For someone who purportedly had absolutely nothing to do with last year’s insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, Ginni Thomas, married to Justice Clarence Thomas, sure seems to find herself at the center of a lot of news reports about the attack.
The far-right activist and noted homophobe made headlines last year when she took to Facebook on the morning of January 6, 2021 to voice her support for “MAGA people” rallying in D.C then later edited the post to say she wasn’t referring to the domestic terrorists who stormed the building, trashed the halls, and shit all over the floors.
A month later, she made headlines again when an email she sent to all of her husband’s clerks leaked to the press. In it, she apologized for whatever role she played in the deadly riots and begged them for forgiveness.
Related: Clarence Thomas’ wife apologizes for praising insurrectionists in leaked, possibly drunk email
Now, she’s making headlines yet again, this time for signing onto a letter saying 11 Oath Keepers who were arrested for seditious conspiracy “have done nothing wrong.”
The letter, which was also signed by Tony Perkins, head of the anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council, plus several other antigay extremists, rails against Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who both serve on the January 6 committee, for taking part in an “overtly partisan political persecution that brings disrespect to our country’s rule of law, legal harassment to private citizens who have done nothing wrong, and which demeans the standing of the House.”
Reporter Mark Joseph Stern shared the letter, which was published to the Conservative Action Project’s blog last month, on Twitter this morning.
I missed this in December: Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, signed a letter to Kevin McCarthy accusing the Jan. 6 committee of engaging in "political harassment," "demagoguery," and "overtly partisan political persecution." https://t.co/wuUQ38dXv4 pic.twitter.com/TfGIiNQuFi
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) January 18, 2022
As a result, Thomas has been trending all morning. Many are now calling for her to be subpoenaed by the committee to answer questions about her involvement in the attack and whether she funded any of the operations via her ring-wing organization Groundswell.
Here’s what they’re saying…
Ginni Thomas is trending. Must be some of that seditious conspiracy in the air….
— BrotherMatthew ??? (@STPFreak) January 18, 2022
Good morning ?? Ginni Thomas will be going through some things
— Jay Arnold (@jadedcreative) January 18, 2022
Ginni Thomas is married to a Supreme Court justice who may very well be hearing the cases of seditionists that she supported and helped plan an attempted coup. Let that sink in for a minute.
— Rex Zane (@rexzane1) January 18, 2022
Subpoena Ginni Thomas and the other failed coup cheerleaders pic.twitter.com/Lbcbj9dNSp
— Confunctionist (@confunctionist) January 18, 2022
Good morning and Happy Tuesday to everyone who agrees that Ginni Thomas, wife of Clarence, needs to be subpoenaed for the role she played on January 6th.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) January 18, 2022
When will Ginni Thomas be indicted? Does her husband who is sitting on the highest court in the land support his wife’s chumminess with the seditionists/insurrectionists? Did he help finance it with her?
— L B “Dayum U Autocorrect”?? ??? ??????? (@nnoir226) January 18, 2022
It is deeply disturbing that the wife of a Supreme Court Justice is such a partisan hack that she even supports insurrectionists.
Re: Ginni Thomas
— Mark Romano, Ex-GOP (@DLPodcaster) January 18, 2022
Ginni Thomas must be subpoenaed for her role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, needs to recuse himself from hearing any testimony on the January 6 insurrection.
— ?Rapunzel™ VAXXED & BOOSTED? (@co_rapunzel4) January 18, 2022
According to the political fact checking site PolitiFact, there is no evidence to suggest Thomas had any role in organizing the insurrection.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Cam
No surprise, Republicans hate American Democracy.
banditboy
Considering they’re both up there in age, we can only hope they both croak of old age soon and we can be done with them and their hateful ways.
My2CentsWorth
This might be bad if it happens when the Republicans are in control. Especially, if Trump or another equally “bad for everyone” person ends up becoming the president. Right now, the chances of Biden being a one-term president are rather high.
Phillip
Thomas has no business sitting on the bench in the first place; Dr. Hill was correct about him!
mateo
I saw her photo and was instantly reminded of Jean Harris, the former Headmistress of an exclusive all-girl academy, who shot her famous lover to death (Dr. Herman Tarnower, who devised the popular “Scarsdale Diet”, which was all the rage back in the ’80s). The two women are virtually identical.
CNY1983
I remember that well, headmistress Harris, drugged by “Hy” so he could cheat on her with a clinician at the diet clinic. She shot him in a haze of drugs he had prescribed for her in a “Crime of passion”.
GayEGO
Well lookie here, Thomas has a wife who is just as bad as he is!
SDR94103
ugly human.
Gay Thomas
These are really horrible, despicable, hate-filled humans. In other words, your true Christian conservatives.
JPB
Don’t understand why it’s taken so long. She hired buses to bring rioters to the Capitol on Jan 6th. How could she have not been seen as a co-conspirator at the time?
rockland2u
didnt they already prove she not only donated to a couple of those hate groups but literally funded the charter bus to bus them in PERSONALLY. girl didn’t even try to hide it. how trumpian
Fahd
For years, Justice Thomas has been submitting false financial disclosure forms, and he hasn´t been impeached yet. He´s gotten away with it. He´s never been qualified to be on the Supreme Court, but Bush the elder, who really is to blame, appointed him. At the time, Bush called him the best qualified person available ‘ lol.
With everything the Thomases have gotten away with over the years, I think they think they are above the law. I hope it does catch up with her, but I´m not holding my breath.
P.S. He was appointed at a relatively young age and he´ll never retire. The current Supreme Court will set the USA back several generations before enough fall away to make a change.
CNY1983
From pearl clutcher at her husbands confirmation hearing to overturning the gov’t. Shes come a long way baby.
humble charlie
Biden was also a Clarence Thomas supporter and helped to belittle Anita Hill during the hearings. Biden is just the other side of the same tarnished coin that Thomas and the Republicans are on. Biden is as much a liar and corrupt and batshit crazy. But I can’t vote Republican. If I did I’d have to sell my soul to the devil first. I knew about Biden before all of this, but I had to do my part in ridding this country of Drumpf and so I ate a bowl of shit and voted for Biden and the just as execrable Kamala Harris. I would like to say I see daylight for our country but as long as our country worships money, amoral billionaires, and ego/money driven celebrities, I see no hope.