News analysis Responding to a recent wave of criticism and adverse mainstream media reports targeting her, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s conservative activist wife distanced herself from the civil unrest in the nation’s capital Jan. 6 last year and denied her activities undermine her husband’s work on and public trust in the nation’s highest court. Virginia “Ginni” Thomas told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview that she had very little to do with the raucous “Stop the Steal” rally by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters on the National Mall 14 months ago that was followed by a breach of United States Capitol security that held up official congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election for several hours. Thomas, then known as Ginni Lamp, came to the nation’s capital in the early 1980s as an aide to then-Rep. Hal Daub (R-Neb.) after Ronald Reagan became president, the article stated. Her …