Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife has apologized for supporting the pro Donald Trump rally on Jan 6. Virginia Thomas, also known as “Ginni,” wrote an email to her husband’s clerks apologizing for supporting the rally that opposed the certification of the Electoral College votes. Thomas is an avid Trump supporter and conservative who would often post about her support for the former president via social media.
Conservative activist Virginia "Ginni" Thomas has apologized for inflaming tensions on the normally sedate email group for former law clerks of her husband, Supreme.
Wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas apologizes to his clerks after Capitol riot fallout Published February 2
FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2019, file photo, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, right, and wife Virginia Ginni Thomas arrive for a State Dinner with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and President Donald Trump at the White House. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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Print article Conservative political activist Virginia Thomas told her husband Justice Clarence Thomas’s former law clerks that she was sorry for a rift that developed among them after her election advocacy of President Donald Trump and endorsement of the Jan. 6 rally in Washington D.C. that resulted in violence and death at the Capitol.
WASHINGTON – Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, apologized to her husband’s former law clerks for posting a series of messages supporting now-former President Donald Trump. I owe you all an apology. I have likely imposed on you my lifetime passions,” Thomas wrote to a group of the justice’s former clerks, according to a copy shared with The Washington Post. My passions and beliefs are likely shared with the bulk of you, but certainly not all. And sometimes the smallest matters can divide loved ones for too long.
Thomas, long active in conservative political circles, has come under fire from liberals for her commentary about Trump, including offering encouragement to his supporters who gathered in Washington on Jan. 6, some of whom went on to storm the U.S. Capitol. Thomas has said she posted her remarks before the riot occurred.