Thomas’ stupendous dishonesty

I have a serious question for Justice Clarence Thomas, said Leonard Pitts Jr. “Have you ever met your wife?” Thomas had the gall to complain in a speech before a conservative group last week that progressives are trying to bully the Supreme Court and are unwilling to “live with outcomes they don’t agree with.” Thomas, of course, was referring to the outcry over a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe. But he seems to be forgetting that his “bride of 35 years,” Ginni Thomas, is a “stop the steal” conspiracy theorist who sent a slew of emails to Donald Trump’s chief of staff urging him to find a way to overturn the 2020 election and keep Trump in power. Only a man of “deep intellectual dishonesty” could ignore this contradiction. In his speech, Thomas complained about the politicization of the court—but referred to conservatives as “us” and “our.” He even defended Sen. Mitch McConnell’s refusal to block Democrats from filling the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat for nine months—and then his ramming through of Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination just a week before the 2020 election. Yet now Thomas is demanding that his adversaries play by the rules and quietly accept defeat on Roe. What “staggering hypocrisy.”