Virginia 'Ginni' Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, collected nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations for a conservative group, according to a report that sheds new light on her advocacy.
The revelation – the latest to heap scrutiny onto the Supreme Court – was likely to raise renewed . So far, those calls have been unheeded by the justices.
It also brings renewed attention to Ginni Thomas herself and her involvement in sometimes-controversial conservative battles. She had sent dozens of text messages to former President Donald Trump's chief of staff urging him to fight the results of the 2020 election, for example. She later told a congressional committee investigating the Jan.
A Supreme Court spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment. An attorney for Thomas pushed back on any suggestion of a conflict of interest.Thomas has been a conservative advocate for decades and is the most politically engaged spouse of any of the Supreme Court justices. That has led towith Justice Clarence Thomas when cases involving politics or conservative causes come before the nation's highest court.
But the details of Thomas' efforts, including who has funded her various advocacy efforts, have long been murky. The documents reviewed by the Washington Post do not say whether the money at issue was spent, whether Thomas herself received any of it norThe latest story involving Thomas is likely to renew calls for a code of ethics for Supreme Court, which is not covered by a similar code that governs lower courts.
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