January 6th legal proceedings and investigations megathread

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

Clarence Thomas was ‘key’ to a plan to delay certification of 2020 election, Trump lawyers said in emails

A lawyer for former President Donald Trump described Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as “key” to Trump’s plan to delay Congress’ certification of President Joe Biden’s victory through litigation after the 2020 election, according to emails recently turned over to the House select committee investigating January 6.

“We want to frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue” a temporary order putting Georgia’s results in doubt, Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro wrote in a December 31, 2020, email, adding that a favorable order from Thomas was their “only chance” to hold up Congress from counting electoral votes for Biden from Georgia.

John Eastman, another attorney for Trump, responded to that email saying he agreed with the plan. In the email exchanges with several other lawyers working on Trump’s legal team, they were discussing filing a lawsuit that they hoped would result in an order that “TENTATIVELY” held that Biden electoral votes from Georgia were not valid because of election fraud.

Having a case pending in front of the Supreme Court, Chesebro wrote, would be enough to prevent the Senate from counting Biden’s electors.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/politics/clarence-thomas-trump-eastman-emails/index.html

Impeach and remove him now.

If it comes out that his wife was involved in these efforts, without any hesitation this must happen if America wants to dissuade future attempts at subverting our elections.

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

Do we have any idea of the punishment they are facing? Imo, anything less than 20+ years for the ringleaders and 5+ years for the lackeys would be spitting in the face of American democracy.

EDIT; According to this article by the NYT the maximum penalty for a charge of seditious conspiracy is indeed 20 years, in which case Rhodes absolutely needs to have the maximum penalty, without parole, thrown at him to make an example for other right-wing nuts who even consider trying this in the future and the other grunts need to serve serious time as well.

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

Lawsuit Against Trump Over Capitol Attack Should Proceed, Justice Dept. Says

Justice Department says that Trump is /not/ protected by immunity for his ‘alleged’ crimes on January 6th.