Supreme Court Justice's wife Ginni Thomas likely to be summoned by US Capitol riots probe panel

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife Virginia Ginni Thomas will not voluntarily appear before a panel in connection with her role in promoting the annulment of the 2020 election results, according to the committee's co-chair looking into the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. If she does not turn up, the probe committee will contemplate a subpoena against her.

According to US House of Representatives Liz Cheney, the body's vice chair and a Wyoming Republican, the committee is communicating with Thomas' legal counsel.

Thomas, a conservative activist, has been invited to meet with the committee and submit papers that would be helpful to the probe.


Thomas and John Eastman, the former president Donald Trump's election lawyer, exchanged emails, and she also texted Trump's White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows. The texts reveal Thomas was pleading with Meadows to keep up the campaign to annul the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Additionally investigated by the committee were Eastman and Meadows. Thomas' attorney said last month that he does not believe there is now a sufficient basis to speak with Thomas in a letter to the House select committee.

Trump's criminal referrals have not yet been decided
Cheney said that the committee has not yet determined whether to recommend President Donald Trump for criminal prosecution but that she believed that Trump had broken the law by refusing to take the oath of office and that it was certainly something they are looking into. According to Cheney, the missing Secret Service texts are alarming.

Cheney's Plans
Cheney told Tapper her work on January 6 committee is the most important thing she has ever done professionally, adding that even if she lost her next reelection race due to her committee work, it would still have been valuable to serve on it.