Jan 6 committee likely to request Ginni Thomas appearance ‘in coming weeks’

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The committee is likely to contact Ms Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the coming weeks, CNN reported. A CNN source said Ms Thomas is one of many people who the committee has been focused on, adding that the committee has been “moving aggressively on many fronts, conducting depositions, sometimes multiple depositions, almost every day”. Ms Thomas has said that she distances her activism from her husband, but in one of the texts reviewed by the committee, she mentions “my best friend” – a term she has been known to call Justice Thomas. “The question is, how does this bear in the public perception of the court if a case comes forward in which these issues are raised.” Some congressional Democrats have called for Justice Thomas to be removed from the court and others suggested he recuse himself from cases that include 2020 election fraud claims.