Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, urged White House chief Mark Meadows to overturn election, reports show

WASHINGTON – Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed a top White House official in President Donald Trump’s administration to overturn the 2020 election, according to copies of the messages reviewed by several news organizations.

The text messages, which are being reviewed by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, underscore the access Thomas, who goes by Ginni, had with the Trump administration. The messages were between Thomas and then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and are dated from early November 2020 to mid-January 2021, various outlets reported Thursday.

The Jan. 6 Committee declined to comment.

The existence of the messages was revealed by the Washington Post, CBS News, CNN and other outlets. The messages didn't mention the Supreme Court or Justice Thomas, who is currently being treated with antibiotics at a Washington hospital, according to the Washington Post.

USA TODAY has not independently viewed the messages.

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As news organizations projected Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election in November 2020, Thomas wrote to Meadows that he should “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!...You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History,” according to The Post.

Meadows wrote to Thomas weeks later, describing the White House's efforts to overturn the election as a “fight of good versus evil,” the Post reported.

The paper also reported that Meadows' attorney, George Terwilliger III, confirmed the existence of 29 messages between Meadows and Thomas, but said “nothing about the text messages presents any legal issues.” Terwilliger declined to comment to USA TODAY.

Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist, has drawn attention in recent months for her efforts to support Trump – even as the Supreme Court was deciding cases about the election.

Thomas drew fire earlier this month after acknowledging in an interview with The Washington Free Beacon that she attended the rally outside the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump used the rally to whip up a crowd with false allegations of voter fraud before a group of his supporters descended on the Capitol as lawmakers certified Biden’s victory.

Ginni Thomas said she left the rally before the president took the stage – and had no part in the subsequent riot at the Capitol. But the acknowledgement was another example underscoring the unusual dynamic between Justice Thomas, who has weighed in on several cases held over from the 2020 election, and his wife, who has questioned whether the election was fraudulent.

USA TODAY has reached out to Thomas for comment.

Contributing: John Fritze

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