Cheney: Jan. 6 Panel Will ‘Contemplate Subpoena’ For Ginni Thomas If Necessary - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), vice chair of the Jan. 6 Select Committee, on Sunday said the panel will “contemplate a subpoena” for Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, if she does not voluntarily come forward.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1425697

Are there any photos of her NOT wearing that red sweater? It’s getting like Zuckerberg and the gray T shirt.

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It would be nice to know if the insurrectionist camp sent out feelers to our illustrious scotus about possible support for killing our democracy. Not that we’d ever hear about it from anybody’s actual testimony.

Barring that, it would be nice to catch ginni lying under oath - a greater possibility since she’s a committed republican.

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Jaysus. Just issue the subpoena, then negotiate terms, if you wish to negotiate terms. But if that doesn’t work out, you can just command her presence for testimony and production of docs on YOUR schedule, which is already very tight.

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Yes, please. I want to see the wife of Justice Thomas in court telling the jury why contempt of congress doesn’t apply to her

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Perhaps she could have an eminent jurist of her acquaintance come in to argue the point for her. He does know a lot about contempt.

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Someone should tell Ginni’s lawyer that the J6 committee does not need a “legal basis” to seek her testimony. She is just a witness.

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Just for shits and giggles.

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Does anyone find the arrogance of these people astounding, as I do? Ginni Thomas is a blight on all the sections of the government, yet she’s untouchable because of her spouse. Why is it that she gets special handling, given what she’s done in the last two years? The evidence is there - it’s not hearsay (or heresy, as some idiot tweeted last week). If it were you or I with this nonsense, do you think there would be a ‘contemplation of a subpoena’?

Hell to the no.

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I do not believe that she thinks she is in any danger whatsoever.
Just a hunch.

(and something which could be in our favor)

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There’s apparently some unwritten rule somewhere. Kind of like not indicting a sitting President, but no one can find the truly legal substantiation of this.

We have a bunch of sheer cowards in control here. I’m tired of the namby-pamby handling of this. Just do it, already.

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I doubt there is any daylight in opinion between Justice Clarence and Ginni Thomas.

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I would caution that “Justice” Thomas could if his wife went to the clink…

…aww, WTF am I saying, he has no leverage from as shitty as he is already. March her seditious wide ass in.

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Cage match. Cheney would pin Thomas in 30 seconds.

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Doubtless, TrumpWorld sighed in relief that the J6 will not meet for Hearings until September…completely overlooking events like the one we are commenting on now. :grimacing:

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If she dies his brain is gone.

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Right. The wife of a Supreme Court Justice urging a President’s Chief of Staff to keep pushing an anti-democratic “Big Lie of a stolen election” is “entirely unremarkable.”

And, of course, within today’s Republican Party: it is. In the same way that, when you’re in the Mafia, ordering a hit job is entirely unremarkable.

Subpeona her lying traitorous ass.

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I am glad to see Cheney taking this position. My impression so far had been that she was trying leave the Repub’s court intact; only taking out TFG.

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From the Article:

[“The committee previously asked Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist, to testify and provide documents related to its investigation. Thomas’ lawyer, Mark Paoletta, expressed reluctance for his client to cooperate in a letter to the committee late last month. Paoletta requested the panel provide ‘better justification’ for why it wants his client’s testimony.”]

better justification”=The Republic having been attacked…

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