HOT AIR BALLOON FLIGHT

In the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent a barrage of text messages to Mark Meadows, imploring him to take steps to overturn the vote, according to a person with knowledge of the texts.

The text messages, most of which were written by Ms. Thomas, represent the first evidence that she was directly advising the White House as it sought to overturn the election.