Leftists have been trying aggressively to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court ever since the justices did not rule their way on abortion.
In particular, they have been targeting Justice Clarence Thomas, a black conservative who rose from poverty to become one of the most prominent and respected legal minds in America. Thomas joined the majority in the historic Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states to protect unborn babies from abortion again.
Now, the Alliance for Justice and Alliance for Justice Action Campaign are trying to convince the public that Thomas is unethical and must resign.
This month, they bought a six-figure ad campaign demanding Thomas’s resignation because of his rulings on “abortion rights” and other cases, Newsmax reports. In Dobbs, the majority ruled that abortion is not a constitutional right.
“Justice Thomas thinks the rules don’t apply to him. He must resign,” the ad says, referring to claims that he accepted gifts from Harlan Crow, a friend and major conservative donor, that may have influenced his rulings, according to the report.
“That’s not just unethical — it’s illegal,” the ad continues. “Justice Thomas, if you want to make the rules, you don’t get to break them. It’s time to resign.”
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The Alliance for Justice is a leftist group that receives millions of dollars from pro-abortion donors such as millionaire George Soros and the Ford Foundation.
Leftist news outlets and Democrat leaders have made much of the gifts, but judges and conservatives say the issue is nothing more than a trumped up “non-scandal” meant to discredit the justice because he did not rule their way. According to The Federalist, even the original hit-piece exposing the gifts basically acknowledged that Thomas “didn’t actually violate any ethical standards.”
As Thomas Jipping, senior legal fellow for the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, told the Daily Caller last month:
“Justice Thomas’ critics cannot convince the public that his approach to judging or his individual decisions are legally incorrect, so they and their media enablers drop innuendos and incomplete information, hoping…that uninformed people will assume the worst. Falsely smearing a judge whose decisions left-wing groups and politicians don’t like will further erode the public’s confidence in the independence and impartiality of the judiciary.”
Thomas is one of the strongest pro-life justices on the court. In 2019, he condemned abortion as a tool of discrimination used to target black babies and babies with disabilities.
“[A]bortion has proved to be a disturbingly effective tool for implementing the discriminatory preferences that undergird eugenics,” he wrote at the time.
Later, in the 2021 case Jones v. Mississippi, Thomas pointed out the double standards in the law regarding minors and their ability to make major life decisions. The case had nothing to do with abortion; the justices upheld a decision to give life without parole to a minor who was found guilty of murder. But Thomas noticed that the court treats children’s maturity differently depending on the issue.
“When addressing juvenile murderers, this Court has stated that ‘children are different’ and that courts must consider ‘a child’s lesser culpability,’” Thomas wrote.
On the issue of abortion, however, Thomas said the court has taken “pains to emphasize a ‘young woman’s’ right to choose. It is curious how the Court’s view of the maturity of minors ebbs and flows depending on the issue.”
He also has faulted the courts for neglecting to protect Americans’ explicit constitutional right to keep and bear arms while, for nearly 50 years under Roe v. Wade, upholding an imaginary “right” to abort unborn babies.
