‘The View’ Destroys Clarence Thomas For “Unbelievable” Bias Regarding Wife’s Role in Capitol Riots

The View had a bone to pick with the Supreme Court today, specifically Justice Clarence Thomas, thanks to his bias regarding the Jan. 6 riots cases. After his wife, Ginny Thomas, played a major role in the insurrection, folks are upset that Thomas has yet to recuse himself from any of the cases regarding the riots, blaming him for showing his partisanship in a role that’s meant to be neutral.

Sunny Hostin, the lawyer of the bunch, was the first panelist on The View to make a statement after the hot topic had been introduced.

“The thing about the Supreme Court is that it’s just not bound by the same rules as other federal courts are bound by,” Hostin said. “They want the public to believe that the courts are impartial — but with the Supreme Court, they just don’t have that same code of conduct. So [Thomas] hasn’t recused himself of these cases his wife is very involved in. But he’s recused himself other times.”

Joy Behar jumped in: “So why not this time?”

“That’s the question,” Hostin responded. “Why not this time, when his wife is intimately involved in politics?”

Behar agreed with her co-host, chiming in to take down Thomas’ biased role on the court as his wife faces consequences for her role in the Jan. 6 riots.

“It’s unbelievable to me, that this is unprecedented, we’ve never seen this before,” Behar responded.

Hostin had more to say, though, returning to her point as the voice of the law on the panel as she attempted to explain why this is such a catastrophe in the Judicial Branch of the government.

“You have to recuse yourself if a spouse is a party to litigation, an interested party. I think another thing is officer, director, or trustee of an organization that is a party to the case. It’s kind of slicing pretty thin, when Justice Thomas is saying, ‘Well, my wife’s not really a party, she’s not really a director of these organizations,'” Hostin continued. “But she holds a leadership position!”

“She’s an activist, by definition,” Sara Haines concurred.

Hostin continued, bringing old examples onto the table: “Sotomayor had a friend that was party to a case, and she recused herself in 2020.”

Behar re-entered the conversation at this point, ready as ever to call out Republicans for their double standard in politics.

“Could you just imagine what the right wing would be doing if Sotomayor had a husband who was part of the insurrection, who was egging on an insurrection?” Behar posed. “Imagine!”

Citing a Gallup Poll, Haines brought in the fact that the Supreme Court is facing an all-time low approval rating thanks to recent decisions like this.

“In a time where we’re talking about a loss of trust in so many major institutions, starting in Donald Trump’s tenure with the press and the ‘fake news,’ then you go to CDC and Dr. Fauci,” Haines said. “You name it! People are saying they don’t trust people, and the optics matter for that reason. This is an apolitical branch of the government that’s supposed to not only be that way in execution, but it should appear that way to instill a certain amount of trust.”

“They don’t care!” Behar asserted.

Whoopi Goldberg, who agreed that the Supreme Court is throwing caution to the wind, tried to diagnose the problem one last time before sending the show to commercial.

“They don’t believe there’s any repercussions for them,” she said, with Hostin clarifying that there aren’t really any at the moment. “Can’t the president say, ‘Listen, I know you are all supposed to be a neutral body. But you’re not feeling very neutral to me. I feel like the people may feel the same way, so we need to talk about what this means, what it means to be a Chief Justice.'”

After her statement, The View spiraled into a series of discussion about what amends could be made to fix the Supreme Court: Term limits? A harsh word from Chief Justice Roberts? A lecture from the President? Who knows!

The View airs weekdays on ABC at 11/10c.

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