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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joan E Greve

Trump allies saw Clarence Thomas as key to efforts to challenge 2020 election

Clarence Thomas speaks in South Bend, Indiana, in September 2021.
Clarence Thomas speaks in South Bend, Indiana, in September 2021. Photograph: Robert Franklin/AP

In a last desperate attempt to delay or disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential race, allies of Donald Trump sought to appeal to conservative supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas, new emails show.

The emails, recently obtained by the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, show that members of Trump’s legal team considered Thomas to be “key” to their efforts to overturn Georgia’s election results.

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