Several Democratic lawmakers have called for Thomas to resign from the court.
By John L. Dorman and Oma Seddiq
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday decried criticism of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, dismissing Democratic-led calls for the jurist to resign or recuse himself from January 6, 2021-related cases as an “inappropriate pressure campaign.”
The Kentucky Republican — who voted to confirm Thomas to Supreme Court in 1991 and played a leading role in installing three conservative jurists to the court during President Donald Trump’s tenure — rejected the concerns as a “coordinated effort to nullify” the justice’s presence on the court.
“The left’s quest to delegitimize the Supreme Court found its latest outlet,” McConnell said on the Senate floor. “Washington Democrats are now trying to bully this exemplary judge of 30-plus years out of entire legal subjects, or off the court entirely.”
On Thursday, The Washington Post and CBS News reported on 29 text messages exchanged between the former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Ginni Thomas, Clarence Thomas’ wife and a longtime conservative activist, in which Ginni Thomas urged Meadows to pursue efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential-election results.
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