Trump allies saw Clarence Thomas as key to efforts to challenge 2020 election

Emails show ex-president's attorney saying justice was our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion' by 6 January

In a last desperate attempt to delay or disrupt the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential race, allies of Donald Trump sought to appeal to conservative supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas, new emails show.

The emails, recently obtained by the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, show that members of Trump's legal team considered Thomas to be key" to their efforts to overturn Georgia's election results.