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      'Corruption. Plain and Simple': Ginni Thomas Took Secret Payments Ahead of Landmark Voting Rights Case

      "When you're saying things like 'No mention of Ginni, of course' when talking about paperwork for the wife of a Supreme Court Justice—you're probably doing a crime."

      Jon Queally
      May 05, 2023

      U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni Thomas are under fresh scrutiny as yet another revelation, this one reported by the Washington Post on Thursday evening shows Ginni received tens of thousands of dollars in off-the-book compensation from a powerful right-wing nonprofit shortly before the group "soon would have an interest before the court"—a pivotal voting rights case.

      Based on documents reviewed by the Post, right-wing judicial activist Leonard Leo used his role as an advisor to the nonprofit, the Judicial Education Project, to ask GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway, later a top aide to President Donald Trump, to pay Ginni Thomas a large sum but keep her name off the financial records.

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      'It Is Your Duty': Dem Lawmakers Urge Chief Justice to Probe Clarence Thomas Secret Trips

      "It is well past time for the Supreme Court to align with the rest of government in a proper code of ethics enforced by independent investigation and reporting."

      Brett Wilkins
      Apr 08, 2023

      As congressional Democrats scoffed at U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' attempt to defend taking luxury vacations funded by a billionaire Republican mega-donor, a group of 16 Democratic lawmakers on Friday urged Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate "allegations of unethical and potentially unlawful conduct" by a member of the nation's highest court.

      In a letter led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Hank Johnson Jr. (D-Ga.), the Democrats—who include eight members of the Senate and eight House lawmakers—cited Thursday's bombshell report by ProPublica detailing how "Thomas has repeatedly accepted and failed to disclose gifts and travel from billionaire Harlan Crow."

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      'Oh, Please': Critics Scoff at Clarence Thomas' Defense of Secret Luxury Trips

      The right-wing Supreme Court justice "broke the law, and it isn't particularly close," argued two legal analysts.

      Jake Johnson
      Apr 07, 2023

      Under fire after reporting offered a detailed look at his decades of billionaire-funded luxury vacations, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claimed Friday that he was "advised" by colleagues not to report personal hospitality gifts from friends, a story that drew immediate derision from lawmakers and legal analysts.

      In a statement responding to ProPublica's reporting, which shined additional light on trips bankrolled by billionaire real estate mogul Harlan Crow, Thomas acknowledged joining the GOP megadonor and his wife on "a number of" family trips over the past two decades but insisted that he was told such hospitality "from close personal friends, who did not have business before the court, was not reportable."

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