Ginny Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, will participate in a “voluntary meeting” with the House committee. Attack on the US Capitol on January 6His lawyer confirmed the matter on Wednesday. The news comes from the committee announcing that a public hearing will be held on September 28 at 1 p.m.
“As she has said from the beginning, Ms. Thomas is eager to answer the committee’s questions to clear up any misconceptions about her work in relation to the 2020 election,” Thomas’ lawyer Mark Pauletta said in a statement Wednesday. “He’s looking forward to that opportunity.”
News of Thomas’ participation was first reported by CNN.
The committee asked a conservative activist named Thomas to volunteer before the panel He is the letter Along with John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who helped come up with legal strategies to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally toss state electoral votes.
Thomas emailed at least two Wisconsin Republican lawmakers days after the presidential election, pressing them to name an alternative presidential slate to support former President Donald Trump. In addition, Thomas corresponded via text message In the days following the 2020 election, Trump’s former chief of staff, along with Mark Meadows, called for him to overturn the election results.
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Committee Chair Rep. Benny Thompson told CBS News on Monday that the committee is still discussing whether to testify at the Sept. 28 hearing.
“We have a lot of information that we’ve collected over the last year that we haven’t shown to the public. And we believe that information is significant enough to warrant a hearing on its own,” Thompson said.
Committee held a A series of public hearings Never-before-seen footage from Jan. 6 earlier this summer, video testimony and in-person testimony from some of Trump’s inner circle.
The hearings sought to tie Trump to coordinating the attacks and shed light on plans designed by him and members of his inner circle to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election.
Thompson said earlier this month The committee plans to submit an interim report in mid-October, two weeks after the proposed late-September hearing, and finalize the report before the end of the year.
That would bypass their November midterm elections and the committee’s two Republicans, I know Liz And Adam KinzerBoth are leaving the Congress in January. Cheney lost the Republican primary to a Trump-endorsed challenger in Wyoming. Kinzinger decided not to run for re-election.
If Republicans take control of the House in January, the select committee is expected to be disbanded. Although Republicans are entitled to five members on the 12-member committee, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of the members recommended by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, as they were among the 139 House Republicans who voted to overturn the election results. January 6. As a result, McCarthy refused to keep the Republicans On the committee, Pelosi asked Cheney and Kinzinger — who were among 10 House GOP members who voted to impeach Trump — to join the 9-member committee, made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans.
Since its formation last year, the committee has issued more than 100 subpoenas and turned over hundreds of documents related to the attack.
The committee said this has happened since the last hearing was held on July 16 Conversations with the Judiciary A plan has been touted by Trump’s allies to push alternative voters who support him in seven battleground states won by President Joe Biden.
On July 22, a federal jury found the former Trump strategist guilty Steve Bannon is guilty of two counts of criminal contempt Jan. 6 for refusing to comply with a subpoena to appear before the committee. He has to serve up to two years in jail. Bannon has said he respects the executive privilege concerns raised by Trump, although Christine Amerling, one of two witnesses called by prosecutors, said the committee never received notice from Trump of the obstruction to oust Bannon, and the committee would not make such an acknowledgment. Claims anyway.
Committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin, “Face the Nation” said earlier this month The committee still expects Pence to voluntarily appear before the panel. The committee’s public hearings focused in part on Trump and his allies. Tries to pressure Pence Rejecting the Electoral College vote on January 6 during a joint session of Congress.
“Vice President Pence was the target of Donald Trump’s anger and fury and efforts to overturn the January 6 election. The whole idea was for Pence to step outside of his constitutional role and then declare unilateral lawless power to deny Electoral College votes from the states,” Raskin said.
Pence ultimately rejected that effort and Given to Mr. Biden as the winner After 3:40 a.m. on January 7, 2020 election. Pence spoke at a political event in New Hampshire in August that he would “consider” testifying before the committee.
The committee also made it official Requested by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was also a Trump adviser, talk to them. The committee cited emails he allegedly shared with senior Trump advisers, including Jared Kushner and Jason Miller. “The evidence shows that Mr. Gingrich pushed messages designed to incite anger among voters even after facing threats of violence and intimidation by election officials in Georgia,” the committee said in its request for Gingrich to appear.
Committee June 21 public hearing test Threats have been made to state and local election officials, including in Georgia. The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office has opened a criminal investigation into whether Trump and his associates interfered in the 2020 Georgia election. Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, Testified for six hours before a Fulton County grand jury In August related to that investigation.
Alice Kim contributed to this report.
