The January 6 committee is seeking Virginia Thomas's testimony; 100 million people worldwide have fled their homes.
Tonight's Sentences was written by Jariel Arvin.
TOP NEWS
January 6 panel will invite Ginni Thomas to testify
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The House Committee investigating January 6 will soon invite Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to testify about her potential involvement in Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. [Politico / Kyle Cheney and Nicholas Wu]
Committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) announced the decision after emails showed Thomas corresponded with attorney John Eastman. Thompson declined to share the content of the exchange. [Axios / Andrew Solender]
Eastman, a former clerk to Justice Thomas, led efforts to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to block the certification of President Joe Biden's election win. [CNBC / Dan Mangan and Brian Schwartz]
After the 2020 election, Ginni Thomas pushed former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Arizona lawmakers to overturn the election results. [Bloomberg / Mike Dorning and Jarrell Dillard]
Justice Thomas was the only dissenter in a Supreme Court case allowing the National Archives to release White House documents to the January 6 committee, and has resisted calls to recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election. [CNN]
100 million displaced people worldwide
Conflict, violence, and human rights abuses forced over 100 million people from their homes from the start of 2021 to May 23, 2022, according to the UN's Global Trends report released Thursday. [UNHCR / Global Trends]
Forced displacement has been rising for the past decade. The Taliban resuming power in Afghanistan and the war in Ukraine have pushed numbers higher. [Axios / Stef W. Kight]
Roughly 60 percent of displaced people were forced to move within their countries. [CNN / Catherine E. Shoichet]
This week, UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grande warned that a looming food crisis could add to the numbers. He called on the international community to prevent the trend from worsening. [Al Jazeera]
MISCELLANEOUS
Thursday, the House Committee investigating January 6 held its third hearing, this time focusing on Trump's efforts to pressure Mike Pence into blocking Biden's election win. [NPR / Maya Rosenberg]
Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker confirmed he has three more children than was publicly known. [Daily Beast / Roger Sollenberger]
Vox's Anna North talks with Da'Shaun Harrison, the activist, author, and 2022 Lambda Literary Award recipient for their book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness.
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