Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., rejecting calls for their disqualification, participated in the case, siding with a member of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Experts in legal ethics have said that the activities of the justices’ wives raised serious questions about their impartiality.
Virginia Thomas, known as Ginny, helped shape the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
But he recused himself in October from a case concerning John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who had advised Mr. Trump.
Justice Thomas, for whom Mr. Eastman had served as a law clerk, gave no reasons for his decision to disqualify himself from that case.
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