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Jackie Calmes

Jackie Calmes: Clarence Thomas' Jan. 6 conflicts of interest are showing again

Amid all the attention recently to "Trumpty Dumpty's" do-over presidential candidacy, the midterm elections and Speaker Nancy Pelosi's semi-farewell, one bit of Washington news was overshadowed but shouldn't be. As with Donald Trump, we must not become inured to this other newsmaker's travesties.

I'm talking about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Thomas has done it again. Last week the longest-serving justice on the nation's highest court defied widespread calls from legal experts that he recuse himself from cases that have anything to do with the seditious events surrounding Jan. 6, 2021. You know, the failed coup in which Thomas' wife, far-right political activist Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, was a participant. Worse, this latest case possibly implicates Ginni Thomas directly in what was an unprecedented attempt to thwart a peaceful transfer of power.

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