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It also emerged during the Nancy Pelosi press conference that she is planning a House hearing on the ethics of the US supreme court, in the wake of the insurrection scandal involving Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Ginni.
Thomas has been silent amid calls for his resignation over his wife’s supportive texts to Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows on the day of the 6 January Capitol riot, and Pelosi pointed to a lack of standards governing supreme court justices’ behavior.