Ginni Thomas

Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told the House Jan. 6 committee Thursday that she still ...

[extensive communications](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ginni-thomas-text-messages-white-house-intensify-controversy-rcna21513) with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, with whom Thomas discussed strategies to overturn the election results. Whether Thomas was able to testify in a constructive way about any of this is unclear; neither she nor the bipartisan committee went into any details after her closed-door testimony. And I did not speak with him at all about the details of my post-election activities, which were minimal, in any event,” Thomas said in her statement. 6 attack](https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/maga-road-map-to-an-insurrection-jan-6-insider-on-connections-to-riot-and-meadows-texts-149452869878) finally reached an [agreement ](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ginni-thomas-meet-house-committee-investigating-jan-6-riot-rcna48861)with [Ginni Thomas](https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/ginni-thomas-agrees-to-meet-with-the-jan-6-committee-149017157775) after lengthy negotiations, paving the way for an interview. As The New York Times “Regarding the 2020 election, I did not speak with him at all about the details of my volunteer campaign activities. [explained](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/us/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-recusal.html), the text messages between Thomas and Meadows “demonstrated that she was an active participant in shaping the legal effort to overturn the election.” 6 committee Thursday that she still believes the 2020 election was stolen, the panel’s chairman said. Yesterday, as NBC News [reported](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ginni-thomas-meeting-house-committee-investigating-jan-6-riot-rcna49967), the right-wing activist showed up on Capitol Hill. Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., didn’t give many other details about the interview. Thomas also reportedly [pressured congressional Republicans](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ginni-thomas-pressed-gop-lawmakers-protest-2020-election-results-rcna21644) to do more to overturn the election, including calling on lawmakers to go “out in the streets.” By some accounts, she even [reached out](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/us/ginni-thomas-january-6-committee.html) to Jared Kushner about legal options surrounding the larger offensive. “I am certain I never spoke with him about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election, as I was not involved with those challenges in any way.”

Her husband was "completely unaware of my texts with Mark Meadows until this committee leaked them to the press while he was in a hospital bed fighting an ...

The committee's two Republicans, [Liz Cheney](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/liz-cheney-primary-battle/) and [Adam Kinzinger](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adam-kinzinger-transcript-face-the-nation-07-17-2022/), are both leaving Congress in January. As she wrote in a text to Meadows at the time, she also condemned the violence on January 6, as she abhors violence on any side of the aisle." [said earlier this month](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-january-6-committee-public-hearing-goal-to-restart-september-28-bennie-thompson/) that the committee plans to put together an interim report in mid-October, and will finalize the report before the end of the year, after the November midterm elections. A new date has not yet been set, according to Thompson, and the House is expected to go into recess at the end of the week. [Cheney lost her primary](https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/2022-midterm-primary-results-tonight-wyoming-alaska-liz-cheney-sarah-palin-2022-08-16/) in Wyoming to a Trump-backed challenger, and Kinzinger opted not to run for reelection. Capitol](https://www.cbsnews.com/feature/assault-on-the-us-capitol/) met in person Thursday with conservative activist Ginni Thomas, and during her interview, she told the panel that she did not discuss any of the legal challenges to the 2020 presidential election with her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Jamie Raskin did not go into specifics about the meeting but told reporters afterward that "Donald Trump and his closest followers continue to propound the absolute lie that he won the election, and they're still promoting the big lie." Thompson said if Thomas provided committee investigators with "something of merit," it will be included in the panel's next public hearing. "As she has said from the outset, Mrs. As she arrived at the Capitol, Thomas was spotted by reporters at a House office where the panel's investigators have been gathering throughout their probe. The panel interviewed her for more than four hours, interspersed with brief breaks, and Rep. "At this point, we're glad she came."

Thomas met Thursday with the Jan. 6 House Select Committee on her involvement in efforts to overturn the election.

"That's just wild. "But I do want to turn to a major development in our politics lead, because Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, So after everything we know, Ginni Thomas is still an election denier."

The committee has for months sought an interview with Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in an effort to know more about her role in ...

Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois from the GOP conference for joining the Jan. Ginni Thomas has been openly critical of the committee’s work, including signing onto a letter to House Republicans calling for the expulsion of Reps. The extent of her involvement in the Capitol attack is unclear. 6 but left before Trump spoke and the crowds headed for the Capitol. The panel has already interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and shown some of that video testimony in its eight hearings over the summer. Thomas had significant concerns about fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election,” Mark Paoletta, her attorney, said in a statement.

Anyway, in unrelated news, we have a few details from the testimony of Ginni Thomas — wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas — before the January 6th ...

[The Jabot podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/1XC11QhFCWxWr4NQrk2sEA), and co-host of [Thinking Like A Lawyer](https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/thinking-like-a-lawyer/). [Sponsored](https://bit.ly/3r1CpSB) [we know](https://abovethelaw.com/2021/02/ginni-thomas-apologizes-to-clarence-thomass-clerks-and-no-one-else-for-her-support-of-capitol-rioters/) Ginni’s in contact with a list of Thomas clerks. — he was the lone [dissent ](https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2022/01/19/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-trumps-request-to-keep-jan-6-documents-secret/)when the Court rejected Trump’s efforts to block the release of presidential records to the committee). — [Clarence forgets to report on disclosure documents, well, what can be done?](https://abovethelaw.com/2022/09/oh-look-another-clarence-thomas-ethics-scandal/) But all this may not even be the most shocking revelation from Ginni’s testimony. Because it’s time for everyone’s favorite game: is she an idiot or just committed to the bit? Remember how Ginni Thomas hired a rather infamous staffer, Crystal Clanton? But here’s how we know this is a little questionable. [Sponsored](https://abovethelaw.com/2022/09/fallen-out-of-love-with-the-law-heres-one-way-to-get-your-mojo-back/) [Sponsored](https://info.breakingmedia.com/6-low-hanging-ways-to-raise-your-bottom-line) Picture it: your friend is super passionate about her job.

GOP activist Ginni Thomas testified for several hours behind closed doors before the House Select Jan. 6 committee. Her lawyer released a statement that she ...

Here's California Democrat Pete Aguilar, a member of the select panel. CLAUDIA GRISALES, BYLINE: The House select committee's interview with Ginni Thomas arrived after months of negotiations. Ginni Thomas, married to Clarence Thomas, said through her lawyer that she answered all questions that were put to her by the panel.

Wife of US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas holds tight to stolen election conspiracy in interview with January 6 committee.

He characterized her efforts after the election as “minimal and mainstream activity focused on ensuring that reports of fraud and irregularities were investigated”. Among those documents were [texts sent by Ginni Thomas to Mark Meadows](https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/25/ginni-thomas-texts-clarence-ethics-supreme-court-conflict-of-interest), then White House chief of staff, in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election urging him to do all he could to overturn Biden’s victory. When asked by reporters if Thomas still believed that to be true, Thompson replied: “Yes.” [been exposed](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/09/01/ginni-thomas-wisconsin-bernier-tauchen/) as having pressurized lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin, demanding that they block certification of Biden’s win in those states in an effort to swing the outcome to Trump. [order in January](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/19/us-capitol-riot-trump-documents-national-archives) forcing hundreds of White House documents to be disclosed to the January 6 committee. But her dogged attachment to Trump’s lie that he was the true winner in 2020, repeated in front of the January 6 committee on Thursday, is certain to further heighten alarm about the impact of Thomas’s unrestrained hard-right activism on the credibility of the supreme court.

Thomas, who is a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, reportedly sat for roughly 3 1/2 hours in an appearance before the ...

[stood by her conviction](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/ginni-thomas-stood-2020-election-fraud-claims-jan-6-deposition) about "fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election," according to her lawyer, Mark Paoletta. 6 DEPOSITION: LAWYER](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/ginni-thomas-stood-2020-election-fraud-claims-jan-6-deposition) During her deposition, Thomas was adamant that her husband, the Supreme Court justice, was not involved in her election musings. [Clarence Thomas](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/clarence-thomas), [reportedly](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ginni-thomas-meeting-house-committee-investigating-jan-6-riot-rcna49967) sat for roughly 3 1/2 hours in an appearance before the panel Thursday. Now the committee appears unconvinced that she was deeply involved in efforts to thwart the election, Politico [reported](https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-30-2022/ginni-thomas-hill-reax/). Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Bennie Thompson (D-MS) were tight-lipped about whether she had anything new to offer.