CNNSOTU Indulges Rep. Raskin’s Veiled Threat Against Clarence Thomas

MRC Latino | December 31, 2023
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DANA BASH: Three of the sitting justices were appointed by Donald Trump and in addition to that, justice Clarence Thomas' wife, Ginny, texted with Mark Meadows about the 2020 election in the lead-up to January 6th, as you well know. Should any of the justices recuse themselves if they take this up? 

U.S. REP. JAIME RASKIN (D-MD): Well, finally, the Supreme Court has developed what they're describing as a code of ethics. It's not binding in the sense that they're not going to anyone else. They could have gone to for example, circuit court justices, you could’ve gone to state supreme court justices on a panel, but so they're- they’re deciding for themselves, again, whether they're in violation of their code of ethics. But I think anybody looking at this in any kind of dispassionate, reasonable way would say, if your wife was involved in the Big Lie, in claiming that Donald Trump had actually won the presidential election and had been agitating for that and participating in the events leading up to January 6th, that you shouldn't be participating in-- 

BASH: So he should recuse himself? 

RASKIN: He should- oh, he should absolutely recuse himself. The question is, what do we do if he doesn’t recuse himself.