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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington in New York

Revealed: Ginni Thomas’s links to anti-abortion groups who lobbied to overturn Roe

Ginni Thomas with Clarence Thomas, her husband, at the White House in September 2019. The findings raise concerns about a possible conflict of interest at the highest levels of the US judiciary.
Ginni Thomas with Clarence Thomas, her husband, at the White House in September 2019. The findings raise concerns about a possible conflict of interest at the highest levels of the US judiciary. Photograph: Erin Scott/Reuters

Ginni Thomas, the self-styled “culture warrior” and extreme rightwing activist, has links to more than half of the anti-abortion groups and individuals who lobbied her husband Clarence Thomas and his fellow US supreme court justices ahead of their historic decision to eradicate a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.

A new analysis of the written legal arguments, or “amicus briefs”, used to lobby the justices as they deliberated over abortion underlines the extent to which Clarence Thomas’s wife was intertwined with this vast pressure campaign.

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