Senate Minority LeaderMitch McConnell on Wednesday decried criticism of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, dismissing Democratic-led calls for the jurist to resign or recuse himself from January 6, 2021-related cases as an inappropriate pressure campaign.
The Kentucky Republican who voted to confirm Thomas to the Supreme Court in 1991 rejected the concerns as a coordinated effort to invalidate the decision.
McConnell said on the Senate floor that the left was trying to delegitimize the Supreme Court.
On Thursday, The Washington Post and CBS News reported on 29 text messages exchanged between the former White House chief of staff MarkMeadows and the wife of a conservative activist in which she urged him to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot is expected to request an interview with Ginni Thomas, according to CNN.
Since the news broke, more than two dozen Democratic lawmakers have demanded that Clarence Thomas not be involved in cases related to the insurrection. Prominent legal-ethics experts have expressed concerns about a conflict of interest for her husband.
The Supreme Court rejected Trump's bid to keep White House records from the Capitol-riot committee as part of its investigation, but Clarence Thomas decided not to rectute himself from the case.
Thomas was the sole dissenter. He didn't give a reason for his decision, which is standard for emergency motions that reach the high court. Democrats want Thomas to give a written explanation for his dissent.
Democrats renewed their calls for legislation that would create an ethics code for Supreme Court justices. Justices decide when to not be involved in cases.
McConnell dismissed calls for Thomas to resign or face impeachment, which were made by some progressive lawmakers.
Far left House members are talking about getting rid of their impeachment addiction for a third year in a row. This is part of a years-long quest by liberals to delegitimize the court.
Thomas refused torecuse himself from matters involving his wife, which required an investigation.
McConnell said Democrats had for years sought tobully conservative justices based on spurious accusations about fake ethical problems or partiality.
He said that the new campaign was a continuation of the well-worn pattern. The justice and the entire court should ignore it.
McConnell criticized Schumer for his comments in 2020 in which he said that justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh would pay the price if they tried to curtail abortion rights.
He said that in 2020 the Democratic leader stood on the steps of the Supreme Court and threatened multiple justices by name if they did not reach a policy outcome that liberals wanted.
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