For John Eastman and Clarence Thomas, an intellectual kinship stretching back decades

[cigaretteman]

The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection recommended on Monday that the Justice Department consider prosecuting John Eastman and the former president himself for charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding.
The Post’s Emma Brown and Rosalind S. Helderman take a deep look into the long acquaintanceship of the architect of the legal strategy that former president Donald Trump had used six months earlier to try to overturn his 2020 election loss, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Our colleagues write:

In July 2021, dozens of former Thomas clerks, including Eastman, gathered for a reunion at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, a casual weekend of horseback riding and panel lectures with spouses and children.
Photos from the event show beaming former clerks with Thomas and his wife, Virginia, who goes by Ginni. In one image posted to social media, she offers the camera two thumbs up. To her left, smiling in a maroon polo shirt, is John Eastman. ...
Some former Thomas clerks had made clear by then that they disapproved of Eastman’s involvement in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, a role that this week prompted members of Congress to refer him to the Justice Department for criminal investigation. But Eastman, who clerked for Thomas for the term starting in 1996, was welcomed at the Greenbrier gathering as a member of the tightknit clerk family, according to people familiar with the event.

You can read the full story here.