Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) is reportedly calling on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself if the high court takes up a case deciding whether former President Donald Trump is immune from federal prosecution in the election interference case.
“There's been enough information raised about Mr. Thomas and his spouse that he ought to think twice about recusal in this case,” Durbin told CNN congressional reporter Manu Raju on Monday.
Thomas' wife Virginia was involved with far-right groups that pushed for overturning the 2020 presidential election, the core subject of special counsel Jack Smith's criminal indictment of the former president, reports show.
And Virginia Thomas personally lobbying state lawmakers in battleground states to block certification of President Joe Biden's win, the Washington Post reported in 2022.
According to the report, she was also in contact with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Trump lawyer John Eastman, a co-defendant in the Georgia election interference case.
Clarence Thomas was the only justice to vote in favor of Trump's request to block the House January 6 Select Committee from reviewing White House documents that revealed some of the behind-the-scenes plotting by Trump and his associates.
All of this comes amid a wave of reports documenting Thomas' acceptance of gifts, luxury vacations, and favorable real estate transactions worth millions of dollars from right-wing groups and billionaires, some of whom had business before the court.
