The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol received emails from Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and attorney John Eastman, who to the Vice President. President Mike Pence will block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, according to three people who participated in the commission’s investigation. The emails show that Thomas’s efforts to overthrow the election were more extensive than previously known, two of the people said. The three refused to give details and spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues. Committee members and staff are now discussing whether to take the time at their public hearings to investigate the role of Ginny Thomas in trying to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, the three said. The Washington Post previously reported that the commission had not requested an interview with Thomas and was opposed to continuing its co-operation with its investigation. The two men said the emails were among the documents the committee received and were recently reviewed. Last week, a federal judge ordered Eastman to submit more than 100 documents to the commission. Eastman had tried to prevent the publication of these and other documents by arguing that they were privileged communications and therefore should be protected. Thomas also sent messages to President Donald Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Mendows and Arizona lawmakers, urging them to help overthrow the election, The Post reported earlier. While Thomas has argued that she and her husband operate in separate business ventures, her activities as a conservative political activist have long distinguished her from other spouses of Supreme Court justices. Any new revelations about Thomas’s actions after the 2020 presidential election are likely to further raise questions about whether Clarence Thomas should clear himself of election-related allegations and attempts to overthrow them. In January, the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s request to block the release of his White House files to the January 6 House committee investigating. Clarence Thomas was the only judge to disagree with Trump. Ginny Thomas did not immediately respond to requests for comment, nor did Eastman or his lawyer. A representative of the Supreme Court did not answer Clarence Thomas’s questions. A representative of the January 6 commission declined to comment. Eastman, who once served as a clerk for Clarence Thomas in the Supreme Court, outlined scenarios for Biden’s denial of the presidency in legal notes and at a January 4 meeting with Trump and Pence at the Oval Office, The Post and Pence reported earlier. other means. Eastman said Trump was his client at the time. Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ordered Eastman to release several documents to the commission, dismissing Eastman’s claims. In April and May, Eastman submitted more than 1,000 documents to the committee. In a 26-page decision last week, Carter addressed another 599 documents that Eastman sought to shield. Carter ruled that more than 400 of these documents were protected by a lawyer or other privilege and should not be made public. However, he ordered the rest, including correspondence with state lawmakers and documents related to alleged electoral fraud and the plan to adjourn the joint congressional hearing on Jan. 6, to be submitted to committee last week and earlier this week. Carter described some of the documents in more detail than others. He ordered Eastman to deliver documents on three meetings in December 2020 of a group that Eastman described as “citizen-oriented conservative citizens,” including messages from a man Carter described as the “high-profile leader” of the group. invited Eastman to speak at a meeting on December 8, 2020. The agenda of the meeting shows that Eastman discussed “Government legislation that can reverse the election for Joe Biden called by the media.” “The Selection Committee is essentially interested in these three meetings, because the presentations set a crucial goal for the Jan. 6 plan: to get the disputed states to certify alternative voter lists for President Trump,” Carter wrote. It is not clear what the team is or who its top leader is. Carter also ordered the release of part of a December 22 e-mail written by an unidentified lawyer. The lawyer encouraged Trump’s legal team not to engage in litigation that could “work out the January 6 strategy,” making it clear that Pence could not intervene in the vote count. “Lawyers are free not to pursue cases. “They are not free to evade judicial control in order to overthrow democratic elections,” Carter wrote. And the judge ordered the release of several announcements that shared news or tweets. In the weeks following the 2020 election, Ginny Thomas repeatedly pressured Meadows to reverse the results, according to text messages received by The Post and CBS News. After Jan. 6, she told Meadows in a text that she was “disgusted” with Pence, who had refused to help block the certification of Biden’s victory in the electoral college. She wrote: “We live in what looks like the end of America.” During the same post-election period, Thomas also pressed Republican lawmakers in Arizona to help keep Trump in power by sidelining Biden’s victory by popular vote and “electing” their own constituents, The Post reported. based on documents received from a public application for registration. Thomas sent the emails via FreeRoots, an online platform designed to facilitate the sending of text messages to many elected officials. In an email Nov. 9, a few days after media outlets called for Aidona and Nationwide fight for Biden, Thomas sent identical emails to 27 lawmakers in the Arizona House and Senate, urging them to “stand firm against politics and media pressure. ” The e-mail claimed that the responsibility for electing voters – which belongs to the voters under Arizona law – was “yours and yours alone” and claimed that the legislature had the “power to oppose of fraud “and” ensure that a clean slate Voters are selected “. In a subsequent email to one of the recipients, Shawnna Bolick, Thomas described the email as “part of our campaign to help states feel America’s eyes.” Bolick (R), who provided Thomas with links he could use to report any fraud he had experienced in Arizona, had previously told The Post that he had received tens of thousands of post-election emails and responded to Thomas in the same way that he replied. to everyone else. On December 13, a day before the presidential election was scheduled to vote and seal Biden’s victory, Thomas emailed 21 of those lawmakers and two others. “Before you choose the Voters of your state… think about what will happen to the nation we all love if you do not stand up and lead,” the email said. He was linked to a video of a man urging swing-state lawmakers to “put things right” and “not give in to cowardice.” The next day, Democratic voters in Arizona cast their ballots for Biden. Republican voters met separately and signed a document stating that they are the “duly elected and qualified voters” of the state. More than a dozen Arizona lawmakers have signed a letter to Congress asking Trump to go to the polls or “cancel it out until a full forensic examination is done.”
