The left's manic effort to cancel Clarence Thomas

 Red States:

I’ve written about the ridiculous push on the left calling for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas because his wife Ginni Thomas had an opinion they consider bad about the 2020 election, and that she shared it in texts with then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

Now stay with me a second, while I explain the manic claim. She wanted Meadows to look into some of the questions that were being raised about the election, according to the alleged texts. She didn’t encourage him to do anything illegal, and she was nowhere near the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2020. But that hasn’t stopped the left from slandering her and accusing her of trying to overthrow the country.

The second part of the story is that in January, the Supreme Court decided against Trump’s claim of privilege regarding White House messages and emails, 8-1, with Thomas being the one “no” vote. So according to the left’s scenario, Thomas should be impeached because he dared to vote in the case.

Yes, I know it doesn’t make a lot of sense. It didn’t stop people like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), former Sen. Barbara Boxer, and MSNBC’s Mehdi Hassan from saying he should be impeached. They’re desperate to find a way to get him out, while Democrats still hold control in Congress. They don’t even care if they’re pushing this insanity while he was in the hospital with an infection. Fortunately, he is now out of the hospital and on the mend.

But George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley is right with me on how ridiculous this claim is, and he nuked the leftist effort to push impeachment.

Turley observes that the scope of the effort to grab any messages that have to do with challenging the election or the rally on Jan. 6 has been called overbroad, and I would agree because neither the challenges nor the rally are illegal. Nor do they have anything to do with the riot — the alleged point of the Committee’s investigation. Congress then leaked the messages to the media, and the smear against Ginni Thomas was off to the races. Of course, the purpose of the whole exercise is not truth or illegality, but attacking Republicans.

First, Turley notes that conflict rules in the Code of Judicial Conduct have not been mandated by Congress, and have been viewed as discretionary by the court. Second, there wasn’t anything that Ginni Thomas did that put her in “legal peril,” he noted, and it wasn’t clear that there was any kind of a violation of that conflict rule, to begin with. Third, Meadows had already turned over the messages in question to the Jan. 6 Committee before the case was decided. So, Thomas’ decision effectively had nothing whatever to do with the messages in question. Finally, even if there had been an “appearance” of a conflict (and there wasn’t), such a thing still wouldn’t rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
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Democrats keep doing things that make me want to vote against every Democrat on the ballot.  This should be added to that list.