From the NYT, a letter from a reader to an OpED by Jamelle Bouie writes:
Trump campaigned relentlessly on a promise to root out the "Deep State", which to him is some kind of unelected, politically connected, liberal-leaning DC apparatus that works to subvert the Republican agenda.
So what, then, would Ginni Thomas and John Eastman be? The exact same description would apply, except substitute out the word "liberal" for the word "autocratic", and the words "the Republican agenda" for "democracy and our Constitution".
Neither was elected to any position, nor held any position in the government at all. Yet both were able to interact freely and often with the highest level of White House officials, including President Trump himself, in connection with the events of January 6. Both clearly encouraged and plotted with a sitting U.S. president to ignore a legally conducted election, use illegal means to overturn the result, and also enlist others (Mike Pence, the sitting Vice President, for example) to do so.
As for Judge Thomas, he is connective tissue between these two, with one being his wife and the other his former law clerk. Surely he is too smart to have put things in writing about any support he may have had for what they did, but is it even remotely plausible he had no idea what his wife was doing?
If what Ms. Thomas and Eastman did is not sedition, or at least conspiracy to commit sedition, I'm not sure what is.