Professor Bruce Green was quoted in a New Yorker article discussing emails that recently surfaced between the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and high-ranking Trump administration members regarding the results of the 2020 election.
Several of the country’s most respected legal scholars say that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas must immediately recuse himself from any cases relating to the 2020 election and its aftermath, now that it has been revealed that his wife, Virginia (Ginni) Thomas, colluded extensively with a top White House adviser about overturning Joe Biden’s victory over then President Donald Trump.
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In an e-mail, Bruce Green, an expert in judicial ethics at Fordham Law School, told me that … “If Justice Thomas knew that his wife’s e-mails were among the records that would be produced, then surely he should have recused himself, because his wife, although not formally a party, had a very direct personal interest in the case—an interest in avoiding the embarrassment that would result (and now has resulted) from the revelation.”