Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni, find themselves increasingly in the eye of an ethics storm over her repeated texts urging then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to take steps to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Those texts have raised questions about what Justice Thomas knew about his wife’s activities, and when he knew it.

The texts and Justice Thomas’ failure to recuse himself in cases related to Congress’ investigation of the January 6 insurrection, have pulled the couple into an ethics vortex.