{"id":424249,"date":"2022-03-31T05:01:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T02:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dont-judge-clarence-thomas-for-wifes-acts\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T05:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T02:01:41","slug":"dont-judge-clarence-thomas-for-wifes-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-judge-clarence-thomas-for-wifes-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"#Don\u2019t judge Clarence Thomas for wife\u2019s acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a256f71d76b5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a256f71d76b5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-judge-clarence-thomas-for-wifes-acts\/#%E2%80%9CDont_judge_Clarence_Thomas_for_wifes_acts%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Don\u2019t judge Clarence Thomas for wife\u2019s acts&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-judge-clarence-thomas-for-wifes-acts\/#Facts_and_fiction\" >Facts and fiction<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDont_judge_Clarence_Thomas_for_wifes_acts%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Don\u2019t judge Clarence Thomas for wife\u2019s acts&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u2018We are long past the day when a wife\u2019s opinions are assumed to be the same as her husband\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So argued Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University, in 2013. If the professor\u2019s name sounds familiar, it\u2019s because he\u2019s been cited by seemingly every major <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> outlet since <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> broke last week that Virginia Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, sent text messages to Donald Trump\u2019s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to fight the 2020 election results.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times described Mr. Gillers as a \u201cjudicial ethics scholar,\u201d and The New York Times dubbed him \u201cone of the nation\u2019s foremost legal-ethics experts.\u201d But it turns out that the professor\u2019s ethics, like those of a lot of liberal Democrats these days, are situational. In 2013 he was defending a decision by late Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>eals not to recuse himself from a case involving the American Civil Liberties Union, even though Reinhart\u2019s wife, Ramona Ripston, had served as executive director of the ACLU for Southern \u00adCalifornia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Ripston\u2019s opinions, views and public pronouncements of support for the district court opinion . . . do not trigger any reasonable basis to question Judge Reinhardt\u2019s ability to honor his oath of office,\u201d asserted a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Mr. Gillers and four others. \u201cA contrary outcome would deem a judge\u2019s spouse unable to hold any position of advocacy, creating what amounts to a marriage \u00adpenalty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reinhardt had a well-earned reputation as one of the most liberal judges on one of the nation\u2019s most liberal appellate courts. Which might explain why Mr. Gillers and his partisan allies have changed their tune. \u201c \u2018Don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019 is not an acceptable strategy for the Thomases\u2019 marriage,\u201d he\u2019s now telling reporters. \u201cBoth have crossed a line and deserve no benefit of the doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-211.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Circuit Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt listens to arguments during a hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Judge Reinhard\" class=\"wp-image-21725157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-211.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-211.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-211.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt\u2019s wife was an executive director of an ACLU chapter.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Eric Risberg, Pool, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To anyone not wearing ideological blinders, Justice Thomas and his wife are just as deserving of the benefit of the doubt as Reinhardt and his wife were. And there are other examples. Judge Cornelia Pillard of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is married to David Cole, national legal director of the ACLU. The husband of Alice Batchelder, a judge on the Sixth Circuit, served as speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. Marjorie Rendell was an appellate judge when her husband, Ed, served as governor of Pennsylvania and chairman of the Democratic National Committee. When these judges had to recuse themselves from a case due to a conflict of interest, they were trusted to do so.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Facts_and_fiction\"><\/span>Facts and fiction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Justice Thomas\u2019 critics don\u2019t want to hold him to a higher standard so much as a different standard. Major cases involving abortion, gun control, affirmative action and religious liberty are on the high court\u2019s docket this year. The left\u2019s goal is to diminish his influence \u2014 and by extension the influence of the court\u2019s conservative wing. And since the target is Justice Thomas, who has been driving his ideological opponents batty for the past 30 years, the thinking is that anything goes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-217.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC.\" class=\"wp-image-21725163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-217.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-217.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-217.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has earned the benefit of the doubt as the longest-serving member of the court.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Drew Angerer\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-215.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Virginia \u201cGinni\u201d Thomas is accused of demanding former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows of overturning the 2020 presidential election results.\" class=\"wp-image-21725161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-215.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-215.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-215.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Virginia \u201cGinni\u201d Thomas is accused of demanding former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows try and overturn the 2020 presidential election results.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Susan Walsh, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe facts are clear here,\u201d Sen. Amy Klobuchar told ABC News on Sunday. \u201cYou have the wife of a sitting Supreme Court justice advocating for an insurrection.\u201d No, those aren\u2019t the facts, unless the senator knows something that the rest of us don\u2019t. There has been no evidence made public that Mrs. Thomas called for violence or had anything to do with the ransacking of the Capitol by Trump supporters. Lumping her in with those who did is a smear. All we know is that she urged Mr. Meadows to \u201cstand firm\u201d against what she believed was an election \u201cheist.\u201d If a case comes before the court that involves Mrs. Thomas or her activities, Justice Thomas can make a decision about recusal at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more disturbingly, Ms. Klobuchar, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sounded like she was threatening Chief Justice John Roberts to do the bidding of her fellow Democrats in Congress. \u201cAll I hear is silence from the Supreme Court right now, and that better change in the coming week,\u201d she said. \u201cNot only should [Justice Thomas] recuse himself, but this Supreme Court badly needs ethics rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-214.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., questions Supreme Court nominee\u00a0Ketanji Brown Jackson during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-21725160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-214.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-214.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-214.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Sen. Amy Klobuchar is sparking a witch hunt against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Alex Brandon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-212.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"White House chief of staff Mark Meadows\" class=\"wp-image-21725158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-212.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-212.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/thomas-dem-outrage-212.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Virginia \u201cGinni\u201d Thomas allegedly sent text messages to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Nov. 10, 2020.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The chief justice has made no secret that he cares deeply about the reputation of the court. One way to damage that reputation would be to bend to the politics and passions of the day in the way that people like Ms. Klobuchar are suggesting.<\/p>\n<p>Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving member of the court and has been consistent in his jurisprudence over the decades. We trust judges to behave professionally and with integrity when it comes to recusal decisions, and Justice Thomas has earned our trust.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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