Ginni Thomas Urged Wisconsin Legislators to Overturn Election
Wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sent emails to lawmakers following 2020 election.
Ginni Thomas. Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Ginni Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent emails to at least two Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin, pressuring them to “fight back” and work to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election — which President Joe Biden won by about 21,000 votes.The emails, obtained by the Washington Post from the watchdog group Documented, were sent on Nov. 9, 2020 to Sen. Kathy Bernier (R-Chippewa Falls) and Rep. Gary Tauchen (R-Bonduel) at the same time Thomas sent emails to Republican lawmakers in Arizona. The emails were all sent through FreeRoots, an online service that allows people to send multiple emails to public officials at the same time.
Tauchen did not respond to a request for an interview and a spokesperson for Bernier declined to comment, pointing to statements she’d made to the Associated Press, Washington Post and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In an interview with the Journal Sentinel she said that it’s likely Thomas’ email was sent to all Wisconsin legislators and that she and Tauchen were the only two to keep it.
“It’s not like she sat down and typed out an email to me and Gary Tauchen,” she said.
At the time Thomas sent the email, Republicans had filed lawsuits challenging the results of the election in Wisconsin in both state and federal court and requested recounts of the results in the largely Democratic Dane and Milwaukee counties. The election had only been called for Biden two days earlier.
Bernier, who in the nearly two years since the 2020 election has become an outspoken critic of Republican conspiracy theories about election fraud, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that in the weeks after the election the false allegations of fraud had only just begun to solidify and it was still unclear what had actually happened.
Since the 2020 election, Thomas has come under increased scrutiny for her role in working with and aiding attempts to overturn or discredit the results. Her cooperation with key players in the effort to spread conspiracies about the election led to calls for her husband to recuse himself from cases related to the election — a step he hasn’t taken.
Democrats in Wisconsin said the wife of a Supreme Court justice working to overturn election results is a problem.
“The wife of a Supreme Court justice and pusher of the big lie pleading w/ Republicans to overturn the 2020 election is a bigger deal than anyone is willing to say out loud,” Sen. Kelda Roys (D-Madison) tweeted.
Ginni Thomas pressured Wisconsin lawmakers to overturn 2020 election was originally published by Wisconsin Examiner.
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She was using her position as wife of a Justice to contact people and form a conspiracy to overthrow the government. Meanwhile, her ethics-free husband was ruling on voting cases, including being the only vote in favor of covering up her emails to Mark Meadows, No. 2 at the White House. She needs to be prosecuted, he needs to resign now!
Corruption is so rife in the Republican establishment, bit it judicial, administrative or elected – or in this case married, thier frequent cries of ‘fraud’ etc. would be laughable if not so serious and destabilizing.
The old saying regarding being wary of those who shout the loudest, as they are the perpetrators of the crime they are condemning is very spot on.
They clutch their pearls and head for the fainting couch at the first hint that someone might have a legitimate claim against them but foment treason with every other word.
At this stage, I would vote for a dead worm on the sidewalk before I would vote for any rethuglican.
NO FAT CHICKS!
Treason was the reason for the season.