Supreme Court shoots down John Eastman's latest legal gambit -- and even Clarence Thomas recused

Indicted former Trump lawyer John Eastman got some bad news from the United States Supreme Court on Monday.

As reported by Politico's Kyle Cheney, Eastman's bid to vacate prior court rulings that resulted in his emails being turned over to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots was denied by the Supreme Court this week.

Added to this, Justice Clarence Thomas -- who was mentioned in Eastman's emails and whose wife, Gini Thomas, was working to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election results -- recused himself from the case entirely.

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This is notable because Thomas has refused in the past to recuse himself from January 6th-related cases, even as critics have noted his wife's involvement in efforts to overturn the election were a clear conflict of interest.

Eastman was the author of the infamous so-called "coup memo" that outlined how then-Vice President Mike Pence could use his position as president of the United States Senate to throw out certified election results from multiple swing states and then hand the election back to Republican-controlled legislatures who would throw the election in Trump's favor.

Eastman was indicted this past summer by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for his efforts to overturn Trump's 2020 loss in the state of Georgia, and he's also facing the prospect of being disbarred in his home state of California.