[Did John Eastman have some insight into internal Supreme Court
deliberations? And, if so, did he get it from his buddy Ginni T, whose
discretion, not to say her grip on reality, seems to be somewhat
lacking?]
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JOHN EASTMAN SPILLS THE DEETS ON HIS PAL GINNI  
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Liz Dye
June 17, 2022
Above the Law
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_ Did John Eastman have some insight into internal Supreme Court
deliberations? And, if so, did he get it from his buddy Ginni T, whose
discretion, not to say her grip on reality, seems to be somewhat
lacking? _

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If your misbegotten plan to overturn an election had just been the
subject of a three-hour congressional hearing
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was being investigated by a grand jury
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would you:

A.  SHUT THE HELL UP; or
B.  Race on over to Substack to whine about the meanies at the
Washington Post “allowing themselves to be played by false innuendo
based on selective leaks from the January 6 Committee?”

Let’s assume for the sake of argument that you are a marginally
competent adult, so you said “A.”

But Donald Trump’s coup-curious lawyer John Eastman is
really _not_ a “shut the hell up” kind of guy. We’re talking
about the brain genius who used his work email to plot a coup, even
going so far as to send an unencrypted email to Rudy Giuliani after
January 6 saying, “I’ve decided that I should be on the pardon
list, if that is still in the works.”

Bless his little heart!

Literally the only time the former law professor remembers to put a
sock in it is when he’s under oath, and then he knows how to plead
the Fifth like a champ.

But last night he was not under oath, so when his email correspondence
with Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was
reported by the _Post_
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the New York Times
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he couldn’t help himself.

OMG, indeed.

Last week, US District Judge David Carter ordered
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to release the last tranche of disputed emails from his Chapman
University account, including several with Ginni Thomas.

“[T]wo emails are the group’s high-profile leader inviting Dr.
Eastman to speak at the meeting, and two contain the meeting’s
agenda,” Judge Carter wrote, adding later that “Five documents
include the agenda for a meeting on December 9, 2020. The agenda
included a section entitled ‘GROUND GAME following Nov 4 Election
Results,’ during which a sitting Member of Congress discussed a
‘[p]lan to challenge the electors in the House of
Representatives.’”

The court found that the January 6 Select Committee had a
“substantial interest” in the communications because “the
presentations furthered a critical objective of the January 6 plan: to
have contested states certify alternate slates of electors for
President Trump.” And Judge Carter has already ruled that
attorney-client privilege for some communications with Trump himself
did not apply thanks to the crime-fraud exception
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So the court certainly wasn’t going to shield them based on
Eastman’s incoherent bleating
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his correspondents’ First Amendment right of association.

The group is described as “small … off the record … cone of
silence.” 021120. Members were required to provide a phone number in
advance “[f]or the security of the Zoom meeting.” 021242. Several
emails contained a footer stating “[t]his invitation is Not
Transferable.” Other emails stated “[w]e are careful about who is
on the phone and who is in the room and we do not leak what happens,
what is said or who is in the meeting – ever!” See, e.g. 21430
(emphasis in original). Allowing disclosure of the group’s
communications to a politically misaligned congressional committee
would manifestly discourage membership and  chill any discussion
among the members who remained.

But Eastman _was_ right about one thing: once he handed those emails
over to the committee, the fact that Ginni Thomas was the
“high-profile leader” immediately leaked.

Naturally this sparked outrage over the wild impropriety of Justice
Thomas adjudicating election cases as his wife was advocating for one
of the litigants. Mrs. Thomas was already in the spotlight after the
revelation of her texts
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Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, in which she wondered whether
it was true that the “Biden crime family & ballot fraud
co-conspirators” were “being arrested & detained for ballot fraud
right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to
face military tribunals for sedition.”

But taken with some of Eastman’s other Chapman emails, it also
sparked other, more immediate questions. Such as what exactly was the
basis of his email
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Wisconsin election lawyer Kenneth Chesebro on December 24, 2020,
saying that “the odds are not based on the legal merits but an
assessment of the justices’ spines, and I understand that there is a
heated fight underway,” at the Supreme Court.

Did John Eastman have some insight into internal court deliberations?
And, if so, did he get it from his buddy Ginni T, whose discretion,
not to say her grip on reality, seems to be somewhat lacking?

Which brings us to last night, when Eastman tapped out this
furious Substack post
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insisting that his reference to the “heated fight underway” at the
Supreme Court was “the subject of news accounts at the time.” And
by “news accounts” he means one podcast featuring an anonymous
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someone purporting to be “a clerk for one of the Justices on
SCOTUS.” It featured Chief Justice Roberts cowering in fear of
Antifa, and shouting “You are forgetting what your role here is
Neil, and I don’t want to hear from the two junior justices
anymore. I will tell you how you will vote.”

And if that sounds ever so slightly less than credible, we might add
that the podcaster has been deplatformed by Taboola, the company that
populates every website with an infinite scroll of spam ads. How shady
do you have to be when the “One weird trick to get rid of toenail
fungus” dudes won’t work with you?

Anyway, Eastman is setting the record straight:

Whether or not those news accounts were true, I can categorically
confirm that at no time did I discuss with Mrs. Thomas or Justice
Thomas any matters pending or likely to come before the Court.  We
have never engaged in such discussions, would not engage in such
discussions, and did not do so in December 2020 or anytime else.  As
for the email communications I had with Mrs. Thomas?  As you can see
for yourselves, she invited me to give an update about election
litigation to a group she met with periodically.  Those from the
January 6 committee who leaked a false impression about that email
should be ashamed of themselves, but the Post should be embarrassed
for running a story based on their false innuendo.

He attaches exactly one email, of the several that he was forced to
disclose, in which Mrs. T invites him to address her Frontliners group
and misquotes George Orwell. He fails to mention that he fought tooth
and nail to keep those very communications under wraps, or at least to
redact the correspondents’ identities, even going so far as to
suggest that “[t]he meetings also seem to have a religious aspect,
as the agendas indicate each meeting closed with a prayer.”

But don’t worry! We’re about to get to the bottom of all of this,
since Ginni Thomas says she can’t wait to accept Committee Chair
Bennie Thompson’s invitation
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set the record straight.

“I can’t wait to clear up misconceptions. I look forward to
talking to them,” she told
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Daily Caller, her former employer.

What are the odds that Mrs. Justice Clarence Thomas actually sits down
and lets herself be interviewed on camera by Liz Cheney _et al_?

LOL.

OMG, Mrs. Thomas asked me to give an update about election litigation
to her group. Stop the Presses!
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Eastman v. Thompson
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