Thomas Focus May Sink Democrats’ Supreme Court Ethics Push

Ginni Thomas’s texts to a Trump White House official reinvigorated congressional Democrats’ calls to hold the Supreme Court to a code of ethics but tying it to her husband, Justice Clarence Thomas, may make it harder to pass.

The focus on Thomas, one of the most conservative justices, and his activist wife would complicate efforts by majority Democrats to reach a 60-vote threshold in the Senate. Thomas has faced some calls to recuse from cases involving the Jan. 6 Capitol attack after revelations that his wife was urging Trump aides to challenge President Joe Biden’s election win.

Gabe Roth, ...