Clarence Thomas' wife spoke at a conservative conference featuring the founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group involved in the Capitol riot

The founder of the Oath Keepers was featured at a banquet hosted by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife.
Virginia "Ginni" Thomas had ties to conservative groups, according to a story published Friday.
Stewart Rhodes founded the extremists in 2009. The Oath Keepers held trainings in the weeks before the attacks on the Capitol.

Thomas co-hosted a Remember the Ladies Banquet with Moms for America at the 2010 Liberty XPO & Symposium, which was described as the largest conservative training event in history.

Rhodes was arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the Capitol riot. His arrest and charges marked the first time federal prosecutors brought sedition charges against anyone in the Capitol siege investigation. He has denied the charges.
Thomas has a lot of connections with right-wing extremists and the January 6 insurrection.
The day before the riot, she gave two speeches in which she spread the false claim that the 2020 election had been stolen from Donald Trump.
On the heels of the Supreme Court denying Trump's request to block the January 6 house select committee from obtaining presidential records for their investigation, the New Yorker reported on Thomas' connections to right-wing groups and those involved in the Capitol riot.

Clarence Thomas dissented from the vote. According to the New Yorker, Thomas is involved with parties whose cases are presented before the Supreme Court.
The appearance of Thomas's political activism has an impact on the perception of justice, according to Bruce Green, a professor at Fordham specializing in legal ethics.
"They look like a mom-and-pop political-hack group, where she does the political stuff and he does the judging," Green said.
Insider reached out to Thomas, the Supreme Court, and an attorney for Rhodes.