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Thursday, February 24th, 2022

The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas

Author:     Danny Hakim and Jo Becker
Source:     The New York Times Magazine
Publication Date:     Feb. 22, 2022
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Stephan:   Here is a very comprehensive presentation on Clarence and Ginni Thomas. It is my personal view that Thomas should never have been appointed to the Supreme Court. He was notably partisan, had issues about inappropriately pestering women, and both he and his wife have demonstrated a notable lack of ethics.
Clarence and Ginni Thomas at a Heritage Foundation event to celebrate his 30 years on the Supreme Court last October.
Credit: William Mebane/The New York Times

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 […]

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