Clarence Thomas, the perpetually dour Supreme Court justice whose reactionary opinions have recently inflamed the nation, has a reputation, ironically enough, as the most taciturn member of the court. Even before SCOTUS’s political center lurched to the right with the addition of three Trump-appointed justices, Thomas rarely spoke during oral arguments, once going nearly 10 years without asking a single question from the bench, preferring to let his writing speak for itself.

Thomas’s inscrutability is just one of the many reasons that media attention has fixed on his wife, Ginni Thomas, an avid Facebooker, vocal election truther, and active conservative organizer who has no problems making her political opinions known. On March 11, for example, she reposted an article from author and former Trump administration lawyer Mark Paoletta, praising his “powerful rebuttal to the corporate media attacks” urging her husband to recuse himself from cases because, as she said, “I have views in the public square.”