Justice Thomas Should Resign or Be Impeached
(Washington, DC) – MoveOn, Demand Justice, and Working Households Get together ran a brand new advert this morning calling out Justice Thomas for not with the ability to impartially name “balls and strikes”—as Chief Justice Roberts mentioned the Supreme Court docket should do—when his spouse is within the sport.
“Ginni Thomas aided and abetted an rebellion in opposition to America to throw out the outcomes of an election, after which Justice Thomas tried to assist cowl it up by not recusing himself from the case the place Trump tried to cover White Home paperwork, together with Ginni Thomas’s texts,” mentioned MoveOn Govt Director Rahna Epting. “Justice Thomas has clearly demonstrated he’s not match to serve on the Supreme Court docket and should resign or be impeached.”
“Justice Thomas has plunged the Supreme Court docket into an ethics disaster, and there’s no purpose to consider the Republican-dominated court docket will do something however let its legitimacy proceed to erode,” mentioned Demand Justice Govt Director Brian Fallon. “If Thomas won’t step apart, it’s as much as Home Democrats to start impeachment proceedings.”
“Justice Thomas’s spouse actively conspired to overthrow a free and truthful election,” mentioned Working Households Get together Nationwide Director Maurice Mitchell. “At a minimal, Justice Thomas ought to have recused himself from any of the instances with which Donald Trump and his attorneys flooded our nation’s highest court docket. As an alternative, he successfully coated for his spouse’s affiliation with an tried coup. Nobody can ever once more have a look at him as an neutral arbiter of justice or the regulation. Let’s be clear: This isn’t about being a progressive or a conservative. Not collaborating in a coup ought to be a bipartisan worth. Though he dedicated this dishonorable act, we all know Justice Thomas gained’t do the honorable factor and resign. It’s incumbent on each events to question him, and the vote within the Senate ought to be 100-0.”
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