Ginny Thomas’ close ties to members of a powerful circle of conservative legal elites centered around her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, have raised questions about the role their overlapping professional network has played in her efforts to undo the loss of former President Trump. elections in 2020
In a new book released Tuesday, Ginny Thomas provided a window into her longstanding efforts to cultivate and nurture relationships with and between her husband’s former Supreme Court officials.
Former Clarence Thomas staffer includes attorney John Eastman, a key figure in the House of Representatives’ January 6 election commission, whose communications with Ginny Thomas after the 2020 election drew the attention of Congressional investigators who asked her last week to testifies before the commission.
The book “Created Equal”, accompanying the text of the documentary of the same name by director Michael Pack from 2020 of the same name and co-edited by lawyer Mark Paolletta, contains interviews with Clarence and Ginny Thomas, conducted in 2017 and 2018, parts of which have not been issued before.
In it, Ginny Thomas discusses her efforts to build “connective tissue over the years” among Clarence Thomas’ former court clerks. She describes the recent summer retreat in Utah, where the Thomas family reunited with former officials and their families, and her work on creating a directory for officials to keep in touch as they raise families and rise in the legal ranks.
“He told them you were going to be future leaders, that’s coming, you’re going to be next,” Ginny Thomas said of her husband’s advice to her officials. “And now they are.”
“We are happy to have hundreds of young people, and now middle-aged people, all former officials scattered around the country who do amazing things, both personally and professionally – judges, teachers, lawyers and even housewives who spend time you are with your children, “she added. “It’s really exciting to watch what they do.”
As part of her efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, Ginny Thomas has communicated with at least two of Clarence Thomas’ mutual contacts: Eastman, his former official, and an Arizona lawmaker who is married to a former justice colleague.
This correspondence reflects a long-standing model in which Ginny Thomas’ political activities overlap with her husband’s judicial position, raising ethical questions about his impartiality in her work.
During the post-election period, Clarence Thomas refused to step down from a number of legal challenges for Trump that challenged the results of 2020. Earlier this year, he gave the only vote against a Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for an elected House committee. of Representatives investigating the January 6, 2021 uprising to obtain records of Trump’s White House.
Ethical issues surrounding Clarence Thomas have intensified as new details continue to emerge about his wife’s aggressive efforts to help undo Trump’s electoral defeat.
Last week, it was revealed that Ginny Thomas exchanged emails with Eastman, the author of two legal notes on Trump’s campaign, claiming that then-Vice President Mike Pence was authorized to refuse to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. .
The Washington Post, which reported the existence of the e-mail, did not provide details of its content.
Neither Ginny Thomas nor Eastman’s lawyer responded immediately to a request for comment.
Shortly after the report, a House of Representatives committee asked Ginny Thomas to speak to the committee on January 6. Ginny Thomas told The Daily Caller last week that she can’t wait to talk to investigators.
“I can’t wait to clarify the misconceptions,” she told the newspaper, which said it did not specify what those misconceptions might be. “I look forward to talking to them.”
Earlier, the commission said it would refrain from trying to talk to Thomas after news emerged that it had also sent text messages to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows about efforts to keep Trump in office.
These reports revealed that in the weeks after the 2020 election, Thomas exchanged dozens of text messages with Meadows, which seem to show her strategy on how to circumvent the will of American voters and appoint Trump for a second term in the White House despite his loss of Biden, a result she described as “obvious fraud” and “the biggest robbery in our history.”
Thomas also reportedly called on 29 Arizona lawmakers to intervene after Trump’s election defeat in the state, pressuring them to set aside Biden’s voter list and present a “clean voter list,” according to The Washington Post. .
One of the recipients, Russell Bowers, president of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, is due to appear before the committee on Tuesday, January 6.
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Another Arizona Republican who received an email from Thomas on November 9, 2020, urging the legislature to “fight fraud” was Sean Bolik, a member of the State House of Representatives who was on the election committee in 2020. Bolik’s husband , Clinton Bolik, is a former colleague of Clarence Thomas, who is the godfather of one of Bolik’s sons.
According to The Post, Sean Bolick wrote to Ginny Thomas on November 10: “I hope you and Clarence are doing great!”
Bolik told the Post that she received tens of thousands of emails after the election and responded to Thomas in the same way she did to other correspondents, advising them on how to file a voter fraud complaint in Arizona.
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