Kimberly Atkins Stohr Boston Globe column:

Even before the Supreme Court practically nullified the 14th Amendment’s clause banning insurrectionists and their supporters from seeking federal office, another decision all but ensured that outcome. And it was made by a single justice: Clarence Thomas….

And he should have played no part in the case’s consideration.

That’s because on that Jan. 6, in the crowd of onlookers who descended on the nation’s capital and gathered at the Ellipse at Trump’s invitation — “will be wild!” he promised — was Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the justice’s wife.

We would later learn that Ginni Thomas had also lobbied dozens of state lawmakers to choose fraudulent presidential electors and texted Trump’s chief of staff to urge him to “release the Kraken” and embrace the conspiracy theories of attorney Sidney Powell, who now stands criminally convicted for her efforts in the scheme.

These facts led to numerous calls for Thomas to recuse himself from the Colorado ballot case.