Rep. Jamie Raskin desires Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Trump 14th Amendment case
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the lead supervisor of the second impeachment of Donald Trump, stated Sunday that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ought to recuse himself from any case involving Mr. Trump’s eligibility to be on the 2024 presidential poll.
A future Supreme Court case seems probably since Maine and Colorado have barred Mr. Trump from showing on the first poll, citing his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as a disqualifying issue beneath the 14th Amendment’s ban on elected officers who’ve engaged in riot.
Justice Thomas “should recuse himself,” Mr. Raskin, the highest Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, stated on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
He referred to Justice Thomas’ spouse, Ginnie Thomas, a conservative activist who supported Mr. Trump and arguments that he had gained the election.
“Anybody looking at this in any kind of dispassionate, reasonable way would say if your wife was involved in the big lie and claiming that Donald Trump actually won the presidential election and been agitating for that and participating in the events leading up to Jan. 6, that you shouldn’t be participating,” Mr. Raskin stated.
Republicans and the Trump marketing campaign have accused blue states of trying to intervene within the election, whereas Democrats warn that booting Mr. Trump from the poll may make him a political martyr.
“Donald Trump is in that tiny, tiny number of people who’ve essentially disqualified themselves,” Mr. Raskin stated.
