Whats the deal with Ginni Thomas?
On today\u2019s Post Reports, what we can learn from texts between President Donald Trump\u2019s top aide and the wife of a Supreme Court justice. Plus, why protesters in the Caribbean have not been charmed by William and Kate\u2019s royal \u201ccharm offensive.\u201d
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In text messages obtained by The Washington Post and CBS News, Virginia Thomas \u2014 a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas \u2014 repeatedly pressed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to keep up the relentless effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, calling Joe Biden\u2019s victory \u201cthe greatest Heist of our History.\u201d
The messages, 29 in all, reveal an extraordinary pipeline between Virginia Thomas, who goes by Ginni, and President Donald Trump\u2019s top aide at a time when Trump and his allies were vowing to go to the Supreme Court in an effort to negate the election\u2019s results.
Despite these ties, Justice Thomas chose not to recuse himself in a case deciding whether the former president could block the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol from obtaining certain records, including these text messages between Ginni Thomas and Meadows.
On today\u2019s episode of Post Reports, CBS\u2019s Robert Costa tells us about the process of reporting out this story with The Post\u2019s Bob Woodward and shares the questions he\u2019ll be asking next.
Critics say Ginni Thomas\u2019s activism is a Supreme Court conflict. Under court rules, only her husband can decide whether that\u2019s true. Michael Kranish reports on the criticism that Justice Thomas has exploited a hole in the court\u2019s rules to ignore the conflict of interest created by his wife\u2019s activism.
Plus, Karla Adam explains why Britain\u2019s Prince William and his wife, Catherine, have been met with anti-colonial protests and demands for reparations on their first official overseas visit together since the start of the pandemic.