Virginia Thomas returns following a break in a closed-door deposition with the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. (Reuters: Evelyn Hockstein)
During an appearance with MSNBC host Katie Phang on Saturday afternoon, Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern predicted the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will be given unfettered access to Donald Trump after he is sworn in on Jan. 20th.
Brought on to discuss Justice Thomas being accused of hiding more trips paid for by a billionaire benefactor that appear to be of no concern to Chief Justice John Roberts, Stern brought up Ginni Thomas who was implicated in the Jan 6. insurrection that was put in motion by the president-elect.
According to the Slate journalist, there appears to be no impediment to Ginni Thomas visiting Trump in the Oval Office to push her proposals –– some of which could come under legal review by her husband.
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As Stern explained, " [Justice] Thomas has devoted his career to destroying campaign finance laws and granting billionaires a 1st Amendment right to purchase elections. Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, took advantage of the decisions to essentially buy Trump the presidency, to bail him out and to put Trump back in the White House."
"Because of Musk's work, now, Ginni Thomas is going to have access to the Oval Office. Ginni Thomas will be having meetings with Donald Trump, pushing her preferred policies and there is no real chance that the president will approve of any kind of accountability for Thomas' violations of the law," he continued.
"C'mon, we know that Trump is not going to approve court reform, he's not going to impose a code of ethics or sign one if Congress happens to pass it," he elaborated. "His attorney general is certainly not going to bring the civil or criminal penalties that could be on the table because of Clarence Thomas' law-breaking here."
"It really seems like this coterie of billionaires and their benefactors are all sort of entrenching and reinforcing each other's power and privilege. If that is not an oligarchy, I'm not sure what is," he concluded.
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