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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">finn</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p class="css-g5piaz evys1bk0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The lack of consensus also underscores the extent to which Justice Thomas’s shadow, including his network of supporters and former clerks, looms over various aspects of the investigation. Three of Justice Thomas’s former clerks — a federal judge, a top committee investigator and a key adviser to Mr. Trump — have major roles in the matter.</font></p><p class="css-g5piaz evys1bk0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A main strategist in the effort to try to overturn the election, <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/us/politics/john-eastman-trump-memo.html" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: auto;">the lawyer </a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/us/politics/john-eastman-trump-memo.html" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: auto;">John Eastman</a>, was a former clerk of Justice Thomas’s. <b>John Wood, one of the Jan. 6 committee’s top investigators and another former Thomas clerk, is leading the so-called <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/us/politics/capitol-riot-panel.html" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: auto;">gold team examining Mr. Trump’s inner circle</a>. </b>And a federal judge, Carl J. Nichols, who is hearing cases related to the Capitol riot, is also a former clerk of Justice Thomas’s.</span></font></p><p class="css-g5piaz evys1bk0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This dynamic was on display during a deposition in December of Mr. Eastman, who was subpoenaed by the committee to talk about his role in helping Mr. Trump try to overturn the election. Mr. Wood began the questioning by noting that Mr. Eastman had once served as a clerk to Justice Thomas.</font></p><p class="css-g5piaz evys1bk0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Like you, John,” Mr. Eastman shot back....</b></font></p></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Buckley [</font></font></font></font></font></font>https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/23/politics/david-buckley-january-6-committee-accused-retaliation-whistleblower/index.html]</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>As the staff director for the select committee, Buckley, a former CIA inspector general, has led the overall direction of the investigation since the panel started its evidence-gathering work in earnest last September. 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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">january 6 rally organizers participated in “dozens” of meetings with White House staff, including Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, as well as some Republican members of Congress and their staff. » Rally organizers were reportedly concerned about the possibility that an unpermitted march planned by Stop the Steal activists could turn chaotic and lead to violence, and shared those concerns with Meadows, whose text messages reveal the extent of his involvement in the effort to overturn the election. » Rally organizers, Stop the Steal activists and militia groups participated in a group chat that included Roger Stone, who coordinated the effort to overturn the election with former national security advisor Michael Flynn, Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander, among others. » <b>Two key organizers of the rally at the Ellipse, Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lynn Lawrence, turned over a trove of documents and messages and testified to the Committee.</b> » A trove of material obtained by ProPublica includes documents, digital communications and audio recordings of a variety of individuals involved in the broader effort to sow doubt about the outcome of the election. » Trump affiliated lawyers have been sanctioned by courts, including Rudy Giuiliani. In an (oftoverlooked) decision to suspend Giuiliani’s New York State bar license, the state court said that Giuliani “communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump campaign;” “[o]ne only has to look at the ongoing present public discord over the 2020 election, which erupted into violence, insurrection and death on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol, to understand the extent of the damage that can be done when the public is misled by false information about the elections.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>members of the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack are weighing whether to demand that Ginni Thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, cooperate with the inquiry, according to two sources familiar with the matter.</div><div>
</div><div>A move to request cooperation from Ginni Thomas, who was revealed to have pushed in text messages to Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows to overturn the results of the 2020 election, would mark one of the most aggressive steps taken by the panel.</div><div>
</div><div>FILE - Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, left and his wife Virginia Thomas, right, leave the the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington after attending funeral services of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, on Feb. 20, 2016. Virginia Thomas sent weeks of text messages imploring White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to act to overturn the 2020 presidential election — furthering then-President Donald Trump's lies that the free and fair vote was marred by nonexistent fraud, according to copies of the messages obtained by The Washington Post and CBS News. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)</div><div>Ginni Thomas texts spark ethical storm about husband’s supreme court role</div><div>Read more</div><div>
</div><div>The select committee did not formally decide on whether to summon Thomas after a series of private deliberations on Friday, the sources said, even as the members discussed whether to request her voluntary cooperation or compel documents and testimony with a subpoena.</div><div>Italy election: far-right Brothers of Italy on course to win most votes; Russia ready for ‘constructive relations’ with party – live</div><div>But the renewed discussions – the panel weighed the matter for weeks after it first obtained the text messages – are likely to continue in huddles and on the House floor on Monday before the select committee moves to hold two Trump aides in contempt of Congress, the sources said.</div><div>
