Jan. 6 Committee Wants to Talk to Ginni Thomas, Wife of Justice

June 16, 2022, 4:53 PM UTC

The chairman of the panel investigating the storming of the US Capitol said the committee plans to ask the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to answer questions about her involvement in plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

The panel plans to invite Virginia “Ginni” Thomas to be interviewed “at some point,” the chairman, Representative Bennie Thompson, told reporters on Thursday.

Email correspondence from then-President Donald Trump’s lawyer John Eastman that the panel recently obtained shows she was in contact with the attorney and her efforts to prevent Joe Biden from taking office were more extensive ...

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