the day itself, the connection between CNP and Stop the Steal—and the campaign’s influence on the White House—became more apparent.

On Dec. 30, Right Wing Watch posted a report about a letter sent by the Conservative Action Project to Senate Republicans urging them to “contest the electoral votes” from “Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona”—the battleground states Biden won. That letter may have not mentioned Stop the Steal by name, but it asked senators to do exactly what Stop the Steal was demanding of Republican members of Congress: to reject electoral votes in favor of Biden.

Continues…

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/01/ginni-thomas-wife-of-the-supreme-court-justice-helped-advance-the-election-disinformation-campaign-heres-how/
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