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Vanessa Taylor

AOC calls for Clarence Thomas’s impeachment

Clarence Thomas is one of those people where it’s hard to politely summarize your feelings about them. The hyper-conservative Supreme Court justice has spent his nearly three decades on the bench blocking social progress at virtually every turn. But now, some Democratic legislators are calling for Thomas’s resignation following reports of alleged ethical breaches.

Or, in less politician-speak: Last week, messages initially obtained by ABC News and The Washington Post showed that in late 2020, Thomas’s wife Ginni had urged Mark Meadows, then the White House chief of staff, to overturn the election. Most alarmingly, Ginni Thomas, who has a long history of being a nuisance, invoked some of the biggest conspiracies on QAnon forums in her messages to Meadows. For example, she sent Meadows a link to a YouTube video labeled “TRUMP STING w CIA Director Steve Pieczenik, The Biggest Election Story in History, QFS-BLOCKCHAIN.”

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