The wife of Supreme Court conservative justice Clarence Thomas, Ginni Thomas had previously undisclosed email correspondence with John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who was at the front of an effort to get Vice President Mike Pence to reject the certified slates of electors submitted by the states, the Washington Post reports.
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress has the emails in its possession and is debating whether to feature them in a future televised hearing. The documents are thought to be part of a tranche of information a federal judge ordered Eastman to turn over to the committee two weeks ago.
The information adds to the pile of controversies circling around Clarence Thomas, who had failed to report 20 years of income obtained by his wife while she was contracted to conservative advocacy groups that had cases pending before the Supreme Court. Clarence Thomas also refused to recuse himself from a case last year that determined former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows had to turn over communications regarding the election; some of those communications were with Ginni Thomas, giving Clarence Thomas a clear conflict of interest. In that case, Clarence Thomas was the only Supreme Court justice to vote to keep the communications from the committee.