emails show that Thomas’ attempts to cancel the election were more more extensive than previously known of in people said. Three declined give details and talk on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues.
Members and staff of the committee are now debating whether to spend time during their public Jeannie Thomas hearing role in attempt to undo the result of 2020 elections, three people said. The Washington Post previously reported that the committee did not seek an interview. with Thomas and bowed against continuation of her collaboration with his investigation.
Two people said the emails were among the documents received by the committee and recently reviewed. Last week, a federal judge ordered Eastman to appeal more over 100 documents over to the committee. Eastman tried to block the release of those and other documents, claiming that they are privileged messages and, therefore, should be protected.
Thomas also sent messages to the head of the White House of President Donald Trump of employees, Mark Meadows, and Arizona legislators, forcing them help cancel the election, The Post previously reported.
Although Thomas claimed that she and her husband act in certain professional areas, her activities as conservative political activist has long distinguished her from other spouses of Supreme Court justices. Any new revelations of Thomas’ actions after the 2020 presidential election are likely to further exacerbate questions about whether Clarence Thomas was should self-withdrawal in cases related to elections and attempts to disrupt them.
In January, the Supreme Court denied Trump’s request to block the publication. of his White House reports to the House Committee of Inquiry on January 6. Clarence Thomas was the only one justice disagree, take sides with Trump.
Jeannie Thomas did not immediately respond to requests for commentas well as Eastman or his attorney. press secretary for The Supreme Court did not answer questions for Clarence Thomas.
Committee Representative of January 6 declined to comment.
eastman, who once served as a clerk for Clarence Thomas at the Supreme Court, outlining scenarios for rejection of Biden in the presidential election in legal notes and in meeting in the oval office on 4 January with This was previously reported by Trump and Pence, The Post and other publications. Eastman said Trump was a client of his at the time.
Previously it yearEastman was ordered by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter to submit numerous documents to the committee, dismissing Eastman’s claims of privilege. In April and May, Eastman applied over more over 1000 papers to the committee.
In a 26 page ruling last week Carter turned to another 599 documents that Eastman was trying to get. shield. Carter ruled that more than 400 of these documents were protected by attorney-client or other secrecy and should not be released.
But I ordered the rest, including correspondence with state legislators and documents related to alleged voter fraud and a plan to disrupt the joint session of Congress on January 6, be turned over to the committee last week and earlier this week.
Carter described some of the documents in more detail than others.
He ordered Eastman to turn around. over documents from three meetings in December 2020 of a group which Eastman called “citizens with a civil of a conservative point of view,” including messages from a man Carter called group”high-ranking leader” invites Eastman to speak at a meeting on December 8, 2020 The agenda for the meeting indicated that Eastman discussed “State Legislative Measures That Could Reverse media- appointed elections for Joe Biden.
“The Special Committee has a significant interest in these three meetings because the presentations contributed critical a task of January 6 plan: for contested states to certify alternate lists of electors for President Trump,” Carter wrote.
No it’s not clear what the group or who its top notch leader.
Carter also ordered to release of part of an email dated December 22 written by an unnamed lawyer. The lawyer supported Trump’s legal support. team not to proceed with the trial, which could “put an end to the events of January 6”. strategy”having done clear what Pence didn’t have ability to intervene in count of selective votes. “Lawyers may not initiate cases; they have no right to evade judicial review cancel Democratic elections,” Carter wrote.
And the judge ordered to be released of several messages shared news stories or tweets.
According to text messages obtained by The Post and CBS News, in the weeks following the 2020 election, Jeannie Thomas repeatedly pressed Meadows to overturn the results. After January 6, she told Meadows in text about being “disgusted” with Penny, who refused help block certification of Biden wins the Electoral College. She wrote: “We experience what feels like the end of America.”
During the same post-election period, Thomas also pressure on Republican legislators in Arizona in help keep trump in office putting aside the popularvote win and “select” their own voters, according to The Post, based on on documents received via a public record request. Thomas sent emails via freeroots, online Platform designed to facilitate sending pre-written messages to multiple elected officials.
In an email on November 9, just days later media organizations called race in Arizona and nationally for Biden and Thomas sent identical emails to 27 lawmakers in The Arizona House of Representatives and the Senate urge them to “stand strong in in face of political and media pressure.” The email argued that the responsibility for electing voters, which under Arizona law belongs to voters, was “yours and yours alone” and argued that the legislature has “power to fight back against fraud” and “ensure what a blank slate of The electors have been chosen.”
AT follow-up Email one of recipients, State Rep. Shonna Bolick, Thomas described the email as “part of of our campaign to help states feel eyes”.
Bolik (R) who provided by Thomas with links she could use report any scam she encounters in Arizona previously told The Post it received dozens of thousands of emails after the election and what she replied to Thomas in same way she replied to everyone else.
December 13, the day before the presidential electors were due to vote votes and seal Biden’s victory, Thomas emailed 21 of these legislators plus two others. “Before you choose the electors in your state… consider what will happen to the nation we all love if you don’t up as well as lead”, – the letter says. This is related to the video of a man calling on swing state legislators to “make things right” and “not give in to cowardice.”
next day, Democratic Electors in Arizona votes for Biden. Republican electors met separately and signed a document declaring themselves “due elected as well as qualified Electors”. More than a dozen Arizona legislators have signed on to a letter to Congress for selective votes go to Trump or “be completely annulled until full forensic examination may be carried out.
