27 more than previously known
Virginia Thomas is even more coup plot-involved than we thought.
Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed 29 Republican state lawmakers in Arizona — 27 more than previously known — to set aside Joe Biden’s popular vote victory and “choose” presidential electors, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post.
Which means she tried to leverage Clarence Thomas’s position to bully state legislators into stealing the election.
The Post reported last month that Thomas sent emails to two Arizona House members, in November and December 2020, urging them to help overturn Biden’s win by selecting presidential electors — a responsibility that belongs to Arizona voters under state law.
She used an online platform that facilitates mass mailings.
New documents show that Thomas indeed used the platform to reach many lawmakers simultaneously. On Nov. 9, she sent identical emails to 20 members of the Arizona House and seven Arizona state senators. That represents more than half of the Republican members of the state legislature at the time.
Telling them to help steal the election.
On Dec. 13, the day before members of the electoral college were slated to cast their votes and seal Biden’s victory, Thomas emailed 22 House members and one senator. “Before you choose your state’s Electors …consider what will happen to the nation we all love if you don’t stand up and lead,” the email said. It linked to a video of a man urging swing-state lawmakers to “put things right” and “not give in to cowardice.”
…[T]he revelation that Ginni Thomas was directly involved in pressing them to override the popular vote — an act that would have been without precedent in the modern era — intensified questions about whether her husband should recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 presidential election and attempts to subvert it. Ginni Thomas’s status as a leading conservative political activist has set her apart from other spouses of Supreme Court justices.
And then trying to subvert an election sets her apart some more.
Arizona has been solidly Republican for so long, that conservatives refuse to accept that Trump could have lost it without some sort of skullduggery in the ballots going on. The lack of evidence, as in the Maricopa “audit” by the State Senate, is not really convincing to such ideologues. They KNOW what’s right, votes be damned, and so they will act in defense of God and Country if democracy gets it wrong.
In a normal, functioning democracy, Thomas’ activism to subvert the election would be enough to impeach Clarence but we’re not at that stage currently. We are a nation of men, not laws, and in Arizona where legisllators claim the right to speed on their way to the capitol, this sort of action is not that unusual.
Ginni Thomas sincerely believes that the wifely role of a powerful man is to make her machinations behind the throne.