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The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill riots have indicated that it is willing to subpoena Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, said Committee Vice Chairman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.)
The congresswoman
said Sunday the committee is “fully willing to contemplate a subpoena” for Ms.
Ginni Thomas after revelations of her private communications showed she spoke
with people in former President Donald Trump’s scheme to overturn the 2020
election results, Washington Examiner reports.
"The
committee is engaged with her counsel. We hope she’ll agree to come in
voluntarily. The committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she
does not," Cheney told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday. "I hope it
doesn’t get to that."
Thomas texted
with then White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the aftermath of the
presidential election, in coordinated efforts to overturn the 2020 results and
deny Joe Biden victory.
The
Washington Post had reported that she urged 29 GOP state lawmakers in Arizona
to choose new presidential electors in failed efforts to reverse President Joe
Biden’s win in the state.
Ginni Thomas said initially said she would testify
Thomas
initially said “I look forward to talking to them,” adding, “I can’t wait to
clear up misconceptions.”
But her
lawyer Mark Paoletta sent a letter to the committee in late June, saying he
didn’t understand the need for his client to testify before the committee and
asking for better justification.
In a ruling
in January the high court handed down an order allowing the January 6 panel to
obtain White House records from the Trump administration but Thomas was the
only justice to dissent the decision.