Politico reports:
Ginni Thomas’ unfettered access to Donald Trump’s chief of staff — and potentially others in his West Wing — raises new questions about another figure at the center of Trump’s gambit to subvert the 2020 election: attorney John Eastman.
The select committee has evidence that when a top Pence aide challenged Eastman’s plan on Jan. 4, 2021, Eastman initially told him he believed two Supreme Court justices would back him up. One of them was Ginni Thomas’ husband, Justice Clarence Thomas.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told POLITICO that the new details raise important questions about whether Eastman had a specific reason to believe Justice Thomas would support his radical gambit.
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The Ginni Thomas fallout continues: The Jan. 6 select committee has evidence that Trump ally John Eastman expected Justice Thomas to back his dubious legal theory to block Joe Biden’s victory. https://t.co/YyHytxVxWN
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) March 26, 2022
Remember that in addition to Ginni Thomas, Clarence Thomas is connected to John Eastman: The legal architect of the Jan. 6 coup was his law clerk
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 25, 2022