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Trump lawyers tailored election challenge to
conservative justice Clarence Thomas
As they attempted to stop Joe Biden from assuming the
presidency despite his victory in the 2020 election, lawyers for Donald Trump
wanted to appeal specifically to Clarence Thomas, one of the most conservative
justices on the supreme court, according to emails obtained by Politico.
“We want to
frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or
other circuit justice opinion saying Georgia is in legitimate doubt,” attorney
Kenneth Chesebro wrote in an email to the then-president’s lawyers on the last
day of 2020.
He called a
ruling from Thomas “our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion by Jan.
6, which might hold up the Georgia count in Congress.”
In the
weeks after he lost the 3 November 2020 election, Trump and his allies tried to
convince lawmakers and officials in swing states that voted for Biden, such as
Georgia, to disrupt the certification of their results and potentially delay
the Democrat from taking office. They also mounted a legal campaign with the
same goal.
Politico
obtained the emails from John Eastman, another lawyer for the president who is
seen as a key architect of the campaign. The emails were among a batch Eastman
unsuccessfully attempted to stop the January 6 committee from obtaining,
according to Politico.
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