A petition to remove Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from the bench has amassed over a million signatures.
The Moveon.org petition is addressed to Thomas, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, and cites the overturning ofRoe v. Wade as the driving factor for his removal.
In their description, the petition organizers called the nationās high court āthe right-wing rigged Supreme Court.ā They asserted that the court revoked the right to privacy and ābodily autonomy,ā when they overturned the abortion precedent.
The petition also cites Thomasās wife, Ginni Thomas, and her activism within the conservative movement and encouragement of 2020 election challenges.
āSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomasāwho sided with the majority on overturning Roeāmade it clear whatās next: to overturn high court rulings that establish gay rights and contraception rights,ā the petition states.
The petition went on to claim that Thomas āhas shown he cannot be an impartial justice and is more concerned with covering up his wifeās coup attempts than the health of the Supreme Court.ā
As of this writing, the petition has almost 1.2 million signatures and has averaged about half a million signatures a day for the past week.
Included in the list of grievances was Thomasās vote against the Supreme Courtās decision to compel the release of documents regarding the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riots.
The petition called Thomasā lack of recusal from the case worthy of āinvestigation and heightened alarm.ā
āHe must resign ā or Congress must immediately investigate and impeach,ā the petition concluded.
In addition to Thomasā conservative opinions causing frustration among some, he has also been the subject of disinformation, often with little correction.
Thomas is currently the longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court, having served more than three decades on the nationās high court.
Thomas is the subject of the 2020 book, āCreated Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.ā The book was co-authored by Mark Paoletta, an attorney who served as Assistant Counsel to President George H.W. Bush.
āI was fed up with the continual attacks from Hollywood and other places on Justice Thomas, who I think is our greatest living American and our greatest justice,ā Paoletta told Fox News Digital.
