After a cryptically sudden admission into a D.C.-area hospital last week, arch-conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was discharged Friday — days after the deadline of his initially predicted 48-hour stay — into a full-blown political scandal and calls for his resignation from the bench.
A court spokesperson said Thomas had been experiencing “flu-like symptoms” — not COVID — and had been treated for an infection. But furor over his role as a Supreme Court justice exploded during his hospital stay, following the publication of newly obtained text messages from Thomas’s wife Ginni to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows last year. In the messages, Ginni Thomas emphatically urges Meadows — often with deeply QAnon-immersed terminology — to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In one message, initially obtained by ABC News and The Washington Post, Ginni Thomas claimed that:
