Justice Clarence Thomas stayed out of the decision involving his former law clerk, the architect of Donald Trump’s legal strategy to overturn the 2020 election.
The Supreme Court on Monday denied a request from conservative lawyer John Eastman to wipe out a lower court ruling that said he and former president Donald Trump “more likely than not” committed a crime when they worked together to try to block certification of the 2020 election.
In March, a federal judge in California sided with the committee and ordered Eastman to turn over his emails. While the lawsuit was a civil matter, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter said in his order that Eastman and Trump had likely committed crimes in trying to overturn the election. Thomas’s decision to step away in the Eastman matter was a departure from his previous participation in cases involving the investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Thomas was the only member of the court last year to side with Trump’s request to withhold White House documents from the committee. He was criticized for participating in that decision because his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, was actively involved in challenging the election results.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack also obtained emails between Ginni Thomas and Eastman.
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