A House of Representatives commission investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol has new emails showing that Ginny Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has corresponded with Trump’s ally, attorney John Eastman, two sources said Wednesday. .
The committee is considering what to do with the emails, two people familiar with the documents told CBS News.
The news was first reported by The Washington Post.
A House of Representatives committee is expected to investigate Thursday’s January 6th hearing on Eastman’s role in pushing Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally reject voters and replace them with alternatives. The theory proposed by Eastman et al. Was that Republicans in seven states would present alternative voter lists on January 6, 2021, when Congress convened to certify the votes of the Electoral College.
Last week, a federal judge ordered Eastman to hand over 159 documents to the House of Representatives’ election commission, which he tried to retain, claiming executive privilege.
Virginia Thomas, Conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 23, 2017. Susan Walsh / AP
At a public hearing of the House of Representatives’ elected committee last week, Vice President Liz Cheney said the committee would present some of those emails. “You will see the exchange of emails between Eastman and the vice president’s adviser while the violent attack on Congress was ongoing,” Cheney said. “[Pence counsel Greg] Jacob said this to Mr Eastman: “Thanks to your stupidity **, we are under siege.”
House of Representatives chairman Benny Thompson said in May that the committee had not considered calling her as a witness. “Well, it wasn’t really a focal point in the work of the wider committee,” Thompson told CBS News on May 19. “She is simply the wife of a Supreme Court judge.”
The texts between Ginny Thomas and former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows showed that she pushed him to take down the election results. Earlier, she said she attended Trump’s rally in Ellipse, but said she left early.
According to text reports first published by The Washington Post and CBS News, Ginny Thomas’s text reports show that she encouraged Trump’s top aide to fight for the cancellation of the 2020 election. Citing Trump’s allies who evidence of alleged fraud, Thomas wrote Meadows on November 19, saying, “Make a plan … and save us from the left that is taking down America.”
Ellis Kim and Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.
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