The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly urged former President Donald Trump's top aide to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
CBS and the Washington Post report that toward the end of the Trump administration, Ginni Thomas exchanged text messages over several weeks with Mark Meadows, who was White House chief of staff at the time.
The text messages were obtained by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Robert Costa, CBS News' chief election and campaign correspondent, told NPR that Ginni Thomas reached out to Meadows days after the election, when "President Trump was already eyeing a potential hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court.
"It was the beginning of a 29 text message-exchange between November 2020 and January 2021," Costa said. NPR has not independently confirmed the reporting.
It is not the first time Ginni Thomas has been the center of controversy.
Earlier this month, Thomas tried to rebut claims that there was a conflict of interest between her conservatives activism and her husband's work on the highest court. In an interview with the conservative website the Washington Free Beacon, she said that while she did attend the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the violence at the Capitol, she left before Trump spoke at noon and before the rioters breached the Capitol complex.
It is not clear whether Justice Thomas was aware of his wife's correspondence with Meadows.
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