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UpInArms

(51,284 posts)
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 10:49 AM Jan 2022

Clarence Thomas' wife spoke at a conservative conference featuring the founder of the Oath Keepers,

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Clarence Thomas' wife spoke at a conservative conference featuring the founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group involved in the Capitol riot

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife co-hosted a banquet as part of a symposium that featured the founder of the Oath Keepers, the New Yorker reported.

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Among her connections is Stewart Rhodes, who founded the extremist militia group in 2009. Prosecutors previously said the Oath Keepers planned out attacks on the Capitol and held trainings in the weeks before January 6, 2021.

Thomas, a conservative activist and attorney, co-hosted a Remember the Ladies Banquet at the 2010 Liberty XPO & Symposium, which has been described as the "largest conservative training event in history," alongside Moms for America president Kimberly Fletcher.

The symposium also featured Rhodes, who earlier this month was arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the Capitol riot. His arrest and charges marked the first time federal prosecutors brought sedition charges against anyone in the investigation into the Capitol siege. He has pleaded not guilty.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/clarence-thomas-wife-oath-keepers-founder-featured-together-at-event-2022-1

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Clarence Thomas' wife spoke at a conservative conference featuring the founder of the Oath Keepers, (Original Post) UpInArms Jan 2022 OP
Remember the Ladies??? CurtEastPoint Jan 2022 #1
along with onethatcares Jan 2022 #2
That's because they are all mental midgets (not offense meant to little people). walkingman Jan 2022 #4
Hey Ginni, Your slip is showing. Tommymac Jan 2022 #3
Of course musclecar6 Jan 2022 #5
I understand Jan 6 committee will refrain from requiring Ginni's testimony msfiddlestix Jan 2022 #6
I think she should be issued a subpoena Buckeyeblue Jan 2022 #7
Exactly my thoughts. I don't get to decide though I'd love to be consulted msfiddlestix Jan 2022 #8
I guess is that they don't think she has new information Buckeyeblue Jan 2022 #14
Kick dalton99a Jan 2022 #9
She was in on it amaico Jan 2022 #10
What a coincidence. Kid Berwyn Jan 2022 #11
Hopefully the walls are closing in on her and her husband. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2022 #12
we all KNOW that Ginni Thomas stopdiggin Jan 2022 #13

musclecar6

(1,690 posts)
5. Of course
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 11:59 AM
Jan 2022


She’s married to that mental giant who seems to never vote for anything that would help people of color. They probably finish each other’s sentences.

msfiddlestix

(7,285 posts)
6. I understand Jan 6 committee will refrain from requiring Ginni's testimony
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 12:04 PM
Jan 2022

But hey, I think they should subpoena her just the same.

Buckeyeblue

(5,500 posts)
7. I think she should be issued a subpoena
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 12:19 PM
Jan 2022

I suspect she had inside knowledge about their plans. She seems to be everywhere and a part of every far right group.

I think a lot of pressure should be put on Thomas to recuse from any case where is wife is part of an advocacy group. She is more than just a private citizen with an opinion at this point.

Attorneys arguing before the court should press for his recusal.

msfiddlestix

(7,285 posts)
8. Exactly my thoughts. I don't get to decide though I'd love to be consulted
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 01:18 PM
Jan 2022

that's not going to happen. There is a slight/slim possibility Jan 6 committee will choose to go there.

That would give me enormous pleasure, and it seems like they'd hit good pay dirt related to Jan 6 insurrection.

Buckeyeblue

(5,500 posts)
14. I guess is that they don't think she has new information
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 04:48 PM
Jan 2022

And while they'd love nothing more than to piss off Thomas, they probably think the distraction would be too much.

Kid Berwyn

(14,947 posts)
11. What a coincidence.
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 01:25 PM
Jan 2022

Her husband is Associate Justice Clarence “Pubic Hair” Thomas, who recently voted in favor of Dimdonnie Drumpfler.

stopdiggin

(11,345 posts)
13. we all KNOW that Ginni Thomas
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 02:13 PM
Jan 2022

is (and has been) a right wing nutjob, pretty much since forever. There is no news there. And the 'association' being pointed to here is to someone (Oath Keeper) who apparently spoke at conference/event, in which Thomas 'co-hosted' a banquet - in 2010.

That's pretty tenuous - anything (about Rhodes) a little more recent than that? Otherwise, the story remains essentially the same - in that Thomas pals around with some very far right people.

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