Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., said he believes Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should acquit himself of charges related to the Jan. 6 events, after it was revealed last week that his wife sent written messages to the then head of the White House, Mark Meadows, urging him to provoke Donald Trumpelectoral defeat of 2020. “I think he has to resign,” Sumer told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday. “The information we have at the moment raises serious questions about how close Judge Thomas and his wife were to planning and carrying out the uprising.” THE DEMOCRATS OF THE SENATE FIRST TO EXCLUDE THOMAS CLARENS FROM JAN. 6 CASES In addition, Schumer said he believed there should be “some kind of code of conduct for Supreme Court justices”. Sumer is one of many Democrats who recently called on Thomas to step down following reports of messages between the Midwives and Virginia “Ginny” Thomas. On Monday, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Chairman of the Senate Justice Committee, called on Thomas to withdraw from the Jan. 6 case, noting that the relationship between Thomas’s wife and Meadows “really creates a obvious conflict “. Last week, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Released one statement arguing that “Justice Thomas’s conduct in the Supreme Court seems increasingly corrupt.” Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) asks U.S. General Surgeon Dr. Vivek Murthy during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on youth mental health at the Capitol on February 8, 2022 in Washington, DC (Drew Angerer / Getty Images) Weiden said Thomas would have to “get rid of any case related to the Jan. 6 investigation, and if Donald Trump is running again, any case related to the 2024 election.” Democratic senators’ comments follow text messages, copies of which were obtained from The Washington Post and CBS, sent between Ginny Thomas and Meadows. Before concluding his investigation, these text messages, part of a larger number of documents, were delivered by Meadows to the House Selection Committee investigating the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. In a statement, the Post reported that Ginni, who has been married to Justice Thomas for more than 30 years, told the Meadows “to release Kraken and save us from the America-destroying left.” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas arrive at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC (Drew Angerer / Getty Images) CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION In other messages, Ginny suggested that Trump not hand over the election to Joe Biden. He also called the 2020 presidential election “the biggest robbery in our history.” Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., he said CBS News reported last Friday that Thomas would have to “appear voluntarily” before the Jan. 6 panel to discuss text messages his wife sent to Meadows.
