So Ginni Thomas is working for someone, as it turns out, and making money from someone who has joined a case in front of her husband. They met during their college years. They were - he looks at them as kind of the beginning of the modern, crazy right wing. But after that, I think both of them had just pronounced bitterness towards the mainstream press, towards liberals who had questioned them and certainly towards anybody who believed that Anita Hill told the truth. And she opened the meeting, actually, by looking around the room and saying she didn't trust everybody in it. Thank you so much, Dave, for having me on. He decides he cant take it anymore and wants to kill himself. Thomas has been married to singer-songwriter Gloria Richardson Thomas since December 1968 and has three daughters with her, Paige, born in 1970, Nora, adopted from North Korea in 1978, and Erin, born in 1979. There's been a kind of a linear increase in the number of them since World War II. And, you know, everybody has a right to express their political views and a right to engage in lawful business activities. They're taking a position on the cases in front of the court. He was a simple man who worked hard and supported his family. DAVIES: She makes her way to Washington. And he became an academic. MAYER: On that morning, which was the morning of the sort of - the big gathering for the Stop the Steal rallies in Washington that were protesting the legitimacy of Biden's election. Her latest article is about the conservative activism and influence of Ginni Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. I've been interviewing lots of people about it. And the reason is there's a feeling that it's becoming just another - you know, the justices are just politicians in robes. He starts blaming Donald for their situation because if Donald had not killed the man who landed on the shore, nothing else would have happened. "I was disappointed and frustrated that there was violence that happened following a peaceful gathering of Trump supporters on the Ellipse," she told the Free Beacon. She has not registered as a lobbyist. The movie is a testament to human strength, both mental and physical. Her latest article examines the conservative activism and influence of Ginni Thomas, the wife of Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. The movie was directed by George Sluizer and was a remake of the French-Dutch movie of the same name that was made and directed by Sluizer in 1988. She appears to have a private business, a consulting business, where - at least the way that Justice Thomas has been interpreting the rules, where she can take clients and not have to publicly disclose who they are. They can pay her an undisclosed amount of money, and all that's on the forms for the public to see is that she earns some undisclosed amount of money from her firm. You know, you can see that in her possibly. Our digital media producer is Molly Seavy-Nesper. MAYER: So she apparently felt quite stuck and stymied by the fact that he went on the Supreme Court. DAVIES: Right. Language. When Thomas bursts through the door, he sees Donalds dead body beside James as he kills him too. Being a secretive person, Thomas evades the question, leaving the viewers puzzled. MAYER: Well, one of the people that they went after very harshly was H.R. I mean, the thing is that Ginni Thomas has ties to many of the organizers of the January 6 protests. The death of their children is also mentioned in passing, without any concrete answer or explanation given. He said that - he thought that if you could ask the other eight justices what they think about what she's doing, that they would tell you that they were appalled. Only the remaining keepers get on the boat, while Jed stays in the lighthouse. It requires justices to recuse themselves from participating in any case that presents a financial conflict involving close family members. So he had his reasons for wanting to kind of go along with and stay on good terms with Justice Thomas. Thomas did not kill James per se but rather agreed to his decision to give his life. But things get better when James returns to them and seems like himself again. This event makes them waver from their main duties, and greed drives them to do bad things. This would let James take care of his family, and Donald and Thomas also see a carefree life in their futures. DAVIES: Can anybody file an amicus brief, and does the court have to take it into consideration? She was working with a nonprofit anti-abortion group that was called Feminists For Choice. The wooden chest contains a lot of things, with gold bars capturing everyones attention immediately. A few gold bars were the focus of the gripping thriller, bringing out the greed in every man on the island. She seems to feel persecuted a lot of the time. Tom Clancy's attorneys have countered by asking that the economic issues be separate and that the divorce be granted immediately. When Thomas bursts through the door, he sees Donalds corpse next to James as he kills him as well. And that's not fudging it. And they - there's just a lot of murk there. So we've got a situation where Mark Meadows, the former chief of staff to President Trump, has refused to comply with the committee's summons that he give testimony. The plan goes awry when men come to the