Donald Trump says Twitter has become ‘very boring’ since he got banned
Donald Trump’s attorneys believed a direct appeal to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was their best hope of stopping certification of Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election, email messages turned over to the January 6 committee and seen by Politico show.
Lawyer John Eastman had tried to withhold the emails from the House select committee investigating the events leading up to the Capitol riot but a federal judge ordered them to be turned over, describing them as evidence of likely crimes committed by Mr Eastman and the former president.
Meanwhile, in other legal news, the Supreme Court said that it will not block Senator Lindsey Graham from having to give evidence before the Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury investigating attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
And Hillary Clinton and several of her former campaign aides are seeking to recoup more than $1m in legal costs incurred from failed Trump legal actions accusing them of fomenting false allegations of collusion between the Trump circle and Russian agents.
The case was brought by Mr Trump in March but was dismissed by a US District Judge who derided it as nothing more than a “manifesto”.
