**LIPTON-LUBET: WHERE DOESN’T THOMAS NEED TO RECUSE?**

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 9, 2024) – Today, following reports that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas, thanked and praised the right-wing group First Liberty Institute for working to obstruct basic ethics reforms for the nation’s highest court, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin called on Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any cases connected to First Liberty Institute. Take Back the Court Action Fund released the following statement on behalf of its president, Sarah Lipton-Lubet, in response to the news:

“At this point, Clarence and Ginni Thomas’ unethical relationships with right-wing groups span so far and wide that it would be easier to give him a list of cases where he doesn’t need to recuse himself. It’s absurd that our country’s most powerful judges are also our least accountable — and Thomas is a walking example of why that needs to change. A binding code of ethics is the least of what we need to fix this broken court, but it ought to be a no-brainer place to start.”

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