As the Supreme Court’s most renowned originalist-textualist member, Justice Clarence Thomas has a chance in the case of Trump v. United States to definitively refute the liberal media’s claim that the court is just another realm of tawdry politics.

The unfair media narrative is that at least five of the six Republican appointees on the court are virtually puppets of shadowy right-wing overlords, hellbent on reaching results that will advance corrupt or extremist right-wing political interests. The media’s vindictive myth about Thomas, in particular, is that not only is he dishonestly beholden to the Right in general, but that because his wife, Virginia, is an activist supporter of former President Donald Trump, Thomas himself must be uniquely in hock to the Great Orange Billionaire.