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Sunday, September 11th, 2022

Revealed: Ginni Thomas’ Links to Anti-abortion Groups Who Lobbied to Overturn Roe

Author:     Ed Pilkington
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Publication Date:     Fri 9 Sep 2022 | 03.00 EDT
 Link: Revealed: Ginni Thomas’ Links to Anti-abortion Groups Who Lobbied to Overturn Roe
Stephan:   There is so much else going on that the Ginni and Clarence Thomas stench has not really registered recently. But it has come forward again, as this article describes. I understand the corruption of the integrity of the Supreme Court. What I find gobsmacking is the lack of integrity and honor of Clarence Thomas. An honorable man would retire from the court; wouldn't have put himself in this position in the first place.
Ginni Thomas with Clarence Thomas, her husband, at the White House in September 2019. The findings raise concerns about a possible conflict of interest at the highest levels of the US judiciary. Credit: Erin Scott / Reuters

Analysis of ‘amicus briefs’ shows how closely Clarence Thomas’s wife was entwined with rightwing effort to reverse 1973 ruling Ginni Thomas, the self-styled “culture warrior” and extreme rightwing activist, has links to more than half of the anti-abortion groups and individuals who lobbied her husband Clarence Thomas and his fellow US supreme court justices ahead of their historic decision to eradicate a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.

A new analysis of the written legal arguments, or “amicus briefs”, used to lobby the justices as they deliberated over abortion underlines the extent to which Clarence Thomas’s wife was intertwined with this vast pressure campaign.

The survey found that 51% of the parties who filed amicus briefs calling for an end to a federal abortion right have political connections to Ginni Thomas, raising concerns about a possible conflict of interest at the highest levels […]

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