T he Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is a 2020 novel about estranged twins Desiree and Stella Vignes and their daughters, Jude and Kennedy. She has not registered as a lobbyist. Like the Ravenel Bridge today, the Grace Bridge actually crossed two bodies of water - the Cooper River and Town Creek. But things get better when James returns to them and seems like himself again. You know, there's a certain amount of sort of gray area in there. We are TOI.News and we provide Top Latest Breaking News of Entertainment, Game Guide, Sports News, etc. His contribution to the plot isnt much, but he barks when an unknown person enters the lighthouse. And what I found was just an astounding number of them have connections to Ginni Thomas. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. But Jamess intentions were different, as his unhinged mind wanted the cruelty to end. And it was after that that the president agreed that he would allow Ginni Thomas to come into the White House and meet with him with her group. But the actual rules are interpreted by the sort of administrative offices of the courts, and it's kind of, again, sort of an honor system. We're not going to accept that brief. And her tone is warlike. And the reason is there's a feeling that it's becoming just another - you know, the justices are just politicians in robes. And there's the second rule. Because it is the highest sort of judicial voice in the country, the point that has been made - it was actually made a number of years ago by Justice Rehnquist - was that nobody can enforce the law on it because it is basically the law itself, and so it is outside of the judicial code that binds the rest of the judges. A small relief boat approaches a tiny, isolated island where a lighthouse is located. What happened to Thomas' wife? There's been a kind of a linear increase in the number of them since World War II. Mayer reports that Ginni Thomas holds extreme right-wing views. DAVIES: I mentioned in my introduction that you wrote that Ginni Thomas has said that the country faces existential danger from the deep state and fascist left. They find a few random items, like shoes and some clothes, and the precious gold bars are tucked away at the bottom of the box. Thomas and James carry the chest up the cliff as Donald fights off the man and kills him with a rock in self-defense. So she has not disclosed or registered herself as a lobbyist in any formal way. That was in about, I think, 2011. I saw this girl across the table and it turned out to be Gloria. 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. What happened to experienced island men Donald MacArthur, James Ducat and Thomas Marshall on the lonely island of Eileen Mor? Wow. They . The climax of the film shows no indication of the state of the lighthouse after the keepers leave. There is, however, a federal recusal statute, which does apply to the Supreme Court. His contribution to the plot is not great, but he barks when a stranger enters the lighthouse. There was an effort to plan a sting that would have involved setting McMaster up. He, meanwhile - this is where it begins to get - sort of the plot thickens and it gets concerning - is that he, meanwhile, was very much advocating publicly for Trump's so-called Muslim ban that was going to try to exclude Muslim countries from having immigrants come to the United States. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. MAYER: So she apparently felt quite stuck and stymied by the fact that he went on the Supreme Court. And he also had some interests that were sort of personal interests in keeping on good terms with Clarence Thomas. She talks about how important it is to be able to have guns, and she says, you know, I hope we all have them, and I hope we'll all be able to carry concealed weapons soon. And if you push back further and kind of, you know, turn the rocks over further, what you find is that Gaffney's center was funded by a political group which was chaired by Rebekah Mercer, the sort of well-known Trump backer. And I think this is an important thing for people to understand. She was a law student. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has decided to retire, giving President Biden the opportunity to fulfill his promise of naming a Black woman to the nation's highest court. At every "crime scene," the Garda (Ireland's police force) found zero evidence. Rob Thomas's Wife, Marisol Maldonado, Is A Former Model. Ephraim kills a seagull, a heinous crime in the eyes of the superstitious Thomas, who believes the birds carry the souls of lost sailors. He decides he cant take it anymore and wants to kill himself. 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. 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. You mention particularly David Dinielli, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center. What do the legal scholars you talked to think about this position of Roberts? The wooden chest contains a lot of stuff, with gold bars immediately catching everyones attention. 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 Ultimately, the violent trauma, growing paranoia, and their crumbling mental states got the better of them, leaving Donald and James dead. The Vanishing Triangle was a term coined by the media to refer to several disappearances of women in Ireland in the mid to late 1990s. 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. Thomas did not kill James per se but rather agreed to his decision to give his life. Why? He could not bear the burden of the crimes he had committed. He was advocating publicly for that ban, and, privately, he was part of a group that submitted an amicus brief in front of the court when that ban was being considered by the Supreme Court. So it was a really strange meeting. "The Vanishing" is a textbook exercise in the trashing of a nearly perfect film, conducted oddly enough under the auspices of the man who directed it. And there you've got the wife of a Supreme Court justice basically receiving these funds that are one step removed from Trump backers while her husband is sitting in judgment of Trump's policies. It is believed to have remained in the lighthouse as it was supposed to. MAYER: It appears not. And she opened the meeting, actually, by looking around the room and saying she didn't trust everybody in it. So I think, you know, if it was a, you know, somebody who didn't have any particular standing or reason to be involved, they can strike those briefs. Its understandable, as the simple keepers of the light did not sign up for six weeks of murder, apprehension, and paranoia. DAVIES: Right. O'Farrell's work often focuses on women trapped physically, emotionally, and psychologically by forces over . In her interview with the Free Beacon, Mrs. Thomas said she and her husband do not discuss Supreme Court cases "until [the court's] opinion are public --and even then, our discussions have always been very general and limited to public information.". And they actually - it was a kind of crazy sort of caper. They are ideologically in sync. James is in bottomless guilt after killing people and giving in to his greed. He mostly sang hymns and contemporary music. When James tells Donald that Thomas' wife died, he expresses his condolences and even asks Thomas what happened. You know, it may be that Clarence Thomas would have voted the way he voted, to uphold the Muslim ban, anyway. And if you go back in time, one of the interesting things was - I found that Ginni Thomas spoke at an event all the way back in the Tea Party era - I think it was in 2010 - where the founder of the Oath Keepers also was speaking. And he now - Stewart Rhodes - has been indicted for seditious conspiracy in connection with the events of January 6. He reassures Thomas that everything is fine and that is what he wants. If it's something, a situation, that might make a reasonable person who knows the facts think that you as a judge can't be impartial, you should step aside. What Happened After Kelly Stafford's Brain Tumor Diagnosis Later the same month that Kelly Stafford revealed that she had a brain tumor, she followed up on Instagram to reveal that she'd undergone . DAVIES: What other cases might come before the court related to the assault on the Capitol? I spoke to a number of the people who are really considered kind of the gold standard on the subject of judicial ethics. And in 2017 and 2018, according to filings that he submitted to the IRS, he hired Ginni Thomas' consulting group, each year, for over $100,000, to work for him. The guardians fight tooth and nail to keep the gold to the point of driving a wedge between them. The Code of Judicial Conduct For United States Judges, written by the U.S. So she has a kind of a divisive worldview. Donald and James are overwhelmed with curiosity the next day and end up opening the safe themselves. But there's a glitch in it, and that's what I came across in writing about Ginni Thomas. No specific indication was given about the dogs whereabouts. Now, we know that public officials are often bound by ethics codes in states and localities, and they generally provide that, you know, you can't use your power as a public official to bestow a financial benefit on yourself or a member of your immediate family, right? Thomas hatches a plan that would allow the three of them to keep a share of the gold and not get caught. But the chapel scene implies there were unresolved issues between the couple and they couldnt forgive each other afterwards. But the Supreme Court is just loaded with amicus briefs. It's a very martial and aggressive kind of tone she takes - somewhat paranoid, I would say. DAVIES: So I'd like you to give us a sense of Ginni Thomas' political views. After they dock no one greets them. The Vanishing locations are primarily located in Washington with .
