The two-front war on democracy
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Ginni Thomas tried to persuade more than two dozen legislators in Arizona to steal the state’s electoral votes:
Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed 29 Republican state lawmakers in Arizona — 27 more than previously known — to set aside Joe Biden’s popular vote victory and “choose” presidential electors, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post.
The Post reported last month that Thomas sent emails to two Arizona House members, in November and December 2020, urging them to help overturn Biden’s win by selecting presidential electors — a responsibility that belongs to Arizona voters under state law. Thomas sent the messages using FreeRoots, an online platform intended to make it easy to send pre-written emails to multiple elected officials.
New documents show that Thomas indeed used the platform to reach many lawmakers simultaneously. On Nov. 9, she sent identical emails to 20 members of the Arizona House and seven Arizona state senators. That represents more than half of the Republican members of the state legislatureat the time.
The message,just days after media organizations called the race for Biden in Arizona and nationwide, urged lawmakers to “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure” and claimed that the responsibility to choose electors was “yours and yours alone.” They had “power to fight back against fraud” and “ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen,” the email said.
Meanwhile, Justice Thomas joined a dissent aimed at reviving the Jim Crow-era practice of searching ballots for trivial technical errors in order to disqualify them, which also ignored the plain text of the Civil Rights Act:
Read @imillhiser on the stakes of this case—Republican lawyers are trying to gut an important civil rights law that prevents election officials from invalidating ballots due to trivial, immaterial errors. No surprise that Alito took their side. https://t.co/IFF8fQkpXh pic.twitter.com/62OMxmDbCz— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 9, 2022
Two methods, same goal.