Exactly my thought too Buck.
I suspect that it has more to do with the fact that Eastman used to clerk for Thomas. He’s not principled enough to recuse because of Ginni.
I agree. We’ll see if the facade drops on the next one. “Hey, I gave you the recusal you were clamoring for on that previous matter, see, everything is grand, what more do you want?”
You remember that quarter of a million dollar “loan” that Clarence Thomas got that allowed him to buy his luxury SUV?
To the surprise of absolutely no one, he never paid it back. What. A. Shock.
Nitpick but it was a luxury RV, not a luxury SUV. (Cite.)
Didn’t that fucker vote against student loan forgiveness?
I wonder if he declared the forgiven loan as income, like he’s supposed to.
Even calling it an RV doesn’t do it justice. Its really a tricked out Tourbus.
Signs point to no (from the article bolding mine)
Nearly nine years later, after Justice Thomas had made an unclear number of the interest payments, the outstanding debt was forgiven, an outcome with ethical and potential tax consequences for the justice.
I guess he’ll just claim ignorance of the law.
No one would argue.
So the latest Clarence Thomas news comes from one of his newest choices for a law clerk, who had once, as a top official with right wing group Turning Point USA, sent text message saying nice things like
Considering the court is on the cusp of anointing a king, it’s almost quaint.
Well, that’s one thing she and Clarence Thomas have in common.
I can understand the enthusiasm on Ginni’s part but it this rampant self-loathing by Clarence? The mind boggles. Is there such a dearth of law clerk candidates he had to nominate her?
Yeah - I’m all for understanding/excusing youthful indiscretions if the person makes some admission and prolonged contrition/changed behavior. But this woman never denied that she had made the remarks, then she claimed she did not remember them, and then came up with some facially absurd supposed explanation about being hacked.
All she had going for her was far right leanings that got her in touch w/ Ginni, and then Clarence. She attended George Mason, definitely not a top tier school. I haven’t been able to find anything saying she was on law review or otherwise especially distinguished in any way as a student - generally a requirement for even low-level clerkships.
It really is astounding when so many of the most influential policy-makers feel ree to just flip off everyone else.
As I saw elsewhere, imagine the reaction if Brown Jackson hired a Black clerk who had said, “I hate all white folk. Fuck them all!”
Who she lived with before going to law school (but after getting kicked out of Turning Point USA for her controversial comments).
Ginni Thomas has admitted that she used to be in a religious cult. She remains susceptible to insane thinking.
I can only begin to imagine the pillow talk going between that woman and Clarence.
Behind the Bastards did a 4 part series on Thomas and there’s a lot of speculation about why here’s a really rough summary:
After an extremely tough childhood of being poor, being abused by his own family and facing colorism from the black community he lived in inside of a society that was obviously deeply racist against black people in general, he was one of very few black law students when he went to Yale, and many professors told him that he had to work twice as hard to succeed because people were going to think he just got there because of affirmative action. He wound up working for a Republican AG after the elite lawfirms turned him down which to him confirmed what his professors had said – that affirmative action was essentially a rug pull from white America that robbed him of the chance to succeed on an even playing field. Later as he rose the ranks in conservative circles he experienced a lot of the open racism that he was familiar with in his childhood. It seems like some of his mindset comes from the idea that he thought open racism from conservative whites was preferable to racism he experienced in elite liberal circles which was more masked and passive-aggressive.
There’s a lot more to it that I don’t remember exactly but he’s a very interesting figure, and obviously we can’t actually get in his head but there’s a lot to speculate about.
So, he hangs around conservatives and figures all white folks hate all black folks. Maybe he should have expanded his social circle.
Because, of course, there is not the slightest possibility that these Elite Law Firms turned him down due to his inadequacy as a lawyer? Is it possible he could not argue a case well? Perform research well? Write a cogent memorandum of points and authorities? No, no, had to be because he was darker than Tony Orlando, that’s the only explanation. 
Seriously…fuck this guy and this current court.
“I don’t think that … any of these cases that have been decided are the gospel,” Thomas said during the rare public appearance, invoking a term which in a religious context is often used to refer to the word of God. “And I do give perspective to the precedent. But … the precedent should be respectful of our legal tradition, and our country and our laws, and be based on something – not just something somebody dreamt up and others went along with.”
Among the various cases Thomas and his colleagues are expected to weigh in on is a request to overturn the 2015 Obergefell supreme court decision that legalized marriage for same-sex couples nationwide. Other cases being mulled by the supreme court for its 2025-2026 term involve tariffs, trans rights, campaign finance law, religious rights and capital punishment.
They need to drop the cherade and come out to directly embrace the legal theory of “because we can”
“something somebody dreamt up and others went along with” is literally all our laws are.