I’m not sure elected officials are the correct people to be choosing who’s going to be judging the laws that they pass.
Don’t get me wrong. The nepotisic system we have in most of Europe (where judges choose who becomes a judge) is equally nausiating, but politicians are generally amateurs and not experts on legal matters. All they end up doing is choosing someone who represents their own warped point of view and not someone who can adequately judge the law or the meaning of law.
And God only knows why the partners of judges are opening their gobs on political issues.
Thomas, whose wife sent thousands of text to Meadows about overturning the 2020 election, is the only Justice to vote in favor of Trump wanting Jan 6th documents blocked.
What bothers me is that nothing will happen. No investigations into his wife's influence on a Supreme Court decisions, no requirement for Thomas to recuse himself from future decisions regarding Jan 6th.
If Thomas was some lower court judge he would be obligated to remove himself from hearing a case where there's such clear conflict of interest.