Democrats call on Justice Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6 related cases after it was revealed that his wife texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to challenge former President Trump's election loss.
obtained copies of the messages, which were reviewed by each news outlet and by five people who have seen the committee’s documents. A source familiar with the materials confirmed the veracity of the messages quoted in the Post report to NBC News.
Wyden and other Democrats said Justice Thomas had already crossed a line by not recusing himself from a case involving the Jan. 6 committee's attempts to get ahold of Trump White House records from the National Archives earlier this year. Meadows submitted a legal filing in the case urging the high court to block the committee from getting the records., Meadows noted that he'd already handed over some records to the committee, but the National Archives and Records Administration likely had more.
“Many of the records that Amicus created, reviewed, or received during his tenure as White House Chief of Staff are now Presidential records in the custody of Respondent NARA. They are likely included among the documents directly at issue in this case, and in any event, the outcome of this case will bear directly on whether and to what extent those documents are produced to the Select Committee," his filing said.to the committee in an 8-1 vote.
"Justice Thomas was the sole member of the Supreme Court who would have allowed records from Trump, Meadows, et al to be withheld from House Jan 6 Committee. He did not explain his reasoning. We need answers," Kaine
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