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Source; The Raw StoryAccording to a report from Politico, attorney John Eastman - who was leading the charge to overturn 2020 presidential election results that ousted Donald Trump from the White House - is receiving new scrutiny over his relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas.
In light of revelations about texts being exchanged between Ginni Thomas and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, where the wife of the Supreme Court justice was passing on conspiracy theories and urging the Trump's inner circle to do what they could to remain in power, one member of the House select committee investigating the Jan 6th insurrection said he has some questions for Eastman.
As Kyle Cheney reports, "Eastman spent the final weeks of Trump's presidency driving a strategy to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory, a plan that relied on legal theories so extreme the Jan. 6 select committee says they could amount to criminal conspiracy and fraud," before adding, "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 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, or if he was simply voicing a hunch," Cheney wrote before noting, "Eastman's attorney Charles Burnham did not respond to questions about whether Eastman maintained ties to the Thomases or communicated with either of them in the aftermath of Trump's 2020 defeat. There's no known evidence that Eastman was directly in touch with either of the Thomases during his campaign to pressure Pence to subvert the results."
Read more at https://www.rawstory.com/ginni-thomas-white-house/
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)Those committee hearings are going to be really interesting. Full circle is being revealed and it is, I hope and think they do too, going to change everything.
I hope the result is a return to real representative government that is not driven by potential for profit.
And I hope it happens before I die which may not be all that far into the future.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)What a monstrosity of a story! It will keep going and going.
Great things out of this are very possible.
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)It's way bigger than the kochtopus.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)Thomas must resign. This is corruption at the highest level. The court will not be able to function moving forward with Thomas on the bench. No one will trust the court with Thomas on the bench.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)The more people call for his resignation the more popular he'll become with the deplorables.
My guess is that C&G are giddy about the attention they are getting. It shows that they are loyal to the Christian Facisist movement. Ginni's fee just increased
SKKY
(11,804 posts)...of Thomas, Meadows, and probably others. To say Ginni and Clarence didn't discuss this prior, during, and definitely after is just ridiculous.