[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 59 (Monday, April 4, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E353]
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                   SUPPORTING JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS

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                           HON. PAUL A. GOSAR

                               of arizona

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, April 4, 2022

  Mr. GOSAR. Madam Speaker, I rise to address the efforts to unfairly 
attack one of the best Supreme Court Justices in our history--Justice 
Clarence Thomas.
  Democrats in Congress have engaged in a smear campaign against this 
most distinguished jurist. And why? Because they are upset that his 
wife texted the President's Chief of Staff. The attack on this great 
Justice is not based on any decision he made. It is not based on 
anything he said or did. Rather, he is being held to account for his 
wife's expression of free speech.
  Let me be clear, Ginni Thomas, the Justice's wife, has every right to 
share her political views and express her views. Merely because her 
husband is a judicial officer does not mean she loses all of her 
constitutional rights.
  The real reason radical Democrats want Justice Thomas to be 
impeached, or to ``resign'' or to recuse himself from cases 
unnecessarily, is because they don't like his close adherence to the 
Constitution. Justice Thomas' legal decisions read like poetry. He 
clearly and easily eviscerates strange constitutional interpretations 
by the Leftists on the Court. He forcefully and unabashedly explains 
true Constitutional law and sticks to the document as it was intended. 
This makes him a threat to the Left.
  The Democrats in Congress belittle and besmirch the impeachment 
process. It is now invoked against their political enemies with as much 
thought as what they want for lunch. They cry ``impeachment'' in unison 
against all of their political enemies, like a socialist collective. 
The hive mind of the Left seeks destruction of the Constitution and it 
hates, with prejudice aforethought, those who believe in the 
Constitution as a fixed star in the constellation guiding our nation 
instead of the loopy ``it's a living document so it means whatever I 
say it means.''
  I stand with Justice Thomas and his wife. Stay strong for the sake of 
America. America needs his voice on the Court, and he should not let 
the vitriolic, shrill, and hysterical Left wing mob in Congress deter 
him from his right to free speech for Ginni and his duty to our 
Constitution.

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