It was updated Sept 29, 2022, 10:22am.
According to multiple outlets, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will testify to the House January 6 Committee Thursday, reversing her previous refusal to do so.
The wife of a Supreme Court justice moderated a panel discussion.
CNN is reporting that Thomas will testify in person to the committee Thursday morning.
When asked if she had spoken with her husband about the election being stolen, Thomas only said, "Thank you for your question, I look forward to answering members."
Thomas was asked to testify in June after it was reported that she sent emails to a Trump lawyer in order to help him challenge the results.
After initially suggesting she would testify, Thomas then refused, with her attorney sending an eight-page letter to the committee arguing lawmakers didn't have a sufficient basis to speak with her.
The chair of the committee said Wednesday that she would testify this week.
Lawmakers hope to learn everything she knows about the post- election period, and that her testimony adds to the body of knowledge about what happened on January 6.
Thompson said last week that they think it's important to speak to Thomas because she likes a lot of other witnesses who came forward.
Thomas has denied that she influenced her husband's work as a justice. In his letter to the committee, Paoletta criticized its members for being biased against Thomas and her husband and denied allegations that Thomas was personally involved with attempts to overturn the election. I have serious concerns about the fairness of any interview because of the animus directed at Justice Thomas and his wife.
The House committee was supposed to hold its first public hearing in months on Wednesday, but was postponed due to Hurricane Ian. After the hearings are over, the committee will issue a final report detailing its findings, though it is not clear when that will be.
The New York Times reported in March that the Republicans on the committee objected to asking Thomas to testify before the emails were reported. According to the Times, committee members believed that she was a distraction from more important targets, so they resisted going after Thomas.
As her husband considered lawsuits challenging the election results at the Supreme Court, Thomas was involved in a wide-ranging effort to overturn the 2020 election. In addition to her correspondence with Eastman, Thomas also exchanged text messages with then White House Chief of Staff MarkMeadows in which she urged him to challenge the election results, and sent emails to lawmakers in multiple states pushing efforts to contest the vote count She has said that she was present at the rally on January 6 that preceded the attack on the Capitol building and that she was involved in the fake electors scheme. In his letter to lawmakers, Paoletta denied that any of her efforts constituted wrongdoing: her correspondence with Eastman was merely asking him to speak to one of her groups, her texts withMeadows were her "simply texting with a friend" and the emails she sent to lawmakers were form letters that
The lawyer says that she won't testify to the committee.
The Wife of a Supreme Court Justice was reported to have pressured Wisconsin lawmakers to change their minds about the 2020 election.
Ginni Thomas will be interviewed on January 6.
The chair says that Ginni Thomas will speak to the committee.
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