U.S. Capitol attack probe may seek interview with Justice Thomas’ wife By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas (L) and his spouse Virginia Thomas (R) exit following the Purple Mass, a service to mark the start of this 12 months’s Supreme Court docket time period, on the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington October 5

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The congressional panel investigating the lethal Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol might search an interview with Virginia Thomas, a Republican activist and spouse of Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas, a supply aware of the matter stated on Monday.

The U.S. Home of Representatives’ Choose Committee has performed tons of of interviews in its investigation of the assault on the Capitol final 12 months by supporters of former President Donald Trump as lawmakers had been poised to certify the 2020 election.

A number of media retailers, together with CNN on Monday, have reported the committee’s attainable curiosity in listening to from Virginia Thomas since her texts with Trump’s then-chief of workers, Mark Meadows, had been made public final week in a Washington Publish/CBS report.

The supply acquainted stated a call had not but been made on whether or not to request an interview.

Virginia Thomas, who goes by Ginni, is energetic in conservative circles and earlier this month stated in a separate media interview that she had attended Trump’s rally hours earlier than the Capitol riot.

In a sequence of 29 messages to Meadows following Trump’s loss, Thomas repeatedly requested Meadows to work to overturn the election outcomes. Meadows was present in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate totally with the Jan. 6 probe.

Representatives for Ginni Thomas couldn’t instantly be reached for remark. Representatives for Clarence Thomas and the Supreme Court docket additionally couldn’t instantly be reached.

The Jan. 6 Choose Committee declined remark.

Thomas, who the courtroom stated was hospitalized final week for an an infection, was the lone dissenting voice in January when the U.S. Supreme Court docket rejected Trump’s request to dam the discharge of White Home information sought by the congressional panel.

The Choose Committee is scheduled to carry a enterprise assembly afterward Monday to vote on a report recommending the total Home maintain Peter Navarro, a former commerce adviser to ex-President Donald Trump, and Daniel Scavino, who was a Trump deputy chief of workers, in contempt of Congress for not cooperating with the probe.