(LR) Associate Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas and his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas will arrive at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC on October 21, 2021.
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The Facebook group, which appears to be run by Virginia “Genie” Thomas, the wife of Judge Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court, is investigating the US House of Representatives selection committee on the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. May become a new concern in the United States.
Parliamentary investigators said Trump’s lawyer John Eastman would ask Genie Thomas to testify hours before the commission on Thursday. Post publicly In an email from Thomas on December 4, 2020, I asked her to speak to a rally called “Frontliner,” which she described as featuring “grassroots state leaders.” Ginni Thomas is listed as the administrator of the Facebook group with a similar name and description, “FrontLiners for Liberty”.
According to the page description, a private group listing more than 50 members was created in August 2020, just two months before the November elections.
group, What CNBC reviewed before it was removed from public view explained itself that’s why “A new collaborative, freely focused, action-oriented group of state leaders representing grassroots forces to connect, inform and rejuvenate weekly to maintain constitutional governance.” Thomas’s personal Facebook page has not been confirmed, Thomas justice.
After CNBC contacted Thomas about the organization, the group’s page was removed from public view. Facebook now displays a notification that it has been removed or that your privacy settings have changed.
CNBC also sought to get answers through Facebook Messenger to Stephanie Coleman, the wife of the late Greg Coleman, the group’s administrator and Texas solicitor.Greg Coleman one time Thomas Justice Secretary.
Coleman and Thomas are repeatedly depicted together on Coleman’s personal Facebook page. This includes two photos taken in December 2016 with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
Thomas asked Eastman to talk to her frontliner group on December 8th, according to her email to him. “We invited me to keep the groups I met regularly up to date on the proceedings,” Eastman said in a post on the e-mail newsletter subscription service Substack. “I continued to be sabbatical until this election issue was resolved,” Thomas told Eastman.
At that time, Trump and his allies were legally challenging the post-presidential 2020 election results. Joe Biden Declared to be the winner. Trump and the people near him lost most of those proceedings.
The email to Thomas Eastman seems to be at stake in his legal dispute with a congressional investigator investigating the January 6 attack.Associate Justice Recently dominated over Eastman, A lawyer / client who refrains from emailing about the 2020 elections who was trying to claim privileges.judge Ordered Eastman to submit 10 documents, Includes four related to the December 8, 2020 meeting. This was the same date that Ginni Thomas asked him to talk to Frontliners... “The two emails are prominent leaders in the group that invites Dr. Eastman to speak at the conference, and the two include the conference agenda,” said David Carter, US District Judge. Wrote in June. 7 orders.
Based on the agenda of the event, Eastman discussed “the actions of the state legislature that can overturn the media-called Joe Biden’s elections.”Another speaker’updated [state] The legislature’s actions on voter votes, “Carter wrote.
Eastman, according to the January 6 House Select Commission investigating a riot that occurred about 17 months ago. He tried to convince former Vice President Mike Pence that he had virtually one-sided power to overturn the election. However, Eastman was once rejected 9-0 if Trump’s own legal theory was submitted to the Supreme Court, according to Pence’s former lawyer, who testified at a committee hearing on Thursday, January 6. I told him.
The special committee said it would invite Genie Thomas to testify about her. Correspondence With Eastman. Thomas told Daily Caller that she was ready to testify. “I can’t wait to get rid of the misunderstanding. I’m looking forward to talking to them,” said Thomas... she Reportedly In support of efforts to overturn the 2020 elections, he sent a text message to former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, urging him to stand behind the then president’s false election allegations.
A Supreme Court spokesman, a January 6 House Selection Committee spokesman, Thomas, Eastman and his lawyers did not respond to requests for comment.
According to nonprofit spokesman Peter Vikenzi, the Frontliners group has also collaborated with a conservative advocacy group known as FreedomWorks. He also said that Thomas and Freedomworks activists had been allies for many years. FreedomWorks does not publicly disclose donors.
“We are at the forefront of Liberty and another conservative grassroots organization that FreedomWorks is partnering with to advance our problem set,” Viccenzi said in an email. “Genie Thomas has been an irreplaceable ally for our activist community for years when it comes to addressing shared issues.”
As Trump lost the election, FreedomWorks pushed forward with the idea that election reform was needed.A conservative lawyer who once worked, Cleta Mitchell When The Trump campaign is currently chairing the Millions of Dollars National Election Protection Initiative at FreedomWorks. According to Newsmax.
Merissa Hamilton, who states on her LinkedIn page that she is the grassroots director of FreedomWorks, tweeted a photo she described as an event at the FreedomWorks Frontliners for Liberty in October. The photo shows Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican Louie Gohmert, and Republican Lauren Boebert. participate to the event.
After CNBC emailed Hamilton about the tweets, they were removed from her page. She did not return a follow-up request for comments.
