Latest Clarence Thomas Attack Is Part of a Long-Term Leftist Campaign

Editors at the Washington Free Beacon dig beneath the headlines of the latest controversy involving Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

They pulled out all the stops to keep Clarence Thomas off the Supreme Court three decades ago and failed. They went back to the well when Brett Kavanaugh was nominated and failed. So the Left tried to pack the court—and again, they failed.

With a conservative majority ensconced on the bench for a generation (inshallah!), a smear campaign tarnishing the institution—and one of its most admired members—is their next best option. Enter Ginni Thomas, wife of Clarence, whose strategically leaked text messages to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows have Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Dick Durbin eyeing an investigation. Others are calling for the justice’s recusal from all Jan. 6-related cases. And still others are demanding his impeachment. Again.

Democrats can’t change the Court’s composition, but they can try to moderate the conservative majority through relentless demagoguery, endless investigations, and by dragging their spouses through the gutter.

The leaked text messages are just the latest effort. Rewind a couple of months, and the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine ran longform investigative pieces in January and February that cast Mrs. Thomas as a prime mover behind the Ellipse rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol. That narrative crumbled when Mrs. Thomas told the Free Beacon she “played no role with those who were planning and leading the Jan. 6 events.”

That brings us to the recent brouhaha over Mrs. Thomas’s text messages, which are much ado about nothing. They amount to little more than admonitions to Meadows to “stand firm” or links to YouTube videos hawking far-fetched theories of election fraud. …

… Since his confirmation, Justice Thomas has been among the most revered figures on the right. It is obvious to us why he remains a target for his political adversaries, and equally obvious that the Democrats’ ploy will end the same way as the ones that preceded it.