Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Ariz. lawmakers to help overturn Trump's defeat, emails show

[demmiblue]

Source: WaPo

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed 29 Republican state lawmakers in Arizona — 27 more than previously known — to set aside Joe Biden’s popular vote victory and “choose” presidential electors, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post.

The Post reported last month that Thomas sent emails to two Arizona House members, in November and December 2020, urging them to help overturn Biden’s win by selecting presidential electors — a responsibility that belongs to Arizona voters under state law. Thomas sent the messages using FreeRoots, an online platform intended to make it easy to send pre-written emails to multiple elected officials.

New documents show that Thomas indeed used the platform to reach many lawmakers simultaneously. On Nov. 9, she sent identical emails to 20 members of the Arizona House and seven Arizona state senators. That represents more than half of the Republican members of the state legislature at the time.

The message, just days after media organizations called the race for Biden in Arizona and nationwide, urged lawmakers to “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure” and claimed that the responsibility to choose electors was “yours and yours alone.” They had “power to fight back against fraud” and “ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen,” the email said.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/06/10/ginni-thomas-election-arizona-lawmakers/

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[AnotherMother4Peace]

1. This supreme court member spouse/confidant was in the thick of pushing the "big lie". nt

[samsingh]

2. Are Democrats going to fight to save our Democracy or are we going to let them steal it from us?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. My WaPo breaking news banner

broke this story all late...

[TeamProg]

4. LOCK HER UP !! NOW !!!!

[TomSlick]

5. Gee, I wonder why Injustice Thomas did not recuse from the case involving release of these records

and issued a sole dissent against the release.

To the extent needed:

[Lonestarblue]

6. According to the definition, Ginni Thomas committed inaurrection.

“Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”

Her attempt to incite Arizona officials to create a fake set of electors in an attempt to rebel against the authority of Congress to certify a legal election seems to mark her as a key player in the seditious conspiracy. She has already said that she paid to hire buses to take people to DC for the rally. How many of the people on those buses were inside the Capitol ransacking it?

[oldsoftie]

7. Is this something that this witch can be prosecuted for?

If so then freaking DO IT

[LonePirate]

8. How is she not in jail?

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. Sedition?

Really?

These folks are outside their damn minds, if they thought this was gonna work.

[AllyCat]

10. Arrest this woman NOW and impeach her husband!

This is NOT okay. Ever. What a crazy, callous, dangerous woman.

[maxsolomon]

11. Essentially, she spam emailed the AZ GQP legislators.

It's wildly inappropriate for Clarence Thomas' position, but she's always been a crazy GQP partisan.

This isn't a crime - you're allowed to be a crazy person who sends crazy emails that will be ignored as long as you don't issue threats. Nothing will come of this.

Respectfully,
A Wet Blanket

[EndlessWire]

23. What is your thinking here?

Nothing may come of it, but confidence in the SC is now permanently eroded.

What kind of "threats" are you talking about that she didn't issue? Urging the taking of actions that amount to sedition? Urging people who could do that under the color of authority to do it? Or. using her position as a SC spouse to urge seated members to break the law?

These people have their heads up their asses. And, you know, having a reputation as a "crazy GQP partisan" does NOT excuse breaking of the law.

Clarence needs to resign.

[maxsolomon]

24. My thinking is that she has no ethics.

But I don't understand what the crime she committed is. Issuing threats via email or phone or letter is a clear crime; that's what I'm saying. That is not what she did.

If you think Thomas will resign over this, you're wrong. He won't.

"Confidence in the SC" has been eroded for approximately ever - let's pick Dredd Scott as a convenient starting point. It's when they decide FOR Justice and Liberty that we are surprised.

[EndlessWire]

25. It is a clear crime.

Ginni Thomas urged the physical substitution of one set of electoral votes for another. The balancing of interests here, under the First Amendment, outweighs her disregard of regulatory law, and requires that the government take notice to limit such activity. The definition of the word “force” is evident in the actions urged by her to an organization of those who could eminently cause such action to occur. Her position as the spouse of a SC justice gives more force to the matter than if an ordinary citizen were to discuss such a matter. Further, her advocacy of committing an illegal act sufficient to actually change the government fits the definition of legal force. Under 18 U.S. Code Section 2385, her actions are not constitutionally protected free speech, which urged actions including “language of incitement” to a political party who was inclined to do anything to ensure that Donald Trump continue in power. This conclusion is supported by the January 6th attempted coup.

I never said that Thomas would resign. I said that he should. Confidence in the SC and its decisions is gone, and I did not broaden my argument to include all previous engagement, so I am not going to address the Dredd Scott decision. And, no, I don’t believe that Ginni Thomas will be prosecuted under US Codes, because we are currently showing a reluctance to hold all those guilty of the attempted coup as culpable under the law. We should indict her as a separate attempt to overthrow the government, and test out her Constitutional right to free speech, and see if publishing advocacy of overthrowing the Government via substitution of electors will fly in the face of 18 US Code Chapter 115. However, the Democrats will not do this, because Justice Thomas is sitting up there, and it is his wife who did it.

I would also like to point out that the mad scramble that the GOP did to pass laws which enable them to substitute electors indicates that advocacy to substitute electors is probably an illegal activity, otherwise they would just do it.

[IronLionZion]

12. Ginni is the Karenest Karen of all

[speak easy]

13. Tucker tucker on the wall ....

[Tommymac]

14. These fools think they are on the top of the shit heap now.

Funny how shit is soft and eventually one sinks to the bottom of the pile.

This is how history will eventually show them...fools on the bottom of the shit heap.

Happy historical reputation to the Clarence Thomas family:

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Hard core "activist" or insurrectionist guilty of fraud and conspiracy?? I think the latter.

And a complicit SCJ. Good God y'all.

[dlk]

16. How is Thomas not a seditionist and a traitor?

Imagine the response if she and her husband were Democrats. Clarence would have already been impeached and removed from the bench.

[Lucky Luciano]

17. Was that wrong?

[housecat]

18. Can someone please explain to me how attempted murder is a crime, but attempted coup isn't

[myohmy2]

19. aunt ginni...

...and maybe uncle thomas appear to be unconstitutionally challenged...some may say traitoriously unconstitutionally challenged...

...we need a man with a wife without scruples on the supreme court to help guide him with those right-wing political-hack decisions...

...and they don't want to politicize the court...

...oh dear, I'm getting nauseous again...

...republicans...

[GB_RN]

20. If The Shoe Were On The Other Foot...

And the spouse of a liberal justice had done this, the Reich Wingers would be calling for a public hanging or execution, plus the resignation of that justice. You KNOW it.

[lees1975]

21. Yet another example for why we need to abolish the electoral college and choose the President

by the national popular vote. No state should have the ability to manipulate a federal election and that goes for senate and congressional elections as well.

[Stuart G]

22. K & R