Two Senate Democrats are asking Joe Biden‘s Attorney General Merrick Garland to authorize a special counsel investigation targeting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The move by Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is a shocking escalation in Democrat efforts to force Justice Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito from the high court’s bench—and seen by some as political retribution for the court’s recent rulings.
The two far-left Democrats announced late Tuesday that they sent the letter requesting a special counsel to Biden‘s Attorney General last week. In a statement, Wyden and Whitehouse made vague and unsubstantiated accusations against Justice Thomas—alleging amorphous ethics violations and tax crimes.
“The evidence assembled thus far plainly suggests that Justice Thomas has committed numerous willful violations of federal ethics and false-statement laws and raises significant questions about whether he and his wealthy benefactors have complied with their federal tax obligations,” the two Democrat Senators claimed, noting—for dramatic effect—that, “We do not make this request lightly.”
If Garland approves the special counsel investigation it would mark the latest Biden government lawfare campaign targeting a high-profile conservative.
An internal review of the gifts and other benefits Supreme Court justices have received found no evidence of wrongdoing by any of the high court’s members. Despite the lack of ethics violations, the Supreme Court—under the director of Chief Justice John Roberts—released an updated ethics code late last year.
The National Pulse reported in June that the Supreme Court’s newest member, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, earned nearly $1 million from her memoir last year. This disclosure has received almost no scrutiny from Democrats, despite the revelation that Justice Sonia Sotomayor bullied public institutions to purchase copies of her book in the past.
