The Washington Post reported last month that Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, had emailed two Arizona House members in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
Although, Ginni Thomas had actually emailed 29 different Arizona Republican lawmakers, pushing them to select presidential electors and overturn President Joe Biden's victory in the popular vote, according to The Washington Post.
The Washington Post said that Thomas used the online platform FreeRoots, described on their website as a "user-driven grassroots advocacy and voter engagement platforms," to send the messages to multiple lawmakers at once.
"On Nov. 9 [2020], she sent identical emails to 20 members of the Arizona House and seven Arizona state senators," The Washington Post said. "That represents more than half of the Republican members of the state legislature at the time."
In those emails, Thomas asked the Arizona lawmakers to "stand strong in the face of political and media pressure" and said that they had the "power to fight back against fraud," according to The Washington Post.
Thomas then sent another round of emails on Dec. 13, 2020 to 22 House members and a senator. The emails were sent a day before the electoral college votes were casted to confirm Biden's victory in the election.
"As state lawmakers, you have the Constitutional power and authority to protect the integrity of our elections - and we need you to exercise that power now!," Thomas said in the email on Dec. 13. "Never before in our nation's history have our elections been so threatened by fraud and unconstitutional procedures."
Thomas asked the lawmakers to do two things "before you choose your state's electors" in the email -- watch a YouTube video that was linked, and to "please consider what will happen to the nation we all love if you do not stand up and lead."
Her involvement in trying to get the election results overturned in favor of Former President Donald Trump has made many question if Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from any cases related to the 2020 election.
Clarence Thomas has said that his and his wife's careers are completely separate.
In addition to the emails sent to Arizona lawmakers, Ginni Thomas had also texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in an effort to keep trying to overturn the election, CBS News and The Washington Post reported in March. Meadows had provided 2,320 text messages to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and there were 29 messages (21 sent by Thomas) included in those provided to the committee.
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