Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, mentioned Sunday that the panel is "totally ready to ponder a subpoena" for Virginia Thomas, the spouse of Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas.
"I hope it would not come to that," Cheney mentioned Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." Cheney mentioned Thomas is presently "partaking" with the committee via her counsel, and he or she hopes Thomas will agree to return in voluntarily.
The committee has been enthusiastic about Thomas, who is called "Ginni," because it realized she corresponded through e mail with conservative legal professional John Eastman, who was concerned within the marketing campaign to stress former Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify the election outcomes. Thomas additionally attended the rally that preceded the Capitol assault and urged Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's former chief of workers, to work on overturning the 2020 election outcomes.
A lawyer for Thomas despatched a letter to the committee final month saying he needs "a greater justification for why Mrs. Thomas's testimony is related."
Cheney's look Sunday got here on the heels of the committee holding its final public listening to of the summer season on Thursday night time. The blockbuster public hearings have sought to indicate what former President Trump was doing amid the riot and straight tie him to the mobilization of the mob on the Capitol. The general public hearings have additionally detailed a few of Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcomes, together with a scheme to switch Biden electors with alternate ones who supported Trump and a sequence of stress campaigns on Pence, the Justice Division, state lawmakers and native elections officers.
Cheney, who's within the struggle of her political life in a Republican main in Wyoming, mentioned Sunday that her work on the committee "is the only most necessary factor I've ever performed professionally" even when she loses her seat over it.
"I can even say this, I am not going to lie. I am not going to say issues that are not true concerning the election," she mentioned. "My opponents are doing that definitely merely for the aim of getting elected ... if I've to decide on between sustaining a seat within the Home of Representatives, or defending the constitutional republic and guaranteeing the American individuals know the reality about Donald Trump, I am going to decide on the Structure and the reality each single day."