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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Liz Cheney blocked January 6 scrutiny of Ginni Thomas, book says

a side-by-side image of Liz Cheney and Ginni Thomas
Liz Cheney, left, and Ginni Thomas. Composite: CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images, AP

Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the House January 6 committee, did “all she could” to protect the rightwing supreme court justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, the political activist Ginni Thomas, by blocking an in-depth investigation of Ginni’s involvement in Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, a new book says.

In Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America, the reporter and Democratic operative David Brock writes that “two Capitol Hill sources with personal knowledge” revealed a “dramatic truth, which might shock even some jaded Washington veterans not easily surprised by callow examples of power protecting power.

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