jenny thomas who is a conservative
activist and the wife of supreme court
justice clarence thomas repeatedly
pressed former white house chief of
staff mark meadows to pursue unrelenting
efforts to overturn the 2020
presidential election according to the
washington post thomas exchanged urgent
text messages in the weeks following the
november election those messages part of
29 total obtained reportedly reveal
thomas's access to then-president donald
trump's top aide during a time when
trump and his allies were vowing to go
to the supreme court to overturn the
election results the messages reportedly
do not directly reference justice thomas
or the supreme court but they do
allegedly show for the first time
thomas's access to trump's inner circle
in order to seek and guide the
president's strategy in overturning the
results they also reportedly show
meadows being receptive and grateful in
receiving her advice in one of the
messages thomas reportedly advised
meadows to have lawyer sidney powell
become the lead and the face of trump's
legal team powell had been promoting
unsupported claims about the
presidential election and president joe
biden's win over trump the messages were
among over 2 000 texts that were
provided by meadows to the house select
committee which is investigating the
january 6 insurrection on the united
states capitol in washington d.c