**Trump pressured Justice Thomas’s wife to overturn election result: Sources**.
**(CNN) –** Former President Donald Trump pressured Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to help overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation..
The sources said Trump called Ginni Thomas in the weeks after the election and urged her to speak to her husband about the need to overturn the results. The sources said Ginni Thomas was receptive to Trump’s request and agreed to talk to her husband about it..
It is unclear what happened after that conversation. A spokesperson for Justice Thomas did not respond to a request for comment..
The revelation that Trump pressured Ginni Thomas to overturn the election results is the latest in a series of controversies surrounding the Supreme Court justice. Earlier this year, it was revealed that Ginni Thomas had sent a series of text messages to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in which she urged him to overturn the election results..
Those text messages have raised questions about Justice Thomas’s ability to remain impartial in cases related to the 2020 election. Some legal experts have argued that Justice Thomas should recuse himself from such cases, while others have said that there is no evidence that he has been influenced by his wife’s views..
The latest revelations about Trump’s pressure on Ginni Thomas are likely to further fuel the debate over Justice Thomas’s impartiality. It is unclear what impact, if any, the revelations will have on Justice Thomas’s ability to continue serving on the Supreme Court..
**Trump lawyer acknowledges conversation**.
A lawyer for Trump, Justin Clark, acknowledged in a statement that Trump spoke to Ginni Thomas after the election. However, Clark said that the conversation was .
