Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has pressured 29 Arizona state lawmakers – 27 more than previously known – to set aside popular victory for “Joe Bain” voters, according to an email received by The Washington Post. The Post reported last month that Thomas emailed two members of the Arizona House of Representatives in November and December 2020, urging them to help overturn Biden’s victory by electing presidential voters – a responsibility that Arizona voters owe with state law. Thomas sent the messages using FreeRoots, an online platform designed to make it easy for many elected officials to send text messages. Democrat lawmakers have renewed calls for a code of conduct for the U.S. Supreme Court amid growing scrutiny by Judge Thomas and his wife. (Video: The Washington Post) New documents show that Thomas actually used the platform to reach several lawmakers at the same time. On Nov. 9, he sent identical emails to 20 members of the Arizona House and seven Arizona senators. This represents more than half of the Republican members of the state legislature. at that time. The message, A few days after media outlets called for Biden’s race in Arizona and nationwide, they urged lawmakers to “stand firm against the politics and pressure of the media” and claimed that the responsibility for electing voters was “yours and yours”. only yours “. They had “the power to counter fraud” and “ensure that a clean slate of voters is elected,” the email said. Among the legislators who received the email was the then MP. Anthony Kern, a supporter of Stop the Steal, who lost his candidacy for re-election in November 2020 and then joined U.S. MP Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) And others as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence, one last attempt to reverse Biden’s victory. Kern was photographed outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 uprising, but said he did not enter the building, according to local media reports. Kern did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He is seeking his party’s candidacy for the Arizona State Senate and has been backed by former President Donald Trump. On December 13, the day before members of the electorate were scheduled to vote and seal Biden’s victory, Thomas emailed 22 members of Parliament and a senator. “Before you choose the Voters of your state… “Think about what will happen to the nation we all love if you do not stand up and lead,” the email said. Linked to a video of a man urging swing-state lawmakers to “put things right” and “not give in to cowardice”. House Speaker Russell “Rusty” Bowers and MP Shawnna Bolick, the two previously identified recipients, told the Post in May that the communication from Thomas had nothing to do with their decisions on how to handle allegations of electoral fraud. But the revelation that Ginny Thomas was directly involved in pressuring them to bypass the popular vote – an act unprecedented in modern times – raised questions about whether her husband should be acquitted of 2020 presidential election and attempts to overthrow it. Ginny Thomas’s position as a leading conservative political activist has set her apart from other wives of Supreme Court justices. Ginny Thomas did not respond to a request for comment. She has long insisted that she and her husband operate in separate business ventures. A representative of the Supreme Court did not answer Clarence Thomas’s questions. The Post received the emails under the Arizona Public Records Act, which – unlike laws in some other key 2020 states – allows the public to access email, text messages and other written communications to and from by state legislators. In March, The Post and CBS News received text messages sent by Ginny Thomas in the weeks following the 2020 election to Mark Meadows, then Trump’s chief of staff. The messages showed Thomas spreading false allegations and urging Meadows to continue fighting for Trump to remain in the White House. “This conflict of interest is just shouting at you,” said Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), Who serves on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on MSNBC in response to a report in The Post on May reveals email to Bolick and Bowers. Siff pointed to Clarence Thomas’s decision not to revoke when Trump went to the Supreme Court to try to prevent the House committee from accessing his White House files. The Supreme Court refused to prevent the publication of these documents. Thomas, on the part of Trump, was the only justice who disagreed. “Here you have the wife of a Supreme Court justice,” Siff said, trying to persuade Arizona to unjustifiably drop millions of votes. And also, to add to that, her husband in the Supreme Court, writing a dispute in a case against the provision of files to Congress that may have revealed some of these same e-mails. Following the May article, Mark Paoletta – a longtime Thomases ally who, as a member of the George W. Bush administration, played a role in confirming Clarence Thomas in the Supreme Court – confirmed that Ginni Thomas had signed the emails but tried to minimize them. its role. “Ginny signed her name in a scheduled letter signed by thousands of citizens and sent to state lawmakers across the country,” Paoleta wrote on Twitter on May 20. He described Thomas’s activities as “an individual involved in a campaign letter” and added sarcastically, “What a worry, what a threat!” Letter-writing campaigns were organized on FreeRoots.com, which was advertised as a platform to strengthen the base’s defense across the political spectrum. A post review of his archived websites shows that he was heavily used in late 2020 by groups trying to overturn the results of the presidential election. One of these groups was Every Legal Vote, which organized the campaign to send the message sent by Ginni Thomas on November 9th. In the first days after the Nov. 3 election, Every Legal Vote described itself on the Internet as a “work of love by American citizens, in collaboration” with the non-profit United in Purpose, according to websites maintained by Wayback Machine. of the Internet Archive. United in Purpose, which uses data to mobilize conservative Christian voters, has in recent years hosted dinners where Thomas presented the Impact Awards to right-wing leaders. On December 14, 2020, Biden voters in Arizona voted, following the confirmation of the election results by Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) and Governor Doug Ducey (R). Trump’s voters met in Arizona that day and signed a document declaring the state “duly elected and qualified.” One of them was Kern, the outgoing representative of the state. Kern was among more than a dozen lawmakers who signed a letter to Congress the same day calling for the state’s ballot to go to Trump or “be canceled altogether until a full forensic examination.” The MPs’ letter was an exhibit in Kern and Gohmert’s lawsuit asking a federal court to rule that Pence had the “exclusive power and sole discretion” to decide which ballots to count for a given state. The plaintiffs asked the Supreme Court to intervene after the case was dismissed in the lower courts. The day after the January 6 uprising, the court refused with an unsigned order.
