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For the three decades that Clarence Thomas has sat on the Supreme Court, he and Ginni Thomas have worked in tandem to take aim at targets like Roe v. Wade and affirmative action. Her views, once seen as fringe, have come to dominate the Republican Party. nyti.ms/34ZMeZQ

In @NYTMag, @dannyhakim and @Jo_becker report on how blurred the lines between the interests of Justice Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, became during the effort to overturn the 2020 election. nyti.ms/3LSnhQt

This article draws on hours of recordings and internal documents from groups affiliated with the Thomases; interviews with classmates, friends and colleagues, as well as more than a dozen Trump White House aides and some of Justice Thomas’s former clerks.
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Ginni Thomas played a peacemaking role between feuding factions of rally organizers “so that there wouldn’t be any division around January 6,” @dannyhakim and @Jo_becker report.
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The couple has used Justice Thomas’s Supreme Court position to advance Ginni’s causes as an operative. During the Trump presidency, White House aides were surprised when he brought an uninvited guest — his wife — to a private lunch with the president.
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The accounts of the couple’s meetings and talks with the White House are based on interviews with nine former Trump aides and advisers, most of whom requested anonymity to speak frankly about how Justice Thomas’s courtship created an opening for his wife. nyti.ms/3LSnhQt

Many said they were never clear whether Ginni Thomas was there as an activist or a paid consultant. They recounted how she aggressively pushed far-right candidates for administration jobs and positioned herself as a voice of Trump’s grass-roots base.
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Shortly after the lunch meeting with her husband, she got a meeting of her own with the president. “It was the craziest meeting I’ve ever been to,” said a Trump aide who attended. “She started by leading the prayer.” nyti.ms/3LSnhQt

Though the battle for the presidency is over, the Thomases are winning in the war for the courts. Some of the most important issues Ginni Thomas has worked for are now barreling toward a Supreme Court redefined by Trump, where her husband is ascendant. nyti.ms/3LSnhQt

The Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, battled for years for a more conservative U.S. New reporting in @NYTMag shows how far she was willing to go after Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. nyti.ms/3LSnhQt