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Politics
Alex Henderson

Ginni Thomas saw no evidence of fraud

2022 will be remembered as a year in which the U.S. Supreme Court's reputation continued to deteriorate, from the wildly unpopular overturning of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization to the revelation that Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, Ginni Thomas, tried to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election results.

The January 6 Select Committee discovered that after now-President Joe Biden won the election, Ginni Thomas urged then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to do everything he could to keep Biden from being inaugurated. And in March 2022, her series of text exchanges with Meadows became public knowledge thanks to some bombshell reporting in the Washington Post by Robert Costa and Bob Woodward — the veteran journalist/author who is also famous for his bombshell reporting on Watergate with Post colleague Carl Bernstein during the 1970s.

Woodward, like Bernstein and former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, has said more than once that Nixon's crimes during the 1970s pale in comparison to Trump's scandals. And more than a few Trump critics have commented that the January 6, 2021 insurrection and the fact that a U.S. Supreme Court justice's wife wanted presidential election results overturned was more disturbing than Watergate.

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