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President Joe Biden on Monday sidestepped when asked about whether Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases before the Supreme Court, after reporting about his wife revealed that she repeatedly pressed a White House official to pursue efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
“I’ll leave that to two entities,” Biden said during a news conference on Monday after announcing his budget. “One, the Jan. 6 committee, and two, the Justice Department.”
Biden said the question of recusal was a legal one, and that he wouldn’t impose on the processes of the Justice Department and Congress, as calls for Thomas to recuse himself from such cases grow.
Twenty-nine text messages obtained by The Washington Post and CBS News last week displayed Ginni Thomas’ access to the White House, particularly chief of staff Mark Meadows. Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist, was communicating with Meadows at a time when then-President Donald Trump and his allies were vowing to contest the 2020 election results in the Supreme Court.
After Biden was projected the winner on Nov. 10, Thomas texted Meadows.
“Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!...You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History,” she wrote, according to the Post.
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