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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.
