Nearly 800,000 people in the United States have signed a petition calling for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision.
The petition said Thomas's overturning of abortion rights and his wife's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election showed that he could not be an impartial judge.
Data map: On June 24, local time, people in San Francisco gathered in front of City Hall to protest against the Supreme Court's overturn of the Roe v. Wade case.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade case that protected women's abortion rights on the same day, meaning that women's abortion rights will no longer be protected by the U.S. Constitution.
As soon as the news came out, protests broke out in many parts of the United States.
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MoveOn, a liberal advocacy group, filed the petition, noting Thomas was one of the justices who denied the existence of a constitutional right to abortion, The Hill reported.
The petition also slammed Thomas' wife for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election result, "incidents show that Thomas cannot be an impartial Supreme Court justice. Thomas is more concerned with covering up his wife's attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. Thomas must Resign or Congress must investigate and impeach him." As of the evening of July 1, local time, more than 786,000 people had signed the petition.
The report pointed out that Thomas’s current wife, Virginia Thomas, had expressed support for former President Trump.
Virginia has publicly endorsed Trump and denied the election of current President Joe Biden as the U.S. Congress investigates the unrest on Capitol Hill.
Virginia has also corresponded with Trump's lawyer, who drafted the memo on plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election result.
According to the report, U.S. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other lawmakers said that if a justice "misleads" others on the issue of abortion rights, they should face certain consequences. Including impeachment.
On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the "Roe v. Wade" case, which established the right to abortion at the federal level nearly half a century ago, which means that women's right to abortion will no longer be protected by the U.S. Constitution.
Conservative Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett who supported overturning Roe v. Wade have avoided the question of whether they will overturn the case in their previous nomination hearings, or It is to show that he does not support overturning the previous precedent.
But the men were criticized after the ruling was announced.
The Paper reporter Nan Boyi