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U.S. NEWS Saturday 26 March 2022
Report: Justice Thomas' wife urged overturning 2020 election

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vir- hear arguments in the case
ginia Thomas, wife of Su- "befuddling" and "inexpli-
preme Court Justice Clar- cable."
ence Thomas, sent weeks In a Nov. 5 message to
of text messages imploring Meadows, Virginia Thomas
White House Chief of Staff quoted material that had
Mark Meadows to act to appeared on right-wing
overturn the 2020 presi- fringe websites: "Biden
dential election — further- crime family & ballot fraud
ing then-President Donald co-conspirators (elected
Trump's lies that the free officials, bureaucrats, so-
and fair vote was marred cial media censorship
by nonexistent fraud, ac- mongers, fake stream me-
cording to copies of the dia reporters, etc) are be-
messages obtained by The ing arrested & detained
Washington Post and CBS for ballot fraud right now &
News. over coming days, & will be
The 29 messages the pair living in barges off GITMO
exchanged came in the to face military tribunals for
weeks after the vote in No- sedition."
vember 2020, when Trump In a subsequent text the
and his top allies were still next day, Thomas wrote
saying they planned to go to Meadows, "Do not con-
to the Supreme Court to Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, arrives to watch Amy Coney cede."
have its results voided. Barrett take the Constitutional Oath on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington,Oct. 26, The messages also suggest
The Post reported that on 2020, after Barrett was confirmed by the Senate earlier in the evening. that Meadows was willing
Nov. 10, three days after Associated Press to continue pursuing ways
the election and after The to overturn the election.
Associated Press and oth- provided to the House se- denied conflicts of interest George Terwilliger III, told He replied to one message
er news outlets declared lect committee investigat- between her activism and the Post and CBS that from Thomas: "I will stand
Democrat Joe Biden the ing the deadly insurrection her husband's place on the neither he nor Meadows firm. We will fight until there
winner, Virginia Thomas, a that saw a mob of mostly high court. would comment on individ- is no fight left. Our country is
conservative activist, text- Trump supporters overrun Still, the messages show she ual texts, adding, "nothing too precious to give up on.
ed to Meadows: "Help This the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, was urging the top levels about the text messages Thanks for all you do."
Great President stand firm, 2021. The AP attempted to of the Trump administra- presents any legal issues." The texts between Thomas
Mark!!! ... You are the lead- get the same information tion to try to throw out the Justice Thomas, 73, has and Meadows stop after
er, with him, who is standing from the committee, but it 2020 election results, and been hospitalized for treat- November 24, 2020. But the
for America's constitutional declined to comment. even offering coaching to ment from an infection. committee received an-
governance at the preci- The texts do not directly ref- Meadows on how best to He and his wife did not other message sent on Jan.
pice. The majority knows erence Thomas' husband or do so. Thomas urged law- respond to the outlets' re- 10, 2021, four days after the
Biden and the Left is at- the Supreme Court. But she yer Sidney Powell, who pro- quest for comment. mob attack on the Capitol,
tempting the greatest Heist has previously admitted to moted false claims about In February 2021, the Su- according to the Post and
of our History." attending the Trump's "Stop the election, to be "the preme Court rejected CBS. "We are living through
Copies of the texts — 21 the Steal" rally that preced- lead and the face" of the challenges to the election. what feels like the end of
sent by her, eight sent in ed the Capitol riot. Virginia Trump legal team. Justice Thomas dissented, America," Thomas wrote to
reply by Meadows — were Thomas also has previously Meadows' attorney, calling the ruling not to Meadows in it.q
High court gives Biden win for now in Navy vaccine case

WASHINGTON (AP) — The son" that he agreed with dividuals appear to have
Supreme Court is giving the court's decision. The been treated shabbily by
the Navy a freer hand de- Constitution makes the the Navy, and the Court
termining what job assign- president, "not any federal brushes all that aside," Alito
ments it gives to 35 sailors judge," the commander in wrote.
who sued after refusing on chief of the armed forces, A federal judge in Texas in
religious grounds to comply he wrote, noting that courts January issued a prelimi-
with an order to get vacci- have been traditionally "re- nary injunction barring the
nated against COVID-19. luctant to intrude upon the Navy from acting against
The high court in a brief or- authority of the Executive in the sailors. The Biden ad-
der Friday sided with the military and national secu- ministration said it was not
Biden administration and rity affairs." asking the Supreme Court
said that while the lawsuit Three conservative justices to block parts of the lower
plays out, the Navy may — Clarence Thomas, Samu- court order barring the sail-
consider the sailors' vac- el Alito and Neil Gorsuch — ors from being disciplined Visitors walk outside the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill
cination status in making noted that they disagreed or discharged but only the in Washington, Feb. 21, 2022.
deployment, assignment with their colleagues' deci- requirement that their as- Associated Press
and other operational de- sion and would have sided signments be made with-
cisions. The group that sued with the group of SEALs. out considering their vacci- had argued. ing grounds for respiratory
includes mostly Navy SEALs. Alito wrote that his col- nation status. That require- "Navy personnel routinely illnesses, where mitiga-
Justice Brett Kavanaugh leagues were "rubber- ment posed "intolerable operate for extended pe- tion measures such as dis-
wrote that there was a stamping the Govern- risks to safety and mission riods of time in confined tancing are impractical or
"simple overarching rea- ment's request." "These in- success," the administration spaces that are ripe breed- impossible.q