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Attorneys waging election challenges for then-President Donald Trump singled out Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as potentially vital to blocking certification of the 2020 election for President Joe Biden.
In a series of newly-revealed emails, part of an ongoing federal court dispute in which Trump lawyer John Eastman is resisting document requests from a special House committee investigating the Capitol attack, attorneys discussed Thomas’ potential role as “key,” according to a Dec. 31, 2020 email.
The communications, drawn from a Monday appeals court filing, were disclosed Wednesday by POLITICO.
A link to the Eastman documents was deactivated after House counsel Douglas Letter told the court that it was inadvertently included in its document submission, stating there was “no intention to provide this type of public access to the materials at this stage.”
The Thomas email was authored by another Trump attorney, Kenneth Chesebro, and circulated to Eastman and others, suggesting a strategy to “frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay.
