In a new book released Tuesday, Ginny Thomas provided a window into her long-standing effort to cultivate and cultivate relationships with and between her husband’s former Supreme Court officials.
Among Clarence Thomas’s former employees is attorney John Eastman, a key figure in the Jan. 6 House Electoral Commission investigation whose communications with Ginny Thomas after the 2020 election caught the attention of congressional investigators last week. asked to testify before the committee.
The book “Created Equal”, a cover of the documentary of the same name by director Michael Pack in 2020 and co-edited by lawyer Mark Paoletta, contains interviews with Clarence and Ginni Thomas that took place in 2017 and 2018, parts of which had not been released before.
In it, Ginny Thomas discusses her efforts to build “connective tissue all these years” between Clarence Thomas’s former lawyers. She describes a recent summer shelter in Utah, where Thomas gathered with former employees and their families, as well as her job to create a list of employees who can stay in touch as families grow up and move up the legal ranks.
“She told them, ‘You will become future leaders, she is coming your way, you will be next,’” Ginny Thomas said of her husband’s advice to his employees. “And now it is.”
“It’s our pleasure to have hundreds of young and now middle-aged people, all former employees, sprinkled all over the country doing amazing things, both personally and professionally – judges, teachers, lawyers, and even housewives spending time with their children. He adds. “It’s really exciting to watch what they do.”
As part of her effort to reverse the results of the 2020 election, Ginny Thomas contacted at least two of Clarence Thomas’s reciprocal contacts: Eastman, his former employee, and an Arizona lawmaker who is married to a former justice colleague.
This correspondence reflects a pattern of many years in which Ginny Thomas’s political activity overlaps with her husband’s judicial position, raising ethical questions about his impartiality in her work.
During the post-election period, Clarence Thomas refused to give up numerous legal challenges in favor of Trump challenging the 2020 results. a House committee that investigated the January 6, 2021 uprising to obtain the Trump White House archives.
Ethical questions surrounding Clarence Thomas have intensified as new details of his wife’s aggressive attempt to help reverse Trump’s election defeat continue to emerge.
Last week, it was revealed that Ginny Thomas had exchanged emails with Eastman, the author of two legal notes on Trump’s campaign, arguing that then-Vice President Mike Pence had been authorized to refuse to certify Joe Biden’s victory in his presidential election. 2020.
The Washington Post, which reported the email, did not provide details.
Neither Ginny Thomas nor an Eastman’s lawyer immediately responded to a request for comment.
Shortly after the report, the House committee on January 6 asked Ginny Thomas to speak with the committee. Ginny Thomas told The Daily Caller last week that she was willing to talk to the researchers.
“I’m looking forward to clearing up the misunderstandings,” he told the agency, which did not specify what those misunderstandings might be. “I look forward to talking to them.”
The committee had previously said it would abstain from trying to talk to Thomas after he sent a message to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, about efforts to keep Trump in power.
These reports revealed that in the weeks following the 2020 election, Thomas exchanged dozens of text messages with Meadows that seemed to indicate that he was devising a strategy on how to bypass the will of American voters and install Trump in his second term. White House despite his defeat by Biden. a result he described as “obvious fraud” and “the biggest robbery in our history”.
Thomas also reportedly urged 29 Arizona lawmakers to intervene after Trump’s election defeat in the state, forcing them to drop Biden’s voter list and present “a clean ballot,” according to the Washington Post.
One of the recipients, Russell Bowers, Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, is scheduled to appear before the Jan. 6 panel on Tuesday.
The January 6 committee tells a story, but there are many gaps. Another Arizona Republican who received an email on November 9, 2020 from Thomas urging lawmakers to “fight fraud” was Shawnna Bolick, a member of the State House who served on the 2020 election commission. Bolick’s husband Clinton Bolick, is a former colleague of Clarence Thomas, who is the godfather of one of Bolick’s sons.
According to the Post, Shawnna Bolick wrote to Ginny Thomas on November 10: “I hope you and Clarence are doing great!” Bolick told the Post 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.