</div><div>The hesitation to date about demanding that Thomas cooperate with the inquiry appears to have centered in part from concerns that she likely has scant interest in assisting the panel and could seek to create a political spectacle to distract from the investigation.</div><div>
</div><div>Thomas, for instance, remains a close friend of prominent rightwing political operatives including Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon, who last year openly defied a subpoena as he sought to undermine the legitimacy of the select committee.</div><div>
</div><div>The other principal concern among some members on the panel is whether it would be worth it to pursue testimony from Thomas at potential political cost if she appears for questioning but then stonewalls the inquiry, one of the sources said, for instance by asserting the fifth amendment.</div><div>
</div><div>At least one member on the select committee also appeared to only just learn about the content of the text messages after reading them in news reports on Thursday, one of the sources said.</div><div>
</div><div>Justice Thomas remains an icon among the Republican base and some members have warned that a move against his wife would almost certainly be perceived as a partisan attack by Democrats trying to tarnish his reputation, the sources said.</div><div>The worries about political backlash has increasingly become a point of contention for the select committee in recent months. The Guardian first reported in January the panel had similar reservations about issuing subpoenas to House Republicans.</div><div>
</div><div>The select committee could yet demand cooperation from Thomas, seeking information on whether Thomas knew about the scheme to have then vice-president Mike Pence stop the certification of Joe Biden’s win or plans for Trump supporters to descend on the Capitol January 6.</div><div>
</div><div>Other lines of inquiry might include whether she connected lawyer John Eastman, who drew up the Pence scheme and clerked for Justice Thomas, to Trump, and whether she communicated with Meadows during a gap of unexplained correspondence between 24 November and 10 January.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The select committee would then find itself in the bizarre position of having John Wood, also a former clerk for Justice Thomas who now leads the “gold team” examining Trump’s role in the Capitol attack, questioning the senior justice’s wife.</span></div><div>A spokesperson for the select committee declined to comment.</div><div>Thomas is facing heightened scrutiny for working as a Republican activist while her husband sits on the supreme court after the Washington Post and CBS reported that she pushed Trump’s most senior White House aide to overturn the 2020 election results.</div><div>
</div><div>In one of 29 text messages from Ginni Thomas that Meadows turned over to the select committee, Thomas also pressured the former White House chief of staff to have Trump appoint the conspiracy theorist and lawyer Sidney Powell to lead his post-election legal team.</div><div>
</div><div>The communications are significant as they represent the first evidence that she was advising the White House on how to return Trump to office by any means, while her husband ruled on cases attempting to change the outcome of the election.</div><div>
</div><div>But Meadows did not turn over any text messages between 24 November and 10 January, the Washington Post and CBS reported – a gap in communications that overlaps with the Capitol attack and would almost certainly be an area of interest to the panel.</div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b></b></font></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>an 922</b></font></font></font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The House select committee issued a subpoena over the weekend to Wisconsin House speaker Robin Vos seeking his testimony about a July phone call with Donald Trump.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The panel wants Vos to testify Monday, but the Wisconsin Republican is suing to block the subpoena,</b> which he argues is outside the scope of the committee's authority and posed an “undue burden” by requiring his cooperation on such short notice, <a href="https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-26-2022/wisconsin-house-speaker-subpoenaed/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">reported Politico</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Speaker Vos’ conversations with former President Trump pertained to a recently decided Wisconsin Supreme Court decision about Wisconsin election law and any actions that could be taken in response to this decision moving forward,” the lawsuit states. “These topics do not pertain to the events of January 6th, or even (to construe the authorizing resolution broadly) the events leading up to it or its immediate aftermath.”</span></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the select committee chairman, told Vos his interactions with the former president was relevant to the panel's investigation and proposed recommendations, but the lawsuit contends that the subpoena was timed to coincide with the public hearing scheduled for this week.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The only explanation for such an extreme timeline is the Committee’s desire to conduct the deposition before its next publicly televised hearing on Wednesday, September 28, 2022,” the lawsuit stated.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The subpoena says the committee is seeking testimony about a call between Trump and Vos, who told the former president the state's Constitution would not allow him to change the results of the 2020 election after the Wisconsin Supreme Court prohibited the use of drop-off boxes for absentee ballots outside election offices in future elections.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump then attacked Vos on his Truth Social website and endorsed his Republican primary challenger in the August primary.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This is not a time for him to hide, but a time to act!” Trump posted. “I don’t know his opponent in the upcoming primary, but feel certain he will do well if Speaker Vos doesn’t move with gusto.”</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>=</b></font></font></font></div></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div>