Anti-Trump Republican stymied investigation of activist married to supreme court justice, says reporter David Brock

Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the House January 6 committee, did “all she could” to protect the rightwing supreme court justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, the political activist Ginni Thomas, by blocking an in-depth investigation of Ginni’s involvement in Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, a new book says.

In Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America, the reporter and Democratic operative David Brock writes that “two Capitol Hill sources with personal knowledge” revealed a “dramatic truth, which might shock even some jaded Washington veterans not easily surprised by callow examples of power protecting power.

“Liz Cheney herself, the star of the hearings, doing her turn as independent-minded maverick Republican, did all she could behind the scenes to protect Ginni and Clarence Thomas and thwart the move to investigate further the implications of the Ginni Thomas texts to [Mark] Meadows”, Trump’s final White House chief of staff.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    I’m trying to imagine what re-education would look like, in our current environment. A violent revolution may turn against us. It seems the Cuban revolutionaries were financed, at least in part, by wealthy individuals, but in* the United States today, the fascists could very well take absolute control, and use it as a means to make our situation much more dire than it currently is. The only thing I can come up with is winning a few more open-minded wealthy individuals to heavily donate for school not within government control, but exceeds standards of government education,and clinics that are completely free, that do the same. I’m having trouble even imagining how that would work, without being shut down, trying to operate under a legal framework.