island looking for their cargo and the missing man. So she has a kind of a divisive worldview. There's - I mean, if you step back, there's a growing feeling, according to polls in the country, that the court is too politicized. And, again, this is a problem in terms of the image of Ginni Thomas because she gave Mark Meadows one of her special awards, something she calls the Impact Award. It's kind of an unwatched area that's exploding. James asks Thomas for help when he cannot do it himself. So where's this coming from? He decides he cant take it anymore and wants to kill himself. Miranda and Eric end up on the unfortunate receiving end of the Michaelson's fury after the couple accuses them of kidnapping Taylor. Above everything . Her father was a engineer and a developer of sort of housing complexes. They plan on how they each can get a share of the gold without getting caught. Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham. James is seen reassuring him that he could have done nothing to protect his wife as she was ill. Rob Thomas's Wife, Marisol Maldonado, Is A Former Model. But you can see that the other justices - many of them - have handled these issues much more carefully, much more sensitively. Ginni Thomas is on the advisory board of the National Association of Scholars, a conservative group that has filed an amicus brief in the Harvard case. However, mistrust between the three men leads them down a dark path. Donald and James are overwhelmed with curiosity the next day and end up opening the safe themselves. Her latest article in the magazine is titled "Is Ginni Thomas A Threat To The Supreme Court?" What we know is that for months, Ginni Thomas had been trying to get into the White House to have the meeting with President Trump. She is a staff writer and chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. There is, however, a federal recusal statute, which does apply to the Supreme Court. So I asked somebody who knows a lot about how the court works, and I was told that no way, that each justice sort of functions as their own law firm separately, independently, and that no justice would feel that it was appropriate to criticize another. After numerous failed attempts, he manages to kidnap young Diane (Sandra Bullock), who is on vacation with her . And you did some reporting on this. And they handed a list - I think she handed the list of people in the Trump administration who she said needed to be purged from the administration. But it's the aura, again, that we get back to here, which is the image problem, the appearance of a conflict of interest that undermines the public confidence that the court is ruling in favor of justice rather than in favor of a justice's pocketbook. Little did Thomas and Jackie know that this unemployed, former childhood actor and dishonorably discharged Marine had another devious plan in mind: To lure the couple out to sea, force them to sign away their life . Some legal scholars say that undermines confidence in the court, which is not bound by the code of conduct that applies to lower courts in the federal system. Thomas and James carry the chest up the cliff as Donald fights off the man and kills him with a rock in self-defense. It reveals how their lives turn upside down when a mysterious wooden chest washes up on shore along with a presumably dead man. We are speaking with Jane Mayer. DAVIES: Now, you cite many circumstances in which conservative groups or individuals that Ginni Thomas has some association with have filed amicus briefs before the court that her husband sits on. You can't award a contract to your husband or wife's firm because that's a little too close. The guards open the wooden chest after pondering the thought curiously, despite their better judgment to follow protocol and call the mainland authorities. Ginni Thomas has described it as like going through a fiery furnace. Published Thu, Mar 24 2022 6:20 PM EDT Updated Thu, Mar 24 2022 8:17 PM EDT. And she wanted to bring in some of her crowd with her, including Frank Gaffney. Wow. "We have never since 1790 had any justice doing anything like that. They had undercover women who were going to try to meet with him in a restaurant and get him to sort of loosen up and say inappropriate things about Trump, and they were going to surreptitiously tape him. Barney (Jeff Bridges) is a disturbed man intent on abducting a woman. A small relief boat approaches a tiny, isolated island where a lighthouse is located. This event makes them waver off their principal duties, and greed drives them to do ugly things. But they include a kind of - they run the gamut of the far-right wing, including one of the organizers of the January 6 Stop the Steal protests, somebody named Kimberly Fletcher. "The Vanishing" has a clear answer to the rhetorical question once asked by "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" ("Who will survive and what will be left of them?") Well, no one, and very little. No. And he now - Stewart Rhodes - has been indicted for seditious conspiracy in connection with the events of January 6. The justices take care of this themselves. So in the end of 2018, former President Trump and his wife, Melania, had a sort of private dinner with Justice Thomas and with Justice Thomas' wife. Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Scarlett Pomers are just two examples of child stars who rose to fame at a young age, only to disappear from the public eye and keep their lives private. This makes the climax pose a big question what really happened to Thomas, James, and Donald? It's clear from, you know, having interviewed tons of people about this that there needs to be some clarification here because it appears to be kind of a - as I said, kind of a glitch or a loophole. So there's this appearance test. The Vanishing charts the path a person can follow when greed takes over and leaves all meaning behind. It was supposed to be a six-week shift, so the next set of keepers would have come to the lighthouse when their shift was up. And, you know, it was interesting to many people because it sort of placed her in the far-Trump base, right-wing Trump base, when she did that. Their bodies were never found, and an official investigation conducted by a superintendent named Robert Muirhead determined the sea had "washed away" the men. DAVIES: We are speaking with Jane Mayer. And she stepped down from a political position she had. Critics have maintained that Justice Thomas should recuse himself from participating in cases that touch on issues his wife has publicly spoken about, even campaigned about. Justice is another one. I saw this girl across the table and it turned out to be Gloria. MAYER: Because they're - these amicus briefs have become increasingly controversial, there was a new rule passed in 2018 for appellate judges that enables them to strike any amicus brief that presents a conflict of interest to them. Her latest article in the magazine is titled "Is Ginni Thomas A Threat To The Supreme Court?" 10 Overlooked Thriller Movies From the 1990s That You Must See. hud 221 d 4 database; wilderness lodge transportation; 4 common characteristics of organization DAVIES: I guess the question that obviously occurs is, how does he know what the other eight justices think? (SOUNDBITE OF HIOR CHRONIK'S "WE ARE ALL SNOWFLAKES"). What happened? Underbelly: Vanishing Act screens on April 3-4 on Nine at 8.45pm. DAVIES: So there's a lot going on here, Ginni Thomas' activism in many cases involving people who might have business before the court. She has an active lobbying firm and has ties to many groups that have an interest in cases that may come before the court. JANE MAYER: Thanks so much. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talks to his wife, Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist, at the Heritage Foundation on Oct. 21, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption He begins to blame Donald for their situation because if Donald hadnt killed the man who landed on shore, nothing else would have happened. She's a staff writer and chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance. Thomas got into music at an early age, teaching himself to play instruments by ear and singing choir at church and in school in Oklahoma. New Yorker writer Jane Mayer discusses the conservative beliefs and influence of Ginni Thomas, an activist who's been associated with some groups involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. We don't regard it as - what? But no one anticipated what would happen next. He is believed to remain in the lighthouse as he was supposed to. And she uses that word kill twice. This is FRESH AIR. Drew Angerer/Getty Images And what he knew was that Ginni Thomas is on the executive committee. You have to really kind of, you know, put on your green eyeshades to find it. Donald and James are overwhelmed with curiosity the following day and eventually open the chest themselves. This is FRESH AIR. DAVIES: What other cases might come before the court related to the assault on the Capitol? And they brought this list to the White House and delivered it to Trump and said that basically these people need to be fired. The story of how a 150-year old house on an island off the Irish coast simply vanished has become the subject of international fascination, as the owner turned to the courts to find . I mean, we live in an age where people's spouses have careers. DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and we're speaking with New Yorker staff writer and chief Washington correspondent Jane Mayer. He discovers the hidden gold and immediately packs up the chest as it was. And that may come in front of the court. You want to explain what it is and what Ginni Thomas' role is? I'm Dave Davies, and this is FRESH AIR. Her family knew him, and she got a job in his office. In furtherance of that statute, Supreme Court justices and their spouses are required to file annual financial disclosure forms. He also apparently entertained the thought for a while that he might be able to sort of court Clarence Thomas into retiring and then get yet another seat open, where he could appoint someone he wanted to the Supreme Court. But even they thought the Lamps were - what he said was crazy. Most of his character traits, like tough, secretive, and aloof, seem to stem from his loss. But anyway, she was then deprogrammed, got out of it, became anti-cult. Dec 02, 2021 12:00 A.M. Richard Thomas learned how painful it is to be blindsided by divorce when his first wife, Alma Gonzalez, left him after 17 years together.
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