Donald Trump lawyer John Eastman claimed that he had insight into a “heated fight” among the justices over whether the Supreme Court should hear arguments about Trump’s false election claims, leading to more speculation that Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was working actively to sway the Court’s actions, the New York Times reports.
Eastman made the claim in an email to Trump campaign officials and a Wisconsin lawyer working on behalf of the campaign. Eastman wrote that the outcome of a Supreme Court case would not depend on the legitimacy of the case under the law, but instead on the willingness of the justices to set aside the law and declare Trump the winner.
“So the odds are not based on the legal merits but an assessment of the justices’ spines, and I understand that there is a heated fight underway,” Eastman wrote on December 24, 2020, adding that Kenneth Cheesebro, the Wisconsin lawyer should continue to pursue a case involving a Republican-appointed set of electors to further cloud the issue: “For those willing to do their duty, we should help them by giving them a Wisconsin cert petition to add into the mix.”