Ginni Thomas' lawyer wants more info on why January 6 committee has asked to speak with her

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(CNN) A lawyer for Virginia "Ginni" Thomas said in a letter to the January 6, 2021, House select committee on Tuesday that he "does not believe there is currently a sufficient basis to speak with" the conservative activist.

"I am asking the Committee to provide a better justification for why Mrs. Thomas's testimony is relevant to the Committee's legislative purpose," attorney Mark Paoletta wrote in a letter obtained by CNN.

The lawyer's response follows a June 16 letter from the committee asking Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to meet with the panel in July and provide documents that could be relevant to the investigation.

The committee has email correspondence between Ginni Thomas and former President Donald Trump's election attorney John Eastman, as well as texts between her and Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The texts show Thomas urging Meadows to continue the fight to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Paoletta said his client is "willing to appear" and "eager to clear her name," but that without more information from the committee, he feared that she had been asked to come in "to continue the baseless harassment she has been subjected to since January 6."

Yasuru on June 29th, 2022 at 01:07 UTC »

Translation: "How much of the awful shit my client did are you aware of?"

leavy23 on June 29th, 2022 at 00:52 UTC »

I thought she was going to be happy to "clear things up"!

ronearc on June 29th, 2022 at 00:50 UTC »

Because she aided a seditious conspiracy?