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</div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">The Atlantic’s Molly Jong-Fast, responding to The Guardian’s report, asks, “Isn’t this a conflict of interest?” [guk gone?]</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">
</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">READ MORE: Ginni Thomas Attempts to Influence Overturn of Election Even Wider Than Previously Known</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">
</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">The Guardian reports the “analysis of the amicus briefs was carried out by Advance Democracy Inc, a non-partisan organization specializing in public-interest research and investigations.”</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">It “shows that 38 of the 74 anti-abortion amicus briefs – 51% – were produced by entities and individuals with links to Ginni Thomas</span>. They included rightwing groups, religious interests, prominent conservative individuals and lawyers.”</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">
</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">That analysis also shows “an intricate web of connections between many of the most influential groups and figures on the conservative hard right, with Ginni Thomas at the centre of it. Several of the links run through her consultancy, Liberty Consulting, which she set up in 2010 and which brags that it can ‘give access to any door in Washington.'”</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">
</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/05/inside-the-consulting-firm-run-by-ginni-thomas-wife-of-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/05/inside-the-consulting-firm-run-by-ginni-thomas-wife-of-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas.html</a></span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">READ MORE: Liz Cheney Serves Notice to Ginni Thomas That the Jan 6th Committee Is Prepared to Subpoena Her</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">
</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">The Guardian does not state if Thomas received any compensation, financial or otherwise, for her efforts, but if she did, that could lead to even greater calls of conflict of interest.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">
</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#313131" face="Georgia, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">“Many of the interests to which Ginni Thomas was connected who filed anti-abortion amicus briefs have a parallel track record of anti-LGBT agitating. The founder of CNP, Tim LaHaye, was an evangelical Christian minister and a virulent homophobe,” The Guardian also notes. “His 1978 book The Unhappy Gays depicted gay people as ‘militant, organized’ and ‘vile’. ‘Homosexuality is a blight on humanity,’ he wrote. ‘Many parents would prefer the death of their child to his adopting the unhappy wretchedness of homosexuality.'”</span></font></p></div>