Clarence Thomas’ Wife Ginni Privately Thanked Group That’s Trying to Stop Supreme Court Ethics Reform: Report

Mar. 15, 2025

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Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court JusticeClarence Thomas, allegedly expressed her gratitude behind the scenes to a group working against Supreme Court reforms, according to a newProPublicareport.

“YOU GUYS HAVE FILLED THE SAILS OF MANY JUDGES. CAN I JUST TELL YOU, THANK YOU SO, SO, SO MUCH,” she reportedly wrote to Shackelford, who read out the email during a private call on July 31 with his group’s top donors.

The litigator went on to note during the call that Ginni’s email suggested that the nonpartisan Supreme Court justices, who “can’t go out into the political sphere and fight,” “appreciate” their work in blocking the reform and “protecting the future of our court,” per ProPublica.

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The call reportedly came two days after PresidentJoe Bidenproposed aset of changesfor the Supreme Court, including term limits for justices.

Clarence is one of the conservative justices whose ethics have been called into question recently after he reportedlyaccepted “luxury vacations"from billionaire GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow for “more than two decades.”

Ginni herself has also reportedlyaccepted thousands of dollarsin secret payments from right-wing judicial activist Leonard Leo.

Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.Patrick Semansky/AP/Shutterstock

Ginni has previously been criticized for trying to help keepDonald Trumpin the White House after he lost the 2020 presidential election.

One of her messages read, “Do not concede. It takes time for the army who is gathering for his back.”

Ginni later told the House investigatory committee that sheregretted “the tone and content"of her messages as she “was texting with a friend” and found her “language imprudent and my choices of sending the context of these emails unfortunate.”

Other communications presented to the committee showed that she sent emails pressuring Republican lawmakers in Arizona to choose their own electors — a responsibility that state law puts in the hands of voters.

Her communications with Trump allies raised questions about whether it posed a conflict of interest for her husband at the time, and whether Clarence should have recused himself from the multiple Supreme Court cases related to the 2020 presidential election.

source: people.com