The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas worked behind the scenes to overturn the results of the 2020 election in at least two states, according to The Washington Post, which reported Thursday it had seen emails from Ginni Thomas to Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin she hoped to influence.
Thomas, a Nebraska native who lives in Virginia, also reportedly reached out to nearly 30 GOP lawmakers in Arizona after the 2020 election, looking for their help in keeping former president Donald Trump in office. The Post said her outreach to a pair of Wisconsin lawmakers happened around the same time.
“Please stand strong in the face of media and political pressure,” read emails sent by Thomas on Nov. 9 — less than a week after the presidential election that was won by President Biden.
Thomas is also said to have urged lawmakers to “reflect on the awesome authority” they hold, then appoint electors who would defy the wishes of their states’ voters.
By her own admission, the 65-year-old right-wing activist got caught up in what she described as a cult in the 1980s. She’s since strongly denounced such subcultures, but remains an avid MAGA supporter who has embraced ideology shared by the QAnon collective. Herself a legal scholar, she married Justice Thomas in 1987. He joined the Supreme Court in 1991.
Neither Thomas’ representatives addressed the Post’s request for comment.
“Urgent” text messages from Thomas to former Trump Administration chief of staff Mark Meadows after the 2020 election also urged the former president’s right-hand man to take action, the Post and CBS reported.
“Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!,” she texted, claiming a “great heist” was underway to put Biden in office.
Correspondences between Thomas and Meadows are in the hands of the congressional committee investigating the events of Jan. 6.
Trump carried Arizona and Wisconsin in the 2016 election, but lost those states —and the presidency — in 2020.
Thomas insists her professional interests are kept apart from her husband’s position on the nation’s highest court. The 74-year-old jurist has resisted pressure to recuse himself from cases tied to the 2020 election.
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