02 November 2022

SUBVERTING ELECTION RESULTS: Thomas could "end up being the key," . . Best shot at holding up the count of a state in Congress

The messages were part of eight emails that Eastman sought to shield from the Jan. 6 select committee, but a judge ordered that the emails be released, Politico reports.

Trump lawyers saw Thomas as "key" to disrupting 2020 election count

Thomas would be “our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion by Jan. 6, which might hold up the Georgia count in Congress.”

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poses for an official portrait in Washington, D.C. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Emails that emerged Wednesday underscore the extent to which former President Trump's top legal advisers zeroed in on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as "being key" in their bid to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Driving the news: "We want to frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying Georgia is in legitimate doubt," Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro wrote in an email on Dec. 31, 2020, to John Eastman and other members of Trump's legal team.

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