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Democrats in Congress have taken an increasingly aggressive stance this week in response to revelations that Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, sent text messages to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to try and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
On Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) joined the fray with a political ultimatum: telling Justice Thomas to resign or else face the prospect of impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives.
“Clarence Thomas should resign,” the Bronx-based democratic socialist tweeted. “If not, his failure to disclose income from right-wing organizations, recuse himself from matters involving his wife, and his vote to block the Jan 6th commission from key information must be investigated and could serve as grounds for impeachment.”
On March 24, the Washington Post published an explosive exposé that revealed Ginni Thomas called President Joe Biden’s election the “greatest Heist in our History” and endorsed a series of bizarre and unhinged conspiracy/legal theories about the 2020 contest between the 46th president and former President Donald Trump.
In sum, Thomas and Meadows exchanged at least 29 text messages discussing efforts and theories to invalidate, and cast aspersions about, Biden’s Electoral College victory over Trump. Those messages came between Election Day 2020 and the days immediately after the Jan. 6th, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Complex.
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