Justice Clarence Thomas bowed out as his colleagues rejected a petition from John Eastman.
Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, talks to reporters after a hearing in Los Angeles, on June 20, 2023. | Jae C. Hong/AP PhotoThe Supreme Court, minus a recused Clarence Thomas, has turned down a bid by attorney John Eastman to erase court rulings that described him as a linchpin in Donald Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election.
Thomas did not specify a reason for stepping aside from the ruling, but several of the emails, contained in a particularly sensitive batch that was inadvertently made public during a legal fight between Eastman and congressional investigators, showed top Trump advisersas their likeliest ally in an effort to get the Supreme Court to legitimize Trump’s efforts.
In his petition to the Supreme Court, Eastman argued that the Jan. 6 select committee inadvertently made the sensitive emails public by leaving a live URL inside one of their court filings that was accessed by POLITICO. That error undermined Eastman’s effort to prevent the committee from accessing the emails in the first place, and Eastman argued the district judge’s rulings against him should be scrapped as a result.
Carter’s ruling helped arm the Jan. 6 select committee with thousands of its most crucial pieces of evidence that showed Trump’s increasingly desperate effort to reverse the outcome of an election he lost.
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