(LR) Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas arrive at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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A Facebook group run by Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, may become a new point of interest in the US House Select Committee investigation into the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Congressional investigators said they plan to ask Ginny Thomas to testify before the committee after Trump attorney John Eastman on Thursday. publicly posted An email from Thomas on December 4, 2020 asking him to speak at a gathering called “frontliners” who he described as “grassroots state leaders”. Ginny Thomas is listed as the administrator of a Facebook group that goes by a similar name and description: “Frontliners for Liberty.”
As per the page’s description, the private group, which enlisted more than 50 members, was created in August 2020, just two months before the November election.
group, CNBC reviewed it before it was removed from public view, describes itself as “A new ally, independence-focused, action-oriented group of state leaders representing ground forces to engage, inform and activate each other to uphold constitutional rule.” Although Thomas’s personal Facebook page is not verified, it does contain several photos. Justice Thomas.
The group’s pages were removed from public view after CNBC reached out to Thomas about the organization. Now it shows a notice from Facebook saying that it has either been removed or the privacy settings have been changed.
CNBC sought answers via Facebook Messenger from Stephanie Coleman, the listed administrator of the group and the wife of the late Gregory Coleman, solicitor general of Texas. Greg Coleman was Once A clerk for Justice Thomas.
Coleman and Thomas are frequently pictured together on Coleman’s personal Facebook page, including a December 2016 photo of the two together with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
Thomas asked Eastman to speak to his Frontliners group on December 8, according to his email. Eastman said that Thomas “invited me to give the group updates about the electoral litigation she met from time to time,” according to her post on Substack, an email newsletter subscription service. Thomas told Eastman that she was “on sabbatical until this election material was resolved.”
At the time, Trump and his allies were filing a legal challenge against the 2020 election results after the president Joe Biden The winner was declared. Trump and those close to him lost most of those lawsuits.
Thomas’ email to Eastman appears to be disputed in his legal dispute with congressional investigators probing the January 6 attack. a federal judge recently ruled against Eastman, Joe was trying to claim attorney-client privilege to intercept emails about the 2020 election. judge Eastman ordered to hand over ten documentsIncluding four related to a meeting on December 8, 2020, which was on the same date that Ginny Thomas asked them to speak to the frontliners., US District Judge David Carter wrote in his June, “Two emails are high-profile leaders of the group inviting Dr. Eastman to speak at the meeting, and two emails containing the agenda of the meeting.” 7 orders.
Based on the agenda of the event, Eastman discussed “‘state legislative actions that could reverse the election the media has called for Joe Biden.’ Another speaker gave ‘update on’ [state] The action of the legislature in relation to the electoral votes,'” Carter wrote.
Eastman, according to the January 6 House Select Committee, which was investigating the riots that occurred nearly 17 months earlier, Tried to convince former Vice President Mike Pence that he has virtually unilateral power to reverse the election. Still, according to Pence’s former attorney, who testified at a committee hearing on Thursday, Jan. 6, Eastman once told him that his legal doctrine of a Trump adviser would be rejected 9-0 if it went to the Supreme Court. goes to the front.
The selection committee said it plans to invite Ginny Thomas to testify about her Correspondence with Eastman. Thomas told The Daily Caller that he was ready to testify. Thomas said, “I can’t wait to clear up the misunderstandings. I look forward to talking to him.”, He Allegedly Supported efforts to reverse the 2020 election, sending text messages to Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows encouraging him to stand behind the then-president’s false election claims.
Thomas, Eastman and their attorneys did not respond to requests for comment, a Supreme Court spokesman for the January 6 House Select Committee said.
According to Peter Vicenzi, a spokesman for the nonprofit, the Frontliners group also worked with a conservative advocacy organization known as FreedomWorks. He also said that Thomas and the FreedomWorks activists have been collaborators over the years. FreedomWorks does not publicly disclose its donors.
“Frontliners for Liberty, this is yet another conservative grassroots organization, partnering with FreedomWorks to take our issue forward,” Vicenzi said in an email. “Ginny Thomas, over the years, has been an invaluable ally to our activist community when it comes to engaging on shared issues.”
Ever since Trump lost the election, FreedomWorks has pushed the idea that election reforms are needed. Conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who used to work with Trump’s campaign, now chair of FreedomWorks’ multimillion-dollar National Election Protection Initiative, According to Newsmax.
Marissa Hamilton, who says on her LinkedIn page that she is a grassroots director at FreedomWorks, tweeted a photo in October of what she described as an event at “FreedomWorks Frontliners for Liberty.” The photo shows Reps Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., Louis Gohart, R-Texas and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. are participating in the programme.
After CNBC emailed Hamilton about the tweets, they were removed from his page. It did not return a follow-up request for comment.