Calls are growing for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Trump's case, citing his allegiance to Trump and the fact that his wife actively encouraged Trump staff to illegally overturn his presidential election loss in late 2020.
relating to an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that allowed the Department of Justice to continue examining more than 100 classified documents that were retrieved from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in early August.
The appeal was sent directly to Thomas as an emergency request by Trump’s lawyers, who gave the Department of Justice a week to respond. Thomas oversees all such requests for the 11th Circuit Court system.that Thomas may not rule impartially in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. While his wife’s actions don’t relate to the investigation into the documents,
Thomas did rule in Trump’s favor in a case that involved his wife and presidential records earlier this yearIn that case, Trump had sought to prevent the January 6 committee from accessing White House records from his time in office. Those records — like the documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate — are the property of the U.S. government, and likely contain communications between Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows, who served as Trump’s chief of staff during the final months of his tenure.
Justice Thomas was the sole member of the Supreme Court to vote against allowing the documents to be transferred. All eight other justices agreed that Trump’s claims of executive privilege were invalid when it came to handing the records over to the January 6 committee. Many social media users have pointed to Thomas’s dissent in that case as a reason the justice cannot be trusted in the case submitted by Trump’s lawyers this week.
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