The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol is holding its third public hearing today beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern. We will stream it live at democracynow.org. The hearing is focusing on Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Mike Pence to block Joe Biden from becoming president. Part of that effort was led by Trump legal adviser John Eastman, who claimed Pence could single-handedly overturn the election. In related news, The Washington Post is reporting Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, exchanged emails with Eastman about the election. Meanwhile, The New York Times reports that Eastman appeared to have inside knowledge of a debate within the Supreme Court over how it should handle Trump’s election fraud claims. In an email sent in late December 2020, Eastman wrote, “I understand that there is a heated fight underway.” Another pro-Trump lawyer responded, writing that the “odds of action before Jan. 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be 'wild' chaos on Jan. 6 unless they rule by then, either way.” John Eastman is a former law clerk of Justice Clarence Thomas.