The Washington Post has published yet another story focusing on the professional work of conservative activist Ginni Thomas, raising baseless ethics concerns regarding potential conflicts of interest with her husband, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. Of course, on cue, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) also attacked the two. This smear is just another attempt to use Ginni Thomas’s work to attack her husband and the Supreme Court. It is, in addition, a testament to the sheer hypocrisy of Democrats, who hold Supreme Court justices to ethics standards to which they themselves are not subject.
Let’s start with the facts. Ginni Thomas worked with a new association, Crowdsourcers, which brought together conservative leaders to discuss new strategies for restoring conservative values in our culture. Capital Research Center (CRC) is a nonprofit think tank, and one of the many organizations represented in Crowdsourcers. CRC served as the fiscal sponsor of Crowdsourcers as it was being stood up, a very common and permissible practice, as the Post even admits citing an expert Senator Whitehouse invited to testify at a hearing on nonprofit finances.
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